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Imperial ecologies and extinction in H.G. Wells’s island stories (2019)
Book Chapter
Munslow Ong, J. (2019). Imperial ecologies and extinction in H.G. Wells’s island stories. In L. Mazzeno, & R. Morrison (Eds.), Victorian Environmental Nightmares (185-206). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

This chapter analyses how two of H.G. Wells’s island stories, “Aepyornis Island” from The Stolen Bacillus (1894), and The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), expose the extirpative consequences of human, animal and plant colonization in the context of th... Read More about Imperial ecologies and extinction in H.G. Wells’s island stories.

The performer in intermedial theatre (2019)
Book Chapter
Scott, J., & Barton, B. (2019). The performer in intermedial theatre. In M. Crossley (Ed.), Intermedial Theatre: Principles and Practice (62-89). Red Globe Press (Macmillan International Higher Education)

Time in intermedial theatre (2019)
Book Chapter
Scott, J. (2019). Time in intermedial theatre. In M. Crossley (Ed.), Intermedial Theatre: Principles and Practice (90-115). Red Globe Press (Macmillan International Higher Education)

Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media” : reflections on the scholarship of a transnational and transmedia Industry (2019)
Journal Article
Hernandez Perez, M. (2019). Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media” : reflections on the scholarship of a transnational and transmedia Industry. Arts, 8(2), 57. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts8020057

This article introduces the special issue dedicated to global industries around anime, its theoretical commentary and its cross-cultural consumption. The concepts “anime” and “anime studies” are evaluated critically, involving current debates such as... Read More about Looking into the “Anime Global Popular” and the “Manga Media” : reflections on the scholarship of a transnational and transmedia Industry.

Reframing nature through video games (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Ali, U. (2019, April). Reframing nature through video games. Presented at Frames of Representation symposium, London

The presentation examines the relationship between video games as an emerging technology and nature; specifically, video game design practices in the reframing of ‘nature’ and the natural world.
The work examines what these virtual natural environm... Read More about Reframing nature through video games.

Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC : the Camp 020 affair (2019)
Journal Article
Murphy, C. (2019). Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC : the Camp 020 affair. Intelligence and National Security, 34(5), 668-702. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2019.1595466

While there is a considerable literature that considers post-1945 British intelligence
historiography, little attention has been given to non-print media, such as factual
depictions of intelligence affairs broadcast on television or radio. Using pr... Read More about Dramatising intelligence history on the BBC : the Camp 020 affair.

Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping (2019)
Book Chapter
Miah, A. (2019). Enhancing evolution : the transhuman case for gene doping. In J. Lightfoot, M. Hubal, & S. Roth (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Exercise Systems Genetics (463-474). Abingdon, UK: Routledge

News as brands : branding television news channels in the Arab World : a case study of Aljazeera, AlArabiya, AlEkhbaria and Nile television news channels (2019)
Thesis
Alabdalkarim, S. (in press). News as brands : branding television news channels in the Arab World : a case study of Aljazeera, AlArabiya, AlEkhbaria and Nile television news channels. (Thesis). University of Salford

This research is an attempt to examine the use of news programmes as a means of branding television news channels in the Arab World. The researcher used a quantitative content analysis of the news programmes as well as semi-structured interviews with... Read More about News as brands : branding television news channels in the Arab World : a case study of Aljazeera, AlArabiya, AlEkhbaria and Nile television news channels.

Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’ (2019)
Journal Article
Price, H., & Wilson, J. (2019). Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’. Language and Literature, 28(1), 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947019827074

‘Emotional Weather Report’ is a song by Tom Waits from his 1975 album, Nighthawks at the Diner. ‘Nighthawk’ is a US colloquial term popularised by its use in the title of Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting ‘Nighthawks’, which depicts a nocturnal scene in... Read More about Relevance theory and metaphor : an analysis of Tom Waits’ ‘Emotional Weather Report’.

Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future (2019)
Book
McMurtry, L. (2019). Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future. Intellect Books

This book is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. This volume examines the aesthetic, cultural and technical elements of audio drama along with its context within the literary canon. It pr... Read More about Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future.

Held in the pattern : notes on Susan MacWilliam’s Concatenations (2019)
Book Chapter
Correia, A. (2019). Held in the pattern : notes on Susan MacWilliam’s Concatenations. In R. Coulter (Ed.), Susan MacWilliam : Modern Experiments. Banbridge, Northern Ireland: F.E. McWilliam Gallery

An essay discussing artist Susan MacWilliam's video work. Essay to be published in the forthcoming monograph "Modern Experiments" published by F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge.

Austerity Britain – a brief history (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, B. (2019). Austerity Britain – a brief history. Political Insight, 10(1), 16-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/2041905819838148

Austerity has been a recurring theme of post-war British politics, from the 1950s right up to the present day. But with voters increasingly weary after a decade of public spending reduction, Ben Williams looks back on the modern history of austerity.

Ideologies of American foreign policy (2019)
Book
Callaghan, J., O'Connor, B., & Phythian, M. (2019). Ideologies of American foreign policy. London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a glo... Read More about Ideologies of American foreign policy.