Outputs (287)

Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party (2020)
Journal Article
Pucci, L. (2020). Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party. Tate Papers, 2020(33),

The Italian Communist artist Renato Guttuso found in Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica a language with which to confront the violence of his time, from fascism and the Nazi occupation to the era of Christian Democracy and the Cold War. This article ex... Read More about Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party.

‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
BAO, H. (2020). ‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 12(1), 53 – 63

In this short essay, I introduce the ‘Anti-Domestic Violence Little Vaccine’ campaign in China during the COVID-19. After a brief introduction of the campaign by using first-person accounts from the organiser Guo Jing, I will then sum up some of the... Read More about ‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19.

The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival (2020)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2020). The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival. In S. Presence, M. Wayne, & J. Newsinger (Eds.), Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisation and Activists (190-202). Routledge

This chapter addresses the Euro-American-centrism in the study of radical film cultures by examining cinematic and political practices in a non-Western context. It shifts radical film research’s traditional emphasis on class to an intersectional appr... Read More about The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival.

The cultural politics of Jennifer Lawrence as star, actor, celebrity (2020)
Journal Article
Frame, G. (2020). The cultural politics of Jennifer Lawrence as star, actor, celebrity. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 18(3), 345-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2020.1790479

Jennifer Lawrence emerged as a major star of American cinema following the collapse of the economy in 2008. This article will argue that her image in the initial phase of her fame (2010–16) is reflective of mainstream culture’s response to the crisis... Read More about The cultural politics of Jennifer Lawrence as star, actor, celebrity.

‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). ‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history. Continuum, 34(4), 514-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2020.1785079

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines the politics of narrating feminist and queer histories in contemporary China. Focusing on Zhao Jing and Shi Tou’s 2015 film, We Are Here, a documentary made... Read More about ‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history.

Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One. Feminist Media Studies, 20(4), 530-547. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1754632

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article focuses on the politics of representing HIV/AIDS in the 2011 documentary The Lucky One (宠儿), jointly made by Chinese filmmaker and queer activist He Xiaopei and Zh... Read More about Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One.

Noise (2020)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. G. (2020). Noise. In Literature and sound (154-169). Cambridge University Press

Clutter and place (2020)
Book Chapter
Potts, T. (2020). Clutter and place. In T. Edensor, A. Kalandides, & U. Kothari (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Place. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter explores the complex relationship between stuff and place as a way of interrogating the contemporary media obsession with decluttering. While the very idea of place connotes order (as in the maxim ‘a place for everything and everything i... Read More about Clutter and place.

Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum (2020)
Journal Article
Tennent, P., Martindale, S., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Brundell, P., & Collishaw, M. (2020). Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 13(2), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369394

We examine the experience of Thresholds, a virtual reality (VR) recreation of the world's first photographic exhibition, which has toured to multiple museums. Following the method of performance-led research in the wild, we provide an account of the... Read More about Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum.

Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (2020)
Book
Bao, H. (2020). Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism. Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027898

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these d... Read More about Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism.