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Beyond Creating Collections: A Scoping Review of 3D Heritage Storytelling
(2024)This paper aims to demonstrate how virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D archaeological reconstructions have been employed to immerse viewers into historical places with the inclusion or exclusion of digital ... -
Eisenstein, Montage and 'filmic writing'
(Brill, 2004)This essay considers the ways in which Eisenstein’s interest in the ideogram as a model for film language was reconsidered and reconfigured in the work of the French film theorist Marie-Claire Ropars-Wuilleumier in the ... -
Matka: Muteness, Metaphor, Metonymy
(2013)To say that Matka presents us with essential truths about the human condition may sound trite at best. Nonetheless, the film’s very resistance to a reductive reading along these lines suggests the possibility of a ... -
The Spectacle of Suffering: The 'Woman's Film' and Lars von Trier
(2012)Many of the films of Lars von Trier can be situated within the context of the ‘woman's film’ and, more specifically, within its subgenre of the maternal melodrama. However, the films' intensification of the investments ... -
Realism and Eroticism: Re-Reading Bazin
(2013)Bazin s distinction between different kinds of realism discriminates between an authentic mode of apprehension and mere sight, or between revelation and spectacle, as it were, where spectacle, significantly, is connected ... -
'I can't leave her': Maternal Gothic/Horror in Hereditary (Ari Aster, 2018), Relic (Natalie Erika James, 2020), and You Are Not My Mother (Kate Dolan, 2021)
(Routledge, 2024)If it is the case that Mrs Bates gave birth to the modern American horror film, then her successors continue to disrupt family dynamics in ways that speak to contemporary Western cultural anxieties around the maternal ... -
What Children See: Dorthe Scheffmann's The Beach (1995)
(2016)This film focuses on an unexpected reaction to a traumatic revelation, witnessed by a child. However, the final image of the boy resists reduction to its significance for an adult spectator. Instead, the boy’s unreadable ... -
The Perfect Human and 'modern cinema'
(2015)While this film has been described as ‘modern’ in terms of its style and structure, approaching the film as ‘modern cinema’ in the terms defined by Richard Rushton allows us to consider the effects of its deliberate ... -
The art of keeping time
(2020)Like the protagonist, both the short story and the short film are subject to the demand to arrive ‘on time’. Violently freed from the imperatives of conventional storytelling, this film considers the moment when the laws ... -
Putting a New `Spin' on Energy Information: Measuring the Impact of Reframing Energy Efficiency Information on Tumble Dryer Choices in a Multi-country Experiment
(2024)It has been shown that consumers often underinvest in energy efficiency despite net benefits over the longer term. One possible explanation is that they do not properly understand energy information when provided in physical ... -
Looking beyond time preference: Testing potential causes of low willingness to pay for fuel economy improvements
(2023)Time preferences are considered a leading cause of the energy efficiency gap. We test two cognition-based mechanisms (concentration bias and underestimation bias) which are distinct from time preferences but can produce ... -
The Babadook, maternal gothic, and the 'woman's horror film'
(Routledge, 2019)Like many Australian films, The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014) initially fared far better overseas than it did at home. Arguably, this can be attributed to several factors that apply to Australian cinema as a whole: ... -
'Sheer Epidermis': 'Face Politics' and the Films of Lynne Ramsay
(Edinburgh University Press, 2022)Wrapped in curtains, fishing nets, plastic bags; hidden by hair or completely cut off; faces in Lynne Ramsay’s films are often absent, incomplete or inaccessible. Framed in tight close-up they can be no less remote, ... -
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The Ethical Principles in Ethical Guidance Documents during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland: A Qualitative Systematic Review
(2024)Background: The sudden onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was accompanied by a myriad of ethical issues that prompted the issuing of various ethical guidance documents for health care professionals ... -
Solving the Starry Symbols of Sargon II
(2024)The city of Khorsabad (ancient Dūr-Šarrukīn), the newly built capital of Sargon II of Assyria, contained multiple instances of a sequence of five images or symbols (lion, bird, bull, tree, plow) which also appeared shortened ... -
Dysphagia Prevalence in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(2024)The objective of this systematic review was to determine the prevalence of dysphagia and aspiration in people with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). A search of six electronic databases was performed from inception to ... -
The implications of translator celebrity: Investigating the commercial impact of Haruki Murakami’s fame as a translator
(Leuven University Press, 2024)In Japan, there exists a rather unusual phenomenon that can be defined as “translator celebrity,” in which translators are treated in much the same way as celebrities in other domains (Akashi 2018a). As in the case of ... -
The First Public Murder in the Tanzimat Era: Life, Trial and Execution of Emine Hanim
(2023)In 1860, Emine Hanım killed her husband Ferik İbrahim Pasha. In this article, I use her murder trial to examine the interrelation between slavery, the private lives of the Ottoman ruling class, and the complexities of the ... -
Mapping her-self: ‘Ma and Da’, Small Deaths, Gasman and the ‘mobile home’
(2021)Challenging the view of home as the very opposite of voyage, Giuliana Bruno suggests that houses and films share certain similarities insofar as both could be considered inherently mobile sights/sites of passage. Taking ...
