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Visual Metafictions: Mark Fairnington's 'Mantidae' Paintings and Victorian Representations of the 'Real' (2018)
Journal Article
Elstob, I. (2018). Visual Metafictions: Mark Fairnington's 'Mantidae' Paintings and Victorian Representations of the 'Real'. Neo-Victorian Studies, 10(2), 129-158

This paper examines the contemporary British artist Mark Fairnington’s Mantidae series of paintings (2000) via the representational methods of his working process. Taking each stage of this process in turn, the paper examines key discourses... Read More about Visual Metafictions: Mark Fairnington's 'Mantidae' Paintings and Victorian Representations of the 'Real'.

Game Jam as Feminist Methodology: The Affective Labors of Intervention in the Ludic Economy (2018)
Journal Article
Kennedy, H. W. (2018). Game Jam as Feminist Methodology: The Affective Labors of Intervention in the Ludic Economy. Games and Culture, 13(7), 708-727. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412018764992

© The Author(s) 2018. This article examines the evidenced and the potential impact of all-female games jams as an element within a feminist interventionist approach to improving women’s equal participation within the ludic economies of the games indu... Read More about Game Jam as Feminist Methodology: The Affective Labors of Intervention in the Ludic Economy.

Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage (2018)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H., Hess, A., & Jackson, T. (2020). Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage. Convergence, 26(1), 157-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856518772030

This article explores the potential that community–led digital engagement with heritage holds for stimulating active citizenship through taking responsibility for shared cultural heritage and for fostering long-lasting relationships between local com... Read More about Strokes of serendipity: Community co-curation and engagement with digital heritage.

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (2018)
Book
Bao, H. (2018). Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China. Copenhagen, Denmark: Nias Press

• First book on gay identity and queer activism in the PRC examined from a cultural studies perspective. • An interdisciplinary project that combines historical and critical analysis of queer cultural texts and ethnographic studies of queer public c... Read More about Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China.

United Kingdom: film funding, the "corporate welfare system" and its discontents (2018)
Book Chapter
Newsinger, J., & Prescence, S. (2018). United Kingdom: film funding, the "corporate welfare system" and its discontents. In P. Murschetz, R. Teichmann, & M. Karmasin (Eds.), Handbook of State Aid for Film: Finance, Industries and Regulation (447-462). Cham, Switzerland: Springer Publishing Company

A Feminist Menagerie (2018)
Journal Article
Giraud, E., Hollin, G., Potts, T., & Forsyth, I. (2018). A Feminist Menagerie. Feminist Review, 118(1), 61-79. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0103-1

This paper appraises the role of critical-feminist figurations within the environmental humanities, focusing on the capacity of figures to produce situated environmental knowledges and pose site-specific ethical obligations. We turn to four environme... Read More about A Feminist Menagerie.

Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and his poetry (2018)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2018). Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and his poetry. In R. West-Pavlov (Ed.), The Global South and Literature (185-197). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108231930.015

This chapter discusses the impact of and resistance to neoliberalism inthe Global South via a discussion of the queer Chinese poet Mu Cao andhis poems.1Adopting a cultural studies approach to literature, I examinethe social practice of literary produ... Read More about Queering the Global South: Mu Cao and his poetry.

From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China (2018)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2018). From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China. JOMEC Journal, 12, https://doi.org/10.18573/jomec.171

Although homosexuality was decriminalised in 1997 and partially depathologised in 2001, LGBTQ issues are still strictly censored in Chinese media. With the rapid growth of China’s LGBTQ community, an increasing number of independent films featuring L... Read More about From 'celluloid comrades' to 'digital video activism': queer filmmaking in postsocialist China.

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (2018)
Book
Gallagher, M. (2018). Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. BFI Publishing/Bloomsbury