All Outputs (160)

How to support refugee and at-risk academics: A guide for higher education institutions in the UK (2009)
Report
Shaw, I. S., & van den Anker, C. (2009). How to support refugee and at-risk academics: A guide for higher education institutions in the UK

How to Support Refugee and At-Risk Academics draws primarily, but not exclusively, on the reports, experience and testimonies of many individuals, organisations and institutions participating in the Pathfinder UK University Grants Scheme. Run by Car... Read More about How to support refugee and at-risk academics: A guide for higher education institutions in the UK.

Understanding film production: Michael Klinger and the new film history (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Spicer, A. H. (2009, July). Understanding film production: Michael Klinger and the new film history. Presented at Researching Film History Symposium, Geological Society, London, UK

This paper explored a wider debate about the epistemology and ontology of film history. Using the Michael Klinger papers, it offered an original exploration of an unknown history: his attempt to produce a Jewish epic war film based on the Dieppe Raid... Read More about Understanding film production: Michael Klinger and the new film history.

Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004) (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Tuck, G. (2009, July). Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004). Paper presented at 2nd Film Philosophy Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland

This paper uses the cinema of Tuskamoto Shinya to discuss Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the ‘flesh’. Flesh rejects the ontological antinomy between the empirical and the rational, our determination by either matter or ideas, in favour of a more... Read More about Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004).

Independent State, commissioned by Foreground, Frome, Somerset 2009 (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Morrissey, S. (2009). Independent State, commissioned by Foreground, Frome, Somerset 2009. 1 July 2009 - 26 September 2009. (Unpublished)

Inner voice (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Turrell, J. Inner voice. 26 June 2009 - 22 August 2009. (Unpublished)

Exhibition and presentation, group show: Contemporary Applied Arts, London, Curated by Dorothy Hogg MBE, 26.06.09 – 22.08.09. Invited by Dorothy Hogg to exhibit collection of eight new pieces and took part in gallery talk about work to invited audien... Read More about Inner voice.

The contemporary British historical novel: representation, nation, empire (2009)
Book
Boccardi, M. (2009). The contemporary British historical novel: representation, nation, empire. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave

This is the first full-length study of a genre that has had increasing critical attention and popular appeal at the turn of the twenty-first century. The book combines a contextual and theoretical framework for the success of historical fiction in Br... Read More about The contemporary British historical novel: representation, nation, empire.

The use of a plastic lens to replicate the aesthetic of the remembered image (2009)
Book Chapter
Hill, V. (2009). The use of a plastic lens to replicate the aesthetic of the remembered image. In Y. Xiao, T. Amon, & P. Kommers (Eds.), IADIS International Conference CGVCVIP 2009 (part of MCCSIS 2009) (319-323). IADIS Visual Communication Conference, Portugal, 19th-22nd June 2009

This paper is concerned with the concepts of memory, dreamscape and the unconscious, including those put forward by Carl Jung and James Sully and seeks to ascertain whether it is possible to create a pictorial representation of those through the medi... Read More about The use of a plastic lens to replicate the aesthetic of the remembered image.

Performing geographies of love - landscape between presence and absence (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Biggs, I. (2009, June). Performing geographies of love - landscape between presence and absence. Paper presented at AHRC Landscape and Environment Living Landscapes Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales

Performing Geographies of Love – landscape between presence and absence is an extended critical reflection on a forthcoming paper by the cultural geographer John Wylie that seeks to resist the use of philosophical positions to annex/belittle the “enc... Read More about Performing geographies of love - landscape between presence and absence.

Borderlands Postcards (2009)
Exhibition / Performance
Biggs, I., & Blowen, S. (2009). Borderlands Postcards. 18 June 2009 - 21 June 2009. (Unpublished)

This was the second intervention/exhibition in this ongoing project that explores the way in which different academic communities respond to a set of untitled postcards of borderlands with a view to teasing out similarities and differences between th... Read More about Borderlands Postcards.

Prints that fly (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hoskins, S. (2009, June). Prints that fly. Presented at Talking prints Lecture Series Lancashire Artists Network, University of Central Lancashire, University of Central Lancashire

Prints That Fly: My prints are as much about the craft of making, as they are a gentle delight in challenging the notions of what constitutes a print and where the perceived borders between the fine and applied arts, end and begin. In the UK there... Read More about Prints that fly.

Does this look right? The science of colour appearance in art (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C. (2009, June). Does this look right? The science of colour appearance in art. Presented at Science Café, Explore, Bristol

Invited lecture for Science Café given at Explore, At-Bristol, 9 June 2009. Have you considered why the swatch colour you take to the paint shop appears very different to the final painted wall? Differences between how a colour is measured and how... Read More about Does this look right? The science of colour appearance in art.

