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Neurath's whale (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2009, December). Neurath's whale. Paper presented at The Afterlife of Animals, Manchester University, UK

Taking a brief passage by Otto Neurath about a whale exhibit, I raise questions about how we interpret exhibits, using phenomenological and social-historical approaches, and I use Bruno Latour’s notion of objects as actants and imbroglios to reconsid... Read More about Neurath's whale.

Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Sobers, S., & Mitchell, R. (2009, November). Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms. Paper presented at Slavery and the British Country House, London School of Economics

This presentation describes the process, production and context of Re:Interpretation, a participatory media project carried out by Firstborn Creatives in partnership with the National Trust. The brief was to explore the challenging subject of transa... Read More about Perspectives of slave trade history using creative digital platforms.

Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J. (2009, November). Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity. Paper presented at International Jean Rouch Symposum, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Building on Rouch’s thoughts on cinema-sincerity, this paper will interrogate new possibilities for the creation of polyphonic narratives brought about by the multiple windows environment of 21st century computing. Drawing on material recorded in the... Read More about Direct cinema and a making of the ‘real’: polyphonic narrative, spatial montage and cinema-sincerity.

Still pictures, moving contexts (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J., & James, W. (2009, November). Still pictures, moving contexts. Paper presented at The Image Relation: Towards an Anthropology of Photography, Wolfson College, Oxford, UK

This presentation will highlight ways of presenting still photographs, both black and white and colour, as well as colour slides, using multimedia methods which add fresh resonance to archival materials. Examples will be drawn from James’s ethnogra... Read More about Still pictures, moving contexts.

Expressionist film and beyond (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bracegirdle, J. (2009, October). Expressionist film and beyond. Presented at Journey out of Darkness, New Walk Museum, Leicester

Public Lecture in relation to The Journey out of Darkness exhibition at New Walk Museum, Leicester (31/10/09 - 3/05/10). The author used the New Walk’s Expressionist Art exhibition as a starting point, tracing early forms of film exhibition in Ge... Read More about Expressionist film and beyond.

Embodied reality: Contemporary biopics and the inflections of stardom (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2009, October). Embodied reality: Contemporary biopics and the inflections of stardom. Paper presented at IMAGEing reality: Representing the Real in Film, Television and New Media, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

With films like Iris (Eyre, 2001), Walk the Line (Mangold, 2005), The Queen (Frears, 2006,) Milk (Van Sant, 2008), The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008) dominating international film awards, the importance of biopics to contemporary circuits of ‘factual’ sc... Read More about Embodied reality: Contemporary biopics and the inflections of stardom.

The "postfeminist" biopic: Re-telling the past in The Hours, Sylvia and Iris (2009)
Book Chapter
Dolan, J., Gordon, S., & Tincknell, E. (2009). The "postfeminist" biopic: Re-telling the past in The Hours, Sylvia and Iris. In R. Carroll (Ed.), Textual Infidelities: Adaptations in Print and Visual Cultures. Continuum

This co-authored article about biopics of key women writers of the twentieth century is located in the proliferation of the genre since the 1990s. Analysis of Iris (Richard Eyre, 2001), The Hours (Stephen Daldry, 2002) and Sylvia (Christine Jeffs, 2... Read More about The "postfeminist" biopic: Re-telling the past in The Hours, Sylvia and Iris.

20 million people can't be wrong: Anna Neagle and popular British stardom (2009)
Book Chapter
Dolan, J., & Street, S. (2009). 20 million people can't be wrong: Anna Neagle and popular British stardom. In M. Bell, & M. Williams (Eds.), British Women's Cinema (34-48). Routledge

This is a co-authored article included in a themed collection on British Women’s Cinema that constitutes the most recent contribution to the prestigious Routledge series, British Popular Cinema. It analyses the star persona of Anna Neagle, Britain’s... Read More about 20 million people can't be wrong: Anna Neagle and popular British stardom.

Comic-book adaptation (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2009, September). Comic-book adaptation. Paper presented at Framing Film: Cinema and the Visual Arts, University of Winchester

Josephine Dolan was the conference panel chair for this conference. The panel contributors were Ian Hague: The Manhattan perspective: Sequence and simultaneity in comics and film; Liam Burke: 'It's a bird... It's a plane... no, it's a genre!’ Adapta... Read More about Comic-book adaptation.

A(cute) animation: Miss Potter and the creative subject (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J. (2009, September). A(cute) animation: Miss Potter and the creative subject. Paper presented at Framing Films Conference, University of Winchester

The paper analyses the 2008 biopic Miss Potter and the extent to which the film constitutes Potter as an artist, rather than a writer. The paper explores the use of animation to constitute the psychic interiority of Beatrix Potter – she literally is... Read More about A(cute) animation: Miss Potter and the creative subject.

My recent research (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Henning, M. (2009, September). My recent research. Paper presented at Symposium of International Experts on Otto Neurath and Isotype, University of Reading

This was a symposium of international experts on Otto Neurath and Isotype, I gave a half-hour talk on my findings in the various archives in Vienna, Haarlem and Reading. The aim was for partipants to network and share expertise and to visit the Readi... Read More about My recent research.

It's in you (2009)
Digital Artefact
Johnson, A., & Matzi, W. (2009). It's in you

Character voice recording for an animated short film addressing health issues.

Conditional and constrained: Freedom of expression of migrant voices on TV news (2009)
Book Chapter
Gross, B. (2009). Conditional and constrained: Freedom of expression of migrant voices on TV news. In R. C. Clemens Nathan (Ed.), Media and Human Rights: Reparations for Victims of Human Rights Abuses and Prosthetic Services (127-138). London: Clemens Nathan Research Centre

This chapter looks at the way journalistic practice potentially constrains the voice of migrants on British television news.

Database narrative, spatial montage and the cultural transmission of memory: A case study from the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Aston, J. (2009, August). Database narrative, spatial montage and the cultural transmission of memory: A case study from the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands. Paper presented at ISEA2009, The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, University of Ulster, Belfast

A peer reviewed paper presented within the Interactive Storytelling theme of an international conference on Engaged Creativity and Mobile Environments.

Making a difference: Media practice research, creative economies and cultural ecologies (2009)
Book Chapter
Dovey, J. (2009). Making a difference: Media practice research, creative economies and cultural ecologies. In A. Ludvine, S. Jones, B. Kershaw, & A. Piccini (Eds.), Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter offers an analysis of the relationships between media practice-as-research and the screen media industries. It draws upon my own experience in the UK as a producer and academic teaching screen media. In 2006, I founded ScreenWork, the fi... Read More about Making a difference: Media practice research, creative economies and cultural ecologies.

Addressing regional cultural heritage maintenance using the digital songlines game engine (2009)
Book Chapter
Leavy, B., Wyeld, T. G., & Crogan, P. (2009). Addressing regional cultural heritage maintenance using the digital songlines game engine. In L. Hjorth, & D. Chan (Eds.), Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific (107-169). New York: Routledge

An essay exploring the cultural, aesthetic and ethical implications of using a videogame engine in an Aboriginal cultural heritage preservation project.