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Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (2022)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2022). Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. In The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies (1-19). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9_34-1

Black Skin, White Masks, by the experimental psychiatrist and anti-colonial militant, Franz Fanon, is regarded as a seminal text in the fields of postcolonial theory and critical race studies. Yet it has also been deeply influential on – and indeed c... Read More about Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon.

News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation (2022)
Book
Dagoula, C. (2023). News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003231776

This book provides a critical account of the impact of Twitter on journalism, exploring how the news media has adapted to and normalised the use of the platform in the industry. Offering a comprehensive understanding of Twitter uses for journalist... Read More about News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation.

Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII (2022)
Book
Litten, R., & Wright, C. (Eds.). (2022). Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII. New York: Lacanian Press

We now read Jacques Lacan’s seventeenth seminar from “the other side” of a fifty-year gap separating us from its initial delivery, at the Place du Panthéon, in the academic year 1969-1970. This is factually the case, yet viewing it this way is akin t... Read More about Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII.

Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe (2022)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2022). Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 9(1-2), 313-332. https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA_00069_1

This article examines the curatorial strategies of the Secret Love exhibition, the biggest queer Chinese art exhibition outside Asia to date. The exhibition brought together 150 works created by 27 queer Chinese artists. It first took place at the Mu... Read More about Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe.

The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times (2022)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2022). The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times. Societies, 12(5), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12050135

This article explores arts, cultural and community engagement (ACCE) in the context of enduring austerity in England. Working with a methodically crafted synthesis of theoretical perspectives drawn from (1) the critical political economy (CPE) tradit... Read More about The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times.

Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood (2022)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2022). Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood. In H. Loyo, & J. A. Tarancón (Eds.), Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash (279-292). Bloomsbury Academic

The Rambo series (1982-2019) has functioned as a barometer of US domestic and foreign policies across its forty year history. At first a traumatised veteran of the war in Vietnam, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) became a hard-bodied defender of US in... Read More about Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood.

The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora (2022)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2022). The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 9(1-2), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00053_2

This Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art focuses on the social significance and political relevance of diaspora Chinese art in the contemporary era. Although artists and authors may hold different stances towards Chinese and diaspora... Read More about The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora.

Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema (2022)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2022). Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema. Feminist Media Studies, 22(5), 1278-1281. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2077798

This article examines the history of representing transgender people in independent films produced in mainland China from the 1990s to present. Tracing a brief history of the transgender representation on Chinese screen, this article illustrates the... Read More about Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema.

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Nudds, H., Franklin, D., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., …Slade, M. (2022). Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0266722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266722

Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy (2022)
Book Chapter
Frame, G., & Andrews, H. (2022). Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy. In K. McNally (Ed.), American Television during a Television Presidency. Wayne State University Press

Donald Trump’s personality is arguably symptomatic of the values of the contemporary era. His aggressive individualism, narcissism and selfishness were no impediment to securing the presidency, which suggests the normalisation, indeed, valorisation,... Read More about Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy.

Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums (2022)
Journal Article
Mansell, J., De Little, A., & Jamieson, A. (2022). Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums. Science Museum Group Journal, https://doi.org/10.15180/221704

This article reports on the experimental methodology and key findings of the AHRC-funded impact and engagement project Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating and Engaging with Sound at the National Science and Media Museum (2020–21). The project underto... Read More about Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums.

'Queer/ing China': Theorizing Chinese genders and sexualities through a transnational lens (2022)
Working Paper
Zhao, J. J., & Bao, H. 'Queer/ing China': Theorizing Chinese genders and sexualities through a transnational lens

In this viewpoint essay, using ‘queer/ing China’ as a heuristic, we explore ‘queerness’ and ‘Chineseness’ through an intersectional approach that is attuned to the encounters, syntheses and dissonances of local, transnational and global queer and fem... Read More about 'Queer/ing China': Theorizing Chinese genders and sexualities through a transnational lens.

Telling Difficult Stories: VR, Storytelling and Active Audience Engagement in Heritage Sites and Museums (2022)
Book Chapter
Neher, G. (2022). Telling Difficult Stories: VR, Storytelling and Active Audience Engagement in Heritage Sites and Museums. In E. Ch’ng, H. Chapman, V. Gaffney, & A. S. Wilson (Eds.), Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science (509-526). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77028-0_25

The emergence of heritage science as an interdisciplinary field of studies over the past couple of decades coincided with a surge of research into audience engagement, politics of display, storytelling and co-creation. Arguably, what remains missing... Read More about Telling Difficult Stories: VR, Storytelling and Active Audience Engagement in Heritage Sites and Museums.

Data-Driven Visiting Experiences (2022)
Book Chapter
Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Bodiaj, E., Tennent, P., Martindale, S., Cameron, H., & Spors, V. (2022). Data-Driven Visiting Experiences. In A. Waern, & A. S. Løvlie (Eds.), Hybrid Museum Experiences: Theory and Design (157-175). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463726443

Data is seen as the ‘new oil’ that drives the digital economy, and museums are no exception to this. We investigate how data captured from hybrid museum experiences can become a resource for designers, for museums, and for visitors in their understan... Read More about Data-Driven Visiting Experiences.

TV and Cars (2022)
Book
Grainge, P. (2022). TV and Cars. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

TV and Cars offers a compelling lens on television in a mobile media era. Cars are vehicles for television, a fixture of the shows and ads that drive TV. In this original approach to contemporary television, Paul Grainge looks beyond questions of spe... Read More about TV and Cars.

Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films (2021)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). Sexuality and politics: ‘Coming out’ in German and Chinese queer films. In Research Handbook on Political Propaganda (156-167). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789906424.00018

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
Morrison, J., Birks, J., & Berry, M. (2022). Introduction: The new terrain of mediated politics. In J. Morrison, J. Birks, & M. Berry (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)