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On writing instability (2024)
Book Chapter
Abba, T. (2024). On writing instability. In A. Spencer, A. Mandal, & J. Kidd (Eds.), Ambient Stories in Practice and Research: Digital Writing in Place. UK: Bloomsbury Publishing

Abba examines the specific manners by which Ambient Literature is composed and experienced by a reader. Looking back to the canon of works produced under the project banner to date, and developing the Ambient Poetics proposed in 2016-18, he addresses... Read More about On writing instability.

Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960 (2024)
Book Chapter
Harrison, L. (2024). Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960. In Doing Working-Class History: Research, Heritage, and Engagement. Routledge

One Sunday in early January 1954, the Rev. Peter Stanley, senior curate of St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church in Darlington, County Durham, pronounced in his weekly sermon that the young people parading in the Darlington main streets on the ‘monke... Read More about Street Life: The leisure spaces and places of working-class youth in Britain, c.1870-1960.

Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories (2024)
Book Chapter
Harrison, L. (2024). Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories. In Doing Working Class History: Research, Heritage and Engagement. Routledge

In this chapter, Laura Harrison considers the multiple decade-long boom of family history and how it connects to the research and practice of working-class history. Family history, the chapter argues, has much to offer the historian both in terms of... Read More about Everyone has a tale to tell: Family history, family historians and working-class histories.

Encouraging critical awareness through art and design education (2024)
Book Chapter
Grant, W. (2024). Encouraging critical awareness through art and design education. In A. Ash, & P. Carr (Eds.), A Practical Guide to Teaching Art and Design in the Secondary School (156-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003377429-14

This chapter explores the practical possibility of Art and Design education as means to activate pupils’ agency on the issues of social equity. Against a background of increasing global connectivity and popular youth movements centred on the issues o... Read More about Encouraging critical awareness through art and design education.

The possible worlds of VR documentary (2024)
Book Chapter
Rose, M. (in press). The possible worlds of VR documentary. In Handbook of Documentary. Intellect

Producers have been drawn to virtual reality (VR) for its potential to render vivid experiences of nonfiction content. The politics of the platform’s affective operation, particularly in relation to distant human others, has been analysed and critiqu... Read More about The possible worlds of VR documentary.

AI and the complexity of Black photographic representation and critical analysis (2024)
Book Chapter
Sobers, S., & Edwards, Y. (in press). AI and the complexity of Black photographic representation and critical analysis. In AI and Photography. Bristol: Royal Photographic Society

In this chapter artist Yuko Edwards and academic Shawn Sobers discuss the complex dynamics of AI image making, with regards both the problems and opportunities in the cultural politics of Black and African heritage representation. The significant cha... Read More about AI and the complexity of Black photographic representation and critical analysis.

‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization (2024)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C., & Mulvey Roberts, M. ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization. In Angela Carter's futures: Representations, adaptations and legacies. Bloomsbury. Manuscript submitted for publication

It is ironic that the iconoclastic Angela Carter was ‘canonized’ as the ‘Good Witch’ of English literature following her death which raises the question of whether this form of commemoration actually contained or limited her reception? This chapter... Read More about ‘Nothing sacred’: Angela Carter’s iconoclasm, place-making, and memorialization.

Iter II (2024)
Book Chapter
Cartwright, A. (in press). Iter II. In Haunting Lives. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

We have a family funeral in Telford. “The only good thing about that place,” someone says, “is the road out.” Iter II is a hybrid essay, combing teaching notes and prompts, flash fiction and critical reflection in the form of personal essay and... Read More about Iter II.

The spatial languages of virtual production: Critiquing softwarization with aesthetic analysis (2024)
Book Chapter
Livingstone, T. (2024). The spatial languages of virtual production: Critiquing softwarization with aesthetic analysis. In F. Lesage, & M. Terren (Eds.), Creative Tools and the Softwarization of Cultural Production (47-65). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45693-0_3

The chapter analyses the emergent practice of virtual production and the generation of in-camera visual effects (ICVFX), a process currently dominated by Unreal Engine. It argues that the software functionality of Unreal Engine and the logistics of v... Read More about The spatial languages of virtual production: Critiquing softwarization with aesthetic analysis.

Imagined worlds (2024)
Book Chapter
Bodman, S. (in press). Imagined worlds. In Turn the page: an Anthology. Norwich: turn the page

turn the page has, over a period of ten years (2012-2022), introduced the public to the wonders of the wider book arts genre, and artists and collectors to each other, through its showcasing events, symposia and related exhibitions. To celebrate thos... Read More about Imagined worlds.

Leaving the artworld (2023)
Book Chapter
Corna, L. L. (2023). Leaving the artworld. In L. Lorenza Corna, & J. M. Mascat (Eds.), Feminism in Revolt. An Anthology. Carla Lonzi (3-33). Seagull Books

Believe the lie: Digital visual effects in the X-Files (2023)
Book Chapter
Livingstone, T. (2023). Believe the lie: Digital visual effects in the X-Files. In J. Fenwick, & D. A. Rodgers (Eds.), The Legacy of the X-Files. Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter highlights the way in which The X-Files use of digital visual effects contributes to its reflection of its cultural, social and political contexts, intersecting with the social commentary present in the aesthetics of Monsters of the Week... Read More about Believe the lie: Digital visual effects in the X-Files.

You guys are so stochastic (2023)
Book Chapter
Ward, L., & Wiesner, K. (2023). You guys are so stochastic. In Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life (253-256). (1). UK: Intellect

The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy (2023)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (in press). The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy. In C. Hanlon (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Taking seriously the ‘deep time’ of American literature and the current importance of the Anthropocene, this chapter investigates an often overlooked transatlantic origin for Emerson’s conceptualisation of nature, which I also argue is a crucial mark... Read More about The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy.

Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (2023)
Book Chapter
Mulvey-Roberts, M. (2023). Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve. In M. Costantini, C. Capancioni, & M. Mattoscio (Eds.), Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries - Genders/Genres/Genera (237-56). Cham Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40795-6

Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve (1977) is a darkly satirical novel which explores the crossing of gender in the context of Second Wave feminism. Close connections will be made between this literary text and the visit made by Carter and her hus... Read More about Crossing gender: Andy Warhol’s Candy Darling, America and Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve.

The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's small axe films? (2023)
Book Chapter
Francis, P. (2023). The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's small axe films?. In T. Austin (Ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (1-226). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Prime time Sunday evening viewing across five weeks of Steve McQueen's penology offered the opportunity to give volume to the silenced, to offer an alternative social historical account of the plurality of the Black British experience, to represent... Read More about The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's small axe films?.

Laundry probes (2023)
Book Chapter
Rigby, E. (2023). Laundry probes. In Opening up the Wardrobe: A Methods Book (81-83). Novus Press

This book presents a unique collection of 50 methods for exploring the actions, relationships and material contents of wardrobes. Organised as a practical guide to gathering information about people and their clothing beyond the point of purchase, it... Read More about Laundry probes.