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Sports (2015)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2015). Sports. In H. Have (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics (1-11). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_399-1

This chapter explores the relationship between bioethics and sport ethics, which changed dramatically in the early 2000 when the genetics era generated a series of new questions about the ends of sport and how they would interface more widely with a... Read More about Sports.

"Sing it with me now” : audience participation in arena concerts (2015)
Book Chapter
Spelman, N. (2015). "Sing it with me now” : audience participation in arena concerts. In R. Edgar, K. Fairclough, B. Halligan, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (231-246). London & New York: Bloomsbury

Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert (2015)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K. (2015). Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert. In B. Halligan, K. Fairclough, R. Edgar, & N. Spelman (Eds.), The Arena Concert : Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London: Bloombsury

Through her live arena performances, pop/R and B artist Beyoncé Knowles appears to promote a shiny, depthless feminism that mass audiences can embrace. This chapter will provide a critical analysis of her 2013-2014 arena concert tour, The Mrs Carter... Read More about Beyoncé’s celebrity feminism and performances of female empowerment in the arena concert.

Intimate live girls (2015)
Book Chapter
Halligan, B. (2015). Intimate live girls. In B. Halligan, N. Spelman, R. Edgar, & K. Fairclough-Isaacs (Eds.), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic

The arena concert requires a particular type of liveness of performance in order to transcend impersonal mass entertainment. Liveness here looks to authenticity and happenstance, privileges personal communications and seeks to live in the moment, and... Read More about Intimate live girls.

Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance (2015)
Book Chapter
Rouverol, A. (2015). Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance. In R. Perks, & A. Thomson (Eds.), The oral history reader (636-655). London: Routledge

In this essay, Alicia Rouverol assesses an oral history performance event based on life review interviews in a US prison. She explores how life review helped inmates to make new sense of their lives, the challenges of sharing authority in a prison se... Read More about Trying to be good : lessons in oral history and performance.

Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania (2015)
Book Chapter
Chiva, C. (2015). Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania. In B. Rasch, S. Martin, & J. Cheibub (Eds.), Parliaments and Government Formation: Unpacking Investiture Rules (197-216). Oxford: Oxford University Press

The chapter examines the process of government formation in post-communist Romania by seeking to explain the combination of a high incidence of minority cabinets, on the one hand, and the strong investiture rules characteristic of positive parliament... Read More about Strong investiture rules and minority governments in Romania.

La classe dirigente (2015)
Book Chapter
Newell, J. (2015). La classe dirigente. In The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics (3-15). Oxford University Press

Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano (2015)
Book Chapter
Bentham, A. (2015). Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano. In F. Peters, & R. Stewart (Eds.), Antihero (72-84). Bristol: Intellect

Summons and Repulsion: The Curious Appeal of Tony Soprano In a Los Angeles Times article published in the wake of James Gandolfini’s death, Chris Lee described Tony Soprano, Gandolfini’s most famous incarnation, as ‘a cultural sensation’, ‘one of TV... Read More about Summons and repulsion : the curious appeal of Tony Soprano.

The Pentapartito (2015)
Book Chapter
Bull, M. (2015). The Pentapartito. In E. Jones, & G. Pasquino (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669745.013.23

The pentapartito was the five-party governing coalition which, aside from two brief interruptions, held governmental office in Italy between June 1981 and April 1991. The parties making up the coalition were: Christian Democracy (DC), the Italian Soc... Read More about The Pentapartito.

Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama (2015)
Book Chapter
McMurtry, L. (2015). Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama. In I. Ermida (Ed.), Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts. Amsterdam: Brill | Rodopi

The most hideous aspects of Dracula and his vampire brethren are visual ones – pallor, dark hirsute hands, piercing eyes, razor-sharp fangs. The settings, too, in Dracula are integral to creating mood: for example, Harker’s journey into Transylvania... Read More about Aurally bloodcurdling : representing Dracula and his brethren in BBC Radio drama.

Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet (2015)
Book Chapter
Bigliazzi, S., & Nigri, L. (2015). Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet. In S. Bigliazzi, & L. Calvi (Eds.), Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and Civic Life : the Boundaries of Civic Space (171-186). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315733104

Romeo and Juliet offers precisely one such highly connoted and open-ended coda. Shakespearean endings are peculiar for making statements, but also for promising statements, thus closing the text while leaving it open to further elucidation. The touri... Read More about Silencing the natural body : notes on the monumental body in Romeo and Juliet.

Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting (2015)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I. (2015). Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting. In C. Olsen (Ed.), Acting Comedy (5-24). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315709673

All forms of live performance require the establishment of some kind of interplay between the performer and audience. The presentation of a theatrical event requires the making of a ‘contract’ (Verma in Giannachi and Luckhurst 1999: 129) wherein perf... Read More about Through Wall’s Chink’. Or, Audience Interplay in Comic Acting.

Has man “paid too dear a price for his empire”? Monsters in romantic-era literature (2015)
Book Chapter
Ruston, S. (2015). Has man “paid too dear a price for his empire”? Monsters in romantic-era literature. In R. Calzoni, & G. Perletti (Eds.), Monstrous Anatomies : Literary and Scientific Imagination in Britain and Germany During the Long Nineteenth Century. Göttingen: V&R unipress

The book explores the significance and dissemination of ‘monstrous anatomies’ in British and German culture by investigating how and why scientific and literary representations and descriptions of abnormal bodies were proposed in the late Enlightenme... Read More about Has man “paid too dear a price for his empire”? Monsters in romantic-era literature.

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.

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