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Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism (2022)
Journal Article
Herring, L., & Parkinson, C. (2023). Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism. Celebrity Studies, 14(4), 584-601. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2154684

Acceptance speeches have long been used by celebrity activists as platforms from which to promote their personal, political or ethical agendas. The actor Joaquin Phoenix, an outspoken proponent for animal rights and veganism, dominated the Hollywood... Read More about Vegan celebrity activism: an analysis of the critical reception of Joaquin Phoenix’s awards speech activism.

Naming and blaming: civic shame and slum journalism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Manchester and Birmingham (2022)
Journal Article
O'Reilly, C. (2023). Naming and blaming: civic shame and slum journalism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Manchester and Birmingham. Journal of Urban History, https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442221127055

This study analyses slum journalism in the British provincial press and reveals that it continued to be a major theme until well into the twentieth century. Instead of the rather moralising reporting of the earlier nineteenth century, this journalism... Read More about Naming and blaming: civic shame and slum journalism in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Manchester and Birmingham.

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

Like a Bull in a China Shop (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Tait, A., & Knoph, J. Like a Bull in a China Shop. [Mixed Media Sculpture]. Exhibited at Ebor Studios Littleborough. 1 October 2022 - 31 October 2022. (Unpublished)

Jeffrey Knopf is a sculptor whose work considers time and form. He defamiliarizes objects – often relics from museum collections – and represents them through incongruous contemporary materials. Angela Tait works primarily with clay and the formal q... Read More about Like a Bull in a China Shop.

The history, development, and practical applications of the instrumental soliloquy (2022)
Thesis
Price, C. The history, development, and practical applications of the instrumental soliloquy. (Thesis). University of Salford

The dramatic device of the soliloquy has been in existence for generations; however, following the rise of realism, its use has declined in the theatrical arts as indicated by academics James Hirsh (2003) and Katie Wales (2014). In contrast, it is po... Read More about The history, development, and practical applications of the instrumental soliloquy.

Affective atmosphere: embodiment and the film frame (2022)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2022). Affective atmosphere: embodiment and the film frame. Journal of Embodied Research, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.8315

The affective atmosphere approach to filmmaking emerged from a practice-as-research project entitled Affective Cinema, which seeks to explore the unique expressive potential of film by offsetting its function as a vehicle for coherent communication o... Read More about Affective atmosphere: embodiment and the film frame.

The Esports Metaverse (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, September). The Esports Metaverse. Presented at Host City, Glasgow

Experiments In Therapeutic Participatory Theatre In Virtual Spaces Using Clowning And Puppetry (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Talbot, R. (2022, September). Experiments In Therapeutic Participatory Theatre In Virtual Spaces Using Clowning And Puppetry. Paper presented at Cairo Internation Festical of Experimental Theatre Conference, Cairo, Egypt

This article considers the application of Physical Theatre practices, specifically clowning and puppetry, in participatory performance settings, The project lead, Richard Talbot, has been exploring ways of making these performances accessible through... Read More about Experiments In Therapeutic Participatory Theatre In Virtual Spaces Using Clowning And Puppetry.

Von Manteuffel. Un general más allá de la guerra (2022)
Journal Article
Searle, D. (2022). Von Manteuffel. Un general más allá de la guerra. Desperta ferro. Especial, 6(32), 12-15

Like so many other prominent commanders of Panzer divisions, von Manteuffel gained his first military experience in the Great War, only to be accepted later in 1919 into the Reichswehr, where Heinz Guderian appreciated his talents as a commander in t... Read More about Von Manteuffel. Un general más allá de la guerra.

The Italian Communist Party in the 1980s and the denouement of the Italian party system (2022)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2022). The Italian Communist Party in the 1980s and the denouement of the Italian party system. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571X.2022.2097690

The role of the Italian Communist Party (P.C.I.) in the denouement of the Italian party system in the early 1990s was decisive, its dissolution helping to trigger the organizational and electoral collapse of the existing parties. If so, the question... Read More about The Italian Communist Party in the 1980s and the denouement of the Italian party system.

Sociography: writing differently (2022)
Journal Article
Kilby, J., & Gilloch, G. (2022). Sociography: writing differently. Sociological Review, 70(4), 635-655. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221108842

Sociology is just as much an art form as it is a science. And while sociologists and those in cognate disciplines have long experimented with their writing, the search for new academic forms and practices has acquired new urgency and potentiality. Ho... Read More about Sociography: writing differently.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Disruptive Technologies on the Media & Entertainment Sector (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Bergin, S., Grubert, B., & O'Mahoney, S. (2022, July). The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Disruptive Technologies on the Media & Entertainment Sector. Paper presented at Learning, Teaching and Student Experience (LTSE) 2023, International Convention Centre, Newport, Wales

The Media & Entertainment sector has continually transformed due to disruptive technologies. From the Lumière Brothers' Cinématographe in the 19ᵗʰ century, to the Virtual Production techniques of today and beyond, the sector has witnessed significant... Read More about The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Disruptive Technologies on the Media & Entertainment Sector.

Life AMDRYC4: A virtual reality (VR) application to ‘connect’audiences with strategies for climate change adaptation inMediterranean drylands (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Hernandez Perez, M., Perez Sirvent, C., & Martinez Sanchez, M. (2022, July). Life AMDRYC4: A virtual reality (VR) application to ‘connect’audiences with strategies for climate change adaptation inMediterranean drylands. Poster presented at 22nd World Congress of Soil Science, Glasgow

LIFE AMDRYC4 is an educational experience in Virtual Reality [compatible with Google Cardboard], also available in tactile version, focused on the impact of different agricultural practices on climate change and the creation of synergies between farm... Read More about Life AMDRYC4: A virtual reality (VR) application to ‘connect’audiences with strategies for climate change adaptation inMediterranean drylands.

Draghi's very Italian fall (2022)
Journal Article
Bull, M. (2022). Draghi's very Italian fall

The resignation on 21 July 2022 of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi was a classic example of the machinations of Italian politics. The outcome of a manufactured crisis and a manipulation of events by the parties of the right, Draghi’s fall was nei... Read More about Draghi's very Italian fall.

Esports in Higher Education (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2022, June). Esports in Higher Education. Presented at British Esports Federation, Nottingham