Leicester Media School

Stakeholder Engagement and Responsible Research & Innovation in promoting Sustainable Development and Empowerment through ICT

Wakunuma, Kutoma; Jiya, Tilimbe (Article)

ICT plays a significant role in both developed and developing countries across the globe. ICTs are also seen as playing an important role in achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In particular, their ...

Bedrock Behind the Iron Curtain: Transcultural Shifts in the Hungarian Dubbed Version of The Flintstones (1960-66)

Havas, Julia; Martonfi, Anna (Article)

US serial animation has had varying success on Hungarian television. Due to the form’s link to comedy and reliance on voice casting, its local appeal has largely depended on dubbing production’s transcultural integration ...

The politics of normalising gendered violence: feminised austerity and masculinised wealth creation

Savigny, Heather; Scullion, Richard (Article)

According to UN data, 1 in 3 women worldwide are subject to violence. Yet male sexual violence often fails to be part of public discourse. To explore this relative silencing of discussion is to consider how media narratives ...

Routledge Companion to British Cinema History

Hunter, I. Q.; Porter, Laraine; Smith, Justin (Book)

A 39-chapter edited volume that offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as both a commercial entertainment industry and a series of institutions centred on economics, funding and relations to ...

Hidden Spaces

Young, John (Recording, musical)

Hidden Spaces is an electroacoustic work in three sections. Each section frames field recordings made by me in different locations - 'found' sounds that had an unusual or interesting quality, intensified by the use of ...

Terms of Endearment: The challenges of descriptive language in electroacoustic music

Young, John; Young (Conference)

Terms to identify tools, objects and structures are common to all human endeavour. They help us to connect ideas and to articulate purpose and meaning. Many explanatory terms, labels and forms of jargon have flourished for ...

Editorial: Bringing New Music to New Audiences

Landy, Leigh (Article)

This is the editorial for a themed issue of 'Organised Sound' focusing on: a) the conference from which the articles were taken, b) the Interfaces (Creative Europe) project within which the conference took place, and c) ...

Star Products, Star Capital, Fan Markets: Examining 1940s British Film Stardom Through Fan Club Publications

Wright, Ellen; Smith, Phyll (Article)

This paper is part on an ongoing project that examines the development of British film stars and their fan club culture during the mid to late 1940s, through studio-sanctioned but fan or star-produced magazines for the ...

The permanency of film festivals: Archiving the changing India

Acciari, Monia (Article)

Time and space are two dimensions that define a film festival in relation to duration, and cultural, social, urban and political relations to the event. While the notion of space is well documented by the literature on ...

Hollywood-on-Thames: The British productions of Warner Bros. – First National, 1931-1945

Chibnall, S. (Article)

A few years after Warner Bros pioneered sound cinema, the company established a production base at Teddington in England to enable it, in the face of protectionist legislation, to maintain distribution in its most lucrative ...

Absence and Presence: Top of the Pops and the demand for music videos in the 1960s

Smith, Justin (Article)

Whilst there is a surprising critical consensus underpinning the myth that British music video began in the mid-1970s with Queen’s video for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, few scholars have pursued Mundy’s (1999) lead in locating ...

From rituals to magic: Interactive art and HCI of the past, present, and future

Jeon, Myounghoon; Fiebrink, Rebecca; Edmonds, Ernest; Herath, Damith; Edmonds (Article)

The connection between art and technology is much tighter than is commonly recognized. The emergence of aesthetic computing in the early 2000s has brought renewed focus on this relationship. In this article, we articulate ...

Diversity, Inclusion, and Doctoral Study: challenges facing minority PhD students in the United Kingdom

Briscoe-Palmer, Shardia; Mattocks, Kate (Article)

The purpose of this article is to provide a platform to converse on barriers and challenges faced by three marginalised groups – women, black minority ethnic (BME) groups, and students living with a disability – throughout ...

Gravities, trajectories and Postcards: the heard space in intermedial performance.

Vear, Craig (Book chapter)

As this is a short essay, I will get straight to the point. In doing so I expose that fact that I am audile , and believe that sound is a significant part of the audio-visual contract of live performance. Actually, I would ...

Creative AI and Embodied Robots in Music – A Hybrid of Practice and Meaning

Vear, Craig (Conference)

The aim of this paper is to is to discuss and demonstrate my current practice-based research into creative Ai and embodied robotics in music. But, as is often the case, when writing this paper I became more aware that I ...

Orbits

Batchelor, Peter; Blow, Mike (Other)

Orbits form the basis of the physical movement of objects throughout the universe, from stars and planets to electrons in an atom. Different forces are at work to create these orbits at different scales, but at all levels ...

Punishment, legitimacy and taste: The role and limits of mainstream and social media in constructing attitudes towards community sanctions.

Tiripelli, Giuliana; Happer, Catherine; McGuiness, Paul; McNeil, Fergus (Article)

Although criminologists have studied public attitudes to community sanctions, and there has also been some attention to media representations of them, there has been no serious examination of the relationships between media ...