Outputs (287)

Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Wreyford, N., Newsinger, J., Kennedy, H., & Aust, R. (2024). Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feminist Media Studies, 24(8), 1894-1913. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2266775

COVID-19 and the associated government lockdowns in the UK had dramatic impacts on the UK’s creative industries. This article explores these impacts on mothers working in UK Television (UKTV), on their ability to work, finances, and mental health. It... Read More about Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Cui, Z. (2023). Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en. In U. Böckler, J. Lazarus, & A. Weltz-Rombach (Eds.), Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil (223-227). K. Verlag

Cui Zi’en (b. 1958 in Harbin, China) is one of the best-known queer filmmakers, writers and activists in the Chinese-speaking world. He was the first ‘out’ gay public persona in post-Mao China, coming out on state television in 2000. He has made abou... Read More about Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en.

Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction. In Routledge Encyclopaedia in Chinese Studies

This article examines queer literature in Mainland China from classical texts to contemporary Internet literature and fan fiction. Queer literature is broadly defined here as literary texts depicting non-heteronormative genders, sexualities and desir... Read More about Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction.

The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism (2023)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2023). The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 10(1-2), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00075_1

Through public, intentional and interventionist displays of the queer body, queer Chinese artists have used performance art for identity expression, community building and social activism. This article focuses on some of these queer performance artwo... Read More about The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism.

Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement (2023)
Book
Atkin, W. (2023). Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement. Bloomsbury Publishing

Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century. Consisting... Read More about Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement.

The BFI: London’s Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies for All: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart (2023)
Book Chapter
Evans, E. (2024). The BFI: London’s Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies for All: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart. In London as Screen Gateway. Routledge

The British Film Institute (BFI) has been a central institution within both the British film industry and London as a media city for nearly 100 years. In this interview, Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart discuss the BFI’s relationship with... Read More about The BFI: London’s Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies for All: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart.

London as Screen Gateway (2023)
Book
Evans, E., & Guha, M. (Eds.). (2024). London as Screen Gateway. Routledge

London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the diversity of roles the city plays both on screen and within the screen industries, the volume explores the in... Read More about London as Screen Gateway.

Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and the Symbolic Diversity of Location (2023)
Book Chapter
Evans, E. (2023). Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and the Symbolic Diversity of Location. In E. Evans, & M. Guha (Eds.), London as Screen Gateway. Routledge

In April 2012, the BBC relocated a portion of its television production from London’s Television Centre, its home since 1960, to MediaCity in Salford, just outside Manchester. In March 2018, Channel 4 announced similar plans to move its headquarters... Read More about Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and the Symbolic Diversity of Location.

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., Ito-Jaeger, S., Darzentas, D. P., Webb, H., Jacobs, R., Atabey, A., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Winklhofer, H., Urquhart, L. D., & Perez Vallejos, E. (2023, July). “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. Presented at DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pittsburgh, USA

We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distingui... Read More about “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories.

In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries (2023)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2023). In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries. Panoptikum, 2023(29), 94-114. https://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2023.29.06

This article examines the digital and cinematic mediation of queer memory in four independent Chinese documentaries: Queer China, "Comrade" China (dir. Cui Zi"en 2008), Our Story (dir. Yang Yang, 2011), We Are Here (dir. Shi Tou and Jing Zhao, 2016)... Read More about In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries.