Leicester Media School
Recent Submissions
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“Le futur de l’humanité, alors et maintenant” (The Future of Humanity, Then and Now)
(Book chapter)This essay places the idea that humanity’s future is threatened (by the possibility of nuclear war and by on-going environmental destruction) and visions of how these threats might be overcome at the centre of its discussion ... -
The Virtual Studio: Academic Practice and Covid-19
(Article)This practice-based research was conducted during the pandemic to explore the possibilities of ‘studio virtualisation’ within an online learning environment. By harnessing the potential of social media, we explored methods ... -
Creative AI and Musicking Robots
(Article)This article discusses the creative and technical approaches in a performative robot project called Embodied Musicking Robots (2018 – present). The core approach of this project is Human-centred AI (HC-AI) which focuses ... -
‘How to Land Jobs in Hollywood’: Popular media, historical knowledge and the casting couch
(Conference)This paper contrasts a series of speculative historical claims used in the wake of the #MeToo movement to justify cultures of abuse embedded within the US entertainment industry with historic documents which examine sexual ... -
Dream On Princess: Cultural value, gender politics and the Hungarian film canon through the documentary Pretty Girls
(Book chapter)In 1985, Hungary held its first post-World War II “Miss Hungary” beauty pageant, an event with the unspoken premise to symbolise communist authoritarianism’s decline and western capitalist culture’s growing influence in ... -
To Theorise Beyond Theory
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Criticism and the Terror of Nothingness
(Article)DESTINY IS OFTEN ANOTHER NAME for narrative, it being the order we retrospectively find in scattered events. It is traditionally the role of the storyteller to create a believable narrative, with the reader investing ... -
Welcome To Your World
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Becks and Posh and Baudrillard in America
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Touch my Garden
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