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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

'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games (2014)
Journal Article
Elizabeth, E. (2014). 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games. International Journal of Communication, 8,

Alternate reality games (ARGs) combine transmedia and pervasive storytelling, layering fictional narratives onto real world spaces and raising a number of production challenges in the process. This article will consider the key professional skills, w... Read More about 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games.

„dann ist das Problem des deutschen Volkes, dasjenige, das mich am stärksten bewegt”: Grete Weils Briefe aus Amsterdam (1945-1947) (2014)
Book Chapter
Meyer, F. (2014). „dann ist das Problem des deutschen Volkes, dasjenige, das mich am stärksten bewegt”: Grete Weils Briefe aus Amsterdam (1945-1947). In Das Ende des Exils? : Briefe von Frauen nach 1945. text + kritik

Deconstructing Gao Minglu: critical reflections on contemporaneity and associated exceptionalist readings of contemporary Chinese art (2014)
Journal Article
Gladston, P. (2014). Deconstructing Gao Minglu: critical reflections on contemporaneity and associated exceptionalist readings of contemporary Chinese art. Journal of Art Historiography, 10,

Authorship and Authenticity in the Transmedia Brand: The Case of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2014)
Journal Article
Hadas, L. (2014). Authorship and Authenticity in the Transmedia Brand: The Case of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.31165/nk.2014.71.332

The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the first filmmaking endeavour of its kind: multiple separate superhero films taking place within a single diegetic world, united in a single sequel, The Avengers (2012). The third highest-grossing film in histo... Read More about Authorship and Authenticity in the Transmedia Brand: The Case of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..

Star Trek and American Television (2014)
Book
Pearson, R., & Messenger Davies, M. (2014). Star Trek and American Television. University of California Press

The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game (2014)
Journal Article
Evans, E., Flintham, M., & Martindale, S. (2014). The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 18(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0762-7

The Malthusian Paradox is a transmedia alternate reality game (ARG) created by artists Dominic Shaw and Adam Sporne played by 300 participants over three months. We explore the design of the game, which cast players as agents of a radical organisatio... Read More about The Malthusian Paradox: performance in an alternate reality game.

News and civil society: the contested space of civil society in UK media (2014)
Book
Birks, J. (2014). News and civil society: the contested space of civil society in UK media. Ashgate

Stallone and Hollywood in Transition (2014)
Book Chapter
Gallagher, M. (2014). Stallone and Hollywood in Transition. In C. Holmlund (Ed.), The Ultimate Stallone Reader (97-119). Columbia University Press

Somewhere (and nowhere) between modernity and tradition: towards a critique of international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art (2014)
Journal Article
Gladston, P. (2014). Somewhere (and nowhere) between modernity and tradition: towards a critique of international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art. Tate Papers,

Reviewing international and indigenous perspectives on the significance of contemporary Chinese art, Paul Gladston argues for the necessity of new theoretical paradigms.

The continuity of ‘continuity’: flow and the changing experience of watching broadcast television (2013)
Journal Article
Johnson, C. (2013). The continuity of ‘continuity’: flow and the changing experience of watching broadcast television. Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, 11,

It has been widely argued that the experience of watching television has altered significantly since Raymond Williams’s theorisation of flow in the mid-1970s. Yet despite the rise of new technologies such as personal video recorders and on-demand ser... Read More about The continuity of ‘continuity’: flow and the changing experience of watching broadcast television.