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You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production

Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2015)
You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production. In H. Savigny, E. Thorsen, D. Jackson, & J. Alexander (Eds.), Media, Margins And Popular Culture (28-40). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137512819_3
This chapter draws on the author’s practice-led research in community-based media to explore how participatory production techniques and strategies create opportunities to inc...

'Naw, Naw, Aye - Activism and Alternative Media in the 2014 Scottish Referendum'

Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2016)
'Naw, Naw, Aye - Activism and Alternative Media in the 2014 Scottish Referendum'. In S. Price, & R. Sanz Sabido (Eds.), Sites of ProtestLanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
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Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative

Book Chapter
Cicchetti, P. M. (2017)
Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative. In J. Ward, & C. Miller (Eds.), Urban noir : New York and Los Angeles in shadow and light (53-70). Lanham, US: Rowman & Littlefield
Set in the late 1990s, against the backdrop of the Rampart scandal that impacted the LAPD, Oren Moverman's Rampart centres on a rogue, corrupt cop, Dave Brown, whose unwilling...

Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz

Book Chapter
Jansen, I. (in press)
Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz. In The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. Routledge
This chapter discusses different films by Mixtec filmmakers Ángeles Cruz and Nicolas Rojas Sánchez. Both filmmakers have received several national and international awards for...

Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative

Book Chapter
Cicchetti, P. M. (2017)
Post-Western, Neo-Noir Los Angeles: Rampart and the Legacy of the American Settlement Narrative. In J. Ward, & C. Miller (Eds.), Urban noir : New York and Los Angeles in shadow and light (53-70). Lanham, US: Rowman & Littlefield
Set in the late 1990s, against the backdrop of the Rampart scandal that impacted the LAPD, Oren Moverman's Rampart centres on a rogue, corrupt cop, Dave Brown, whose unwilling...

Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes

Book Chapter
Maclean, D. (2019)
Commission, Position and Production: Intent and Intervention in Minority Language Programmes. In C. Batty, M. Berry, K. Dooley, B. Frankham, & S. Kerrigan (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Screen Production (19-31). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21744-0_2
This chapter uses documentaries to examine the processes, thinking and practices that a filmmaker undergoes, from the initial idea through to production. It will consider how ...

‘World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives’: Lewis, Hathaway and Endeavour: The changing roles of Colin Dexter’s sidekick

Book Chapter
Bishop, D. (2021)
‘World’s long on academics, Morse, but woeful short of good detectives’: Lewis, Hathaway and Endeavour: The changing roles of Colin Dexter’s sidekick. In L. Andrew, & S. Saunders (Eds.), The Detective's Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks (237-259). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74989-7
Bishop offers the first comprehensive analysis of the many variations of sidekick found in Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse novels, and in the three television drama series base...

Brave New World

Book Chapter
Bishop, D. (2016)
Brave New World. In Heroes Reborn. London: Titan Books
Three brand-new short stories based on the fascinating characters and rich mythology of NBC’s world-wide hit TV series Heroes, and the blockbuster event series Heroes Reborn. ...

'Femme Publique':The brothel sex worker as anti-Flaneuse in the television series Maison Close.

Book Chapter
Artt, S. (2018)
'Femme Publique':The brothel sex worker as anti-Flaneuse in the television series Maison Close. In M. Pietrzak-Franger, N. Pleßke, & E. Voigts (Eds.), Transforming Cities (91-106). Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter
The figure of the prostitute has long been associated with the city and although prostitution may take place anywhere, the connection between female prostitution and the city ...

One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares

Book Chapter
Milne, L. S. (2019)
One, Two, Three, Many: Dream-Culture, Charms and Nightmares. In E. Pocs, J. Kapaló, L. S. Milne, & C. Somerville (Eds.), Charms and Charming: Studies on Magic in Everyday Life (129-167). Ljubljana: Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Researchers may focus on charms as evidence about belief-systems in particular regions, periods or demographics; for insights into wider theoretical issues in the anthropology...