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A datalogical reading of online performance (2021)
Journal Article
Scott, J. (2021). A datalogical reading of online performance. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 18(1), 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2021.2018222

This article offers a datalogical reading of online performance. In constructing the framework for this new mode of analysing online, computationally centred performance practice, it draws on discussions of data and the datalogical in Blackman (2019)... Read More about A datalogical reading of online performance.

The Distin legacy : the rise of the brass band in 19th-century Britain (2021)
Thesis
Farr, R. The Distin legacy : the rise of the brass band in 19th-century Britain. (Thesis). University of Salford

Throughout the nineteenth century the brass band movement emerged as part of the larger processes of social, cultural and political change, and the rapid progress of industrialization. The growth of the movement was determined, most significantly, by... Read More about The Distin legacy : the rise of the brass band in 19th-century Britain.

Recreating classic sitcom performances: an interview with Kevin McNally (2021)
Journal Article
Hewett, R. (2021). Recreating classic sitcom performances: an interview with Kevin McNally. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 19(1), 87-105. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2022.0605

Actor Kevin McNally has had the unusual experience of recreating the performances of not one but two famous comedy actors, having played Tony Hancock on radio in The Missing Hancocks (BBC Radio 4, 2014-20) and on television for the Lost Sitcoms entry... Read More about Recreating classic sitcom performances: an interview with Kevin McNally.

Love, desire, and problematic behaviors : exploring young adults’ smartphone use from a uses and gratifications perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Vezzoli, M., Zogmaister, C., & Coen, S. (2021). Love, desire, and problematic behaviors : exploring young adults’ smartphone use from a uses and gratifications perspective. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000375

In light of the pervasive adoption of smartphones, scholars have explored the consequences of problematic (i.e., excessive and uncontrolled) use of this technology. Studies have often shown that individuals who spend much time using smartphones exp... Read More about Love, desire, and problematic behaviors : exploring young adults’ smartphone use from a uses and gratifications perspective.

Exploring the application of practice-based research on affective cinema to the teaching of creative cinematographic techniques within UK higher education (2021)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2021). Exploring the application of practice-based research on affective cinema to the teaching of creative cinematographic techniques within UK higher education. Film Education Journal, 4(2), 170-183. https://doi.org/10.14324/fej.04.2.06

This article outlines an exploratory approach to the delivery of film practice education, as developed and tested with a second-year undergraduate module in cinematography. Students were provided with two existing creative sound pieces composed by a... Read More about Exploring the application of practice-based research on affective cinema to the teaching of creative cinematographic techniques within UK higher education.

“The aesthetic of the gap” : the limits of storytelling in the work of Jennifer Egan (2021)
Journal Article
Rouverol, A. (2021). “The aesthetic of the gap” : the limits of storytelling in the work of Jennifer Egan. Contemporary Women's Writing, 15(2), 280-299. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpab023

A Visit from the Goon Squad (2010) is distinctively marked by the use of gaps and lacunae within the narrative’s construction, directing the reader’s focus to the unnarrated. This article examines the resultant silences and storytelling that emerges... Read More about “The aesthetic of the gap” : the limits of storytelling in the work of Jennifer Egan.

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.

Educating Animators - Manchester Animation Festival - Songs I Want To Play (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Court, A., & Robinson, P. (2021, November). Educating Animators - Manchester Animation Festival - Songs I Want To Play

Presentation produced for the 'Educating Animators' event as part of Manchester Animation Festival (November 2021) on Songs I Want To Play as a showcase of collaboration between a musical director and an animator. Songs I Want to Play began as a lo... Read More about Educating Animators - Manchester Animation Festival - Songs I Want To Play.

Future (E)Sports (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2021, November). Future (E)Sports. Presented at 44th Session of Chinese Taipei Olympic Academy, Taiwan

Chance semiotics : the value and application of contingency in cinema art practice (2021)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2021). Chance semiotics : the value and application of contingency in cinema art practice. Avanca - cinema (Em linha), 85-91. https://doi.org/10.37390/avancacinema.2021.a216

As this paper argues, chance is the key defining aspect of film, distinguishing it from other forms of art and communication. This is because film has the ability to capture a direct, mechanical imprint of the unpredictable movement of reality as... Read More about Chance semiotics : the value and application of contingency in cinema art practice.

Thinking space : adapting narrative cinema for installation art (2021)
Thesis
Ellis, R. Thinking space : adapting narrative cinema for installation art. (Thesis). University of Salford

Gallery film and video installation have been figured within a discourse on the phenomenological subject, the avant-garde and its relation to the gallery as a site of political and cultural activity, and with respect to medium specificity. A question... Read More about Thinking space : adapting narrative cinema for installation art.

OPEN SPACES 800 (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Randall, J., & Birch, A. OPEN SPACES 800. [Catalogue]. 17 September 2021 - 27 September 2021. (Unpublished)

International Artists Residency/Exhibition, Kunsthaus, Bocholt, Germany. In September 2021, Jill Randall was invited to represent the UK and participate in the International Artists Programme,' OPEN SPACES 800', in the city of Bocholt, Germany, t... Read More about OPEN SPACES 800.

Kurdish armour against ISIS : YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-2019 (2021)
Book
Nash, E., & Searle, D. (2021). Kurdish armour against ISIS : YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-2019. Oxford: Osprey

One of the most remarkable mechanized campaigns of recent years pitted the brutal and heavily armed jihadists of the Islamic State against the improvised Kurdish force, the YPG (later the SDF). While some Kurdish vehicles originated from Syrian Army... Read More about Kurdish armour against ISIS : YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014-2019.

Tiger II : el coloso (2021)
Journal Article
Searle, D. (2021). Tiger II : el coloso. Desperta ferro. Especial, 5(28), 6-13

El Tiger II fue, en muchos aspectos, el carro de combate pesado definitivo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Alcanzaba los 54 500 kg sin la torreta y unos apabullantes 69 800 kg con la Serien Turm –La torreta básica del modelo–. Con una coraza delantera... Read More about Tiger II : el coloso.