All Outputs (135)

The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants (2015)
Thesis
Howley, G. (in press). The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants. (Thesis). University of Salford

This dissertation reports the results of an ethnographically informed, variationist sociophonetic account of the acquisition of vernacular English dialect features by adolescent Roma migrants attending a Manchester high school. As one of the first st... Read More about The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants.

Driven voids (2015)
Other
Davismoon, S. (2015). Driven voids. [Score]

A work for Mezzo-soprano, harp, violin and multi-channel live electronics. The texts set in the work are taken from ideas on architecture - in particular duration and place - from Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Steve Holl and Johnny Rodger. All of whom... Read More about Driven voids.

History left unsaid : implied continuity in Batman’s contemporary comic-book narratives (2015)
Book Chapter

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

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.

The development of tank communications in the British Expeditionary Force, 1916-1918 (2015)
Book Chapter

Introduction : genesis, employment, aftermath (2015)
Book Chapter

Men in crisis : Christopher Nolan, un-truths and fictionalising masculinity (2015)
Book Chapter

Genesis, employment, aftermath : First World War tanks and the New Warfare, 1900-1945 (2015)
Book

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

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.

Applying Marxism to critical terrorism studies: analysis through a historical materialist lens (2015)
Book Chapter

"Self-Portrait in stone. A house between the Greco and the Scirocco" (2015)
Book Chapter

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

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?.

Documentary spectacle and immediacy (2015)
Journal Article
Kirby, T. (2015). Documentary spectacle and immediacy

In documentary, spectacle is all about immediacy rather than aesthetic quality. New technologies for documentary production have led to immediacy for an audience.

It is a widely recognised fact that we are living in a world that demands everythi... Read More about Documentary spectacle and immediacy.

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.

Growing old in the spotlight : social media and ageing (2015)
Book Chapter

Representations of blackface and minstrelsy in twenty-first century popular culture (2015)
Thesis

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

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.

Ouida and Victorian popular culture (2015)
Journal Article
Allan, J. (2015). Ouida and Victorian popular culture. Journal of Victorian Culture, 20(3), 422-425. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2015.1058079

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.