Jet Li: A Career in Three Acts (2024)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2024). Jet Li: A Career in Three Acts. In Fighting Stars: Stardom and Reception in Hong Kong Martial Arts Cinema (187-201). London: Bloomsbury Academic

Tracing the meanings and influence of stars such as Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi , and Donnie Yen against the shifting backdrops of the Hong Kong film industry, the contributors to this important volume highlight martial... Read More about Jet Li: A Career in Three Acts.

Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling. The Dynamic Game Character, by J. Blom, Amsterdam, UAP, 2023, 208 pp (2024)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (in press). Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling. The Dynamic Game Character, by J. Blom, Amsterdam, UAP, 2023, 208 pp. Popular Communication,

Based on a doctoral thesis, the book introduces the concept of ‘dynamic game characters,’ or characters whose narratives and identities are influenced by players' actions. The term is introduced directly and decidedly not only through the book subtit... Read More about Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling. The Dynamic Game Character, by J. Blom, Amsterdam, UAP, 2023, 208 pp.

Nested Cinema: An Immersive Fiction-film Experience (2024)
Journal Article
Prokopic, P. (2024). Nested Cinema: An Immersive Fiction-film Experience. Leonardo, 57(5), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02538

Nested Cinema is an original immersive experience that complicates the boundaries between the physical and the virtual, between the real and the imaginary. Nested Cinema reimagines film through the orchestration of technology across three distinct la... Read More about Nested Cinema: An Immersive Fiction-film Experience.

Stretching Time between Performance and Edit: Applying Tempo-Rhythm in Screen Acting (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Daly, D. (2024, May). Stretching Time between Performance and Edit: Applying Tempo-Rhythm in Screen Acting. Presented at Stanislavsky and Actor Training for the Screen, Online

Tempo-rhythm as a component of Stanislavsky’s system provides stage actors with a valuable technique in establishing character, mood, the dynamic of the scene and overall play and can provoke emotional and psychological responses both in actor and au... Read More about Stretching Time between Performance and Edit: Applying Tempo-Rhythm in Screen Acting.

States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s (2024)
Book
Hayward, R., Smith, E., & Willis, A. (Eds.). (2024). States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s. Manchester UK: Manchester University Press

States of danger and deceit places key films (Z (1969), The Mattei Affair (1972), State of Siege (1972), The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975), Illustrious Corpses (1976)) and filmmakers (Costa-Gavras, Elio Petri, Francesco Rosi, Volker Schlöndorf... Read More about States of danger and deceit: The European political thriller in the 1970s.