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Mature Meryl and hot Helen : Hollywood, gossip and the ‘appropriately’ ageing actress (2014)
Book Chapter

In a 2009 article from the UK Guardian, Vanessa Thorpe writes: When a film star seduces someone 20 or 30 years their junior on screen, the audience doesn’t bat an eyelid. In fact, it is an established cinema convention. If the older star is a woman,... Read More about Mature Meryl and hot Helen : Hollywood, gossip and the ‘appropriately’ ageing actress.

‘A fight to the death : the challenge of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party’s Reactions’ (2014)
Book Chapter
Newell, J. (2014). ‘A fight to the death : the challenge of the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party’s Reactions’. In Italian Politics (86-102). Berghahn

Scots word of the season : clamjamfry (2014)
Journal Article

The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe (2014)
Journal Article
Ndlovu, E. (2014). The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 35(3), 54-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560054.2014.957225

This article contributes to the debate on the re-emergence of diasporic radio and its role in facilitating citizen journalism and political awareness in Zimbabwe. The article uses Short Wave Radio Africa and other diasporic radio stations domiciled o... Read More about The re-emergence of diasporic radio in independent Zimbabwe.

Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2 (2014)
Book

This volume examines representations of social, historical and political issues in contemporary Italian cinema, focusing on the following themes: Italy’s socio-political past as depicted on screen; filmic representations of the Italian State, institu... Read More about Un nuovo cinema politico Italiano? volume 2.

Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007) (2014)
Book Chapter

‘Sidney Workman’s Epilogue’ concludes Alasdair Gray’s Old Men in Love (2006) and in so doing notes that Gray has told him that because “this novel would be his last (for he is seventy-two and in poor health) I [Workman] could be sure of having the la... Read More about Having the last word: paratextual framing in the Work of Alasdair Gray and 'Sidney Workman's Epilogue' to 'Old Men in Love' (2007).

China’s Responses to External Pressures on Its WMD-related Exports after 2004: Reactive and Proactive (2014)
Journal Article

China, although a member of most of the international non-proliferation and multilateral export control regimes and having a law-based comprehensive export control system, has not fully complied with its non-proliferation obligations, which is eviden... Read More about China’s Responses to External Pressures on Its WMD-related Exports after 2004: Reactive and Proactive.

Advancing performability in playable media : a simulation-based interface as a dynamic score (2014)
Journal Article
Choi, I. (2014). Advancing performability in playable media : a simulation-based interface as a dynamic score. EAI endorsed transactions on creative technologies, 14(1), e5. https://doi.org/10.4108/ct.1.1.e5

When designing playable media with non-game orientation, alternative play scenarios to gameplay scenarios must be accompanied by alternative mechanics to game mechanics. Problems of designing playable media with non-game orientation are stated as... Read More about Advancing performability in playable media : a simulation-based interface as a dynamic score.

‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual (2014)
Journal Article

This essay is a critical reappraisal of Maurice Leitch's 1975 novel Stamping Ground through theories of the gender, sexuality, and the visual. The novel will be read as a disruptive critique of hegemonic Unionist identity and the rural idyll in North... Read More about ‘He devours her with his gaze’ : Maurice Leitch’s stamping ground and the politics of the visual.

Engagements with Trotsky (2014)
Book Chapter

This article considers the broader cultural impact of Trotsky and Trotskyism in Britain beyond the small groups associated with his name.