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Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’ (2019)
Journal Article
Wilkie, I. (2019). Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 213-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623506

2019 sees the 50th anniversary of the iconic British television comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (BBC: 1969-74). This article focuses on the concept of ‘Pythonesque’, placing the broadly political satirical content that is evident within... Read More about Very silly party politics : surrealism and satire in the ‘Pythonesque’.

The radical left since 1989 : decline, transformation, and revival (2019)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2019). The radical left since 1989 : decline, transformation, and revival. In E. Braat, & P. Corduwener (Eds.), 1989 and the West : Western Europe since the end of the Cold War (247-265). London: Routledge

This chapter assesses the trajectory and fortunes of the radical left in the period since 1989 as a means of providing a perspective on the significance of the 1989 events for this political area. After contextualising the importance of the 1989 revo... Read More about The radical left since 1989 : decline, transformation, and revival.

Thatcher breaks consensus (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2019). Thatcher breaks consensus. History today, 69(7), 76-81

Assessing Margaret Thatcher’s premiership: a radical decade and a divisive legacy. When asked who has been the most controversial and radical postwar British prime minister, many historians and academics incline towards Margaret Thatcher. Taking offi... Read More about Thatcher breaks consensus.

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
Book
Aarons, T., Abduljawad, S. A. S., Aboelkheir, A., Addis, M. C., Adeboye, O., Adeniyi, I. A., …Yusup, N. H. (2019). E. M. Barnes, D. Greensmith, M. Griffiths, U. Hurley, T. Ireland, C. Starbuck, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

The architecture of underground dance music : the work of Shaun Bloodworth (2019)
Journal Article
the work of Shaun Bloodworth. Architecture and Culture, 7(2), 235-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2019.1614799

Presenting a posthumous consideration of the work of photographer Shaun Bloodworth with a focus on his use of the urban landscape, this photo essay argues that there is a connection between figure and ground that defies conventional portraiture.... Read More about The architecture of underground dance music : the work of Shaun Bloodworth.

Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun (2019)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 96(3), 940-942. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699019856868

Book review : Contemporary Culture and Media in Asia by Daniel Black, Olivia Khoo, and Koichi Iwabuchi and Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia by Tania Lewis, Fran Martin, and Wanning Sun

Painting, art school & class struggle (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Fletcher, B. (2019, June). Painting, art school & class struggle. Presented at Teaching Painting Conference, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Reflexivity, doubt and social tensions in collaborative research as positive research impact (2019)
Book Chapter
McDonagh, A. (2019). Reflexivity, doubt and social tensions in collaborative research as positive research impact. In K. Fenby-Hulse, E. Heywood, & K. Walker (Eds.), Research Impact and the Early Career Researcher: Lived Experiences, New Perspectives (35-40). London: Routledge

In this chapter, the author highlights some of the early anxieties related to his role as a researcher and his anticipation of what was to come in his research project. He addresses some of the impact the research project has had on himself through t... Read More about Reflexivity, doubt and social tensions in collaborative research as positive research impact.

On-the-Go (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Frost, A. On-the-Go. [Exhibition (video and sculpture)]. 8 June 2019 - 7 July 2019. (Unpublished)

On-the-Go (2019) Recent Activity, Birmingham. On-the-Go was the name given to 2 solo exhibitions - the other at Mieke Van Schaijk Gallery, Netherlands in 2020). Both exhibitions related to the themes within Alex Frost’s Wet Unboxing video series. In... Read More about On-the-Go.

Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art (2019)
Book
Crawford, G., & Hancock, D. (2019). Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15966-5

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances. Drawing on new and original ethnographic data, as well as the in... Read More about Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art.

Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture (2019)
Journal Article
Smith, A. (2019). Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture. Comedy Studies, 10(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040610X.2019.1623500

This article examines the specificities of long-from improvised comedy performance (that is, long-from improv) within podcasting. It demonstrates how the podcast medium’s technologies, together with related cultural conventions, motivate performers t... Read More about Achieving a depth of character : long-form improv practices in US comedy podcast culture.

Encounters with art history (2019)
Book Chapter
Correia, A., Castagnini, L., Mistry, P., & Robles, E. (2019). Encounters with art history. In The place is here : the work of black artists in 1980s Britain ; edited by Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles (43-48). Sternberg Press

A discussion between Alice Correia, Laura Castagnini, Priyesh Mistry and Elizabeth Robles considering the role of Art History in the work of Black and Asian British artists during the 1980s. Artists discussed include Rasheed Araeen, Donald Rodney, Ve... Read More about Encounters with art history.

Haiku : the whirlpools of translation (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Kendall, J. (2019, May). Haiku : the whirlpools of translation. Presented at International Haiku Conference, St Albans, UK

Keynote lecture given at June 2019 International Haiku Conference, St Albans, organised by British Haiku Society, focussing on first discussing and then giving participants an experiential awareness of issues involved in haiku translation and of givi... Read More about Haiku : the whirlpools of translation.

A space to tell : writing poetry in a second language (2019)
Thesis
Setia Sari, W. (2019). A space to tell : writing poetry in a second language. (Thesis). University of Salford

Distinct from the increasing interest in Research on L2 creative writing in a pedagogical context, this practice-based PhD research attempts to situate the process of writing poetry in a second language as a creative practice in its own right. This e... Read More about A space to tell : writing poetry in a second language.