All Outputs (120)

The history of this community: Documentary theatre with "deliberately local motives" (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Nevitt, L. (2008, December). The history of this community: Documentary theatre with "deliberately local motives". Paper presented at University of Glamorgan External Speakers Programme, University of Glamorgan, Wales

Paper exploring the local and community documentary theatre work of Peter Cheeseman at the Victoria and New Vic Theatres in Stoke-on-Trent, and the Living Archive Project/Stantonbury Drama Group in Milton Keynes, from the 1960s to the 1990s. Particul... Read More about The history of this community: Documentary theatre with "deliberately local motives".

Multiculturalism without multiple cultures? (2008)
Journal Article
Thompson, S. (2008). Multiculturalism without multiple cultures?. Social and Legal Studies, 17(4), 543-547. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663908097085

Global ethics and the role of academics (2008)
Journal Article
van den Anker, C. (2008). Global ethics and the role of academics

Academics have a social and professional responsibility that stems from their individual duties as global citizens. With their privileged position as lifelong learners they need to assess carefully where they direct their attention for research, thei... Read More about Global ethics and the role of academics.

Lick Bush in '92 (selections) (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Kydd, E., Gomez, G., & Jeffreys, J. E. Lick Bush in '92 (selections). 1 December 2008 - 1 December 2008. (Unpublished)

Performance and screening of documentary material relating to drag queen political activism in New York.

Women's History Review: Introduction (2008)
Journal Article
Holden, K., Hannam, J., & Froide, A. (2008). Women's History Review: Introduction. Women's History Review, 17(3), 313-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020801924084

This article is an introduction to a special issue on the history of single women based on papers given at conference held in June 2006 at the University of the West of England, entitled ‘Single Women in History 1000–2000’. The analysis is based on o... Read More about Women's History Review: Introduction.

Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer (2008)
Journal Article
Hammond, A. (2008). Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer. History of Photography, 32(1), 51-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087290701723238

Ansel Adams's photographic career was paralleled by his desire to achieve the finest quality of photomechanical reproduction of his images for his many fine printed books. For thirty years, he relied upon letterpress halftone to recreate the aestheti... Read More about Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer.

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature (2008)
Journal Article
Hammond, A. (2008). Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature. History of Photography, 32(4), 301. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087290802315736

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, although committed realist artists using straightforward photographic technique and an objective style of painting, transfigured the natural scene artistically to express profoundly metaphysical responses to nature.... Read More about Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature.

Carefully posed thighs: Shame, nudity and film censorship - John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Lawrence, M. (2008, November). Carefully posed thighs: Shame, nudity and film censorship - John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning (1966). Presented at Invited talk, Huston School of Film and Media, University of Galway

An analysis of the production and reception of the Eden sequences in John Huston’s The Bible: In the Beginning (1966).

The eagle document: Installation (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Oechsler, M. (2008, November). The eagle document: Installation. Paper presented at Close encounters of the animal kind, Tate Britiain, UK

This interdisciplinary conference explores the contemporary processes of subject formation through encounters with non-human 'otherness'. Though the focus of the conference will be on animals, the becoming-animal, the emphasis will be placed on art p... Read More about The eagle document: Installation.

Shaking an elephant: Sound, space and suspense in The Unholy Three (2008)
Book Chapter
Lawrence, M. (2008). Shaking an elephant: Sound, space and suspense in The Unholy Three. In B. Herzogenrath (Ed.), The Cinema of Tod Browning: Essays of the Macabre and Grotesque (70-83). McFarland and co

An analysis of the representation of sound in Tod Browning’s silent crime melodrama The Unholy Three and the sound remake by Jack Conway.

Farmers market (2008)
Exhibition / Performance
Voss, R. Farmers market. 12 November 2008 - 20 December 2008. (Unpublished)

A group exhibition featuring twenty four international artists curated by Fedja Klikovac.

The future of publishing (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. L., & Sowden, T. (2008, November). The future of publishing. Paper presented at 10th Biennial Pyramid Atlantic Book Arts Fair and Conference, Cafritz Art Center, Montgomery College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, MD, USA

Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden were invited by Tate Shaw, organiser of the event, to present research into the future of the contemporary artist’s book in the digital age from their AHRC funded project. In an arena including digital and traditional arti... Read More about The future of publishing.

The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., & Rizzi, A. (2008, November). The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception. Paper presented at CHArt Conference (Computers and the History of Art 24th Annual Conference), Birkbeck, University of London

The paper considers the relation between the art and science of colour perception and how computational procedures, which mimic our visual system, have been developed to advance digital imaging techniques for the enhancement of colour and image quali... Read More about The art and science of colour: Bridging the gap between art and perception.

The death of the animal in European cinema: Metaphor and analogy (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Lawrence, M. (2008, November). The death of the animal in European cinema: Metaphor and analogy. Paper presented at Research in Progress Seminar, University of Sussex

An analysis of the representation of animal slaughter in European cinema, particularly in Fassbinder’s In a Year of Thirteen Moons and Olmi’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs (both 1978).

Co-creative production (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Partington, A. (2008, November). Co-creative production. Paper presented at Narrative, Non-narrative, Anti-narrative, Watershed, Bristol

This presentation makes a number of proposals about how the current notion of 'co-creativity' (associated with the impact of digital media) supports new approaches to the analysis of visual culture and methodologies in media studies.

Travel and experience in early modern English literature (2008)
Book
Ord, M. (2008). Travel and experience in early modern English literature. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan

Laughter in the dark: Capitalism, comedy, violence and neo-noir (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Tuck, G. (2008, November). Laughter in the dark: Capitalism, comedy, violence and neo-noir. Paper presented at 5th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, London

An early version of my chapter for neo-noir, discussing humour and irony in film noir and neo-noir. It claimed dark ironic humour was more readily identifiable in these texts than in the original cycle, particularly the double coding and surreal rep... Read More about Laughter in the dark: Capitalism, comedy, violence and neo-noir.

Review of Theatre as witness: Three testimonial plays from South Africa, by Yael Farber (2008)
Journal Article
Nevitt, L. (2008). Review of Theatre as witness: Three testimonial plays from South Africa, by Yael Farber. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 13(3), 377-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569780802410731

Review of published plays, drawing also on extracts in performance and interviews with the director and performers, all of which took place at the launch of the book.

The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books (2008)
Book Chapter
Bodman, S. L. (2008). The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books. In D. Jury (Ed.), The Hybrid Lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books (35-55). Codex Foundation, USA

The introduction of this book outlines the historical relationship between art, design, and the book. There are illustrated transcripts of the four symposium speakers: Robert Bringhurst, Felipe Ehrenberg, Sarah Bodman, and Stefan Soltek, all devoted... Read More about The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists’ publishing in the UK and Ireland, using traditional and emerging technologies to create finely produced artist’s books.

Artists’ books abroad (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bodman, S. L., & Sowden, T. (2008, November). Artists’ books abroad. Presented at Artists’ Books Abroad, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, USA

Presenting an overview of artist's book publishing in Europe and further afield: contemporary artists’ books, Internet publishing projects, altered books, performance books, and use of digital and traditional production methods.