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Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, “successful aging” and the new visibility of older female stars (2013)
Book Chapter
Dolan, J. (2013). Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, “successful aging” and the new visibility of older female stars. In C. Carter, L. Steiner, & L. McClaughlin (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender (342-351). London & New York: Routledge

Following Simone de Beauvoir (1972) and Germaine Greer who similarly lamented the cultural invisibility of older women, the current proliferation of Hollywood films with older women protagonists, and the increased visibility of older female stars mig... Read More about Smoothing the wrinkles: Hollywood, “successful aging” and the new visibility of older female stars.

The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s (2013)
Journal Article
White, E. (2013). The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s. Revolutionary Russia, 26(2), 128-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546545.2013.856076

This article examines the attempts made by Russian émigré activists in inter-war Europe to educate Russian refugee children in a network of national Russian schools. This formed an important aspect of the émigré elite's mission of saving Russian cult... Read More about The struggle against denationalisation: The Russian emigration in Europe and education in the 1920s.

Navigating uncommon ground: Engaging and articulating the places and connectivity of older adults in rural contexts through creative practice (2013)
Thesis
Bailey, J. E. Navigating uncommon ground: Engaging and articulating the places and connectivity of older adults in rural contexts through creative practice. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/925273

This thesis is an explication of the interrelations between three components - the lived worlds of older adults in a specific rural context; the academic context of doctoral research; and an ongoing art practice. The rural context is that encountered... Read More about Navigating uncommon ground: Engaging and articulating the places and connectivity of older adults in rural contexts through creative practice.

The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980 (2013)
Book
Spicer, A. H., & McKenna, A. (2013). The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980. London: I.B. Tauris

This is the first study to focus on the most successful British independent producer of the 1970s, though his career stretched from the early 1980s to the early 1980s. The research for this publication was funded by a two-year AHRC grant and is based... Read More about The Man Who Got Carter: Michael Klinger, Independent Production and the British Film Industry, 1960-1980.

Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data (2013)
Journal Article
Harrison, N. (2013). Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data. British Educational Research Journal, 39(5), 793-816. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3000

Managing the demand for higher education has been a major concern of successive UK governments over the last 30 years. While initially they sought to increase demand, latterly the emphasis has been on widening participation to include demographic gro... Read More about Modelling the demand for higher education by local authority area in England using academic, economic and social data.

Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath (2013)
Book Chapter
Henning, M. (2013). Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath. In S. Harrow (Ed.), The Art of the Text (129-150). University of Wales Press

This chapter describes the Isotype method of pictorial statistics, invented in 1920s Vienna by the Vienna Circle philosopher and sociologist Otto Neurath, and compares it to Neurath’s own signature drawings of a cartoon elephant. Isotype was among th... Read More about Isotypes and elephants: Picture language as visual writing in the work and correspondence of Otto Neurath.

Learning mentors: A study of identity, policy and practice (2013)
Thesis
O'Hagan, L. Learning mentors: A study of identity, policy and practice. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/929189

This study has investigated the role of learning mentoring within one secondary school with a focus on developing an understanding of practice, professional identity and policy enactment at an institutional level. Learning mentors were first introduc... Read More about Learning mentors: A study of identity, policy and practice.

What goes without saying: Husserl's concept of style (2013)
Journal Article
Meacham, D., & Meacham, D. E. (2013). What goes without saying: Husserl's concept of style. Research in Phenomenology, 43(1), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691640-12341241

The idea of "style" emerges at several important points throughout Husserl's oeuvre: in the second part of the Crisis of the European Sciences, the lectures on intersubjectivity published in Husserliana XV, and in the analyses of transcendental chara... Read More about What goes without saying: Husserl's concept of style.

Reproduction of texture in digitally printed artworks (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Hoskins, S., Parraman, C., Mccallion, P., & Cohen, C. (2013, July). Reproduction of texture in digitally printed artworks. Paper presented at AIC 2013, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

This paper considers alternative approaches to image making and printing that moves from the on-screen representation of images and painting applications, to the physical generation and methods for surface deposition or 2.5D printing. The research in... Read More about Reproduction of texture in digitally printed artworks.

Cultural discourse, colour heritage and communication (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., & Mottram, J. (2013, July). Cultural discourse, colour heritage and communication. Paper presented at AIC 2013, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Our current digital technologies are as much a part of the cultural heritage of tomorrow as are the material objects we create and the discourses and narratives that bind theory and practice. In this fast moving technological environment, with increa... Read More about Cultural discourse, colour heritage and communication.

Exploration of alternative print methodology for colour printing through the multi‐layering of ink (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C., & Olen, M. (2013, July). Exploration of alternative print methodology for colour printing through the multi‐layering of ink. Paper presented at AIC 2013, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

This paper explores the application of artist driven colour mixing and multi-layering of pigments using inkjet printing. A standardised colour managment workflow is essential for predicable and repeatable colour for inkjet printing. With the correct... Read More about Exploration of alternative print methodology for colour printing through the multi‐layering of ink.

Teaching multiplatform documentary (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Oldham, A., & Aston, J. (2013, July). Teaching multiplatform documentary. Paper presented at NAHEMI, Talking Shop, BFI

A Companion to Film Noir (2013)
Book
Spicer, A. H., & Hanson, H. (2013). A. Spicer, & H. Hanson (Eds.), A Companion to Film Noir. Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

This edited collection contains 29 essays specially commissioned for this volume by leading scholars in the field. The volume is organised into 7 parts. Part 1, 'Conceptualising Film Noir', contains four essays that explore the ways in which this cat... Read More about A Companion to Film Noir.

The language of narrative drawing: A close reading of contemporary graphic novels (2013)
Thesis
Blair, S. The language of narrative drawing: A close reading of contemporary graphic novels. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/930772

The study offers an alternative analytical framework for thinking about the contemporary graphic novel as a dynamic area of visual art practice. Graphic narratives are placed within the broad, open-ended territory of investigative drawing, rather tha... Read More about The language of narrative drawing: A close reading of contemporary graphic novels.

Learning L2 words with L1 in mind (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Elgort, I., & Piasecki, A. E. (2013, June). Learning L2 words with L1 in mind. Paper presented at International Symposium on Bilingualism 9

The development of methods for the reproduction of texture in digitally printed artworks (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Mccallion, P. (2013, April). The development of methods for the reproduction of texture in digitally printed artworks. Paper presented at Computers in Art and Design Education (CADE) Conference, Watershed, Bristol

In a digital age where artists and printers are required to learn a wide range of skills, from graphic design to colour science, is it possible to return to a more artistic application of colour, tone and texture with a mechanically printed image usi... Read More about The development of methods for the reproduction of texture in digitally printed artworks.