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Mark Glancy, Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xvii + 550, ISBN: 9780190053130, £22.99 and Scott Eyman, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020), pp. xiv +556, ISBN: 9781501192111, £25 (2021)
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Crofts, C. (2021). Mark Glancy, Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xvii + 550, ISBN: 9780190053130, £22.99 and Scott Eyman, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020), pp. xiv +556, ISBN: 9781501192111, £25. Open Screens, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.16995/os.8256

Mark Glancy, Cary Grant, the Making of a Hollywood Legend (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) and Scott Eyman, Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020).

Precarious work and creative placemaking: Freelance labour in Bristol (2021)
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Genders, A. (2022). Precarious work and creative placemaking: Freelance labour in Bristol. Cultural Trends, 31(5), 433-447. https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2021.2009735

As an occupational group characterized by their responsiveness, resilience and innovation, freelancers make a vital contribution to the UK’s creative economy. However, although there has been a general acknowledgement of their importance, a number of... Read More about Precarious work and creative placemaking: Freelance labour in Bristol.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2021)
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Rogers, S. (2021). Extract from "More on the Plums". Perverse, 6(G),

One poem, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums".

The future of visual anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter: A dialogue among Shawn Sobers, Deborah Thomas and Sireita Mullings (2021)
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Mullings, S., Sobers, S., & Thomas, D. (2021). The future of visual anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter: A dialogue among Shawn Sobers, Deborah Thomas and Sireita Mullings. Visual Anthropology Review, 37(2), 401-421. https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12253

As a discipline, anthropology has long been subject to the scrutiny of critical race theorists and to questions of ethical practice with regard to ethnicity and representation. This dialogue features critical Black visual anthropologists discussing t... Read More about The future of visual anthropology in the wake of Black Lives Matter: A dialogue among Shawn Sobers, Deborah Thomas and Sireita Mullings.

Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture (2021)
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Nartey, M. (2022). Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture. Critical Discourse Studies, 19(5), 459-464. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2021.1999285

This Special Issue provides a collection of cutting-edge research that examines discourses that serve emancipatory agendas by taking a social justice approach. To this end, the issue draws on data from Africa, Latin America, North America and the Ara... Read More about Investigating emancipatory discourses in action: The need for an interventionist approach and an activist-scholar posture.

‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: A transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism (2021)
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Mwinlaaru, I. N., & Nartey, M. (2022). ‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: A transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism. Critical Discourse Studies, 19(5), 556-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2021.1999286

Recent studies on colonial discourse have demonstrated that the speeches of freedom activists in colonial Africa served as sites of resistance. One key text type that has, however, been neglected in the critical literature on the discourse of emancip... Read More about ‘Free men we stand under the flag of our land’: A transitivity analysis of African anthems as discourses of resistance against colonialism.

Centering marginalized voices: A discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter (2021)
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Nartey, M. (2022). Centering marginalized voices: A discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter. Critical Discourse Studies, 19(5), 523-538. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2021.1999284

Recent studies on non-dominant or minority groups have begun to look at how their members reconstruct resistance, sculpt a positive identity for themselves and engage in solidarity formation for group empowerment. The present study contributes to thi... Read More about Centering marginalized voices: A discourse analytic study of the Black Lives Matter movement on Twitter.

How riots spread between cities: Introducing the Police pathway (2021)
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Drury, J., Stott, C., Ball, R., Barr, D., Bell, L., Reicher, S., & Neville, F. (2022). How riots spread between cities: Introducing the Police pathway. Political Psychology, 43(4), 651-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12786

Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in... Read More about How riots spread between cities: Introducing the Police pathway.

Knowledge exchange in the arts and humanities as creative economy policy assemblage (2021)
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Moreton, S. (2021). Knowledge exchange in the arts and humanities as creative economy policy assemblage. Research for All, 5(2), 272-290. https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.05.2.06

The creative economy is a complex assemblage of policy, practice and industrial activity, underpinned by apparently novel configurations of cultural and creative work. In recent years, it has become the focus of a number of schemes which have seen ma... Read More about Knowledge exchange in the arts and humanities as creative economy policy assemblage.

