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Performance Portfolio (2017)
Thesis
Zhou, Q. Performance Portfolio. (Thesis). University of Salford

This DMA portfolio contains materials and a written critical commentary relating to the work I have completed towards a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance degree at the University of Salford. My doctoral programme consists of four performance-base... Read More about Performance Portfolio.

Introduction to Forms of Hypocrisy (2017)
Book Chapter
Nigri, L., & Tsentourou, N. (2017). Introduction to Forms of Hypocrisy. In L. Nigri, & N. Tsentourou (Eds.), Forms of hypocrisy in Early Modern England (1-14). New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge

The diasporic community's intervention in the Libya uprising (2017)
Book Chapter
Ndlovu, E. (2017). The diasporic community's intervention in the Libya uprising. In O. Ogunyemi (Ed.), Media, Diaspora and Conflict (37-51). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56642-9_3

This chapter examines the conflict resolution initiatives by the diaspora communities during the Libya uprising in 2011. In collaboration with their fellow citizens in the country, organisations like the Libya Outreach Group established online initia... Read More about The diasporic community's intervention in the Libya uprising.

Religious hypocrisy in performance : Roman Catholicism and the London stage (2017)
Book Chapter
Roman Catholicism and the London stage. In L. Nigri, & N. Tsentorou (Eds.), Forms of hypocrisy in Early Modern England (57-71). New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315265568-4

From the Medieval period to the Restoration, the hypocrite remained a remarkably popular figure, proving its resilience as an object of fascination not only in literature but in theological, political, and social debates. In the Tudor and Stuart peri... Read More about Religious hypocrisy in performance : Roman Catholicism and the London stage.

Staying over-optimistic about the future : uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages (2017)
Journal Article
Beattie, G., Marselle, M., McGuire, L., & Litchfield, D. (2017). Staying over-optimistic about the future : uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages. Semiotica, 2017(218), https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0074

There is considerable concern that the public are not getting the message about climate change. One possible explanation is ‘optimism bias’, where individuals overestimate the likelihood of positive events happening to them and underestimate the like... Read More about Staying over-optimistic about the future : uncovering attentional biases to climate change messages.

The changing spaces of television acting : from studio realism to location realism in BBC television drama (2017)
Book
Hewett, R. (2017). The changing spaces of television acting : from studio realism to location realism in BBC television drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press

Spanning the 1950s to the present day, The changing spaces of television is both a historical overview and a then-and-now comparison of performing for British television drama. By examining changing acting styles from distinct eras of television prod... Read More about The changing spaces of television acting : from studio realism to location realism in BBC television drama.

Music/video : histories, aesthetics, media (2017)
Book
(2017). G. Arnold, D. Cookney, K. Fairclough, & M. Goddard (Eds.), Music/video : histories, aesthetics, media. Bloomsbury Academic

This book is a lively, comprehensive and timely reader on the music video, capitalising on cross-disciplinary research expertise, which represents a substantial academic engagement with the music video, a mediated form and practice that still remains... Read More about Music/video : histories, aesthetics, media.

Vimeo killed the video star : Burial and the user-generated music video (2017)
Book Chapter
music video. In D. Cookney, K. Fairclough, M. Goddard, & G. Arnold (Eds.), Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media (255-267). New York: Bloomsbury Academic

This chapter looks at how user generated content on sites such as Vimeo and Youtube has responded to and further facilitated the practice of ‘facelessness’ employed by, electronic music producer, Burial. For a notoriously media-shy producer who is sy... Read More about Vimeo killed the video star : Burial and the user-generated music video.

American politics as a transnational popular narrative : narratological structures of shōnen manga and their cross-cultural readings in Kaiji Kawaguchi's Eagle (1997-2001) (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hernandez Perez, M. (2017, August). American politics as a transnational popular narrative : narratological structures of shōnen manga and their cross-cultural readings in Kaiji Kawaguchi's Eagle (1997-2001). Presented at International Workshop on Reflective Transitions of Politics in Japanese Art, University of East Anglia

American cinema and television have been very present in the expansion of Creative industries on a global scale and have become a model for other systems of transnational production. One consequence of their influence is the popularization of content... Read More about American politics as a transnational popular narrative : narratological structures of shōnen manga and their cross-cultural readings in Kaiji Kawaguchi's Eagle (1997-2001).

Motivational strategies : the perceptions of EFL teachers and students in the Saudi higher education context (2017)
Journal Article
Alshehri, E., & Etherington, M. (2017). Motivational strategies : the perceptions of EFL teachers and students in the Saudi higher education context. International Journal of English Language Education, 5(2), 46-82. https://doi.org/10.5296/ijele.v5i2.11727

Motivation plays a significant role in the L2 learning process, leading many researchers to investigate strategies which can generate and maintain students' motivation in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. However, little research has in... Read More about Motivational strategies : the perceptions of EFL teachers and students in the Saudi higher education context.

The story of Manchester (2017)
Book
Woodman, D. (2017). The story of Manchester. Stroud: The History Press

Manchester is noted for the ‘Industrial Revolution’ – its factories, working-class people and urban development all based around its production of cotton textiles. But this is not the complete story. Manchester has always been a more vibrant place wh... Read More about The story of Manchester.

Applied theatre : creative ageing (2017)
Book
McCormick, S. (2017). M. Balfour, & S. Preston (Eds.), Applied theatre : creative ageing. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the complex social, political and cultural needs of a diverse group in our society and asks how contemporary applied theatre responds to those needs. For the first time, this publication allows an examination... Read More about Applied theatre : creative ageing.

Moving the music : dance, action, and embodied identity (2017)
Book Chapter
Slee, S. (2017). Moving the music : dance, action, and embodied identity. In G. Arnold, D. Cookney, K. Fairclough, & M. Goddard (Eds.), Music/Video: Histories, Aesthetics, Media (147-162). Bloomsbury Academic Press

Discourse on music videos widely views and examines the image within the video, along with the visual animation and consumption of music. Yet music videos often incorporate dance, movement and embodied action as fundamental, constituent elements, exp... Read More about Moving the music : dance, action, and embodied identity.

Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement (2017)
Journal Article
Miah, A. (2017). Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement. NanoEthics, 11(2), 139-152. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-017-0302-9

This paper develops a fourth model of public engagement with science, grounded in the principle of nurturing scientific agency through online participatory bioethics. It argues that social media is an effective device through which to enable such eng... Read More about Nanoethics, science communication, and a fourth model for public engagement.

“Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights (2017)
Journal Article
new frights. Palgrave Communications, 3, 17075. https://doi.org/10.1057/palcomms.2017.75

During the last ten years the ever-fertile horror and Gothic genres have birthed a new type of fright-fiction: podcast horror. Podcast horror is a narrative horror form based in audio media and the properties of sound. Despite association with oral... Read More about “Cycles upon cycles, stories upon stories” : contemporary audio media and podcast horror’s new frights.

Riddle 65 : a commentary (2017)
Journal Article
Kendall, J. (2017). Riddle 65 : a commentary

A commentary on my translation of the Old English riddle 65 into modern English, published in the RIddle Ages blog.

"Description" (2017)
Book Chapter
Hurley, U. (2017). "Description". In R. Graham (Ed.), How to Write A Short Story (And Think About It). Palgrave Macmillan

Writers have been creating virtual realities since before computers were even dreamed of. Good fiction conjures an alternative world, gives you a window into someone else’s life, takes you somewhere other. Above all, it’s convincing. Effective descri... Read More about "Description".