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Queer Chinese Cinema: From ‘celluloid comrades’ to ‘digital video activism’ (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. Queer Chinese Cinema: From ‘celluloid comrades’ to ‘digital video activism’. In Routledge Encyclopaedia in Chinese Studies. Routledge

This article examines queer cinema in Mainland China in the post-Mao era. It traces a brief trajectory of its development from the emergence of queer characters on the cinematic screen from the 1990s to the proliferation of Boys’ Love representations... Read More about Queer Chinese Cinema: From ‘celluloid comrades’ to ‘digital video activism’.

士紳化以外： 臺北大稻埕的文化經濟 與舊城襲產再／創造 (2023)
Journal Article
Sham, D. H.-M. (2023). 士紳化以外： 臺北大稻埕的文化經濟 與舊城襲產再／創造. 文化研究/Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, 37, 57-102. https://doi.org/10.6752/JCS.202310_%2837%29.0003

In East and Southeast Asia, culture-led urban regeneration has been criticized for bringing in cultural economy activities that have few connections, if at all, with the local contexts, and leading to gentrification of the historic districts and evic... Read More about 士紳化以外： 臺北大稻埕的文化經濟 與舊城襲產再／創造.

Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Wreyford, N., Newsinger, J., Kennedy, H., & Aust, R. (2024). Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feminist Media Studies, 24(8), 1894-1913. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2266775

COVID-19 and the associated government lockdowns in the UK had dramatic impacts on the UK’s creative industries. This article explores these impacts on mothers working in UK Television (UKTV), on their ability to work, finances, and mental health. It... Read More about Locked down and locked out: mothers and UKTV work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., & Cui, Z. (2023). Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en. In U. Böckler, J. Lazarus, & A. Weltz-Rombach (Eds.), Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil (223-227). K. Verlag

Cui Zi’en (b. 1958 in Harbin, China) is one of the best-known queer filmmakers, writers and activists in the Chinese-speaking world. He was the first ‘out’ gay public persona in post-Mao China, coming out on state television in 2000. He has made abou... Read More about Making Films is Like Friends Getting Together and Having Parties: Hongwei Bao in Conversation with Cui Zi’en.

Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction. In Routledge Encyclopaedia in Chinese Studies

This article examines queer literature in Mainland China from classical texts to contemporary Internet literature and fan fiction. Queer literature is broadly defined here as literary texts depicting non-heteronormative genders, sexualities and desir... Read More about Queer Chinese literature: from classical texts to contemporary fan fiction.

The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism (2023)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2023). The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 10(1-2), 39-63. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00075_1

Through public, intentional and interventionist displays of the queer body, queer Chinese artists have used performance art for identity expression, community building and social activism. This article focuses on some of these queer performance artwo... Read More about The wedding complex: Chinese queer performance art as social activism.

Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement (2023)
Book
Atkin, W. (2023). Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement. Bloomsbury Publishing

Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century. Consisting... Read More about Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement.

London as Screen Gateway (2023)
Book
Evans, E., & Guha, M. (Eds.). (2024). London as Screen Gateway. Routledge

London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the diversity of roles the city plays both on screen and within the screen industries, the volume explores the in... Read More about London as Screen Gateway.

The BFI: London’s Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies for All: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart (2023)
Book Chapter
Evans, E. (2024). The BFI: London’s Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies for All: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart. In London as Screen Gateway. Routledge

The British Film Institute (BFI) has been a central institution within both the British film industry and London as a media city for nearly 100 years. In this interview, Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart discuss the BFI’s relationship with... Read More about The BFI: London’s Gateway to Cinema and Media Studies for All: Interview with Sarah Currant, Melanie Hoyes and Emma Smart.

Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and the Symbolic Diversity of Location (2023)
Book Chapter
Evans, E. (2023). Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and the Symbolic Diversity of Location. In E. Evans, & M. Guha (Eds.), London as Screen Gateway. Routledge

In April 2012, the BBC relocated a portion of its television production from London’s Television Centre, its home since 1960, to MediaCity in Salford, just outside Manchester. In March 2018, Channel 4 announced similar plans to move its headquarters... Read More about Leaving London: The BBC, Channel 4 and the Symbolic Diversity of Location.

