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View article: The Loneliness Room: Creative Practice as Critical Pedagogy
The Loneliness Room: Creative Practice as Critical Pedagogy Open
Loneliness has become one of the most pressing research issues of the contemporary age, with a vast literature emerging from health, education, the social sciences, and cultural studies to better understand this "crisis" that has been crea…
View article: Our Sherlockian eyes: the surveillance of vision
Our Sherlockian eyes: the surveillance of vision Open
For this inter-disciplinary article, we undertook a pilot case study that eye-tracked the 'Holmes Saves Mrs. Hudson' sequence from the episode, A Scandal in Belgravia (Sherlock, BBC, 2012). This small-scale empirical study involved a total…
View article: The Spiritual Intimacies of The Red Hand Files: How Long Will I Be Alone?
The Spiritual Intimacies of The Red Hand Files: How Long Will I Be Alone? Open
In Nick Cave’s weekly email letter responses to fans’ questions, he seeks to establish intimate, spiritual connections. Laid out on what resembles watermarked paper and as if they have been typed, there is a material, embodied intimacy to …
View article: Breaking Down Joker
Breaking Down Joker Open
This chapter probes the reasons behind the recent Arab protests’ embrace of the Joker as a symbol of resistance. By aligning Joker (2019) with the recent political unrest in the Arab world, this chapter contributes to the study of Arab and…
View article: That joke isn’t funny anymore: a critical exploration of <i>Joker</i>: Introduction
That joke isn’t funny anymore: a critical exploration of <i>Joker</i>: Introduction Open
In a recent interview for the Daily Telegraph newspaper (Collin 2019), filmmaker David Fincher commented on Joker’s ‘surprising’ success: I don’t think anyone would have looked at that material and...
View article: Desecrating celebrity
Desecrating celebrity Open
The issues of degradation, desecration and decelebrification are an integral part of the complex phenomenon of celebrity. Unsurprisingly the switch between steps related to consecration and degradation in celebrity life is a constant: the …
View article: Evaluation of the bail supervision scheme for children (pilot scheme)
Evaluation of the bail supervision scheme for children (pilot scheme) Open
The Department of Children and Youth Affairs (DCYA) designed a Bail Supervision Scheme (BSS) to provide the courts with an alternative for young people who were at high risk of bail denial. The BSS incorporates the evidence-based Multisyst…
View article: The Ear That Dreams: Eye Tracking Sound in the Moving Image
The Ear That Dreams: Eye Tracking Sound in the Moving Image Open
Drawing on cinematic theories of sound, and neuroscientific understandings of the gaze, this video essay employs eye tracking technology in a sound on/off comparative analysis of the first five minutes of the Omaha Beach landing scene from…
View article: Intersecting David Bowie
Intersecting David Bowie Open
We had three intentions in mind when employing the circuit of culture model (du Gay et al. 1997) to ‘intersect’ the cultural significance of David Bowie. First, we felt that by traversing the five ...
View article: Lazarus Rises: Storying the Self in the Migrant Fandom of David Bowie
Lazarus Rises: Storying the Self in the Migrant Fandom of David Bowie Open
In this article we focus upon the ways that “migrants” in Melbourne have used David Bowie to story and make sense of their arrival to Australia, often as refugees or as people looking for a better life. In relation to identity and belongin…
View article: Shilpa’s Filthy Hands
Shilpa’s Filthy Hands Open
The celebrity Big Brother race row centers, in part, on the preparation, handling and consumption of food. While the ritual of formal and informal dining is a key trope of the series, in this instance it is used to construct notions of dif…
View article: JUST ONE MORE:ROMANCING THE VIKINGS
JUST ONE MORE:ROMANCING THE VIKINGS Open
For Mel *This is our 'experiment' together – watching an entire season of The Vikings in two dreamy sittings – the late eve of a romantic Saturday and the full span of an Autumn Sunday.
View article: SOUNDING LONELINESS
SOUNDING LONELINESS Open
Hello darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted In my brain still remains Within the sound of silence Simo…
View article: THE GOD PARTICLES OF EYE TRACKING
THE GOD PARTICLES OF EYE TRACKING Open
(A re-introduction to the Eye tracking the Moving Image Research Group) ** *** * I have a painterly confession to make. When I saw eye tracking visualisations for the first time they flooded me with affecting impressions.