Outputs (287)

East Asian Film Noir (2015)
Book
Gallagher, M., & Shin, C.-Y. (Eds.). (2015). East Asian Film Noir

Film noir has been understood as a genre exclusive to Hollywood. But classical US noir's downbeat sensibility also finds expression in later films from Japan, South Korea and China (including Hong Kong) and Taiwan, that have both participated in and... Read More about East Asian Film Noir.

The economics of free: Freemium games, branding and the impatience economy (2015)
Journal Article
Evans, E. (2016). The economics of free: Freemium games, branding and the impatience economy. Convergence, 22(6), 563-580. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856514567052

The gaming industry has seen dramatic change and expansion with the emergence of ‘casual’ games that promote shorter periods of game play. Free to download, but structured around micro-payments, these games raise the complex relationship between game... Read More about The economics of free: Freemium games, branding and the impatience economy.

‘Pay Your Tax!’ How Tax Avoidance Became a Prominent Issue in the Public Sphere in the UK (2015)
Book Chapter
Birks, J., & Downey, J. (2015). ‘Pay Your Tax!’ How Tax Avoidance Became a Prominent Issue in the Public Sphere in the UK. Media, Margins and Civic Agency (166-181). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137512642

Zur Schärfung des historischen Möglichkeitssinns. Ein Jahrhundert der Gewalt in Jenny Erpenbecks Aller Tage Abend (2014)
Book Chapter
MEYER, F. (2014). Zur Schärfung des historischen Möglichkeitssinns. Ein Jahrhundert der Gewalt in Jenny Erpenbecks Aller Tage Abend. In J. Brunner, D. Avraham, & M. Zepp (Eds.), Politische Gewalt in Deutschland: Ursprünge - Ausprägungen - Konsequenzen (237-252). Wallstein

A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse (2014)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J. (2015). A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse. Media, Culture and Society, 37(2), 302-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443714560134

A number of writers have made the argument that the development creative industries policy discourse in the United Kingdom and elsewhere represents the articulation of a politics that is neoliberal in character. The marginalisation of Blairism in the... Read More about A cultural shock doctrine? Austerity, the neoliberal state and the creative industries discourse.

On Javier Bardem’s sex appeal (2014)
Journal Article
Gallagher, M. (2014). On Javier Bardem’s sex appeal. Transnational Cinemas, 5(2), 111-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2014.959296

Film studies has interrogated the erotic appeal of male stars chiefly through attention to bodily display, addressing onscreen men's availability for or resistance to a theorized gaze. Yet cinematic sexiness depends not only on display of the body, b... Read More about On Javier Bardem’s sex appeal.

Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, S., Tim, C., Sarah, M., Kher Hui, N., Elizabeth, E., Richard, M., & Stuart, R. (2014, September). Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home. Presented at HomeSys 2014, Seattle, USA

This paper examines and contrasts two approaches to collecting behavioural data within the home. The first of these involves filming from static video cameras combined with network logging to capture media consumption activities across multiple scree... Read More about Wearables or infrastructure: contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home.

Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shipp, V., Coughlan, T., Martindale, S., Ng, K. H., Evans, E., Mortier, R., & Reeves, S. (2014, September). Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home. Presented at 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Seattle Washington

This paper examines and contrasts two approaches to collecting behavioural data within the home. The first of these involves filming from static video cameras combined with network logging to capture media consumption activities across multiple scree... Read More about Wearables or infrastructure: Contrasting approaches to collecting behavioural data in the home.

The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation (2014)
Book
Frame, G. (2014). The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

As evidenced by the election of celebrity and reality television star Donald Trump, popular culture has played a vital role in the conceptualisation of political leadership. This revised edition of The American President in Film and Television explor... Read More about The American President in Film and Television: Myth, Politics and Representation.

Neurasthenia, Civilization and the Sounds of Modern Life: Narratives of Nervous Illness in the Inter-war Campaign against Noise (2014)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. G. (2014). Neurasthenia, Civilization and the Sounds of Modern Life: Narratives of Nervous Illness in the Inter-war Campaign against Noise. In D. Morat (Ed.), Sounds of Modern History: Auditory Cultures in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe (278-302). Berghahn