Outputs (38)

Scoring the Unseen: Composition Film Music for Radio Drama (2023)
Book Chapter

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.

The Spy (BBC Radio 4, 2012): Creating Historical Ambiance through Music in British Radio Drama (2023)
Book Chapter

Immersion into a storyworld is important for audiences, and one way to create a sense of immersion is through the use of music. Media depictions of historical periods make powerful impressions upon audiences, and historians often contest the way hist... Read More about The Spy (BBC Radio 4, 2012): Creating Historical Ambiance through Music in British Radio Drama.

‘See some of our Grievances Redressed’: What Patterns of Mutiny Tell Us About Morale in the Continental Army (2023)
Book Chapter
Blackstone, K. (2023). ‘See some of our Grievances Redressed’: What Patterns of Mutiny Tell Us About Morale in the Continental Army. In Waging War in America 1775-1783 (55-74). Helion Press

Studies of the campaigns of the 1775–1783 American War for Independence often suffer from a lack of understanding of the operational aspects of the armies involved. This collection of essays looks at many facets of military operations in America, sho... Read More about ‘See some of our Grievances Redressed’: What Patterns of Mutiny Tell Us About Morale in the Continental Army.

The Legacy of the Fanzine Renaissance (2023)
Book Chapter

Things don’t seem right: The Affective and Institutional Politics of Writing about the North of Ireland from the North of England (2023)
Book Chapter
Magennis, C. (2023). Things don’t seem right: The Affective and Institutional Politics of Writing about the North of Ireland from the North of England. In The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace. Routledge

Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum: Redefining ‘Unruliness’ in London’s East End (2023)
Book Chapter

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.

Workshopping Board Games for Space Place and Culture (2023)
Book Chapter

‘The Perfect Storm: The Impact of COVID-19 on British Journalists’ (2023)
Book Chapter

This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the working lives of British broadcast and online journalists, middle and senior managers. 26 semi-structured interviews were conducted between November 2021 and January 2023 and three themes... Read More about ‘The Perfect Storm: The Impact of COVID-19 on British Journalists’.

A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary (2023)
Book Chapter

This collection aims to give insight to the reader as to how poetic approaches to documentary filmmaking have helped to develop the documentary form into a rich and diverse way of representing the real world in film. As such, it is the aesthetics of... Read More about A poet who climbed or a climber who writes poetry: The Poetry of Cinema and Movement in the Rock-Climbing Documentary.