Flesh/Films: Mainstream movies, embodiment and sexuality (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Tuck, G. (2009, June). Flesh/Films: Mainstream movies, embodiment and sexuality. Presented at Plymouth Arts Centre Film Academy Seminar Series, Plymouth, England

After outlining the four most dominant modes through which film studies examines sex in the movies (sexual stereotyping, psychoanalysis and issues of unconscious desire, the performance of normativity, and developments in censorship), the lecture off... Read More about Flesh/Films: Mainstream movies, embodiment and sexuality.

Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War (2009)
Presentation / Conference
D'Monté, R. (2009, June). Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War. Paper presented at Drama Research Seminar (in conjunction with Cultural History Group), Unviersity of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, England

Plays of the Second World War can be described as middlebrow. They work through a process of ‘the pleasure of familiarity’, where the choice of genre, whether of family comedy, domestic drama, or thriller, make them the perfect medium through which t... Read More about Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War.

Gender and nationalism in women's historical plays, 1920-1940 (2009)
Presentation / Conference
D'Monté, R. (2009, June). Gender and nationalism in women's historical plays, 1920-1940. Paper presented at Echoes of the Past: Women, History & Memory in Fiction and Film, Newcastle University

This paper explores how the interwar plays of female dramatists like Muriel Box, Clemence Dane, G. B. Stern and Dodie Smith, show the existence of a tension between, on the one hand, the damaging effects of the First World War, and on the other, its... Read More about Gender and nationalism in women's historical plays, 1920-1940.

Reassessing middlebrow drama during the second world war (2009)
Presentation / Conference
D'Monté, R. (2009, June). Reassessing middlebrow drama during the second world war. Paper presented at Middlebrow Cultures Conference, Strathclyde University, Glasgow

Middlebrow drama has long been dismissed as unrealistic and unchallenging. Ultimately, this led to the rejection by critics (though interestingly not by audiences) of the middlebrow for confrontational and experimental drama in the post-war period. T... Read More about Reassessing middlebrow drama during the second world war.

From 2D tiles to 3D printed ceramics: A journey through digital print (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Huson, D., & Reid, B. (2009, June). From 2D tiles to 3D printed ceramics: A journey through digital print. Presented at Parallels and Connections - A Ceramics and Glass Research Student Conference and Exhibition, University of Sunderland, National Glass Centre

The Centre for Fine Print Research, University of the West of England is involved in research into many forms of print related making - from 19C techniques to present day 3D digital technologies. This presentation aims to reveal a progression of... Read More about From 2D tiles to 3D printed ceramics: A journey through digital print.

Relocating the notion of the archive within the digital age (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hill, V. (2009, June). Relocating the notion of the archive within the digital age. Paper presented at Photography, Archive and Memory Conference, Roehampton University

Has the increasing popularity and accessibility of digital photography, especially through the incorporation of cameras into mobile phones, in capturing moments of everyday life combined with the use of web technology and social networking sites to c... Read More about Relocating the notion of the archive within the digital age.

Post-graduation reflections on the value of a degree (2009)
Journal Article
Everett, G., & Brooks, R. (2009). Post-graduation reflections on the value of a degree. British Educational Research Journal, 35(3), 333-349. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920802044370

This article investigates the impact of a changing higher education system on young adults' priorities and motivations. A considerable number of studies have explored the impact of recent changes on patterns of participation within higher education.... Read More about Post-graduation reflections on the value of a degree.

Hybrid stories: examining the future of transmedia narrative (2009)
Journal Article
Abba, T. (2009). Hybrid stories: examining the future of transmedia narrative. Science Fiction Film and Television, 2(1), 59-75. https://doi.org/10.1353/sff.0.0026

Among recent examples of long-form sf drama, there is a tendency to extend the broadcast story across mulitple narrative platforms. The web, mobile telephony and print media are recombined with established broadcast platforms to produce a form of sto... Read More about Hybrid stories: examining the future of transmedia narrative.

Les activités du Centre for Fine Print Research de Bristol in So Multiples revue française sur les éditions d'artistes contemporains (2009)
Journal Article
Bodman, S. L. (2009). Les activités du Centre for Fine Print Research de Bristol in So Multiples revue française sur les éditions d'artistes contemporains

Bodman was invited by Océane Delleaux, Editor of the French language review So Multiples to contribute an essay on the activities she manages for artists’ books at the CFPR, as one of four essays for a special feature on artists’ books (September 200... Read More about Les activités du Centre for Fine Print Research de Bristol in So Multiples revue française sur les éditions d'artistes contemporains.