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‘Shanghai is Burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema (2018)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2018). ‘Shanghai is Burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema. Global Media and China, 3(4), 233-255. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436418818274

© The Author(s) 2018. This article offers a critical analysis of Matthew Baren’s 2018 film Extravaganza, a documentary about drag scenes in Shanghai. By focusing on some drag performers represented in this film, in tandem with an examination of the s... Read More about ‘Shanghai is Burning’: Extravaganza, transgender representation and transnational cinema.

And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries (2018)
Journal Article
Ruth Eikhof, D., Newsinger, J., Luchinskaya, D., & Rudloff, D. (2019). And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries. Gender, Work and Organization, 26(6), 840-859. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12318

This article explores how a knowledge ecology framework can help us better understand the production of gender knowledge, especially in relation to improving gender equality. Drawing on Law et al. (2011), it analyses what knowledge of gender inequali... Read More about And … action?: gender, knowledge and inequalities in the UK screen industries.

Supernatural Beings, Shamans and Dream-places: Jules Monnerot and the Native American Touchstones of Surrealism’s Mythological Realignment, 1939-1945 (2018)
Journal Article
Atkin, W. (2018). Supernatural Beings, Shamans and Dream-places: Jules Monnerot and the Native American Touchstones of Surrealism’s Mythological Realignment, 1939-1945. The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945, 14, Article 3

By 1942, a considerable number of the Parisian surrealist group had resettled in the U. S. after having fled the conflict in Europe. Though sometimes regarded as a hiatus in surrealist activities, or in some accounts even the death-knell of Surrealis... Read More about Supernatural Beings, Shamans and Dream-places: Jules Monnerot and the Native American Touchstones of Surrealism’s Mythological Realignment, 1939-1945.

Transmedia characters: additionality and cohesion in transfictional heroes (2018)
Book Chapter
Pearson, R. (2018). Transmedia characters: additionality and cohesion in transfictional heroes. In M. Freeman, & R. Rampazzo Gambarato (Eds.), The Routledge companion to transmedia studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351054904-17

This chapter offers some tentative hypotheses concerning producers’ strategies for additionality and cohesion for transfictional characters in different types of fictional storyworlds, using as its case studies Sherlock Holmes, Batman, and Star Trek.... Read More about Transmedia characters: additionality and cohesion in transfictional heroes.

Quantitative insights into televised birth: a content analysis of One Born Every Minute (2018)
Journal Article
De Benedictis, S., Johnson, C., Roberts, J., & Spiby, H. (2019). Quantitative insights into televised birth: a content analysis of One Born Every Minute. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 36(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2018.1516046

This paper explores birth representations through a content analysis of two seasons of the UK program, One Born Every Minute (Channel 4, 2010- ) (OBEM). Reality television (RTV) has been a fertile ground for the mediation of birth but has also stoked... Read More about Quantitative insights into televised birth: a content analysis of One Born Every Minute.

Transmedia Television: Flow, Glance, and the BBC (2018)
Book Chapter
Evans, E. (2018). Transmedia Television: Flow, Glance, and the BBC. In M. Freeman, & R. R. Gambarato (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies, 35-43. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

From Screenwriting for Sound to film sound maps: the evolution of live tone's creative alliance with Bong Joon-ho (2018)
Journal Article
Lee, N. J. Y., & Stringer, J. (2018). From Screenwriting for Sound to film sound maps: the evolution of live tone's creative alliance with Bong Joon-ho. New Soundtrack, 8(2), 145-159. https://doi.org/10.3366/sound.2018.0127

In Screenwriting for Sound, Randy Thom makes a persuasive case that sound designers should be involved in film production ‘as early as the screenplay…early participation of sound can make a big difference’. Drawing on a critically neglected yet inter... Read More about From Screenwriting for Sound to film sound maps: the evolution of live tone's creative alliance with Bong Joon-ho.

The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials (2018)
Journal Article
Moran, J., & Cullen, F. (2018). The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials. Irish Studies Review, 26(4), 436-454. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2018.1514659

This paper examines the memorialisation of the Sherwood Foresters who fought during the Easter Rising of 1916 in Dublin. These men, from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire in the English midlands, suffered the greatest casualties of the British regiments... Read More about The Sherwood Foresters of 1916: memories and memorials.

Noise (2018)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. (in press). Noise. In Literature and sound. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Virtual Humanity: empathy, embodiment and disorientation in humanitarian VR experience design (2018)
Journal Article
Kennedy, H. W., & Atkinson, S. (2018). Virtual Humanity: empathy, embodiment and disorientation in humanitarian VR experience design. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, 30, 12

With 360-degree filmmaking and Virtual Reality (VR) – the audience can now be immersed in the milieu of the filmed location. Hitherto hard to reach territories, and hard to portray narratives can now be realised and experienced first hand – rendering... Read More about Virtual Humanity: empathy, embodiment and disorientation in humanitarian VR experience design.

Extended Reality Ecosystems: Innovations in Creativity and Collaboration in the Theatrical Arts (2018)
Journal Article
Kennedy, H., & Atkinson, S. (2018). Extended Reality Ecosystems: Innovations in Creativity and Collaboration in the Theatrical Arts. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media, 30(10), 12

This article maps aspects of the current Extended Reality (XR) production ecosystem in the UK, capturing a unique industry at its moment of emergence. The last three years have seen an increase in activity by traditional theatre institutions in the U... Read More about Extended Reality Ecosystems: Innovations in Creativity and Collaboration in the Theatrical Arts.

Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson (2018)
Book
Lapoujade, D., & Goffey, A. (2018). Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson. Twin Cities, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press

In Powers of Time, David Lapoujade returns to two central themes that continuously converge throughout the writings of the French philosopher Henri Bergson: durée (duration) and intuition. Lapoujade uncovers multiple versions of Bergson, guiding us t... Read More about Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson.