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Activating and Developing Free Improvisational Creativities in Higher Education: Contesting Authority, Exploring Creativities, Stimulating Dialogue (2022)
Book Chapter
Atton, C., Cowan, M., Docherty, H., Farnish, K., Moir, Z., & Pattie, E. (2022). Activating and Developing Free Improvisational Creativities in Higher Education: Contesting Authority, Exploring Creativities, Stimulating Dialogue. In C. Randles, & P. Burnar

This chapter explores the concept of improvisational creativities in higher education and the ways in which such an approach to music education is beneficial. We report on a collaborative autoethnography, conducted by the authors, in which we explore... Read More about Activating and Developing Free Improvisational Creativities in Higher Education: Contesting Authority, Exploring Creativities, Stimulating Dialogue.

'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus (2022)
Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2022). 'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus. Clotho, 4(2), 127-152. https://doi.org/10.4312/clotho.4.2.127-152

The focus of this article is J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus (1933), his fictional representation of the slave rebellion in ancient Rome led by the eponymous gladiator. The article begins by examining Mitchell’s contribution to debates over the role o... Read More about 'And so with the moderns': The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus.

Comic: The Ghost Canoe [Fantomen 25-26/2022] (2022)
Other
Bishop, D. (2022). Comic: The Ghost Canoe [Fantomen 25-26/2022]. [Print]. Stockholm

The 17th Phantom's sister Julie Walker battles murderous robbers and a volcanic eruption in New Zealand during 1886.

Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks (2022)
Book Chapter
Bhattacharya, A. (2023). Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks. In A. Bhattacharya, R. Hibbitt, & L. Scuriatti (Eds.), Literary Capitals in the Long Nineteenth Century (31-60). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13

This chapter explores the specific subgenre of the ‘Calcutta Handbooks’, reading their representation of mid-nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century Calcutta, the capital of British India till 1911, as an attempt to produce the historical significance... Read More about Producing the Colonial Capital: Calcutta in Handbooks.

Community-led Television, Local Voice and Climate Change (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, A. (2022, December). Community-led Television, Local Voice and Climate Change

Monday 12 December 2022 Invited to lead a round table discussion for the University of Edgehill - part of their research project 'Community-led television, local voice and climate change' in partnership with the University of Liverpool, Love Wavertr... Read More about Community-led Television, Local Voice and Climate Change.

81 Steps by Paul Holmes (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2022, December). 81 Steps by Paul Holmes. Paper presented at 7th "MEMORY, MELANCHOLY AND NOSTALGIA" International Interdisciplinary Conference, Gdansk, Poland

The role of early Channel 4 commissions in the development of the freelance film and television workforce in Scotland (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Correia, N. (2022). The role of early Channel 4 commissions in the development of the freelance film and television workforce in Scotland. [Online magazine]. London

The launch of Channel 4 in 1982 coincided with a period of fundamental change in the Scottish film and television sector. Prior to that, local production activity in Scotland had been limited. The institutional landscape to foster indigenous filmmaki... Read More about The role of early Channel 4 commissions in the development of the freelance film and television workforce in Scotland.

“The Silent Waiting”: Javanese Antiquity and 19th Century Photography in the Dutch East Indies (2022)
Book Chapter
Supartono, A. (2022). “The Silent Waiting”: Javanese Antiquity and 19th Century Photography in the Dutch East Indies. In Living Pictures: Photography in Southeast Asia (307-311). Singapore: National Gallery of Singapore

In assessing a cropped photograph of a Hindu goddess from the second base relief of the Shiva temple of Parambanan published in De versierende kunsten in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië. Eenige Hindoemonumenten op Midden-Java (the Decorative Arts in the Dutc... Read More about “The Silent Waiting”: Javanese Antiquity and 19th Century Photography in the Dutch East Indies.

Decolonising Deep-Sea Gothic: Perspectives from the Americas (2022)
Journal Article
Champion, G. (2022). Decolonising Deep-Sea Gothic: Perspectives from the Americas. Gothic Studies, 24(3), 275-294. https://doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2022.0142

This article argues that gothic tropes are central to depictions of the ocean across different genres and forms, but there is a colonial and decolonial trend in the use of horror in portrayal of the sea. This article identifies how gothic depictions... Read More about Decolonising Deep-Sea Gothic: Perspectives from the Americas.

The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men (2022)
Journal Article
Neilan, C. (2022). The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men. Journal of Screenwriting, 13(3), 313-328. https://doi.org/10.1386/josc_00103_1

Whilst screenwriting handbooks have popularized and disseminated practical approaches to writing the screenplay and, to a certain extent, demystified and perhaps even democratized the process of screenplay creation and development, they have also sol... Read More about The power of schism: Unconventional narrative structure in No Country for Old Men.

Arctic Ghosts: Whale Hunting and Haunting in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 'The Captain of the Pole-Star' (2022)
Journal Article
Alder, E. (2022). Arctic Ghosts: Whale Hunting and Haunting in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 'The Captain of the Pole-Star'. Victorian Studies, 65(1), 43-66

Over-hunting in Arctic seas drove bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) nearly to extinction by the end of the nineteenth century. Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Captain of the ‘Pole-Star’” (1883), inspired by his youthful 1880 voyage on the Scottish whalin... Read More about Arctic Ghosts: Whale Hunting and Haunting in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 'The Captain of the Pole-Star'.

Live Long and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emblem gestures in sci-fi and their uptake in popular culture (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kruk, J., Gawne, L., & Freestone, P. (2022, November). Live Long and May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favour: Emblem gestures in sci-fi and their uptake in popular culture. Paper presented at Australian Linguistic Society 2022, University of Melbourne, Melbou

This paper draws attention to the important effect that gesture in science fiction can have on real-world communicative contexts, as well as the benefits and challenges of using corpus approaches in gesture study.

Can Gamification Improve User Experience (UX) of Servitization in the Financial and Construction Sector? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Khan, M. S., Charissis, V., & Harrison, D. K. (2022). Can Gamification Improve User Experience (UX) of Servitization in the Financial and Construction Sector?. In HCI International 2022 - Late Breaking Papers. Interaction in New Media, Learning and Games

The monetisation of the provision of consumer services rather than products is advantageous and leads to higher profit margins for the providing companies in comparison to the sole manufacturing of consumer products. This business model has gradually... Read More about Can Gamification Improve User Experience (UX) of Servitization in the Financial and Construction Sector?.

Servitization Through VR Serious Games: From Manufacturing to Consumer Electronics (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charissis, V., Khan, M. S., & Harrison, D. K. (2022). Servitization Through VR Serious Games: From Manufacturing to Consumer Electronics. In HCI International 2022 - Late Breaking Papers. Interaction in New Media, Learning and Games (545-555). https://do

The provision of services instead of the actual products is becoming a major area of interest for the products provision companies involved in the manufacturing, electronics and construction industries amongst others. Current work in the disseminatio... Read More about Servitization Through VR Serious Games: From Manufacturing to Consumer Electronics.