Outputs (30)

Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies (2019)
Journal Article
Goffey, A. (2019). Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 2019(98), 29-47. https://doi.org/10.3898/NEWF%3A98.03.2019

Contesting binaries that tend to underlie claims about automation, this article seeks to complicate arguments that are made about digital technology and the processes and practices of automation essential to it. In particular, it contests a well-entr... Read More about Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies.

Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries (2019)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., & Eikhof, D. (2020). Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 17(1), 47-69. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0507

This article adapts Jeremy Ahearne's (2009) conception of explicit and implicit cultural policy for a novel analysis of contemporary diversity policy in the British film and television industries. It demonstrates how distinguishing explicit and impli... Read More about Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries.

Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism (2019)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., & Serafini, P. (2021). Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24(2), 589-605. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419886038

Resilience is a key theme in contemporary post-crisis capitalism, prominent across government policy, popular discourses, business and management thinking and academia. This article is about the deployment of the concept of resilience in cultural pol... Read More about Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism.

Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis (2019)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2019). Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis. In N. Hill, S. Brinkmann, & A. Petersen (Eds.), Critical Happiness Studies (177-192). Routledge

This chapter explores the relative sidelining of psychoanalysis in critical approaches to Happiness Studies thus far. It argues that this stems from an American strand of psychoanalysis known as ego-psychology which forms an unacknowledged element in... Read More about Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis.

Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles (2019)
Journal Article
Bradnock, L. (2019). Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles. Tate Papers, 32,

During the 1950s and 1960s, critics writing about art on America’s West Coast often treated it as provincial. At the same time, artists working in Los Angeles engaged in projects of self-fashioning that frequently alluded to frontiersmen and cowboys.... Read More about Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles.

Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics (2019)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2019). Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 24-37. https://doi.org/10.3898/soun.73.03.2019

Perhaps one of the most fascinating changes in the modern Chinese language in the past century has been the use of the term tongzhi (同志). In its early twentieth-century sense of ‘comrade’, tongzhi was widely used as an honorific in China’s revoluti... Read More about Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics.

Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture (2019)
Book
Evans, E. (2019). Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315208053

This book offers a new, interdisciplinary model for understanding audience engagement as a type of behaviour, a form of response and a cost to audiences that, combined, offer value to the screen industries. Audience ‘engagement’ has become the key p... Read More about Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture.

Marin Sanudo on Brescia: Caterina Cornaro’s 1497 Entry and Glimpses into the Life and Politics of a Renaissance Border Town (2019)
Book Chapter
Neher, G. (2019). Marin Sanudo on Brescia: Caterina Cornaro’s 1497 Entry and Glimpses into the Life and Politics of a Renaissance Border Town. In G. Neher, & H. Butters (Eds.), . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

In 1497, Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, visited the city of Brescia. Ostensibly, Cornaro was on a family visit, attending to the confinement of her sister-in-law. This article argues that Cornaro’s much publicised visit to Brescia, celebrated in... Read More about Marin Sanudo on Brescia: Caterina Cornaro’s 1497 Entry and Glimpses into the Life and Politics of a Renaissance Border Town.

Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China (2019)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2019). Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China. In Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities, (188-204). Routledge

This chapter examines health activism in the People’s Republic of China by focusing on China’s LGBTQ communities. Using Queer Comrades (Tongzhi yi fanren 同志亦凡人), a Beijing-based queer community video streaming website, as a case study, I discuss... Read More about Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China.

The Live Cinema Paradox: Continuity and Innovation in Live Film Broadcast, Exhibition and Production (2019)
Book Chapter
Atkinson, S. A., & Kennedy, H. W. (2019). The Live Cinema Paradox: Continuity and Innovation in Live Film Broadcast, Exhibition and Production. In The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production (335-346). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21744-0_26

While a great deal of very valuable and influential scholarship has examined the disruptions caused by digital film distribution (the pre-recorded non-live formats of on-demand, streaming services for instance), this chapter focuses instead on the ph... Read More about The Live Cinema Paradox: Continuity and Innovation in Live Film Broadcast, Exhibition and Production.