Research Activities

Most staff are active researchers, publishing and lecturing widely. Many are members of the Visual Culture Research Centre and the Images, Narratives and Cultures Research Group, based within MIRIAD.

Recent Publications

Books

Colman, F., 2011. 'Deleuze And Cinema', Oxford: Berg Publishers..

Edited Books

Huxley, D., 2012. 'European Cinema: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945,', Wallflower.

Colman, F., Frichot, H., Reynolds, J., 2012. 'Global Arts / Local Knowledge', New York: Lexington Books.

Book Chapters

Colman, F., 2012. 'Affective animal: Bataille, Lascaux and the mediatization of the sacred'. In Charlie Blake, Claire Molloy, Steven Shakespeare (eds.) Beyond Human From Animality to Transhumanism, 7, Continuum: New York & London.

Huxley, D., 2012. 'Disgusting and Degrading: Censorship and the European Horror Film 1950 -1970'. In Allmer, P, Brick, E Huxley,D (eds.) European Cinema: Horror Cinema in Europe Since 1945,, Wallflower.

Huxley, D., 2012. 'The Complete Fritz the Cat, He Done Her Wrong, His Name is Savage, It Rhymes with Lust, When the Wind Blows'. In Beaty, B. (eds.) The Critical Survey of Graphic Novels, Three 2000 word entries, Two 2500 word entries, Salem Press, California.

Huxley, D., 2011. 'True Blood, Truebies : True Blood Fans'. In Gareth Schott and Kirstine Moffat (eds.) Fanpires: Audience Consumption of the Modern Vampire,, New Academia Press (Washington, DC).

Internet Publications

Huxley, D., 2011. 'A Dazzling Lack of Respectability: Comics and Academia in the UK: 1971 – 2011', Comics Forum, comicsforum.org.

Journal Articles

Huxley, D., 2011. 'Buffalo Bill and William Gladstone: the Champion Scalper and the G.O.M. in Moonshine magazine April – November 1887', The Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture, Vol.9 1ssue 4, 353-362.

Huxley, D., 2011. 'Music Hall Reviews', The Comedy Journal, Journal Vol 2 n2, 190-194.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Affective Self: Feminist Thinking and Feminist actions', Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Sites, Volume 14, Issue 5 December 2010, pages 543 - 552.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Notes on the Feminist Manifesto: the strategic use of hope', Journal for Cultural Research, Volume 14, Issue 4 October 2010, pages 375 - 392.

Presentations

James, D. Huxley, D, 2011. ''No Other Excuse': British Musical Performances 1899-1920', 5th International Comedy Conference, Salford University, 2-3 June 2011.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Affective animal', Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA), University of Salford, Manchester, January 12-15.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Affective animal: becoming-sacred in reverse labour forms', Human- Animal / Humain-Animal, 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University of San Francisco USA, March 30-April 2, 2011, in Beyond Human: From Animality to Transhuman.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Affective Cinematographic Evolution (Bergson & CInema)', The Perception of Change: Space, Time, and Mobility after Henri Bergson, Mansfield College, The University of Oxford., 27 May, 2011.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Cinematographic Evolution: Smithson & Holt test Bergson & Deleuze', Bergson and his postmodern and immanent legacies, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 11-12 February.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Machinic mediatization and diagrammatic aesthetics', Creation, Crisis, Critique: 4th International Deleuze Studies Conference, Copenhagen Business School, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts, Denmark, 27 - 29 June.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Notes on Cinematographic Evolution', Film-Philosophy Conference, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK, 6-8 July.

Huxley, D., 2011. 'Panel Discussion: Problems and Possibilities in Defining American Comics', 22nd Annual Conference on American Literature, Boston, 26-29 May 2011.

Colman, F., 2011. 'Sound affect: the political economy of women on screen', Sonic Futures: Soundscapes and the Language of Screen Media, NECS (European Network for Cinema and Media Studies), University of London, 23-26 June.

List, H., 2011. 'Women and Children as Trans-generational Viewers of Pre-school Television: Playschool (BBC) in the early 1970s in the United Kingdom', Mecssa 11 Conference, University of Salford, 14th January 2011.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Affective Race', Impure Cinema: Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to World Cinema, University of Leeds, 1 - 4 December.

Ormrod, J., 2010. 'Consuming Bodies in Wonder Woman Good Girls, Bad Girls and Macho Men', British IBBY/NCRCL Conference, Leeds Art Gallery, November 2010.

Colman, F. and MacCormack, P., 2010. 'Felicity Colman in conversation with Patricia MacCormack', Radical Aesthetics - Radical Art, University of Loughborough, UK, 17 November, 2010.

Huxley, D., 2010. 'Inventing Buffalo Bill', International conference on comics and graphic novels, Manchester Metropolitan University, 12th - 14th April 2010.

Ormrod, J., 2010. 'Issues of Time, Space and Duration in Richard McGuire’s ‘Here’', Conference of Comics and Graphic Novels, Manchester Metropolitan University, 23rd April 2010.

Ormrod, J., 2010. 'Negotiating Local Identities in 1970s Surf Films: Practice, Production, Embodiment', Youth Studies, British Sociological Association, Reading University, November 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Plenary : ‘The Labour of the Refrain: What is Media Philosophy?’', ‘Connect, Continue, Create'. 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 12-14 July, 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Plenary: 'The Family Manifesto'', Schizoanalysis & Visual Culture, University of Cardiff, 1 - 2 June 2010.

List, H., 2010. 'Reading landscapes in the picture book: a quiet contemplation or a flow of movement', Manchester Children's Book Festival, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2nd July 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Robert Smithson, Future Art : creating a new ecology', Landscape in Ruins., Urbis, Manchester, UK, 18 February 2010, in Urbis Research Forum Review, Vol. 1, Issue 3, “Landscapes”.

Colman, F., 2010. 'Shameless Mothers', What happened next? Feminist Television Studies in post-feminist times, University of Sunderland, UK, 16 September, 2010.

List, H., 2010. 'Small Utopias: United Kingdom Primary Schools with a Late Modernist Context', Modernism & Utopias: Convergences in the Arts, Birmingham, 24th April 2010.

James, D., 2010. 'The Diary of a Nobody: The Travels of Fred Hill', So Funny it Hurts - The Fourth International Comedy Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 3-4 June 2010.

List, H., 2010. 'With Added Feminism: Communicating Gender Roles in the Online Newspaper', Meccsa 10 Conference, LSE, 6th January 2010.

Colman, F., 2010. '‘Sound Manifesto: Lee Renaldo’s Notes for Robert Smithson’', Bigger than Words, Wider than Pictures: Noise, Affect, Politics, University of Salford, Manchester, 1-3 July, 2010.