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History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives (2015)
Book Chapter
Smith, A. (2015). History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives. In R. Pearson, W. Uricchio, & W. Brooker (Eds.), Many More Lives of the Batman. Bloomsbury

While scholars have demonstrated how the US comic-book marketplace in the 1980s/1990s laid conditions for certain narrative techniques in superhero comics (Pearson and Uricchio, 91; Putz, 99; Wright, 01), this article shows how subsequent industrial... Read More about History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives.

Between the democratisation of international relations and status quo politics : Russia's foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme (2015)
Journal Article
Pieper, M. (2015). Between the democratisation of international relations and status quo politics : Russia's foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme. International Politics, 52(2), 567-588. https://doi.org/10.1057/ip.2015.24

This article sheds light on Russia’s foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme and analyses to what extent Russia’s Iran policies are indicative of a security culture that resists hegemony. Following a two-level model between a discursive... Read More about Between the democratisation of international relations and status quo politics : Russia's foreign policy towards the Iranian nuclear programme.

Introduction : genesis, employment, aftermath (2015)
Book Chapter
Searle, D. (2015). Introduction : genesis, employment, aftermath. In D. Searle (Ed.), Genesis, employment, aftermath: First World War tanks and the new warfare, 1900-1945 (1-12). Solihull: Helion

Genesis, employment, aftermath : First World War tanks and the New Warfare, 1900-1945 (2015)
Book
(2015). D. Searle (Ed.), Genesis, employment, aftermath : First World War tanks and the New Warfare, 1900-1945. Solihull: Helion

The employment of the first tanks by the British Army on the Western Front in September 1916, although symbolic rather than decisive in its effects, ushered in a new form of warfare - tank warfare. While much has been written on the history of the ta... Read More about Genesis, employment, aftermath : First World War tanks and the New Warfare, 1900-1945.

Archive games (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Carson, J., & Miller, R. Archive games. [Exhibition]. 11 July 2015 - 25 October 2015. (Unpublished)

The central tenet of Archive Games is to explore the archive of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (SNGMA) through the Surrealist understanding of logic and chance, and through the use of our established practice of game-playing. In order... Read More about Archive games.

Re-writing Protestant History in the novels of Glenn Patterson (2015)
Journal Article
Magennis, C. (2015). Re-writing Protestant History in the novels of Glenn Patterson. Irish Studies Review, 23(3), 348-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670882.2015.1058143

This article considers the representation of the history of Belfast in Glenn Patterson's 2012 novel The Mill for Grinding Old People Young. It situates this novel within the context of Patterson's previous work and the history of the Northern Irish n... Read More about Re-writing Protestant History in the novels of Glenn Patterson.

"Self-Portrait in stone. A house between the Greco and the Scirocco" (2015)
Book Chapter
Hope, W. (2015). "Self-Portrait in stone. A house between the Greco and the Scirocco". In Cy Twombly at Casa Malaparte, Capri (6-7). Uckfield: Gagosian Gallery

A translation into English of a piece of prose by the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte. The translation forms part of a publication commissioned by the Gagosian Gallery, New York, to commemorate an exhibition of the work of the artist Cy Twombley held... Read More about "Self-Portrait in stone. A house between the Greco and the Scirocco".

Fathers, care and family policy in France : an unfinished revolution? (2015)
Journal Article
Milner, S., & Gregory, A. (2015). Fathers, care and family policy in France : an unfinished revolution?. Families, Relationships and Societies, 4(2), 197-208. https://doi.org/10.1332/204674315X14281322236527

This article reviews policy debates and output on employment rights for fathers in France, focusing on paternity leave and the debates leading to reform of leave in 2014. Since the extension of paternity leave to 10 days in 2002, take-up has increase... Read More about Fathers, care and family policy in France : an unfinished revolution?.

Celebrity culture and ageing (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Celebrity culture and ageing. In J. Twigg, & W. Martin (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology. Routledge

Despite the proliferation of images of ageing in Western popular culture online and in print media in recent years, it is striking that media and cultural studies has virtually ignored the subject of ageing until recently. However, in recent years... Read More about Celebrity culture and ageing.

Representations of blackface and minstrelsy in twenty-first century popular culture (2015)
Thesis
Harbord, J. (in press). Representations of blackface and minstrelsy in twenty-first century popular culture. (Thesis). University of Salford

Blackface minstrelsy just ain’t what it used to be. This statement should not be understood as a call for the return of the minstrel show. Quite literally, minstrelsy and its central feature blackface manifest themselves in divergent ways from their... Read More about Representations of blackface and minstrelsy in twenty-first century popular culture.

Constructing the Mangaverse : narrative patterns in Marvel’s appropriation of manga products (2015)
Book Chapter
Hernandez Perez, M. (2015). Constructing the Mangaverse : narrative patterns in Marvel’s appropriation of manga products. In C. Brienza (Ed.), Global manga : 'Japanese' comics without Japan? (167-184). Farnham: Ashgate Publishing (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315584898-15

It´s well known that the major global comic producers are Japan and U.S. There are not so many countries where this medium has achieved this importance not only as high-quality producers but also as powerful creators of contents. In fact, there is al... Read More about Constructing the Mangaverse : narrative patterns in Marvel’s appropriation of manga products.

Why Spy? The art of intelligence (2015)
Other
Stewart, B., & Newbery, S. (2015). Why Spy? The art of intelligence. London

Why Spy? distills Brian Stewart’s seventy years of experience in intelligence. Few books currently available have been written by someone who has his practical experience both of field work and of the intelligence bureaucracy at home and abroad. Stew... Read More about Why Spy? The art of intelligence.

Convergence with the Arts (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Convergence with the Arts. In Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (1-10). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_33-1

This chapter examines convergence in science and arts by considering two complementary trajectories over the last 25 years. First, it examines the institutional drivers behind convergence, from the perspective of governance and public value within sc... Read More about Convergence with the Arts.

Human enhancement in sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Human enhancement in sports. In W. Bainbridge, & M. Roco (Eds.), Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence (1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04033-2_85-1

This chapter examines the range of sciences and technologies that converge around sports and the implications of this for issues of fairness and ethics. First, it outlines some of the recent scientific developments that speak to the convergence of di... Read More about Human enhancement in sports.