Outputs (7)

‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11 (2012)
Journal Article
Potts, T. (2012). ‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11. Tourist Studies, 12(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797612461083

This paper aims to interrogate the framing of New York’s Ground Zero as a ‘dark tourist’ destination, with particular reference to the entanglement of notions of kitsch in academic discussions of the events of September 11th 2001. What makes Ground Z... Read More about ‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11.

Seeing Obama, Projecting Kennedy: The Presence of JFK in Images of Barack Obama (2012)
Journal Article
Frame, G. (2012). Seeing Obama, Projecting Kennedy: The Presence of JFK in Images of Barack Obama. Comparative American Studies, 10(2-3), 163-176. https://doi.org/10.1179/1477570012Z.00000000012

During the 2008 election campaign Obama's youth, his glamorous wife, young children, and liberal politics resuscitated the memory of Kennedy, who remains the benchmark of the presidential image. This article explores how Obama shapes himself in Kenne... Read More about Seeing Obama, Projecting Kennedy: The Presence of JFK in Images of Barack Obama.

Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part one: Gramsci and cultural policy studies: some methodological reflections (2012)
Journal Article
Merli, P. (2013). Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part one: Gramsci and cultural policy studies: some methodological reflections. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2011.643872

Gramsci’s writings have rarely been discussed and used systematically by scholars in cultural policy studies, despite the fact that in cultural studies, from which the field emerged, Gramsci has been a major source of theoretical concepts. Cultural p... Read More about Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part one: Gramsci and cultural policy studies: some methodological reflections.

Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part three: Is there a theory of cultural policy in Gramsci’s prison notebooks? (2012)
Journal Article
Merli, P. (2013). Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part three: Is there a theory of cultural policy in Gramsci’s prison notebooks?. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2011.643874

In this article, I argue that Gramsci’s prison notes on questions of cultural strategy, policy and institutions, which have so far been largely overlooked by scholars, provide further analytical insights to those offered by his more general concepts.... Read More about Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part three: Is there a theory of cultural policy in Gramsci’s prison notebooks?.

Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part two: Cultural strategy and institutions in Gramsci’s early writings and political practice (2012)
Journal Article
Merli, P. (2013). Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part two: Cultural strategy and institutions in Gramsci’s early writings and political practice. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 19(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2011.643873

In this article, I consider Gramsci’s pre-prison writings and political practice in relation to questions of cultural strategy and institutions. I argue that the analysis of these early texts, which were written in the years in which Gramsci was acti... Read More about Creating the cultures of the future: cultural strategy, policy and institutions in Gramsci. Part two: Cultural strategy and institutions in Gramsci’s early writings and political practice.

Introduction: The documentary film movement and the spaces of British identity (2012)
Journal Article
Anthony, S., & Mansell, J. G. (2012). Introduction: The documentary film movement and the spaces of British identity. Twentieth Century British History, 23(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwr054

Walter Hopps's Los Angeles pastoral (2012)
Journal Article
Bradnock, L. E. (2012). Walter Hopps's Los Angeles pastoral. Art Journal, 71(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00043249.2012.10791085

An intriguing tale crops up in oral history interviews conducted with Los Angeles artists and curators of the 1950s. Recounted by the curator Walter Hopps, the artist Craig Kauffman, and the gallerist Jim Newman, it concerns a Midwestern farmer, who,... Read More about Walter Hopps's Los Angeles pastoral.