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Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One. Feminist Media Studies, 20(4), 530-547. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1754632

© 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
Potts, T. (2020). Clutter and place. In T. Edensor, A. Kalandides, & U. Kothari (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Place. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

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
Tennent, P., Martindale, S., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Brundell, P., & Collishaw, M. (2020). Thresholds: Embedding Virtual Reality in the Museum. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 13(2), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369394

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
Bao, H. (2020). Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism. Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027898

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
Hadas, L. (2020). Authorship as Promotional Discourse in the Screen Industries: Selling Genius. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429340956

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.

Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration (2020)
Journal Article
Cliffe, L., Mansell, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Hazzard, A. (2021). Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(4), 623-636. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-020-01405-3

© 2020, The Author(s). This article presents the results of a study based on a group of participants’ interactions with an experimental sound installation at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK. The installation used audio augmented... Read More about Materialising contexts: virtual soundscapes for real-world exploration.

A spoonful of sugar: Medication and the psychoanalytic body (2020)
Journal Article
Wright, C. (2020). A spoonful of sugar: Medication and the psychoanalytic body. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 25, 135–154. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-019-00146-4

© 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
Bao, H. (2020). Queer disidentification: Or how to cook chinese noodles in a global pandemic?. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 17(1-2), 85-90. https://doi.org/10.5130/pjmis.v17i1-2.7299

© 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?.

Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries (2019)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., & Eikhof, D. (2020). Explicit and implicit diversity policy in the UK film and television industries. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 17(1), 47-69. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2020.0507

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.

Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies (2019)
Journal Article
Goffey, A. (2019). Automation Anxieties and Infrastructural Technologies. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 2019(98), 29-47. https://doi.org/10.3898/NEWF%3A98.03.2019

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.

Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism (2019)
Journal Article
Newsinger, J., & Serafini, P. (2021). Performative resilience: How the arts and culture support austerity in post-crisis capitalism. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24(2), 589-605. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549419886038

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
Wright, C. (2019). Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis. In N. Hill, S. Brinkmann, & A. Petersen (Eds.), Critical Happiness Studies (177-192). Routledge

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
Bradnock, L. (2019). Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles. Tate Papers, 32,

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
Bao, H. (2019). Queer comrades: towards a postsocialist queer politics. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 24-37. https://doi.org/10.3898/soun.73.03.2019

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.

Marin Sanudo on Brescia: Caterina Cornaro’s 1497 Entry and Glimpses into the Life and Politics of a Renaissance Border Town (2019)
Book Chapter
Neher, G. (2019). Marin Sanudo on Brescia: Caterina Cornaro’s 1497 Entry and Glimpses into the Life and Politics of a Renaissance Border Town. In H. Butters, & G. Neher (Eds.), . Amsterdam University Press

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
Bao, H. (2019). Queer comrades: Digital video documentary and LGBTQ health activism in China. In Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities (188-204). Routledge

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
Atkinson, S. A., & Kennedy, H. W. (2019). The Live Cinema Paradox: Continuity and Innovation in Live Film Broadcast, Exhibition and Production. In The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production (335-346). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21744-0_26

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.