Browsing by Author "Media Research Group"

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    • BAFTAs 2017 BBC Sweeps the Board as Netflix Challenge Fails to Materialise 

      Duthie, Lyndsay (2017-05-12)
      Round up report of the BAFTAs 2017. Whilst Netflix was nominated across the board - they failed to win any. http://theconversation.com/baftas-2017-bbc-sweeps-the-board-as-netflix-challenge-fails-to-materialise-77643

    • Bangladesh : Teen Street Theatre Tackles Trafficking 

      School of Creative Arts; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; Art and Design; Media Research Group; Jayalakshmi, Garrabost (CRWRC, 2011-10-09)
      Because of Bangladesh's high illiteracy rates, CRWRC,a Canadian NGO, has decided to use traditional street theatre to raise awareness of issues that directly affect the poor and dispossessed. My video deals with anti-trafficking ...

    • Bangladesh Communities Find Resources within 

      School of Creative Arts; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; Art and Design; Media Research Group; Jayalakshmi, Garrabost (CRWRC, 2011)
      This video highlights the work that a Canadian NGO called World Renew (formerly CRWRC) does with underprivileged communities in Bangladesh. It explores the notion of integrated community development - how economic issues, ...

    • Belonging : Photographs from the series ‘Belonging’ and accompanying text 

      Lefley, Carolyn (2011)

    • The Best of Everything : Dilemmas of the Working Girl in 'Mad Men' 

      Akass, Kim; McCabe, Janet (I.B. Tauris, 2011)

    • ”Blabbermouth Cunts”; or, Speaking in Tongues : Narrative Crises for Women in The Sopranos and Feminist Dilemmas 

      Akass, Kim; McCabe, Janet (University Press of Kentucky, 2011)

    • Black Hats In Hell 

      Goodbrey, Daniel (2013-04-15)
      A story of love, hate, revenge and damnation set against the backdrop of the Endless West. Created by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Black Hats In Hell takes the form of two unique hypercomic installations at The University of ...

    • Blind with Illiteracy : How CRWRC helped me see 

      School of Creative Arts; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; Art and Design; Media Research Group; Jayalakshmi, Garrabost (CRWRC, 2011-11-07)
      The literacy rate in Bangladesh is as low as 27%. This is the story of Champa, a slum dweller in Dhaka who worked as a sweeper. She decided to undergo literacy training because she felt that her life was disadvantaged - ...

    • Bondage of Boundaries and Identity Politics in Postcolonial Africa : The ‘Northern Problem’ and Ethno-Futures 

      Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J.; Mhlanga, Brillant; School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; English Literature and Creative Writing; Media Research Group; Film; Creative Economy Research Centre; Media (Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA), 2013)

    • The Book of Ruth 

      Akass, Kim (2011-11-08)

    • Brideshead Revisited 

      Broughton, Mark (BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
      The book will aim to place Brideshead Revisited in the context of television history, while considering the influence of various films on its style. Informed by art history, I will also discuss the serial’s use of locations ...

    • Bringing the imaginary back into play 

      Gazzard, Alison (2011-11)
      The term ‘ludic’ can be linked to many aspects of play and games, but what does it mean to be playful? Using examples of various augmented reality game, this paper will examine the role of mimicry in play as a way of ...

    • “Building Better Worlds”: The Rise of Alien’s Online Marketing Campaigns 

      Walden, Kim (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2023-03-23)
      As transmedia film franchising developed with its characteristic reboots, sequels, prequels, and shared cinematic universes, promotion costs rose in an increasingly crowded and competitive marketplace. As a consequence, ...

    • Caravan At The Edge Of The World 

      Richardson, Peter (Screen South, 2017)
      During a windswept caravan holiday with Dean’s parents Sara has to decide between true love and her place at University

    • Caravan At The Edge Of The World 

      Richardson, Peter (Screen South, 2017)
      During a windswept caravan holiday with Dean’s parents Sara has to decide between true love and her place at University

    • The Casita Situations 

      Goodbrey, Daniel (2009)
      The Casita Situations were an international collaboration between myself, Italian architect Valerio Ferrari and the Scottish cartoonist David Baillie. Together we created a customisable spatial hypercomic installation for ...

    • Changing places : Warping between perspectives 

      Gazzard, Alison (2010-12)
      The warp device is commonly applied as a design feature within videogames. It allows the player's avatar to be transported through the gameworld changing the relationship with the gamespace. Moving the avatar through the ...

    • Choose the Format of Your Destructor : Design Choices for Comic Creators in Print and Digital Media 

      Goodbrey, Daniel (McFarland, 2019-06-30)
      Today, the form of comics is consumed and distributed in multiple formats across both print and digital media. For a comic creator, this variety of formats and media necessitates several important design decisions when ...

    • A Clash of Harmony : Forgery as Politics in the Work of Thomas Chatterton 

      Phillips, Ivan (2012)
      If Thomas Chatterton is remembered at all now, it is for his supposed suicide rather than for his work. He has become the all-but-forgotten ‘poster boy’ for tragic Romanticism, a talented but misunderstood teenager who ...

    • Close to Home : Artists Reconsider the Local 

      School of Creative Arts; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; Media Research Group; Thomas, Rebecca (2012-06-18)
      An exhibition and symposium to celebrate ten years of the network Land2. A collaboration between Land2, East Street Arts and the School of Design, University of Leeds