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Japan : fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (2018)
Book Chapter
Hernandez Perez, M. (2018). Japan : fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. In M. Freeman, & W. Proctor (Eds.), Global convergence cultures : transmedia Earth (175-191). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315188478-11

The chapter aims to examine the concept of transmediality (or cross-mediality) in relation to institutional communication in Japan. To do this, it examines several case studies within the current Japanese society, with special attention to crisis com... Read More about Japan : fictionality, transmedia national branding and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Civil wars and cinematic narrative : the case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009) (2018)
Book Chapter
Kosmidou, S. (2018). Civil wars and cinematic narrative : the case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009). In K. Deslandes, F. Mourlon, & B. Tribout (Eds.), Civil War and Narrative : Testimony, Historiography, Memory (129-149). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61179-2_8

In recent years, there has been a surge of scholarly interest in cinema and cultural memory. To an extent, this scholarship concerns researchers in cultural studies, history, literary studies, and media studies. Alongside this academic work, there h... Read More about Civil wars and cinematic narrative : the case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009).

PRESENCE : A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art (2018)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2018). PRESENCE : A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art. In L. Taylor (Ed.), PRESENCE: A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art (3-40). Salford: University of Salford

A catalogue produced to accompany an exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art from the University of Salford Art Collection, held at The Vaults, St George's Hall, Liverpool, 8 February - 3 June 2018. Short introductory texts, written by Alice C... Read More about PRESENCE : A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art.

Already seen, already heard, already visited : constructing the experience of déjà states within live intermedial performance (2017)
Book Chapter
constructing the experience of déjà states within live intermedial performance. In P. Hansen, & B. Bläsing (Eds.), Performing the Remembered Present : The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music. Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama

This chapter considers our collaborative Practice-as-Research in performance as a mode of memory-making and specifically as a way of activating and exploring the subjective experience of déjà vu associated with temporal lobe epilepsy. Utilising const... Read More about Already seen, already heard, already visited : constructing the experience of déjà states within live intermedial performance.

virtual : Performance and digital (2017)
Book Chapter
Scott, J. (2018). virtual : Performance and digital. In E. Bryon (Ed.), Performing Interdisciplinarity : Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries Through an Active Aesthetic (59-73). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315558639-5

As my fingers hover above the laptop keyboard, I am aware of a number of things – the people watching my actions, the choice I have to make and what that will do to this moment we are experiencing, the technical requirements of interacting with a dig... Read More about virtual : Performance and digital.

Mysteries of Raúl Ruiz’s Portugal : territory, littoral and memory bridge (2017)
Book Chapter
Goddard, M. (2017). Mysteries of Raúl Ruiz’s Portugal : territory, littoral and memory bridge. In M. Liz (Ed.), Portugal's Global Cinema : Industry, History and Culture. I. B. Tauris

Raúl Ruiz’s 2010 film Mistérios de Lisboa/Mysteries of Lisbon may have been his first (and last) film in Portuguese, but it was far from being his first film in Portugal. In fact Portugal, beyond being an inexpensive and convenient film location, hel... Read More about Mysteries of Raúl Ruiz’s Portugal : territory, littoral and memory bridge.

Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary. In L. Boldrini, & J. Novak (Eds.), Experiments in Life-Writing : Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (249-272). Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55414-3_11

This chapter offers a practice-based account of a biography-in-process. It unfolds a narrative of 'accidental experiment', as attempts to write a conventional literary biography of Cary (1584 – 1639) foundered. That is to say, the project did not set... Read More about Custom-Breaker : writing the life of Elizabeth Cary.

European Union telecommunications policy (2017)
Book Chapter
Simpson, S. (2017). European Union telecommunications policy. In J. Nussbaum (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.013.128

This article explores the character and development of telecommunications policy at EU level. For most of the 20th century a matter of national governance and thus of peripheral interest to the EU, from the mid to late 1980s the EU began to develop a... Read More about European Union telecommunications policy.

Digital campaigning (2017)
Book Chapter
Ward, S., Gibson, R., & Cantijoch, M. (2017). Digital campaigning. In J. Fisher, E. Fieldhouse, M. Franklin, R. Gibson, M. Cantijoch, & C. Wlezien (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behaviour and Public Opinion (319-341). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315712390

It is now over 20 years since political parties began to move online and fight elections using new internet technologies, although in most established democracies it took another decade, or more, before internet access spread to the majority of voter... Read More about Digital campaigning.

Introduction to Forms of Hypocrisy (2017)
Book Chapter
Nigri, L., & Tsentourou, N. (2017). Introduction to Forms of Hypocrisy. In L. Nigri, & N. Tsentourou (Eds.), Forms of hypocrisy in Early Modern England (1-14). New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

Religious hypocrisy in performance : Roman Catholicism and the London stage (2017)
Book Chapter
Roman Catholicism and the London stage. In L. Nigri, & N. Tsentorou (Eds.), Forms of hypocrisy in Early Modern England (57-71). New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315265568-4

From the Medieval period to the Restoration, the hypocrite remained a remarkably popular figure, proving its resilience as an object of fascination not only in literature but in theological, political, and social debates. In the Tudor and Stuart peri... Read More about Religious hypocrisy in performance : Roman Catholicism and the London stage.

"Description" (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). "Description". In R. Graham (Ed.), How to Write A Short Story (And Think About It). Palgrave Macmillan

Writers have been creating virtual realities since before computers were even dreamed of. Good fiction conjures an alternative world, gives you a window into someone else’s life, takes you somewhere other. Above all, it’s convincing. Effective descri... Read More about "Description".

Digital cultural participation in Malta (2017)
Book Chapter
Sant, T. (2017). Digital cultural participation in Malta. In Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in Malta (45-56). Malta: Arts Council Malta

I discussed participation levels and types in digital culture within a Maltese context on two previous occasions; both were published in books. The first of these was a chapter I contributed to Exploring the Maltese Media Landscape (2009) edited by J... Read More about Digital cultural participation in Malta.

Journalism and the changing act of observation : writing about cities in the British press 1880–1940 (2017)
Book Chapter
O'Reilly, C. (2017). Journalism and the changing act of observation : writing about cities in the British press 1880–1940. In G. Aiello, K. Oakley, & M. Tarantino (Eds.), Communicating the City: Meanings, Practices, Interactions (3-16). New York: Peter Lang

Peter Fritzsche’s (1996) study of the social and literary texts of turn-of-the-century Berlin begins with the observation that the key point of fascination around the nexus of city and its literature is the tension between the city as narrated form a... Read More about Journalism and the changing act of observation : writing about cities in the British press 1880–1940.