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“The Lincoln Memorial Was Too Crowded”: Interpreting the United States' Memorial Landscape through Film and Television (2017)
Journal Article
Frame, G. (2017). “The Lincoln Memorial Was Too Crowded”: Interpreting the United States' Memorial Landscape through Film and Television. Journal of Popular Film and Television, 45(4), 190-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2017.1343795

This article argues for a more rigorous understanding of the use of memorials in American film and television as part of the ongoing negotiation and development of American memory, looking beyond the disaster genre and the Lincoln Memorial to other s... Read More about “The Lincoln Memorial Was Too Crowded”: Interpreting the United States' Memorial Landscape through Film and Television.

Dr Fanon on Colonial Narcissism and Anti-Colonial Melancholia (2017)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2017). Dr Fanon on Colonial Narcissism and Anti-Colonial Melancholia. In B. Sheils, & J. Walsh (Eds.), Narcissm, Melancholia and the Subject of Community (185-210). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63829-4_8

This chapter provides an outline of Fanon’s involvement in the most progressive strand of French psychiatry that became known as ‘psychothérapie institutionnelle’, as well as of his clinical response to the colonial context at the Bilda-Joinville hos... Read More about Dr Fanon on Colonial Narcissism and Anti-Colonial Melancholia.

Funfear Attractions: The Playful Affects of Carefully Managed Terror in Immersive 28 Days Later Live Experiences (2017)
Book Chapter
Kennedy, H. W. (2017). Funfear Attractions: The Playful Affects of Carefully Managed Terror in Immersive 28 Days Later Live Experiences. In 10.5040/9781501324840.ch-014 (153-167). USA: Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter examines the audience experience of the highly acclaimed zombie street game 2.8 Hrs Later, which was launched in 2010 and successfully ran for five years in cities across the UK, and the 2016 Secret Cinema’s offering 28 Days Later, which... Read More about Funfear Attractions: The Playful Affects of Carefully Managed Terror in Immersive 28 Days Later Live Experiences.

(Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics (2017)
Journal Article
Hollin, G., Forsyth, I., Giraud, E., & Potts, T. (2017). (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics. Social Studies of Science, 47(6), 918-941. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717728344

In the wake of the widespread uptake of and debate surrounding the work of Karen Barad, this article revisits her core conceptual contributions. We offer descriptions, elaborations, problematizations and provocations for those intrigued by or investe... Read More about (Dis)entangling Barad: Materialisms and ethics.

Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde (2017)
Book Chapter
Bradnock, L. E. (2017). Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde. In K. Baum (Ed.), Delirious: art at the limits of reason 1950-1980. Yale University Press

This exhibition catalogue essay examines the reception in the United States of the work of French dissident surrealist Antonin Artaud, and its impact on visual art practice during the post-war period. I argue that artists including Wallace Berman, Br... Read More about Bite your tongue: Antonin Artaud and the Neo-Avant-Garde.

Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos? (2017)
Journal Article
Cullen, F. (2017). Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos?. Visual Culture in Britain, 18(2), 176-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2017.1328987

The nineteenth-century artist, Erskine Nicol (1825–1904) is well known for his anecdotal and humorous paintings of Irish themes. This article analyses one of his larger oils to show that on occasion he attempted a more serious representation of the r... Read More about Representing the Irish emigrant: humour to pathos?.

Tax avoidance as an anti-austerity issue: The progress of a protest issue through the public sphere (2017)
Journal Article
Birks, J. (2017). Tax avoidance as an anti-austerity issue: The progress of a protest issue through the public sphere. European Journal of Communication, 32(4), 296-311. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323117710898

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Theorists of left and right agree that periods of crisis are fertile times at which to precipitate change. However, protesters on the periphery of the public sphere must overcome barriers, or what Habermas called ‘sluice... Read More about Tax avoidance as an anti-austerity issue: The progress of a protest issue through the public sphere.

"Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Martindale, S., Bedwell, B., Phillips, R., & Pedros, M. (2017). "Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing. In DIS '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (529–540). https://doi.org/10.1145/3064663.3064743

This paper contributes a participatory design case study that used workshops and ideation frameworks to scaffold a conceptualisation of "user data-actuated" plants. The framework combines ideation cards, worksheets and facilitated co-design, guiding... Read More about "Proof in the Pudding": Designing IoT Plants to Promote Wellbeing.

Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television (2017)
Journal Article
Evans, E., Coughlan, T., & Shipp, V. (2017). Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television. Critical Studies in Television, 12(2), 191-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749602017698714

The UK television industry has increasingly integrated multiple screen technologies into multiplatform ‘digital estates’. Such ‘digital estates’ also emerge in domestic contexts. The complex, but mundane and ephemeral nature of these domestic ‘digita... Read More about Building digital estates: multiscreening, technology management and ephemeral television.

Sound standings: a brief history of the impact of labor and professional representation on the place of early sound workers in the industry (1927-1937) (2017)
Book Chapter
SERGI, G. (2017). Sound standings: a brief history of the impact of labor and professional representation on the place of early sound workers in the industry (1927-1937). The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (270-280). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315681047

This chapter considers the way in which some of the key relationships at the core of the filmmaking process were formed as a direct consequence of union representation. This is particularly significant with regards to the relationship between sound a... Read More about Sound standings: a brief history of the impact of labor and professional representation on the place of early sound workers in the industry (1927-1937).

Perversion Now! (2017)
Book
Wright, C., & Caine, D. (2017). D. Caine, & C. Wright (Eds.), Perversion Now!. Palgrave Macmillan

This collection, written by leading Lacanian psychoanalytic theorists and practitioners, explores the impact of shifts in contemporary culture, politics and society on the notion of ‘perversion’, which has undergone numerous profound changes in recen... Read More about Perversion Now!.