Communications, Drama and Film: Recent submissions
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Drew a map on your bedroom ceiling: fandoms, nostalgic girlhood and digital bedroom cultures in the Swiftie-sphere
(Routledge, 4 April 2024)This paper explores the role of escapism in Taylor Swift’s music and her fandom, referred to as ‘Swiftie’ culture or ‘Swifties’. Swift has always been known for her personal lyrics set to catchy melodies, and in recent ... -
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 ...