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Scoring the Unseen: Composition Film Music for Radio Drama (2023)
Book Chapter
Williams, A. (in press). Scoring the Unseen: Composition Film Music for Radio Drama. In P. Verhulst, & J. Mildorf (Eds.), Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers

This book chapter, part of the volume Word, Sound and Music in Radio Drama, describes the process of writing an orchestral score for a BBC Radio drama (The Kraken Wakes, Savvy Productions/ BBC, 2015) designed to be performed live alongside the actors... Read More about Scoring the Unseen: Composition Film Music for Radio Drama.

Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End (2023)
Book Chapter
Minor, L. (2023). Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End. In M. Irwin, & J. Marshall (Eds.), UK and Irish Television Comedy: Nation, Region and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter explores Michaela Coel and her original TV sitcom Chewing Gum (E4, 2015-) through two key concepts: 'unruliness' (Rowe, 1995) and 'intersectionality'. The argument established initially by Kathleen Rowe - that female comic performance is... Read More about Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End.

'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond (2023)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2023). 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond. In UK and Irish TV Comedy Collection. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23629-7

The global Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 has made the production and dissemination of the comic work of Scottish comedian Brian ‘Limmy’ Limmond (b. Glasgow, 1974) seem innovative to the point of being prophetic. As an established Scottish comic aute... Read More about 'Limmy-nality':21st Century Glaswegian Scottish-ness in the comedy of Brian 'Limmy' Limmond.

Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications. (2023)
Book Chapter
Simpson, S., & Rashid, I. (2023). Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications. In M. Puppis, & C. Ali (Eds.), Public service media’s contribution to society (175–192). Goteborg: Nordicom. https://doi.org/10.48335/9789188855756-9

This chapter analyses recent evidence of efforts by broadcast players to move into personal mobile communications through the delivery of broadcast content to smartphones. It explores innovation strategies related to the broadcast distribution channe... Read More about Innovating free-to-air broadcasting: Social value, broadcast content, and personal mobile communications..

‘Hello Big Ears’: Reporting royalty in the provincial press (2023)
Book Chapter
O'Reilly, C. (2023). ‘Hello Big Ears’: Reporting royalty in the provincial press. In A. Beck, & R. Keeble (Eds.), Reporting Royalty: Analysing the Media and the Monarchy (18-22). London: MGM Books

Against the backdrop of the first coronation in 70 years, polls reflecting the changing public mood music about the British royal family, and an historic series of courtroom battles between Prince Harry and Britain's biggest selling newspapers, here... Read More about ‘Hello Big Ears’: Reporting royalty in the provincial press.

“Goulash socialism” vs feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary (2023)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U., & Naray-Davey, S. (2023). “Goulash socialism” vs feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary. In J. Bullock, & P. Henry-Tierney (Eds.), Translating Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex: Transnational Framing, Interpretation, and Impact (83-104). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003363767-7

This chapter seeks to illuminate the ways in which cultural and historical conditions in Hungary have made aspects of Beauvoir’s thought less legible in the socialist and post-socialist context. Setting out these conditions, the chapter goes on to in... Read More about “Goulash socialism” vs feminism? Beauvoir in Hungary.

Applying linguistics to theatre production processes: the strategic use of silence during technical rehearsals (2023)
Book Chapter
Zezulka, K. (2023). Applying linguistics to theatre production processes: the strategic use of silence during technical rehearsals. In S. Ainsworth, D. Griffiths, & K. Pahl (Eds.), Multimodality and Multilingualism: Towards an Integrative Approach. Multilingual Matters

While emerging scholars in applied linguistics are beginning to widen the scope of the field to include live and performing arts – for example, methods of creative inquiry (McKay and Bradley, 2016; Bradley and Harvey, 2019) and the impact of universi... Read More about Applying linguistics to theatre production processes: the strategic use of silence during technical rehearsals.

Translating Personas: French Singers on Film (2023)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2023). Translating Personas: French Singers on Film. In K. Fairclough, & J. Wood (Eds.), Pop Stars on Film: Popular Culture in a Global Market (95-110). UK: Bloomsbury Academic

Language, creativity, and collaboration (2023)
Book Chapter
Zezulka, K. (2023). Language, creativity, and collaboration. In S. Palmer, J. McKinney, S. De Benedetto, & K. Graham (Eds.), Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning. Bloomsbury Publishing

Autoría transmedia e infraestructura diegética. Análisis cultural y textual de la función autoral en los macro-relatos manga-media (2022)
Book Chapter
Hernandez Perez, M. (2022). Autoría transmedia e infraestructura diegética. Análisis cultural y textual de la función autoral en los macro-relatos manga-media. In Estudios sobre cultura visual japonesa: videojuegos, manga y anime (123-143). Martorell, Barcelona: Colección Biblioteca de Estudios Japoneses/CERAO (Centro de Estudios e Investigación sobre Asia Oriental)/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona - Ediciones Bellaterra

Designing video games for history classrooms (2022)
Book Chapter
Hiriart, J. (2022). Designing video games for history classrooms. In S. Bertoldi, & A. Mariotti (Eds.), The Past as a Digital Playground: Archaeology, Virtual Reality and Video Games (56-65). Oxford: Archaeopress

History is very much present in children's lives through a myriad of cultural products varying from TV shows, historical fiction books, films and video games. The latter undoubtedly has become one of the most popular engagements with the past for new... Read More about Designing video games for history classrooms.

Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester (2022)
Book Chapter
Willis, A., & Hayward, R. (2022). Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester. In L. Tsitsou, H. Rana, & B. Wessels (Eds.), The Formation of Film Audiences: Conference Proceedings. University of Sheffield: The Digital Humanities Institute

This paper will discuss our curation of Celebrating Women in Global Cinema (CWinGC), a unique year-long programming initiative that took place across 2019 (and into 2020) at HOME, Manchester. It begins by outlining HOME’s cinema offer, identifying ho... Read More about Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester.

'Coming Home to "Legacy"': Marvel's Problem with History (2022)
Book Chapter
Flanagan, M. (2022). 'Coming Home to "Legacy"': Marvel's Problem with History. In D. L. Alexander, M. Goodrum, & P. Smith (Eds.), Drawing the Past: Comics and the Historical Imagination, Vol. 1. (1). Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi

The pro-business effects of paramilitary terror in Colombia : appreciating different types of political violence and their economic impacts (2021)
Book Chapter
Colombia : appreciating different types of political violence and their economic impacts. In J. Hristov, J. Sprague-Silgado, & A. Tauss (Eds.), Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization : political violence, elites, and security (35-52). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429279430-4

Scholarly investigations into conflict and development have typically highlighted the acutely negative economic effects of political violence. This includes terrorism, which, according to the relevant literature, can have deeply inimical effects on e... Read More about The pro-business effects of paramilitary terror in Colombia : appreciating different types of political violence and their economic impacts.

Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City (2021)
Book Chapter
Scott, J. (2021). Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City. In L. Jarvis, & K. Savage (Eds.), Avatars, activism and postdigital performance : precarious intermedial identities (161-186). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350159341.ch-7

This chapter opens up processes of ‘place-mixing’ in wild urban landscapes. Place-mixing is a digital mixing practice arising from encounters with the city, which pays particular attention to wild forces, feelings and happenings in play. Framed throu... Read More about Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City.