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“The Lincoln Memorial Was Too Crowded”: Interpreting the United States' Memorial Landscape through Film and Television (2017)
Journal Article
Frame, G. (2017). “The Lincoln Memorial Was Too Crowded”: Interpreting the United States' Memorial Landscape through Film and Television. Journal of Popular Film and Television, 45(4), 190-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2017.1343795

This article argues for a more rigorous understanding of the use of memorials in American film and television as part of the ongoing negotiation and development of American memory, looking beyond the disaster genre and the Lincoln Memorial to other s... Read More about “The Lincoln Memorial Was Too Crowded”: Interpreting the United States' Memorial Landscape through Film and Television.

(Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics (2017)
Journal Article
Hollin, G., Forsyth, I., Giraud, E., & Potts, T. (2017). (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics. Social Studies of Science, 47(6), 918-941. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717728344

In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or investe... Read More about (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics.

Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos? (2017)
Journal Article
Cullen, F. (2017). Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos?. Visual Culture in Britain, 18(2), 176-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2017.1328987

The nineteenth-century artist, Erskine Nicol (1825–1904) is well known for his anecdotal and humorous paintings of Irish themes. This article analyses one of his larger oils to show that on occasion he attempted a more serious representation of the r... Read More about Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos?.

Tax avoidance as an anti-austerity issue: The progress of a protest issue through the public sphere (2017)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2017). Tax avoidance as an anti-austerity issue: The progress of a protest issue through the public sphere. European Journal of Communication, 32(4), 296-311. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323117710898

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Theorists of left and right agree that periods of crisis are fertile times at which to precipitate change. However, protesters on the periphery of the public sphere must overcome barriers, or what Habermas called ‘sluice... Read More about Tax avoidance as an anti-austerity issue: The progress of a protest issue through the public sphere.

Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television (2017)
Journal Article
Evans, E., Coughlan, T., & Shipp, V. (2017). Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television. Critical Studies in Television, 12(2), 191-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602017698714

The UK television industry has increasingly integrated multiple screen technologies into multiplatform ‘digital estates’. Such ‘digital estates’ also emerge in domestic contexts. The complex, but mundane and ephemeral nature of these domestic ‘digita... Read More about Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television.

‘Moments and opportunities’: Interstitials and the promotional imagination of BBC iPlayer (2017)
Journal Article
Grainge, P. (2017). ‘Moments and opportunities’: Interstitials and the promotional imagination of BBC iPlayer. Critical Studies in Television, 12(2), 139-155. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602017698158

This article examines the promotion of the BBC’s online streaming and download service, iPlayer, as it has been presented to audiences through broadcast television. Analysing transitions in the BBC’s representation of iPlayer, it considers the promot... Read More about ‘Moments and opportunities’: Interstitials and the promotional imagination of BBC iPlayer.

Ancillary academia: video shorts and the production of university paratexts (2017)
Journal Article
Grainge, P. (2017). Ancillary academia: video shorts and the production of university paratexts. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34(2), 184-192. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2017.1286024

This article considers the production of media paratexts beyond the bounds of the entertainment industry. Specifically, it examines the development of video content strategy by universities, and the paratextual function that video shorts serve in the... Read More about Ancillary academia: video shorts and the production of university paratexts.