Communications, Drama and Film
Recent Submissions
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Staging (Theatre) Music Reception: Voicing Unacoustics in Sophocles’s Trackers
(Routledge, 2024)Ichneutai/Trackers by Sophocles is, probably, the first theatrical representation of the creation of music in European scenic tradition. This chapter embarks from the observation that the play not only deploys music as ... -
Voicing bodies, voicing histories: Elaine Mitchener’s experimental vocal performance
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024)Vocal artist and composer Elaine Mitchener, MBE, has worked across contemporary music, opera, installation, site-specific performance and movement arts for two decades. Yet, little has been written about her groundbreaking ... -
Eurocentrism, the Anthropocene and Climate Migration in Aniara
(The Science Fiction Foundation, 13 December 2021)This article tracks European responses to the climate crisis and migration by way of an analysis of the 2018 film Aniara (Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja), itself an adaptation of the eponymous 1956 epic poem on atomic ... -
Punch and Judy and English identity
(University of Belgrade, 2024)From fairgrounds to seaside resorts, Punch and Judy is perhaps one of the most iconic English puppet traditions and more recently has come to increasingly been framed as an icon of Englishness. This paper will look at the ... -
‘Peace and quiet and open air’: Performing weathering in New York screen musicals of the COVID-19 pandemic
(Intellect, 9 May 2024)This article sets out a methodology for performance meteorology by analysing the weather in the urban pastoral imagery of diegetic and non-diegetic ‘open-air performances’ in three screen musicals set in New York City: ...