Marginality and otherness: The discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media (2021)
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Nartey, M. (2022). Marginality and otherness: The discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media. Media, Culture and Society, 44(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437211045552

In recent years, LGBT issues have received substantial media attention and engendered heated public debate in Ghana. This paper analyzes the prejudiced construction of LGBT issues in the Ghanaian news media and how this contributes to a discriminator... Read More about Marginality and otherness: The discursive construction of LGBT issues/people in the Ghanaian news media.

Negotiating creativity (2021)
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Anthony, D. (2021). Negotiating creativity. Writing in Education, 49-55

How research into the relationships between writers and the markets they supply reveals a process fundamental to the nature of industrial creativity: negotiating creativity.

The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama (2021)
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Lees, D., Bashford-Rogers, T., & Keppel-Palmer, M. (2021). The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama. Convergence, 27(4), 954–973. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565211030452

This article develops from the findings of an interdisciplinary research project that has linked film practice research with computer science and law, in an exercise that seeks to digitally resurrect Margaret Thatcher to play herself in a contemporar... Read More about The digital resurrection of Margaret Thatcher: Creative, technological and legal dilemmas in the use of deepfakes in screen drama.

Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media: A critical discourse analysis of the representation of 'leftover men' (2021)
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Yu, Y., & Nartey, M. (2021). Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media: A critical discourse analysis of the representation of 'leftover men'. Gender and Language, 15(2), 184-206. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.18823

Although the Chinese media's construction of unmarried citizens as 'leftover' has incited much controversy, little research attention has been given to the ways 'leftover men' are represented in discourse. To fill this gap, this study performs a crit... Read More about Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media: A critical discourse analysis of the representation of 'leftover men'.

Extract from "More on the Plums" (2021)
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Rogers, S. (2021). Extract from "More on the Plums". Streetcake Magazine, 73(2), 15

One poem, extracted from my longer sequence "More on the Plums".

Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries (2021)
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Matthews, P., & Glitre, K. (2021). Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(12), 1511-1527. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24525

Genre plays an important role in the description, navigation, and discovery of movies, but it is rarely studied at large scale using quantitative methods. This allows an analysis of how genre labels are applied, how genres are composed and how these... Read More about Genre analysis of movies using a topic model of plot summaries.

Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um (2021)
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Kirjavainen, M., Crible, L., & Beeching, K. (2022). Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um. Language and Speech, 65(2), 263-289. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309211011201

The current paper presents three studies that investigated the effect of exposure on the mental representations of filled pauses (um/uh). In Study 1, a corpus analysis identified the frequency of co-occurrence of filled pauses with words located imme... Read More about Can filled pauses be represented as linguistic items? Investigating the effect of exposure on the perception and production of um.

Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show (2021)
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Eagle, R., Lander, R., & Hall, P. D. (2021). Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show. Cognitive Computation and Systems, 3(2), 91-99. https://doi.org/10.1049/ccs2.12018

I am Echoborg is promoted as ‘a show created afresh each time by the audience in conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI)’. The show demonstrates how AI in a creative and performance context can raise questions about the technology’s ethical... Read More about Questioning ‘what makes us human’: How audiences react to an artificial intelligence–driven show.

Sir Arthur Hirtzel and the Pax Britannica in the Middle East (2021)
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Fisher, J. (2021). Sir Arthur Hirtzel and the Pax Britannica in the Middle East. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 32(2), 263-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2021.1913356

Sir Arthur Hirtzel, the long-serving senior official in the India Office was an old–and a much respected–Middle Eastern hand. Few in Whitehall could rival him in his capacity ‘to get into the mind of the man at the other end of the line.’ Surprisingl... Read More about Sir Arthur Hirtzel and the Pax Britannica in the Middle East.