All Outputs (15)

Mechanical inelasticity (2022)
Book Chapter
Wilkie, I., & Diddams, N. (2022). Mechanical inelasticity. In J. Gray, & L. Trahair (Eds.), Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy (270). Rowman & Littlefield

Bergson’s concept of ‘mechanical inelasticity’ from Laughter (1900) has become a staple of comic theory. We consider whether this idea retains any resonance for the twenty-first century comic spectator. Locating the theory as originally, and specific... Read More about Mechanical inelasticity.

Language, Gesture and Ecology in Modern South Arabian Languages (2022)
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Autoría transmedia e infraestructura diegética. Análisis cultural y textual de la función autoral en los macro-relatos manga-media (2022)
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‘Then after a while my heart is sick for you, like you are my own boy, like I am your own mother’ : indigenous mother-work as colonial resistance in Tekahionwake’s ‘Catharine of the “Crow’s Nest”’ (1910) (2022)
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Barnes, E. (2022). ‘Then after a while my heart is sick for you, like you are my own boy, like I am your own mother’ : indigenous mother-work as colonial resistance in Tekahionwake’s ‘Catharine of the “Crow’s Nest”’ (1910). In Marginalized Women and Work in 20th and 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media. Rowman & Littlefield

Global internet governance and the digital media economy (2022)
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Forensics (2022)
Book Chapter
Smith, P. B., & Crawford-Holland, S. (2022). Forensics. In The Lab Book. University of Minnesota, Management Information Systems Research Center. https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452958408

Transgressing boundary rituals on radio (2022)
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One of the hallmarks of radio has always been its imaginative and immersive potential. From the 1920s on, listeners have frequently found broadcast reality/fiction to be problematic. Once boundary rituals were established, demarcating out for listene... Read More about Transgressing boundary rituals on radio.

Better the devil you know: nostalgia for the captured killer in Netflix's Conversations with a killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes (2022)
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Two days before his execution, Ted Bundy confessed to the murder of over 30 women in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and in Florida. Despite these horrors, Bundy remains mythical and legendary in the world of true crime. This chapter explo... Read More about Better the devil you know: nostalgia for the captured killer in Netflix's Conversations with a killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.

Designing video games for history classrooms (2022)
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History is very much present in children's lives through a myriad of cultural products varying from TV shows, historical fiction books, films and video games. The latter undoubtedly has become one of the most popular engagements with the past for new... Read More about Designing video games for history classrooms.

Memories of family events and their resonance in a Lancashire park space (2022)
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Based on interviews and field visits with park users, this chapter explores how family events have been formed and deposited as memories that continue to resonate in a Lancashire park space. The chapter draws our attention to the importance of everyd... Read More about Memories of family events and their resonance in a Lancashire park space.

Social Policy (2022)
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This chapter seeks to examine Neil Kinnock's approach to social policy during his nine-year stint as Labour Leader, incorporating two general elections, his own personal values, specific aspects and areas within this policy sphere, as well as analysi... Read More about Social Policy.

Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester (2022)
Book Chapter

This paper will discuss our curation of Celebrating Women in Global Cinema (CWinGC), a unique year-long programming initiative that took place across 2019 (and into 2020) at HOME, Manchester. It begins by outlining HOME’s cinema offer, identifying ho... Read More about Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester.

Maimed wings and broken hearts : physical disability, social exclusion, and maternal love in Disney’s Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2022)
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This chapter argues that Maleficent’s physical difference and social exclusion can be analysed as disabling rather than villainous trajectories in Maleficent (2014) and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019). I explore how Maleficent is (re)represented... Read More about Maimed wings and broken hearts : physical disability, social exclusion, and maternal love in Disney’s Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.

'Coming Home to "Legacy"': Marvel's Problem with History (2022)
Book Chapter

The lexicography of Scots (2022)
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This chapter considers the history of Scots dictionaries in relation to their purposes and the dominant contemporary perceptions of the Scots language. The twenty-first century Scots Dictionary for Schools (Scots Abc) mobile phone application encoura... Read More about The lexicography of Scots.