Leicester Media School
Recent Submissions
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EMI and the ‘Pre-Heritage’ Period Film
(Article)First coined in the UK in the early 1990s as a new label for an ostensibly new, post-1979 kind and cycle of period cinema, the ‘heritage film’ is now firmly established as a widely used term and category in academic ... -
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the films Taxi Driver and You Were Never Really Here: A Comparative Progressive Approach.
(Book chapter)This chapter evaluates post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) via cultural constructions in film especially in the context of war addressing how these have developed over time. Definitions of PTSD are initially explored ... -
Kinaara Student Film festival (Hyderabad, India)
(Other)This is a public event organised as part of the Film festival Course at The English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad (India). The event was a student led film festival that was showcasing films "from the ... -
Learning to Code Through Web Audio: A Team-Based Learning Approach
(Article)In this article, we discuss the challenges and opportunities provided by teaching programming using web audio technologies and adopting a team-based learning (TBL) approach among a mix of co-located and remote students, ... -
Compose with Sounds, version 2
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Women's History Review.: Structures of Feeling: Contemporary Research in Women's Film and Broadcasting History
(Other)This special issue is the second volume originaing from the 'Doing Women's Film and TV Histories III' International conference held at the Phoenix Cinema, Leicester, England in May 2016. It connects with concerns and ... -
Creative AI and Musicking Robots
(Conference)This paper 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 on ... -
Challenges to Comparative Oral Histories of Cinema Audiences
(Article)This article reflects on the challenges of comparative oral history analysis by taking the BA/Leverhulme-funded project Mapping European Cinema: a comparative project on cinema-going experiences in the 1950s (2016-2017) ... -
Agency & Autonomy: Intersections of Artificial Intelligence and Creative Practice
(Conference)Arguably, the most important aspects underpinning artistic experimentations in the broad fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial life (A-life) lie at the intersection of autonomy and agency. Autonomy is the ... -
Building Guidelines for UNESCO World Heritage Sites’ Apps
(Conference)Technological improvements and access provide a fertile scenario for the creation and development of mobile applications. This scenario of intense production of new software for mobile devices results in a myriad of apps ... -
’She was the first’: The Place of Jaws in American Film History
(Book chapter)This essay reviews some of the scholarly debates (from 1979 onwards) about the emergence of a 'New Hollywood' across the 1960s and 1970s, and the particular importance role these debates have assigned to the release of ... -
Evaluation in Public Art: The Light Logic Exhibition
(Book chapter)This chapter is concerned with evaluation in public art, drawing on a study of Light Logic , an exhibition of drawings, paintings and interactive digital works, conducted by Site Gallery, Sheffield in association with ... -
The Notion of Presence in a Telematic Cross-Disciplinary Program for Music, Communication and Technology
(Book chapter)This chapter examines how students in a two-campus, cross-disciplinary program in Music, Communication and Technology (MCT) experience the sense of presence of peer students and teachers, some physically co-localized while ... -
Towards Effective Preservation of Electroacoustic Music
(Conference)Electroacoustic music is inherently transdisciplinary. Crafted in varied environments, in many different styles, using a plethora of techniques, electroacoustic music works present a challenge for the composer, listener ... -
Musings on computer music perennity
(Article)It should come as no surprise that, at more than sixty years of age, the computer music field starts to ponder its legacy: what started almost as a ‘challenge’ is now a well-established academic practice which has had a ... -
To The Red Sky
(Recording, musical)Sir Thomas Armstrong, a former principal of the Royal Academy of Music and a veteran of the First World War, once stated that there is a falsity about the reporting of all battle scenes. In the face of the most shatteringly ... -
Listening Back and Shaping Form
(Conference)This paper discusses the use of recorded audio testimonies as agents of meaning through electroacoustic music. The paper departs from the notion that sound recording is a significant act in itself, and that a recorded voice ... -
The Metaphysics of Mass Art Vol. I and II
(Book)This double volume forms a detailed analysis of what the author has termed cultural ontology. In volume one interpretations of Mexico are examined, from the 16 century to contemporary culture. This includes exploration of ... -
Saints
(Book chapter)Economics is the nexus and engine that runs society, affecting societal well-being, raising standards of living when economies prosper or lowering citizens through class structures when economies perform poorly. This edition ... -
The Media and the Normalisation of Right-Wing Violence in the Age of Brexit and Trump
(Book chapter)This chapter examines the media and the normalisation of far-right violence following President Trump's rise to power, along with the UK's vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Right-wing movements allied to modernity ...