Communications, Drama and Film: Recent submissions
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Designing the notorious woman: Costume, characterisation and star persona in the fabrication of the ‘Femme Fatale’
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Digital Humanities
(Oxford University Press, 9 October 2024)Current conversations around the manifestations of artificial intelligence have led to binary viewpoints that either predict apocalyptic visions of imminent human obsolescence or forthcoming machinic sentience and technological ... -
Girlhood, performance and risk: Learning to skateboard in a war zone (if you’re a girl) and the action sports documentary
(Routledge, 17 October 2024)This article examines the Academy award-winning documentary short Learning to skateboard in a war zone (if you’re a girl) (2019), which depicts the girl participants at a purpose-built indoor skating facility in Kabul, ... -
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, 29 November 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 ...