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Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films (2021)
Book Chapter
This chapter analyses the ‘coming out’ narratives represented in two queer films from different cultural contexts: Coming Out (dir. Heiner Carow, GDR, 1989) and Lan Yu (dir. Stanley Kwan, China, 2001). Both films feature gay men’s ‘coming out’ experi... Read More about Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films.
Introduction: The new terrain of mediated politics (2021)
Book Chapter
Make America Hate Again? The Politics of Vigilante Geriaction (2021)
Journal Article
The article explores the politics of the vigilante geriaction film, with specific focus on the remake of Death Wish (Eli Roth, 2018). In its construction of a nation under mortal threat from within and without, the subgenre is uncritical in its reinf... Read More about Make America Hate Again? The Politics of Vigilante Geriaction.
Sharing Food, Vulnerability and Intimacy in a Global Pandemic: The Digital Art of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe (2021)
Journal Article
This article examines the digital artworks created by three Chinese diaspora artists based in Europe: Berlin-based queer filmmaker Fan Popo’s short digital video Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (‘Learn German in my kitchen’), London-based performance a... Read More about Sharing Food, Vulnerability and Intimacy in a Global Pandemic: The Digital Art of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe.
Evolving journalism norms: objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalism (2021)
Book Chapter
This chapter will first query the various constructions of ‘bad’ audience responses to information and argumentation, and suggest an approach that neither expects too much of news audiences (and inevitably finds them wanting) nor patronizes them (and... Read More about Evolving journalism norms: objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalism.
The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism (2021)
Book
New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy (2021)
Book
As a period of film history, The American New Wave (ordinarily understood as beginning in 1967 and ending in 1980) remains a preoccupation for scholars and audiences alike. In traditional accounts, it is considered to be bookended by two periods of c... Read More about New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy.
From Idents to Influencers: The promotional screen industries (2021)
Book Chapter
This chapter examines the role of the promotional screen industries, a fluid configuration of companies, agencies, and intermediaries that produce audiovisual marketing content for media and consumer brands, corporations, universities, governments, c... Read More about From Idents to Influencers: The promotional screen industries.
Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines (2021)
Book
Negotiating Noise Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines brings together writing by 20 researchers from across Europe and South-East Asia on the slippery but fascinating topic of noise. What is noise, where can it be heard, and what should we do with... Read More about Negotiating Noise: Across Places, Spaces and Disciplines.
What Does China’s Cultural War Say About Culture? (2021)
Journal Article
A ‘cultural war’ is taking place in China: from the banning of effeminate young men on film and television to the censorship of boys’ love fan fiction; from the restriction of video game hours for young people to the banning of commercial tutoring fo... Read More about What Does China’s Cultural War Say About Culture?.
Review: Sonic Histories of Cork City (2021)
Journal Article
Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity: The Cultural Politics of the First ‘Stop Asian Hate UK’ Protests (2021)
Journal Article
This article focuses on the opportunities and challenges of the newly emerged pan-Asian political identity following the recent transnational ‘Stop Asian Hate’ movement. Using the recent ‘Stop Asian Hate’ Birmingham rally as a case study, this articl... Read More about Envisioning and Enacting a Pan-Asian Political Identity: The Cultural Politics of the First ‘Stop Asian Hate UK’ Protests.
New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy (2021)
Book
As a period of film history, The American New Wave (ordinarily understood as beginning in 1967 and ending in 1980) remains a preoccupation for scholars and audiences alike. In traditional accounts, it is considered to be bookended by two periods of c... Read More about New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy.
Keep Calm and Carry On: Challenging a Discourse of Necessity and Forbearance in News Reporting of UK “Austerity” Policies (2021)
Book Chapter
Severe cuts to public spending in the United Kingdom were ushered in from 2010 by a Conservative-led coalition government that used the 2008 financial crisis to advance a political agenda to roll back much of the social democratic welfare state. The... Read More about Keep Calm and Carry On: Challenging a Discourse of Necessity and Forbearance in News Reporting of UK “Austerity” Policies.
Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future (2021)
Journal Article
This article surveys the field and methodology of historical acoustemology, an interdisciplinary area of study dedicated to understanding past sounds, hearers, and listeners in their historical contexts. The article charts the field’s emergence in th... Read More about Historical Acoustemology: Past, Present, and Future.
A Queer Way of Life: Ren Hang’s Photography (2021)
Journal Article
This article focuses on queer representations in Ren’s artworks gathered from the private collections of his friends. In doing so, I hope to expand on the existing critique of heteronormative essentialism in contemporary art and popular culture in Ch... Read More about A Queer Way of Life: Ren Hang’s Photography.
The Power of Communication: Intergeneration, Intermediality and Transculturality in Documentary Theatre About My Parents and Their Child (2021)
Book Chapter
About My Parents and Their Child is a play commissioned by Ibsen International, directed by Matthias Jochmann and performed in Beijing and Shanghai in 2016 and 2017. It was one of the first times that documentary theatre as an art form appeared in Ch... Read More about The Power of Communication: Intergeneration, Intermediality and Transculturality in Documentary Theatre About My Parents and Their Child.
Autobiographical Fantasy and the Feminist Archive (2021)
Journal Article
In the mid-1970s a number of artists in Southern California made works that merged self-portraiture, material documents, life narrative, and fiction or fantasy. The 1976 exhibition Autobiographical Fantasies, Lowell Darling’s This Is Your Life (1973-... Read More about Autobiographical Fantasy and the Feminist Archive.
The Future of Film Report 2021 (2021)
Report