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‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines the politics of narrating feminist and queer histories in contemporary China. Focusing on Zhao Jing and Shi Tou’s 2015 film, We Are Here, a documentary made... Read More about ‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history.

Noise (2020)
Book Chapter

Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article focuses on the politics of representing HIV/AIDS in the 2011 documentary The Lucky One (宠儿), jointly made by Chinese filmmaker and queer activist He Xiaopei and Zh... Read More about Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One.

Clutter and place (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the complex relationship between stuff and place as a way of interrogating the contemporary media obsession with decluttering. While the very idea of place connotes order (as in the maxim ‘a place for everything and everything i... Read More about Clutter and place.

Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum (2020)
Journal Article

We examine the experience of Thresholds, a virtual reality (VR) recreation of the world's first photographic exhibition, which has toured to multiple museums. Following the method of performance-led research in the wild, we provide an account of the... Read More about Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum.

Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (2020)
Book

This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China’s post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these d... Read More about Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism.

Authorship as Promotional Discourse in the Screen Industries: Selling Genius (2020)
Book

This book discusses the use of authorship discourses and author figures in the promotion and marketing of media content, dealing with the U.S. mainstream media, including franchise film, network television, and triple-A video games. The research t... Read More about Authorship as Promotional Discourse in the Screen Industries: Selling Genius.

Sound and Place: Digital Mapping and Community Listening Practice: project report for National Science and Media Museum (2020)
Report

A spoonful of sugar: Medication and the psychoanalytic body (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, Springer Nature Limited. This article employs a Lacanian framework to re-visit the vexed relationship between psychoanalysis and medication, which, it is claimed, also pertains to debates about the status of the psychoanalytic body. Whilst ac... Read More about A spoonful of sugar: Medication and the psychoanalytic body.

Queer disidentification: Or how to cook chinese noodles in a global pandemic? (2020)
Journal Article

© 2021 by the author(s). In this article, I offer a critical analysis of a video artwork titled Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (Learn German in My Kitchen) (2020), created by Berlin-based queer filmmaker Popo Fan. By focusing on Fan’s negotiation of r... Read More about Queer disidentification: Or how to cook chinese noodles in a global pandemic?.

Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies (2019)
Journal Article

Contesting binaries that tend to underlie claims about automation, this article seeks to complicate arguments that are made about digital technology and the processes and practices of automation essential to it. In particular, it contests a well-entr... Read More about Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies.

Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries (2019)
Journal Article

This article adapts Jeremy Ahearne's (2009) conception of explicit and implicit cultural policy for a novel analysis of contemporary diversity policy in the British film and television industries. It demonstrates how distinguishing explicit and impli... Read More about Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries.

Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism (2019)
Journal Article

Resilience is a key theme in contemporary post-crisis capitalism, prominent across government policy, popular discourses, business and management thinking and academia. This article is about the deployment of the concept of resilience in cultural pol... Read More about Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism.

Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the relative sidelining of psychoanalysis in critical approaches to Happiness Studies thus far. It argues that this stems from an American strand of psychoanalysis known as ego-psychology which forms an unacknowledged element in... Read More about Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis.

Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles (2019)
Journal Article

During the 1950s and 1960s, critics writing about art on America’s West Coast often treated it as provincial. At the same time, artists working in Los Angeles engaged in projects of self-fashioning that frequently alluded to frontiersmen and cowboys.... Read More about Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles.

Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics (2019)
Journal Article

Perhaps one of the most fascinating changes in the modern Chinese language in the past century has been the use of the term tongzhi (同志). In its early twentieth-century sense of ‘comrade’, tongzhi was widely used as an honorific in China’s revoluti... Read More about Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics.

Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture (2019)
Book

This book offers a new, interdisciplinary model for understanding audience engagement as a type of behaviour, a form of response and a cost to audiences that, combined, offer value to the screen industries. Audience ‘engagement’ has become the key p... Read More about Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture.

Marin Sanudo on Brescia: Caterina Cornaro’s 1497 Entry and Glimpses into the Life and Politics of a Renaissance Border Town (2019)
Book Chapter

In 1497, Caterina Cornaro, Queen of Cyprus, visited the city of Brescia. Ostensibly, Cornaro was on a family visit, attending to the confinement of her sister-in-law. This article argues that Cornaro’s much publicised visit to Brescia, celebrated in... Read More about Marin Sanudo on Brescia: Caterina Cornaro’s 1497 Entry and Glimpses into the Life and Politics of a Renaissance Border Town.

Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines health activism in the People’s Republic of China by focusing on China’s LGBTQ communities. Using Queer Comrades (Tongzhi yi fanren 同志亦凡人), a Beijing-based queer community video streaming website, as a case study, I discuss... Read More about Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China.

The Live Cinema Paradox: Continuity and Innovation in Live Film Broadcast, Exhibition and Production (2019)
Book Chapter

While a great deal of very valuable and influential scholarship has examined the disruptions caused by digital film distribution (the pre-recorded non-live formats of on-demand, streaming services for instance), this chapter focuses instead on the ph... Read More about The Live Cinema Paradox: Continuity and Innovation in Live Film Broadcast, Exhibition and Production.