Sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Sports. In H. Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_399-1

This chapter explores the relationship between bioethics and sport ethics, which changed dramatically in the early 2000 when the genetics era generated a series of new questions about the ends of sport and how they would interface more widely with a... Read More about Sports.

Violence, style and politics : the influence of the Giallo in Spanish cinema of the 1970s (2015)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2015). Violence, style and politics : the influence of the Giallo in Spanish cinema of the 1970s. In E. Oliete (Ed.), Global genres / local films : the transnational dimension of Spanish cinema (103-114). London: Bloomsbury Academic

Transformation design : creating security and well-being (2015)
Book Chapter
Davey, C., & Wootton, A. (2015). Transformation design : creating security and well-being. In Transformation design : perspectives on a new design attitude (61-74). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035606539-006

This chapter provides evidence of the value of design in creating improved security and well-being, with reference to work on Design Against Crime at the University of Salford in the UK.

Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert. In B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London: Bloombsury

Through her live arena performances, pop/R and B artist Beyoncé Knowles appears to promote a shiny, depthless feminism that mass audiences can embrace. This chapter will provide a critical analysis of her 2013-2014 arena concert tour, The Mrs Carter... Read More about Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert.

Intimate live girls (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Intimate live girls. In B. Halligan, N. Spelman, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The arena concert requires a particular type of liveness of performance in order to transcend impersonal mass entertainment. Liveness here looks to authenticity and happenstance, privileges personal communications and seeks to live in the moment, and... Read More about Intimate live girls.

Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance (2015)
Book Chapter
Rouverol, A. (2015). Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance. In R. Perks, & A. Thomson (Eds.), The oral history reader (636-655). London: Routledge

In this essay, Alicia Rouverol assesses an oral history performance event based on life review interviews in a US prison. She explores how life review helped inmates to make new sense of their lives, the challenges of sharing authority in a prison se... Read More about Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance.

Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania (2015)
Book Chapter
Chiva, C. (2015). Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania. In B. Rasch, S. Martin, & J. Cheibub (Eds.), Parliaments and Government Formation: Unpacking Investiture Rules (197-216). Oxford: Oxford University Press

The chapter examines the process of government formation in post-communist Romania by seeking to explain the combination of a high incidence of minority cabinets, on the one hand, and the strong investiture rules characteristic of positive parliament... Read More about Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania.

Fatal attraction : the serial killer in American popular culture (2015)
Book Chapter
Bentham, A. (2015). Fatal attraction : the serial killer in American popular culture. In D. Schmid (Ed.), Violence in American Popular Culture (203-222). Santa Barbara, California: Praeger

History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives (2015)
Book Chapter
Smith, A. (2015). History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives. In R. Pearson, W. Uricchio, & W. Brooker (Eds.), Many More Lives of the Batman. Bloomsbury

While scholars have demonstrated how the US comic-book marketplace in the 1980s/1990s laid conditions for certain narrative techniques in superhero comics (Pearson and Uricchio, 91; Putz, 99; Wright, 01), this article shows how subsequent industrial... Read More about History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives.

Men in crisis : Christopher Nolan, un-truths and fictionalising masculinity (2015)
Book Chapter
Deakin, P. (2015). Men in crisis : Christopher Nolan, un-truths and fictionalising masculinity. In J. Furby, & S. Joy (Eds.), The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible (85-98). London & New York: Wallflower Press

Introduction : genesis, employment, aftermath (2015)
Book Chapter
Searle, D. (2015). Introduction : genesis, employment, aftermath. In D. Searle (Ed.), Genesis, employment, aftermath: First World War tanks and the new warfare, 1900-1945 (1-12). Solihull: Helion

Growing old in the spotlight : social media and ageing (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Growing old in the spotlight : social media and ageing. In J. Twigg, & W. Martin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology. London: Routledge

Celebrity culture and ageing (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Celebrity culture and ageing. In J. Twigg, & W. Martin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology. Routledge

Despite the proliferation of images of ageing in Western popular culture online and in print media in recent years, it is striking that media and cultural studies has virtually ignored the subject of ageing until recently. However, in recent years... Read More about Celebrity culture and ageing.

Constructing the Mangaverse : narrative patterns in Marvel’s appropriation of manga products (2015)
Book Chapter
Hernandez Perez, M. (2015). Constructing the Mangaverse : narrative patterns in Marvel’s appropriation of manga products. In C. Brienza (Ed.), Global manga : 'Japanese' comics without Japan? (167-184). Farnham: Ashgate Publishing (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315584898-15

It´s well known that the major global comic producers are Japan and U.S. There are not so many countries where this medium has achieved this importance not only as high-quality producers but also as powerful creators of contents. In fact, there is al... Read More about Constructing the Mangaverse : narrative patterns in Marvel’s appropriation of manga products.

Human enhancement in sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Human enhancement in sports. In W. Bainbridge, & M. Roco (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_85-1

This chapter examines the range of sciences and technologies that converge around sports and the implications of this for issues of fairness and ethics. First, it outlines some of the recent scientific developments that speak to the convergence of di... Read More about Human enhancement in sports.

Convergence with the Arts (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Convergence with the Arts. In Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (1-10). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_33-1

This chapter examines convergence in science and arts by considering two complementary trajectories over the last 25 years. First, it examines the institutional drivers behind convergence, from the perspective of governance and public value within sc... Read More about Convergence with the Arts.

Creating a comprehensive archive of Maltese music on CD (2015)
Book Chapter
Sant, T. (2015). Creating a comprehensive archive of Maltese music on CD. In S. Baker (Ed.), Preserving Popular Music Heritage : Do-it-Yourself, Do-it-Together (114-125). Routledge (Taylor & Francis). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315769882-9

Accurately preserving data encoded on an audio CD is a more complex concern than preserving information on a data CD. This complexity is due in part to restrictions imposed upon the format by the music industry, but also to how the data itself is str... Read More about Creating a comprehensive archive of Maltese music on CD.

Film Noir, Hong Kong cinema and the limits of critical transplant (2015)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2015). Film Noir, Hong Kong cinema and the limits of critical transplant. In C. Shin, & M. Gallagher (Eds.), East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue (163-178). UK: I B Tauris (Bloomsbury)

Open source and consumption (2015)
Book Chapter
Lin, Y. (2015). Open source and consumption. In J. Ryan, & D. Cook (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies. The Wiley-Blackwell

This article illuminates the common concepts and widely-observed practices concerning open source. Positioning 'open-source' as a common practice and a viable methodology for collaborative participatory co-production in today's knowledge society, the... Read More about Open source and consumption.

Critical voices : artists’ responses to Moore’s gift to Tate in 1967 (2015)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2015). Critical voices : artists’ responses to Moore’s gift to Tate in 1967. In Henry Moore : sculptural process and public identity. Tate Research Publication

In 1967 the announcement of Henry Moore’s intention to give a selection of his large-scale sculptures to the Tate Gallery elicited both praise and, among many younger artists, consternation. The ensuing debate about the gift raised difficult issues a... Read More about Critical voices : artists’ responses to Moore’s gift to Tate in 1967.