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Sound And Vision - A Night of Live Music and Improvisation (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Robinson, P., France, T., Dewhurst, R., & Court, A. Sound And Vision - A Night of Live Music and Improvisation. [Video]. 23 March 2023 - 23 March 2023. (Unpublished)

The performance is a 45-minute long continuous act in which 3 music performers improvise based on a pre-agreed scale, but in response to a live sketch being drawn on the iPad and projected on a large screen behind them. The sketch is produced in proc... Read More about Sound And Vision - A Night of Live Music and Improvisation.

Exploring the impact of divergent thinking approaches on team-based problem-solving: a case study of 2nd year media production students creating a live camera feed using a public 5G network (2023)
Other
Davies, A. Exploring the impact of divergent thinking approaches on team-based problem-solving: a case study of 2nd year media production students creating a live camera feed using a public 5G network

This research paper presents an analysis of a collaborative task completed by students, which involved broadcasting a live camera feed from the Blue Peter Gardens at Media City UK to their Mac Studio using a 5G Public network. The paper focuses on th... Read More about Exploring the impact of divergent thinking approaches on team-based problem-solving: a case study of 2nd year media production students creating a live camera feed using a public 5G network.

The Metaverse (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2023, March). The Metaverse. Presented at SXSW

Presentation for the Department of International Trade, in association with GMCA, produced for UK House, during the SXSW Festival

The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom (2023)
Journal Article
Minor, L. (in press). The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom

The release of reality television series Milf Manor in January 2023 has added to the pantheon of milfs (“Mothers I’d Like to Fuck”) on screen. But from Stacy’s mum to Stifler’s mum: why is our cultural fascination with and fetishisation of the milf s... Read More about The ‘milf’: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler’s mom.

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

Critical intelligence studies: a new framework for analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Newbery, S., & Kaunert, C. (2023). Critical intelligence studies: a new framework for analysis. Intelligence and National Security, https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2023.2178163

As the purpose of the study of intelligence is, in part, to aid the practice of intelligence, scholarship must reflect that practice. This article sets out a theoretical framework for Critical Intelligence Studies that will increase the real-world... Read More about Critical intelligence studies: a new framework for analysis.

The Future of Esports (2023) (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2023, February). The Future of Esports (2023). Presented at ESIC Esports Global Summit, London

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

Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture (2023)
Book
Freeman, M., & Smith, A. (2023). Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture. Palgrave Macmillan

This book brings genre back to the forefront of the current transmedia trend. Genres are perhaps the most innately transmedial of media constructs, formed as they are from all kinds of industrial, technological and discursive phenomena. Yet very few... Read More about Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture.

The people you're not (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Gould, C., & Gibson, H. (2011). The people you're not. 29 January 2023 - 27 February 2011. (Unpublished)

Charlotte Gould was invited as one of six artists and illustrators to participate in a group show realised by cultural producer Bren Callaghan and Proposed by Harry Hill as part of one of the “Unrealised Potential” exhibits shown at the Cornerhouse i... Read More about The people you're not.

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.