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The changing determinants of UK television acting (2015)
Journal Article
Hewett, R. (2015). The changing determinants of UK television acting. Critical Studies in Television, 10(1), 73-90. https://doi.org/10.7227/CST.10.1.6

Few aspects of archive television drama are more redolent of the era in which they were produced than the performance style employed – a factor which all too often prompts incomprehension, disbelief or even ridicule from those who seek to impose pure... Read More about The changing determinants of UK television acting.

Review - Marx at the Movies: Revisiting history, theory and practice, edited by Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (2015)
Journal Article
Hope, W. (2015). Review - Marx at the Movies: Revisiting history, theory and practice, edited by Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen. View finder (London), 29-29

Book review of an edited volume that applies Marxist theory and criticism - in the context of philosophy, politics and literature - to shed light on the production and reception of films from the past century.

“Too many actors and too few jobs” : a case for curriculum extension in UK vocational actor training (2015)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2015). “Too many actors and too few jobs” : a case for curriculum extension in UK vocational actor training. London Review of Education, 13(1), 31-42. https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.13.1.04

This article questions the current situation for vocational acting training (VAT) in the UK. It aims to provide an update on the report into burgeoning provision of acting training (and the attempt to address subsequent high rates of actor unemployme... Read More about “Too many actors and too few jobs” : a case for curriculum extension in UK vocational actor training.

Tracey Emin : the last great adventure is you (2015)
Journal Article
Correia, A. (2015). Tracey Emin : the last great adventure is you

A review of Tracey Emin's solo exhibition, "The Last Great Adventure is You", held at White Cube, Bermondsey, 8 October – 16 November 2014.

Contemporary innovative poetry by women in the UK : Revoicing in the work of Holly Pester, SL Mendoza and Sophie Robinson (2015)
Journal Article
Thurston, S. (2015). Contemporary innovative poetry by women in the UK : Revoicing in the work of Holly Pester, SL Mendoza and Sophie Robinson. Contemporary Women's Writing, 9(1), 53-72. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpu035

Until recently women’s position on the British innovative poetry scene has been difficult to say the least, often risking being “doubly excluded,” as an anonymous writer is quoted in the introduction to Maggie O’Sullivan’s crucial 1996 anthology Out... Read More about Contemporary innovative poetry by women in the UK : Revoicing in the work of Holly Pester, SL Mendoza and Sophie Robinson.

Sensationalism made real : the role of realism in the production of sensational affect (2015)
Journal Article
Allan, J. (2015). Sensationalism made real : the role of realism in the production of sensational affect. Victorian Literature and Culture, 43(01), 97-112. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1060150314000369

Like all complicated relationships, that between realism and sensationalism has been subject to a good deal of rumour and speculation. In what might be described as the pair's first critical encounter – in an 1852 joint review of W. M. Thackeray's Th... Read More about Sensationalism made real : the role of realism in the production of sensational affect.

Open source and consumption (2015)
Book Chapter
Lin, Y. (2015). Open source and consumption. In J. Ryan, & D. Cook (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies. The Wiley-Blackwell

This article illuminates the common concepts and widely-observed practices concerning open source. Positioning 'open-source' as a common practice and a viable methodology for collaborative participatory co-production in today's knowledge society, the... Read More about Open source and consumption.