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    • 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 ...
    • 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’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 ...
    • Anchor Institutions and Regional Innovation Systems for supporting micro and small businesses 

      Culkin, Nigel (2016-07-16)
      The after-shocks of the global financial crisis, the EU Referendum, the growth in popularity of the Regional Innovation System (RIS), and the growing use of the term anchor institutions, have highlighted the crucial and ...
    • ‘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 ...
    • 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. ...
    • Beyond Being A Student : An Exploration of Student & Graduate Start-Up’s (SGSU’s) Operating From University Incubators 

      Culkin, N. (2013)
      The purpose of this paper is to explore, evaluate and share the motivations and behaviours of student and graduate entrepreneurs (referred to as SGSUs) operating from university incubators. The study aims to understand the ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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)
    • 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 ...