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Love affairs to remember: Remaking, casting, performance and mise-en-scène’ (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

An Affair to Remember (dir. Leo McCarey, 1957) is an almost shot for shot remake of McCarey’s Love Affair (1939). Subsequent remakes also borrow very heavily from the original, including Love Affair (dir. Gordon Glenn Caron, 1994) and a Bollywood ver... Read More about Love affairs to remember: Remaking, casting, performance and mise-en-scène’.

Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen (2022)
Journal Article

This article outlines the development of a feature-length screenplay adaptation of Angela Carter’s short story “Flesh and the Mirror,” situating it within a critical discussion of her metaleptic narrative strategies and the challenges of translating... Read More about Through the "magic mirror": Adapting Angela Carter's Japanese writings for the silver screen.

Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective (2022)
Journal Article

Since her premature death in 1992, Angela Carter has become recognized as one of the most important writers in the English language, with numerous edited collections, theater adaptations, documentaries, and The Bloody Chamber now on the A-Level sylla... Read More about Introduction: Angela Carter and Japan—A global perspective.

Representing bodies and bathing machines: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV adaptation (2022)
Journal Article

Jane Austen’s final novel fragment Sanditon has inspired continuations of many kinds from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The most recent literary afterlife it has generated is the 2019 British adaptation for ITV, created by Andrew Davies, and wi... Read More about Representing bodies and bathing machines: Jane Austen’s Sanditon and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV adaptation.

Extract from "More on the Plums" with synopsis (2022)
Journal Article

Five poems, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums", accompanied by a synopsis of the composition/methodology.

In conversation with Reginald D Hunter (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Comedian Reginald D Hunter talks to Professor Shawn Sobers about race, politics, cancel culture, family, addressing taboos, and faith. Hosted by Glastonbury Festival's legendary Cabaret Stage, in the Theatre & Circus field.

Coming or going?: Angela Carter’s itinerant subjectivity in “The Quilt Maker” (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In Angela Carter’s neglected short story ‘The Quilt Maker’, the narrator glosses the Japanese word for orgasm, ikimasu, which she learns from her Japanese lover means ‘to go’ rather than ‘to come’: “The Japanese orgasmic departure renders the English... Read More about Coming or going?: Angela Carter’s itinerant subjectivity in “The Quilt Maker”.

Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity (2022)
Book

This study provides an authoritative and comprehensive account of the career of one of one modern cinema’s most distinctive stars, an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular cu... Read More about Sean Connery: Acting, Stardom and National Identity.

Representing Rastafari and Ethiopian culture in life, creative practice, and research (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

‘An endlessly strange experience’: Experiences of media reporting on criminal courts during the Covid-19 pandemic (2022)
Report

It is well established that the news media plays a pivotal role ‘in facilitating open justice’ by reporting on the proceedings of the courts. Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the shutting of physical court rooms in England and Wales i... Read More about ‘An endlessly strange experience’: Experiences of media reporting on criminal courts during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Exploring health and well-being as a UK Black creative (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In an arts career spanning 30 years, Shawn has focussed on health and wellbeing in a range of his creative works in various mediums including film, photography, fiction and non-fiction writing, and also as a workshop and events facilitator. Although... Read More about Exploring health and well-being as a UK Black creative.

Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939 (2022)
Book

In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'. The beginnings of a distinct youth culture can be traced to the late nineteenth... Read More about Dangerous Amusements: Leisure, the young working class and urban space, c.1870-1939.

Introduction: Books and manuscripts in Wales (2022)
Journal Article

This introduction outlines the research context from which this special number arises. It opens with a discussion of the interdisciplinary conference ‘Reading, Writing and Collecting: Books and Manuscripts in Wales, 1450–1850’ and our rationale in ou... Read More about Introduction: Books and manuscripts in Wales.

Distorted constellations: Interdisciplinary perspectives on understanding reality and the self (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Visual Snow is a neurological condition that is experienced as an ‘augmented’ reality of auras, glowing lines, depression, anxiety and depersonalisation (Solly et al. 2021). Whilst Visual Snow produces a collection of different symptoms, it is clinic... Read More about Distorted constellations: Interdisciplinary perspectives on understanding reality and the self.

Contested culture as change-maker: The collaborative approach to displaying the toppled statue of Edward Colston (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol in June 2020
made international headlines. Professor Shawn Sobers of the UWE Bristol and ‘We are Bristol History Commission’, and Ray Barnett Head of Collections & Archives at Bristol Museums,... Read More about Contested culture as change-maker: The collaborative approach to displaying the toppled statue of Edward Colston.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2022)
Journal Article

One poem from a pamphlet-length sequence.

Cinematographic approaches towards the eco-sublime landscape – A practice-led enquiry (2022)
Thesis

This thesis investigates visual representations of the evolving nature of sublime landscapes through the practice of digital cinematography. The enquiry is contextualised through discussion of philosophical understandings of the sublime – Longinus, E... Read More about Cinematographic approaches towards the eco-sublime landscape – A practice-led enquiry.

Safeguarding the metaverse (2022)
Report

Safeguarding the metaverse has been produced by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) to examine the potential harms associated with virtual reality (VR) and the metaverse. It examines the background and context of the adoption and upta... Read More about Safeguarding the metaverse.

‘We shouldn't let great art disappear into BBC Four's cultural ghetto’: The impact of BBC Four on mainstream arts provision (2022)
Journal Article

Although BBC Four has been lauded for its dedication to more esoteric content and artforms, since the channel was introduced there has concern for the range and depth of arts content on the BBC’s terrestrial services – BBC One and BBC Two. As journal... Read More about ‘We shouldn't let great art disappear into BBC Four's cultural ghetto’: The impact of BBC Four on mainstream arts provision.

Flash mob (2022)
Journal Article

One poem accepted by The Alchemy Spoon for a "Fixed Form" themed issue.