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“Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC (2017)
Journal Article
Flanagan, M. (2017). “Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC. Authorship (Gent), 6(2), https://doi.org/10.21825/aj.v6i2.7701

Paul Cornell’s work for the ‘Big Two’ U.S. comic publishers transfers a distinctly British (mostly English) sensibility into a field where cues normally revolve around American cultural iconography and values. The key to his authorship is Cornell’s h... Read More about “Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC.

‘Thinking of Spain in a flat way’ : Spanish tangible and intangible heritage through contemporary Japanese anime (2017)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2017). ‘Thinking of Spain in a flat way’ : Spanish tangible and intangible heritage through contemporary Japanese anime. Mutual images, 3, 43-69. https://doi.org/10.32926/2017.3.her.think

This paper contextualises the mutual perceptions between Spain and Japan through the historical background and some examples within several creative industries. Subsequently, the paper reviews the ways in which transnational popular culture has been... Read More about ‘Thinking of Spain in a flat way’ : Spanish tangible and intangible heritage through contemporary Japanese anime.

Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom (2017)
Journal Article
Hart, A. (2017). Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom. London Review of Education, 15(3), 407-424. https://doi.org/10.18546/LRE.15.3.06

This paper presents an ongoing project to develop a freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom. The national curriculum for music at Key Stages 1 and 2 calls for students to 'compose music for a range of purposes using the inter... Read More about Towards an effective freeware resource for music composition in the primary classroom.

A blot on the landscape? Civic memory and municipal public parks in early twentieth century Manchester (2017)
Journal Article

This paper examines the decision to locate the façade of Manchester’s old Town Hall in a public park (Heaton Park) in 1912. It argues that, in so doing, the city’s Parks and Cemeteries committee was attempting to refine the didactic space of the park... Read More about A blot on the landscape? Civic memory and municipal public parks in early twentieth century Manchester.

Multimedia information and authoring for personalized media networks (2017)
Journal Article
Choi, I., & Bargar, R. (2017). Multimedia information and authoring for personalized media networks. Journal of multimedia information system, 4(3), 123-144. https://doi.org/10.9717/JMIS.2017.4.3.123

Personalized media includes user-targeted and user-generated content (UGC) exchanged through social media and interactive applications. The increased consumption of UGC presents challenges and opportunities to multimedia information systems. We work... Read More about Multimedia information and authoring for personalized media networks.

Theo Angelopoulos’s O Thiasos/The Travelling Players (1975) and Oi Kynigoi/The Hunters (1977) and how they affect the Brechtian Project (2017)
Journal Article

Theo Angelopoulos’s The Travelling Players (1975) and The Hunters (1977) have been widely characterized as Brechtian mainly because of the filmmak¬er’s use of defamiliarization effects (V-effects) and the disrupted chronology in these films, but with... Read More about Theo Angelopoulos’s O Thiasos/The Travelling Players (1975) and Oi Kynigoi/The Hunters (1977) and how they affect the Brechtian Project.

Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences (2017)
Journal Article
McMurtry, L. (2017). Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 24(2), 270-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2017.1296448

Imagery generation in dramatized audio drama is still poorly understood with the majority of work having been done from a radio advertising perspective. This study sought to understand audio drama imagery generation by using teenage listeners. The st... Read More about Imagination and narrative : young people's experiences.

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.

Motivational strategies : the perceptions of EFL teachers and students in the Saudi higher education context (2017)
Journal Article

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.

“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.