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Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry (2014)
Book Chapter
Smith, A. (2014). Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry. In R. Pearson, & A. Smith (Eds.), Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives (21-39). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388155_2

While games studies has theorised the ways in which video games convey narrative it has so far neglected the industrial circumstances that structure these narratives. Using the video game developer, publisher and hardware-manufacturer Nintendo as a c... Read More about Super Mario seriality : Nintendo’s narratives and audience targeting within the video game console industry.

Introduction : the contexts of contemporary screen narratives : medium, national, institutional and technological specificities (2014)
Book Chapter
Smith, A., & Pearson, R. (2014). Introduction : the contexts of contemporary screen narratives : medium, national, institutional and technological specificities. In Storytelling in the Media Convergence Age: Exploring Screen Narratives (1-17). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137388155_1

The emergence of digital modes of content creation and distribution, combined with the domestication of Internet technology and digital consumption devices, has led to the digital integration of the production and circulation of narrative content acr... Read More about Introduction : the contexts of contemporary screen narratives : medium, national, institutional and technological specificities.

Media ecology (2014)
Book Chapter
Goddard, M. (2014). Media ecology. In M. Ryan, L. Emerson, & B. Robertson (Eds.), The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (331-333). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

An invited entry on the concept of media ecology.

Collaborative composition, writing and performing (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, A. (2014, November). Collaborative composition, writing and performing. Presented at SIMPOM (Brazilian Simposium for postgraduates in music), Rio de Janeiro

This was one of the invited lectures delivered at the 2014 Simposium for Postgraduate Students in Music in Brazil (SIMPOM), held at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The lecture described a variety of collaborative approa... Read More about Collaborative composition, writing and performing.

The backer-developer connection : exploring crowdfunding’s influence on video game production (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, A. (2015). The backer-developer connection : exploring crowdfunding’s influence on video game production. New Media and Society, 17(2), 198-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444814558910

As video game development studios increasingly turn to digital crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter for financing, this article explores the ways in which these processes shape production. It examines in particular the interactions that typical... Read More about The backer-developer connection : exploring crowdfunding’s influence on video game production.

Mature Meryl and hot Helen : Hollywood, gossip and the ‘appropriately’ ageing actress (2014)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2014). Mature Meryl and hot Helen : Hollywood, gossip and the ‘appropriately’ ageing actress. In I. Whelehan, & J. Gwynne (Eds.), Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism : Harleys and Hormones (140-155). London: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137376534_10

In a 2009 article from the UK Guardian, Vanessa Thorpe writes: When a film star seduces someone 20 or 30 years their junior on screen, the audience doesn’t bat an eyelid. In fact, it is an established cinema convention. If the older star is a woman,... Read More about Mature Meryl and hot Helen : Hollywood, gossip and the ‘appropriately’ ageing actress.

The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe (2014)
Journal Article
Ndlovu, E. (2014). The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 35(3), 54-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2014.957225

This article contributes to the debate on the re-emergence of diasporic radio and its role in facilitating citizen journalism and political awareness in Zimbabwe. The article uses Short Wave Radio Africa and other diasporic radio stations domiciled o... Read More about The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe.

Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2 (2014)
Book
(2014). W. Hope, S. Serra, & L. D'arcangeli (Eds.), Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2. Leicester, UK: Troubador Publishing

This volume examines representations of social, historical and political issues in contemporary Italian cinema, focusing on the following themes: Italy’s socio-political past as depicted on screen; filmic representations of the Italian State, institu... Read More about Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2.

Engagements with Trotsky (2014)
Book Chapter
Callaghan, J. (2014). Engagements with Trotsky. In E. Davies, & M. Worley (Eds.), Against the grain : the British far left since 1956. Manchester: Manchester University Press

This article considers the broader cultural impact of Trotsky and Trotskyism in Britain beyond the small groups associated with his name.