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., Ito-Jaeger, S., Darzentas, D. P., Webb, H., Jacobs, R., Atabey, A., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Winklhofer, H., Urquhart, L. D., & Perez Vallejos, E. (2023, July). “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. Presented at DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pittsburgh, USA

We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distingui... Read More about “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories.

In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries (2023)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2023). In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries. Panoptikum, 2023(29), 94-114. https://doi.org/10.26881/pan.2023.29.06

This article examines the digital and cinematic mediation of queer memory in four independent Chinese documentaries: Queer China, "Comrade" China (dir. Cui Zi"en 2008), Our Story (dir. Yang Yang, 2011), We Are Here (dir. Shi Tou and Jing Zhao, 2016)... Read More about In Queer Memory: Mediating Queer Chinese History in Digital Video Documentaries.

Explainable AI for the Arts: XAIxArts (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bryan-Kinns, N., Ford, C., Chamberlain, A., Benford, S. D., Kennedy, H., Li, Z., Qiong, W., Xia, G. G., & Rezwana, J. (2023, June). Explainable AI for the Arts: XAIxArts. Presented at 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C 23), New York, NY

This first workshop on explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts) brings together a community of researchers and creative practitioners in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, AI, explainable AI (XAI), and Digital Arts to explore the rol... Read More about Explainable AI for the Arts: XAIxArts.

Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2023). Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space. In H. Bao, D. Mergenthaler, & J. J. Zhao (Eds.), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (201-211). Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter examines the Imagining Queer Bandung project, a series of media and art events that took place in Berlin from June to August 2021. It sees the project as a good example of the queer people of colour’s transnational solidarity and decolon... Read More about Imagining Queer Bandung: Creating a Transnational and Decolonial Queer Space.

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (2023)
Book
Bao, H., Mergenthaler, D., & Zhao, J. J. (Eds.). (2023). Contemporary Queer Chinese Art. Bloomsbury Publishing

Contemporary Queer Chinese Art is the first English-language academic book that explores the intersections of queer culture and contemporary Chinese art from the mid-1980s to the present. This book brings together 15 internationally renowned artists,... Read More about Contemporary Queer Chinese Art.

What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art? (2023)
Book Chapter
Bao, H., Mergenthaler, D., & Zhao, J. J. (2023). What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art?. In H. Bao, D. Mergenthaler, & J. J. Zhao (Eds.), Contemporary Queer Chinese Art (1-18). Bloomsbury Publishing

In this introductory chapter, we first explain the keywords crucial to our analysis, theorization and discussion, including queerness, Chineseness and contemporary art. We then move on to a brief overview of the key chapters and themes in the book, w... Read More about What is Queer About Queer Chinese Art?.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers (2023)
Journal Article
Dagoula, C., Katsirea, I., & Harrison, J. (2023). The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00109_1

This study examines the attitudes of four Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO)-regulated UK newspapers towards redressing inaccuracies in their print editions. It analyses the ways in which the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, The Times an... Read More about The Independent Press Standards Organisation and accuracy: A comparative study of complaints-handling procedures in four UK newspapers.

Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals (2023)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Manninen, K., Martindale, S., Hazzard, A., Avila, J. P. M., Tennent, P., Spence, J., Castle-Green, T., Brundell, P., Barnard, P., & Darzentas, D. P. (2023). Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579498

Volunteering benefits recipients, volunteers, communities, and society, while digital technologies establish new opportunities for virtual volunteering. We describe how volunteers transitioned the UK's long-established Oxjam grassroots music festival... Read More about Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals.

Badiou's Lacan And The Beckett-Event (2023)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2023). Badiou's Lacan And The Beckett-Event. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis (267-278). Bloomsbury Publishing

Alain Badiou, one of the most psychoanalytically informed philosophers writing today, has called Jacques Lacan his “master” yet he also deems him to be an “anti-philosopher”. This chapter will do two things with this tension. Firstly, it will explore... Read More about Badiou's Lacan And The Beckett-Event.

Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI (2023)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2023). Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Bloomsbury Publishing

Posthumanism, with its visions of disembodied technological transcendence, has tended to dismiss psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on bodily drives and unconscious fantasies, as part of the outmoded Humanist framework posthumanism criticises. This co... Read More about Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI.