All Outputs (1085)

Consequences and coincidences: A case study of experimental play in media literacy (2008)
Journal Article

This article will discuss the way children across three schools in Bristol, United Kingdom have been engaged in a unique short film experiment. The video project they were involved with aimed to inspire the young participants to actively consider not... Read More about Consequences and coincidences: A case study of experimental play in media literacy.

The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice (2008)
Journal Article

This article is a discussion about the development of media practice both as a creative endeavour and as the collaborative interaction with audiences. It argues that innovations in media practice are dependent on the relationships between practitione... Read More about The best bits: Non-narrative pleasures and creative practice.

‘Exactitude is truth’: Representing the British military through commissioned artworks (2008)
Journal Article

The work of ‘regimental artists’ is often derided for being jingoistic, irrelevant and predicated on anachronistic representational strategies rooted in high-Victorian battle painting. Despite their marginal status, a core of professional painters to... Read More about ‘Exactitude is truth’: Representing the British military through commissioned artworks.

Transgenerational epigenetics, or the spectral history of the flesh. A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics (2008)
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Recent advances in the field of genetics, more specifically the substantiation of epigenetic inheritance, have expanded our understanding of genetic transmission. We will try to demonstrate here that a Merleau-Pontian approach to some of these recent... Read More about Transgenerational epigenetics, or the spectral history of the flesh. A Merleau-Pontian approach to epigenetics.

The name of the island of Annet, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall (2008)
Journal Article

Bristol: Ethnic minorities and the city, 1000-2001 (2007)
Book

Water-based screenprinting (2007)
Book

Water based screen-printing became an imperative with the introduction of new health and safety legislation. Hoskins undertook a survey of all the ink available up to 2001. Based on applied research undertaken from 1997-2001 this volume consolidates... Read More about Water-based screenprinting.

War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945 (2007)
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Archive-based regional studies can contribute much that is new to the economic, political and social history of the Second World War. This paper considers the process of industrial mobilisation in Northern Ireland, a politically divided region which... Read More about War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945.

Engaging the world: Soviet diplomacy and foreign propaganda in the 1920s (2007)
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Grammatical borrowing in cross-linguistic perspective (2007)
Book

Representativeness and humanitarian intervention (2007)
Journal Article

A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities (2007)
Journal Article

This article plays a game with Jean Baudrillard's thought and the intellectual traditions on which it draws. Or rather, it plays Baudrillard's game but with a cheat code. The game or program here is the hyperreality of the contemporary world-Baudrill... Read More about A 'pataphysics engine: Technology, play, and realities.

A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information (2007)
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Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography ce... Read More about A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information.

Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush (2007)
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This article develops a feminist critical approach capable of responding to the uniquely pessimistic portrayal of female friendship in Crush (Alison Maclean 1992, NZ). Crush questions the possibility of supportive or empathetic relationships, disclos... Read More about Female friendship, idealisation and the "need" for violence in Crush.

Sex with the City: Urban spaces, sexual encounters and erotic spectacle in Tsukamoto Shinya's Rokugatsu no Hebi - A Snake of June (2003) (2007)
Journal Article

Contested memories: Contested site': Newfoundland and its unique heritage on the Western front (2007)
Journal Article

The Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial is a 16.5 hectare (40 acre) tract of preserved battleground dedicated primarily to the memory of the 1st Newfoundland Regiment, who suffered an extremely high percentage of casualties during the first day of t... Read More about Contested memories: Contested site': Newfoundland and its unique heritage on the Western front.

A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change (2007)
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This paper posits that certain "qualificatory" semantic primes are recruited to serve face-management needs in a metonymic Meaning1>Meaning2 relationship at what Traugott and Dasher (2002) have called the inter-subjective, non-truth-conditional, proc... Read More about A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change.

Temporal finitude and finitude of possibility: The double meaning of death in being and time (2007)
Journal Article

The confusion surrounding Heidegger's account of death in Being and Time has led to severe criticisms, some of which dismiss his analysis as incoherent and obtuse. I argue that Heidegger's critics err by equating Heidegger's concept of death with our... Read More about Temporal finitude and finitude of possibility: The double meaning of death in being and time.

Cool Britannia? British political drama in the 1990's (2007)
Book

The 1990's were a defining moment for British theatre history. Drawing on new research and existing studies, this is a readable introduction to the variety of evolving and often contraditory styles of political drama that emerged during this decade.... Read More about Cool Britannia? British political drama in the 1990's.

Globalising liberalism or multiculturalism? The Durban agenda and the role of local human rights education in the implementation of global norms (2007)
Journal Article