Social democracy in the light of capitalist financial crises (2014)
Book Chapter
Callaghan, J. (2014). Social democracy in the light of capitalist financial crises. In D. Bailey (Ed.), European Social Democracy During the Global Economic Crisis (chapter 5). Manchester: Manchester University Press

The crisis of 2008 was not the first time that social democratic parties were found wanting when faced with bank and financial failures. But it was the first since they had learned to praise the wisdom as well as the creativity of 'the market'.

The interplay between religious orientations, state secularism, and gay rights issues (2014)
Journal Article
Hichy, Z., Coen, S., & Di Marco, G. (2014). The interplay between religious orientations, state secularism, and gay rights issues. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 11(1), 82-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2014.914005

The aim of this study was to test the effects of religious orientations (intrinsic, extrinsic, and quest) and secularism of state on attitude towards both same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples. Moreover, the mediating effects of seculari... Read More about The interplay between religious orientations, state secularism, and gay rights issues.

"Half Gandalf, Half Mr. Kipling" : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Flanagan, M. (2014, October). "Half Gandalf, Half Mr. Kipling" : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC. Presented at Transitions 5 (Conference), Birkbeck University of London

Paul Cornell’s work for the ‘big two’ U.S. publishers transfers a distinctly British (mainly, but not exclusively, English) sensibility into a field where the centre of cultural gravity, in terms of tropes and iconography, tends to be the USA. Corne... Read More about "Half Gandalf, Half Mr. Kipling" : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC.

Spaces of preparation: The Acton ‘Hilton’ and changing patterns of television drama rehearsal (2014)
Journal Article
Hewett, R. (2014). Spaces of preparation: The Acton ‘Hilton’ and changing patterns of television drama rehearsal. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 34(3), 331-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2014.937179

It is only comparatively recently that performance in arenas other than theatre and cinema has begun to receive serious academic attention. The ‘Spaces of Television’ project and the University of York’s ‘Playing the Small Screen’ symposium have each... Read More about Spaces of preparation: The Acton ‘Hilton’ and changing patterns of television drama rehearsal.

The anime authorship criticism. Visions of the "Anti-Disney Ethos" (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Hernandez Perez, M. (2014, September). The anime authorship criticism. Visions of the "Anti-Disney Ethos". Presented at Discussing Disney, University of Hull

Animation Studies has provided an interesting example of how the concepts of genre and authorship can usually be considered as antithetic, and how these concepts might be discussed for a better understanding of modern Media Industries. In this sense,... Read More about The anime authorship criticism. Visions of the "Anti-Disney Ethos".

Crosscurrents: The cultural dynamics of jazz (2014)
Book Chapter
Whyton, T. (2014). Crosscurrents: The cultural dynamics of jazz. In W. Knauer (Ed.), Jazz Debates / Jazzdebatten. Darmstadt: Wolke Verlagsges. Mbh

Debates in jazz history are aesthetic marks which reflect discourses about the directions the music might take. In September 2013 experts from Europe and the USA met at the Darmstadt Jazzforum to discuss how such debates inform the perception of jazz... Read More about Crosscurrents: The cultural dynamics of jazz.

Making new : encounters through new technology in performance (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2014, September). Making new : encounters through new technology in performance. Presented at TaPRA Annual Conference, Royal Holloway University

This paper engages with the key issue of newness in the field of performance and ‘new’ technology, arguing through that rather than simply engaging with new technology, this is rather a field of performance which by its nature and predominant inclina... Read More about Making new : encounters through new technology in performance.

An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction (2014)
Journal Article
Crawford, G., Gosling, V., Bagnall, G., & Light, B. (2014). An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction. Cultural Sociology, 8(4), 483-500. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975514541862

This paper considers the key findings of a yearlong collaborative research project focusing on the audience of the London Symphony Orchestra and their introduction of a new mobile telephone (‘app’) ticketing system. A mixed-method approach was employ... Read More about An orchestral audience : classical music and continued patterns of distinction.

Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments (2014)
Journal Article
Davismoon, S. (2014). Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments. Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (Internet), 136, 113-117. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08189-2_14

Perhaps the most significant contributions that computer and digital technologies have brought to our experience of music and sound art are to be found in the transformative effect that it has had upon auditory space and performative practice. Of cou... Read More about Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments.