Browsing by Author "Media Research Group"

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    • 404: File Not Found: Web Archives and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Film Promotion 

      Walden, Kim (2022-07-14)
      In 2019 the Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television published an article by Keith Johnston on the challenges of researching historical promotional materials. It concluded with an invitation to other researchers to ...

    • THE ACCUSED IS ENTERING THE COURTROOM: THE LIVE-TWEETING OF A MURDER TRIAL. 

      Knight, Margaret (2017-09-26)
      The use of social media is now widely accepted within journalism as an outlet for news information. Live tweeting of unfolding events is standard practice. In March 2014, Oscar Pistorius went on trial in the Gauteng High ...

    • Acts of Undressing : Politics, Eroticism and Discarded Clothing 

      Brownie, Barbara (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016-11)
      Acts of Undressing: Politics, eroticism and discarded clothing This monograph explores the significance of undressing in various cultural and social contexts. Overall, the book takes a broad focus, exploring the many ...

    • Adam’s Anarchy: The Gypsy and the Gentleman Reconsidered 

      Broughton, Mark (2014-06-07)
      What have been the major watersheds in the history of country-estate films and television? Whether this history is seen as one of modes of production, aesthetics or ideology, it is Joseph Losey’s deployment of the country ...

    • ‘Adaptation through Landscape: The Ruling Class’ 

      Broughton, Mark (2005-04-22)
      British film adaptations of novels and plays set in country estates frequently carry a much greater emphasis on landscape gardens than their source texts. This interpolation of landscape seems, therefore, to be intrinsic ...

    • Adaptive Narratives For Immersive Spaces 

      Tree, David (Filmby Aarhus / VIA Film & Transmedia / Create Converge, 2019-11-30)
      In this chapter, we explore the concept of immersive spaces, investigating how the lessons of immersive physical spaces can influence the design of immersive digital worlds; VR, AR and XR are mere trans-dimensional portals ...

    • Adieu Carmela Soprano! : Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neo-liberal (Narrative) Power 

      Akass, Kim; McCabe, Janet (Intellect, 2017-01-10)
      This chapter argues that characters like Carmela Soprano are a product of our complex post-feminist age of troubled emancipation. Indeed, Carmela is produced by a premium cable subscription company trading in a dynamic ...

    • Africa : regional overview 

      Mhlanga, Brilliant; Theimann, Inga; Jennings, Paige Wilhite; Young, Laura A. (Minority Rights Group International, London, 2014-07)
      Hate speech and hate crime remain difficult issues in Southern Africa, where the legacies of colonialism and apartheid embedded concepts of racial difference and tribalism. In 2013 South Africa took steps towards identifying ...

    • Africa's transformational post-colonial leadership and colonial antinomies : Sir Quett Ketumile Joni Masire of Botswana 

      Mhlanga, Brilliant (2015)
      This article offers a critical engagement of Sir Quett Ketumile Masire's eighteen years in power (1980-1998). Masire epitomises the kind of transformational political leadership that has sustained Botswana's political ...

    • Against Lethe 

      School of Creative Arts; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; Media Research Group; Creative Economy Research Centre; Thomas, Rebecca (2013-06-06)
      International Conference visual communication abstract – video in response to ‘against Lethe..’ in.ef.fa.ble. Politis Gallery in Nicosia, Cyprus My presentation will focus upon recent video pieces made in collaboration ...

    • Alien Scripts: Pseudo-Writing and Asemisis in Comics and Graphic Novels 

      Brownie, Barbara (2014-09-04)
      ‘Asemic writing’ is defined by Tim Gaze as a collection of forms ‘which appears to be writing’, while ‘having no worded meaning’. Asemic forms may bear the hallmarks of writing, either through their shape or organization, ...

    • 'All This Fizzing Inside': Watching the return of Doctor Who 

      Phillips, Ivan (2018-10-12)
      This short blog article is a response to the debut of episode of Jodie Whittaker in the role of the Doctor in BBC television's long-running science fiction drama Doctor Who. As the first female actor to be given the role ...

    • All’s Well that Eats Well: Sharing Food, Ideas and Ideals in the Creative Arts 

      Thomas, Rebecca (2015-01-28)
      Over the last few months the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire has run several initiatives revolving around food and its remarkable ability to create a relaxing environment in which to engage with ...

    • ‘Anything but the face’: The mask as strength and vulnerability in disguise and identity deception 

      Brownie, Barbara (2013-07-25)
      In May 2013, the FSB expelled an American diplomat on the grounds that he was spying for the CIA. Listed among the alleged spy’s suspicious possessions were ‘means of altering appearance’. It was later revealed that this ...

    • An Archaeology of Mobile Film: Blink, Bluevend and the Pocket Shorts 

      Walden, Kim (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017-01-26)
      This chapter will undertake archaeology of the first generation of film made for the ‘fourth screen’ by looking at a project set up by Blink in 2005. It will consider the project’s prototype film distribution system, the ...

    • The Archivist 

      Goodbrey, Daniel (2010)
      I was one of four artists invited by curator Paul Gravett to take part in "Hypercomics: The Shape Of Comics To Come." This was a major exhibit of experimental comics work at the Pumphouse Gallery in London. My piece, The ...

    • Arhaus Walks On Water 

      School of Creative Arts; Art and Design; Media Research Group; Creative Economy Research Centre; Games and Visual Effects Research Lab (G+VERL); Richardson, Peter (2017-02-01)
      Arhaus Walks on Water forms part of The Arhaus European Capital of Culture 2017 launch and was presented in the forms of a new trans-media festival for creative industries held on the Dokk1 Harbour Front Aarhus. This ...

    • artist+teacher residency series of exhibitions : The Parfitt Gallery, Croydon 

      School of Creative Arts; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; Media Research Group; Thomas, Rebecca (2003)
      Residency 2003-2005 4 exhibitions 'Skyline Project', 'in-between', 'Becoming' and 'Hiraeth'

    • Awards, honours and prizes : 'a cultural value stock exchange' for media producers and audiences 

      Walden, Kim (2014-03-20)
      In The Field of Cultural of Production, Pierre Bourdieu asserts that a work is not made once, or twice even, but by everybody who is interested in it and this would certainly seem to be true of awards, honours and prizes. ...

    • Azad: Design and Practice 

      Sturrock, Ian (Glyphi, 2018-01-09)