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Sad shires and no man's land: First World War frames of reference in the British media representation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars (2014)
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Wilson, R. (2014). Sad shires and no man's land: First World War frames of reference in the British media representation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Media, War and Conflict, 7(3), 291-308. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750635214557987

© The Author(s) 2014. The focus of this article is the manner in which media representations in Britain of the 21st century conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan drew upon the terms, allusions and imagery of the First World War. The application of these... Read More about Sad shires and no man's land: First World War frames of reference in the British media representation of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

The myths refugees live by: memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity (2013)
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Sen, U. (2014). The myths refugees live by: memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity. Modern Asian Studies, 48(1), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X12000613

Within the popular memory of the partition of India, the division of Bengal continues to evoke themes of political rupture, social tragedy and nostalgia. The refugees, or more broadly speaking, Hindu migrants from East Bengal, are often the central a... Read More about The myths refugees live by: memory and history in the making of Bengali refugee identity.

From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting (2013)
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Johnson, C. (2013). From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting. Media, Culture and Society, 35(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443712472088

In debates about the commercialization of public service broadcasting little attention has been paid to the ways in which the public might experience the commercial and public service activities of public service broadcasters and the impact that this... Read More about From brand congruence to the ‘virtuous circle’: branding and the commercialization of public service broadcasting.

After Nehru, What? Britain, the United States, and the Other Transfer of Power in India, 1960–64 (2011)
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McGarr, P. M. (2011). After Nehru, What? Britain, the United States, and the Other Transfer of Power in India, 1960–64. International History Review, 33(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2011.555381

In November 1959, India's Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, turned seventy. Having led his country since Britain's departure from South Asia in August 1947, Nehru's seventieth birthday stimulated debates, both inside and outside the Indian subcontine... Read More about After Nehru, What? Britain, the United States, and the Other Transfer of Power in India, 1960–64.

"India's Rasputin"?: V.K. Krishna Menon and Anglo–American misperceptions of Indian foreign policymaking, 1947–1964 (2011)
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McGarr, P. M. (2011). "India's Rasputin"?: V.K. Krishna Menon and Anglo–American misperceptions of Indian foreign policymaking, 1947–1964. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2011.576536

From 1947 until his political demise in late 1962, Vengalil Krishanan Krishna Menon stood at the forefront of India's international relations. One of Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru's closest political confidantes, Menon served variously as India's H... Read More about "India's Rasputin"?: V.K. Krishna Menon and Anglo–American misperceptions of Indian foreign policymaking, 1947–1964.

'A Serious menace to security': British intelligence, V.K. Krishna Menon and the Indian High Commission in London, 1947–52 (2010)
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McGarr, P. M. (2010). 'A Serious menace to security': British intelligence, V.K. Krishna Menon and the Indian High Commission in London, 1947–52. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2010.503397

Recently released Security Service (MI5) documents offer new insights into the Indian government's vulnerability to communist subversion after 1947, and the extent to which this threatened British national security. Existing historical works have not... Read More about 'A Serious menace to security': British intelligence, V.K. Krishna Menon and the Indian High Commission in London, 1947–52.

Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years (2009)
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Johnson, C. (2009). Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/17400300903307019

Most histories of British television date the emergence of a trade in programming to the mid- to late-1950s when recording technologies turned previously ephemeral programmes into exchangeable goods and ITV brought a commercial impetus to British bro... Read More about Trading Auntie: the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights during the BBC’s monopoly years.

Tele-branding in TVIII: the network as brand and the programme as brand (2007)
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Johnson, C. (2007). Tele-branding in TVIII: the network as brand and the programme as brand. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/17400300601140126

In the era of TVIII, characterized by deregulation, multimedia conglomeration, expansion and increased competition, branding has emerged as a central industrial practice. Focusing on the case of HBO, a particularly successful brand in TVIII, this art... Read More about Tele-branding in TVIII: the network as brand and the programme as brand.

Reclaiming heritage: colourization, culture wars and the politics of nostalgia (1999)
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Grainge, P. (1999). Reclaiming heritage: colourization, culture wars and the politics of nostalgia. Cultural Studies, 13(4), 621-638. https://doi.org/10.1080/095023899335077

This article considers the discursive continuities between a specifically liberal defence of cultural patrimony, evident in the debate over film colourization, and the culture war critique associated with neo-conservatism. It examines how a rhetoric... Read More about Reclaiming heritage: colourization, culture wars and the politics of nostalgia.

TIME's past in the present: nostalgia and the black and white image (1999)
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Grainge, P. (1999). TIME's past in the present: nostalgia and the black and white image. Journal of American Studies, 33(3),

In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope sent back to astronomers at the University of Arizona a series of vivid colour images of the Eagle Nebula, a dense formation of interstellar gas and dust the likes of which cradle newborn stars. As evidence that ou... Read More about TIME's past in the present: nostalgia and the black and white image.

"Stark, necessary and not permanent": huts in the work of Paul Celan and J.H. Prynne
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Thomas, N. (in press). "Stark, necessary and not permanent": huts in the work of Paul Celan and J.H. Prynne. German Life and Letters, 69(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/glal.12124

This article examines the motif of the hut in the work of Paul Celan and J. H. Prynne, as a metaphor for poetry which also mediates the relationship between poetry, language and place. Both Prynne and Celan’s use of the hut motif intersects with the... Read More about "Stark, necessary and not permanent": huts in the work of Paul Celan and J.H. Prynne.