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‘Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: Personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns (2016)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2017). ‘Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: Personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns. Journalism, 18(10), 1346-1363. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884916671159

This article examines the use of personal narratives in two tabloid newspaper campaigns against a controversial welfare reform popularly known as the ‘bedroom tax’. It aims firstly to evaluate whether the personal narratives operate as political tes... Read More about ‘Moving life stories tell us just why politics matters’: Personal narratives in tabloid anti-austerity campaigns.

Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited (2016)
Book Chapter
Cullen, F. (2016). Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited. In J. Fenlon, R. Kenny, C. Pegum, & B. Rooney (Eds.), Irish Fine Art in the Early Modern Period: New Perspectives on Artistic Practice, 1620-1820. Irish Academic Press

Examination of a painting produced in Dublin in 1780 of the interior of the Irish House of Commons. Explores the format of the painting and its failure as a large scale work of contemporary history. Concludes that contents of picture is a political a... Read More about Parliament as theatre: Francis Wheatley's The Irish House of Commons revisited.

Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris (2016)
Journal Article
Wrigley, R. (in press). Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris. Oxford Art Journal, 39(2), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxartj/kcw012

The article shows that the well-established association of the flaneur with art, artists is mistaken by reviewing the major primary source texts. It offers an alternative reading of the invention of the flaneur, arguing that it is rooted in early 19... Read More about Unreliable witness: the flaneur as artist and spectator of art in 19th-century Paris.

Paris, Japan and modernity: a vexed ratio (2016)
Book Chapter
Chang, T. (2016). Paris, Japan and modernity: a vexed ratio. In H. Clayson, & A. Dombrowski (Eds.), Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?: Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850-1900. Routledge

From conflict to revolution: The secret aesthetic, narrative spatialisation and audience experience in immersive cinema design (2016)
Journal Article
Atkinson, S. A., & Kennedy, H. (2016). From conflict to revolution: The secret aesthetic, narrative spatialisation and audience experience in immersive cinema design. Participations, 13(1), 252-279

In 2014, Secret Cinema Presents … Back to the Future …, tensions emerged within a section of the audience who were not invested in the rules of engagement of the secret cinema brand. The secret location of the screening, the requirement to surrender... Read More about From conflict to revolution: The secret aesthetic, narrative spatialisation and audience experience in immersive cinema design.

Universal ideals in local realities: online viewing in South Korea, Brazil and India (2016)
Journal Article
Evans, E., McDonald, P., Bae, J., Ray, S., & Santos, E. (2016). Universal ideals in local realities: online viewing in South Korea, Brazil and India. Convergence, 22(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856516641629

The potential of the internet to act as a global distribution outlet for screen content has long come into conflict with the nationally-focused strategies of producers, broadcasters, governments and internet service providers. Online viewing therefor... Read More about Universal ideals in local realities: online viewing in South Korea, Brazil and India.

Memory, storytelling and the digital archive: Revitalizing community and regional identities in the virtual age (2016)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. (2016). Memory, storytelling and the digital archive: Revitalizing community and regional identities in the virtual age. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 12(1), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.1386/macp.12.1.7_1

This article discusses how the interplay between the canon, the archive and performance informs the use of digital heritage resources in the construction, interpretation, representation, circulation and preservation of cultural and/or collective memo... Read More about Memory, storytelling and the digital archive: Revitalizing community and regional identities in the virtual age.