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Supernatural Beings, Shamans and Dream-places: Jules Monnerot and the Native American Touchstones of Surrealism’s Mythological Realignment, 1939-1945 (2018)
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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.

Quantitative insights into televised birth: a content analysis of One Born Every Minute (2018)
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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.

From Screenwriting for Sound to film sound maps: the evolution of live tone's creative alliance with Bong Joon-ho (2018)
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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)
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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.

Extended Reality Ecosystems: Innovations in Creativity and Collaboration in the Theatrical Arts (2018)
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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.

Virtual Humanity: empathy, embodiment and disorientation in humanitarian VR experience design (2018)
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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.

Visual Metafictions: Mark Fairnington's 'Mantidae' Paintings and Victorian Representations of the 'Real' (2018)
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Elstob, I. (2018). Visual Metafictions: Mark Fairnington's 'Mantidae' Paintings and Victorian Representations of the 'Real'. Neo-Victorian Studies, 10(2), 129-158

This paper examines the contemporary British artist Mark Fairnington’s Mantidae series of paintings (2000) via the representational methods of his working process. Taking each stage of this process in turn, the paper examines key discourses... Read More about Visual Metafictions: Mark Fairnington's 'Mantidae' Paintings and Victorian Representations of the 'Real'.

Game Jam as Feminist Methodology: The Affective Labors of Intervention in the Ludic Economy (2018)
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Kennedy, H. W. (2018). Game Jam as Feminist Methodology: The Affective Labors of Intervention in the Ludic Economy. Games and Culture, 13(7), 708-727. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412018764992

© The Author(s) 2018. This article examines the evidenced and the potential impact of all-female games jams as an element within a feminist interventionist approach to improving women’s equal participation within the ludic economies of the games indu... Read More about Game Jam as Feminist Methodology: The Affective Labors of Intervention in the Ludic Economy.

Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage (2018)
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Mutibwa, D. H., Hess, A., & Jackson, T. (2020). Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage. Convergence, 26(1), 157-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856518772030

This article explores the potential that community–led digital engagement with heritage holds for stimulating active citizenship through taking responsibility for shared cultural heritage and for fostering long-lasting relationships between local com... Read More about Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage.

A Feminist Menagerie (2018)
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Giraud, E., Hollin, G., Potts, T., & Forsyth, I. (2018). A Feminist Menagerie. Feminist Review, 118(1), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0103-1

This paper appraises the role of critical-feminist figurations within the environmental humanities, focusing on the capacity of figures to produce situated environmental knowledges and pose site-specific ethical obligations. We turn to four environme... Read More about A Feminist Menagerie.

From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China (2018)
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Bao, H. (2018). From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China. JOMEC Journal, 12, https://doi.org/10.18573/jomec.171

Although homosexuality was decriminalised in 1997 and partially depathologised in 2001, LGBTQ issues are still strictly censored in Chinese media. With the rapid growth of China’s LGBTQ community, an increasing number of independent films featuring L... Read More about From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China.

“The Lincoln Memorial Was Too Crowded”: Interpreting the United States' Memorial Landscape through Film and Television (2017)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.