All Outputs (31)

Félix and Alice in wonderland: The encounter between Guattari and Berardi and the post-media era (2013)
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This chapter explores Feli Guattari's concept of a post-media era, wiht reference to the experience of Italian Free Radio in the 1970s, especially Radio Alice, which Guattari was very engaged with. More specifically it uses the relations between Guat... Read More about Félix and Alice in wonderland: The encounter between Guattari and Berardi and the post-media era.

'You don’t have to be crazy to work, but it helps' : work in film comedies of the 1930s (2013)
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It is curious how relatively seldom work appears in the foreground of film comedy texts. Work is the background, the normal and quotidian against which the comic can emerge. Certainly there is humour to be found in work activities and environments, b... Read More about 'You don’t have to be crazy to work, but it helps' : work in film comedies of the 1930s.

Amando de Ossario’s “bind dead” quartet and the cultural politics of Spanish horror (2013)
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Who is Matt Smith? : performing the Doctor (2013)
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The contemporary response to sensation fiction (2013)
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Publisher's description of book:
In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His nov... Read More about The contemporary response to sensation fiction.

Rommel and the rise of the Nazis (2013)
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Philip Noel-Baker, the League of Nations and the Abyssinian Crisis 1935-1936 (2013)
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When examining the existing literature on the League of Nations' approach to the Abyssinian crisis, it is impossible to escape negativity. The League's actions were too little too late and displayed an extraordinary lack of insight into the motives b... Read More about Philip Noel-Baker, the League of Nations and the Abyssinian Crisis 1935-1936.

Fine Art practice, research and education across Europe PARADOX Fine Art European Forum. (2013)
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'Context is half the work' the live brief in fine art education

The study of interrogation : a focus on torture, but what about the intelligence? (2013)
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Interrogation that aims to collect intelligence from the person being interrogated has received scholarly and public attention, largely as a result of its connection with torture. The torture debate – as it is known – began when interrogators were un... Read More about The study of interrogation : a focus on torture, but what about the intelligence?.

Recasting noise : the lives and times of Metal Machine Music (2013)
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Spatial parody, theatricalisation and constructions of ‘self’ in Patricia Highsmith’sThe Price of Salt and Carson McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (2013)
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This essay considers the ways in which Highsmith and McCullers use theatricalisation of space to suspend the distinction between public and private as a defining trope in gender construction. Both texts, I argue, explore ‘transit’ as space/place that... Read More about Spatial parody, theatricalisation and constructions of ‘self’ in Patricia Highsmith’sThe Price of Salt and Carson McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.

An artists approach to board games (2013)
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This book chapter focuses on the development of board games within an arts educational context and looks at how methods of generating creative content and reflective practice within the board game mechanics can be adapted to other subject areas. I di... Read More about An artists approach to board games.

Do it yourself : women, fanzines, and Doctor Who (2013)
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Mad, bad, and dangerous to know : the Nolan/Ledger Joker, morality, and the hetero-fictional fan impulse (2013)
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The many lovers of Miss Jane Austen (2013)
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On December 23, 2011, the BBC broadcast The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen, which attempts to explain why Austen has been recognized as a literary genius whose fame rivals Dickens and Shakespeare. Presented by historian Amanda Vickery, the program e... Read More about The many lovers of Miss Jane Austen.

Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991 (2013)
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Publisher's description of book:
Resonances is a compelling collection of new essays by scholars, writers and musicians, all seeking to explore and enlighten this field of study. Noise seems to stand for a lack of aesthetic grace, to alienate or d... Read More about Shoegaze as the third wave : affective psychedelic noise, c. 1965-1991.

Inventing America : the Aztecs in context (2013)
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Media impact on diplomatic practice (2013)
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From the Peninsula westward: a journey among translations (2013)
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Nigri, L. (2013). From the Peninsula westward: a journey among translations. In S. Bigliazzi, P. Kofler, & P. Ambrosi (Eds.), Theatre Translation in Performance (142-165). Routledge

A tale of torture? Alexander Scotland, the London Cage and post-war British secrecy (2013)
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Lomas, D. (2013). A tale of torture? Alexander Scotland, the London Cage and post-war British secrecy. In C. Moran, & C. Murphy (Eds.), Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US : historiography since 1945 (251-262). Edinburgh University Press

The immediate post-war period saw the publication of a number of secret service accounts recounting wartime exploits, giving the impression that, with the end of hostilities, these could now be revealed. In fact, as has been clearly demonstrated by R... Read More about A tale of torture? Alexander Scotland, the London Cage and post-war British secrecy.