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Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius (2014)
Book
Rorato, L. (2014). Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius. Maney Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315095967

© Modern Humanities Research Association and Taylor and Francis 2014. All rights reserved. The idea of writing a book about fictional representations of Caravaggio came to me as far back as 2004 when I was writing a paper on art as inauguration in Pi... Read More about Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius.

‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies (2014)
Journal Article
Feng, L. (2014). ‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies. Transnational Cinemas, 5(2), 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2014.959725

Stars are often associated with glamour and beauty, but in this paper I would like to question how the concept of “chou” (literally meaning ugliness) is embraced in contemporary Chinese cinema. The popularity of chouxing (ugly star) in the Chinese ci... Read More about ‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies.

A shared population of epidemic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 15 circulates in humans and companion animals (2014)
Journal Article
Harrison, E. M., Weinert, L. A., Holden, M. T. G., Welch, J. J., Wilson, K., Morgan, F. J. E., …Holmes, M. A. (2014). A shared population of epidemic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 15 circulates in humans and companion animals. mBio, 5(3), Article ARTN e00985-13. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00985-13

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a global human health problem causing infections in both hospitals and the community. Companion animals, such as cats, dogs, and horses, are also frequently colonized by MRSA and can become infect... Read More about A shared population of epidemic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 15 circulates in humans and companion animals.

Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2014). Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction. The Australasian journal of popular culture, 3(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.3.1.33_1

Critics have evoked parallels between the French experience of Vichy during World War II and the Algerian War of Independence, in terms of their intensely divisive nature and the difficulty the French have had, and continue to have, in acknowledging... Read More about Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction.

Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997 (2014)
Book Chapter
Feng, L. (2014). Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997. In East Asian Film Stars (113-127). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029195_8

Anyone who is interested in Hong Kong cinema must be familiar with one name: Chow Yun-fat (b. 1955). He rose to film stardom in the 1980s when Hong Kong cinema started to attract global attention beyond East Asia. During his early screen career, Chow... Read More about Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997.

The singer-songwriter on stage: Reconciling the artist and the performer (2013)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (2013). The singer-songwriter on stage: Reconciling the artist and the performer. Journal of European popular culture, 4(1), 71-84. https://doi.org/10.1386/jepc.4.1.71_1

The singer-songwriter is a ubiquitous figure within popular music. Although the name may appear to simply refer to an artist who writes and performs his or her own material, it also signifies a web of assumptions around what constitutes quality and v... Read More about The singer-songwriter on stage: Reconciling the artist and the performer.

Brassens, Brel et Ferré, ou, La mise en scène de l'authenticité dans la chanson française (2012)
Book Chapter
Haworth, R. (2012). Brassens, Brel et Ferré, ou, La mise en scène de l'authenticité dans la chanson française. Chanson et performance: Mise en scène du corps dans la chanson française et francophone (73 - 83). L'Harmattan

Authenticity is a key preoccupation for the French popular music genre, chanson, and the figures of Brassens, Brel and Ferré are the paradigmatic 'big three' of the genre. This chapter analyses the place of performance within chanson. It takes these... Read More about Brassens, Brel et Ferré, ou, La mise en scène de l'authenticité dans la chanson française.

Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s (2012)
Book
Bielby, C. (2012). Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s. Camden House

As the controversy surrounding the release of Uli Edel and Bernd Eichinger's 2008 feature film The Baader Meinhof Complex demonstrates, West Germany's terrorist period, which reached its height in the "German autumn" of 1977, is still a fascinating -... Read More about Violent women in print : representations in the West German print media of the 1960s and 1970s.

Women’s Body, State's Power: A Study on Chinese Miss Etiquette in International Games (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, C. (2012). Women’s Body, State's Power: A Study on Chinese Miss Etiquette in International Games. Collection of Women’s Studies 妇女研究论丛, 6(114), 65-69

本文在“身体一文化象征身份一民族国家”的框架下论述了微观权力机制下礼仪小姐的公共性别身份的建构。一方面,礼仪小姐在与民族国家的互动中实现了身体资本的理性运作,这体现在对身体的自我评估和对男性他者评定的认同上,但在公共父权制下,身体的主体性淹没在力图使之... Read More about Women’s Body, State's Power: A Study on Chinese Miss Etiquette in International Games.

Dominique Manotti and the roman noir (2012)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2013). Dominique Manotti and the roman noir. Contemporary Women's Writing, 7(3), 235-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vps012

Dominique Manotti's crime fiction novels have as their setting a variety of contemporary political and economic issues, a deliberate choice for an author who sees her work not as traditional detective novels, where order is reestablished upon the res... Read More about Dominique Manotti and the roman noir.

A Study on the Friendship of the New Generation Migrant Workers (2012)
Journal Article
Wang, C. (2012). A Study on the Friendship of the New Generation Migrant Workers. Contemporary Youth Research, 57-63

在新生代农民工的社会关系中,友缘是一种涵盖范围广并具有特殊性的关系形态。以往的研究大多将“朋友”与“亲戚”放在一起并称为“亲友”,但这一概念在日后的演变中逐渐离析。根据问卷调查的数据,友缘(化)关系可以分为三种类型:“友缘化关系”,“初级友缘关系”,“次级友缘关... Read More about A Study on the Friendship of the New Generation Migrant Workers.

God moete ons ziere hulpen jonnen! : approaching the Middle Dutch «Van den vos Reynaerde» through the Old French Roman de Renart (2011)
Journal Article
Tudor, A. (2011). God moete ons ziere hulpen jonnen! : approaching the Middle Dutch «Van den vos Reynaerde» through the Old French Roman de Renart. Queeste. Tijdschrift over middeleeuwse letterkunde in de Nederlanden, 18(1), 18-31

The remit for this essay was intriguing. To read and react to the Middle Dutch masterpiece Van den Vos Reynaerde with no expectation of prior knowledge, linguistic competence or further research: simply to read the splendid new English prose translat... Read More about God moete ons ziere hulpen jonnen! : approaching the Middle Dutch «Van den vos Reynaerde» through the Old French Roman de Renart.

‘The beast never dies’: Maurice Gouiran and the uses of war memory (2011)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2011). ‘The beast never dies’: Maurice Gouiran and the uses of war memory. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 4(3), 371-381. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcs.4.3.371_1

This article proposes a study of contemporary crime writer Maurice Gouiran who, between 2001 and 2010, published a series of detective novels in which the recovery of memory plays a key role. While many of the novels are set in present-day Marseilles... Read More about ‘The beast never dies’: Maurice Gouiran and the uses of war memory.

Writing Gaullist feminism: Françoise Parturier's open letters 1968–1974 (2011)
Journal Article
Long, I. (2011). Writing Gaullist feminism: Françoise Parturier's open letters 1968–1974. Modern & contemporary France / ASM & CF, 19(3), 313-327. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2011.588794

Gaullist feminist Françoise Parturier's open letters written during the second wave women's movement in France are striking examples of how politically engaged women use writing in innovative ways in order to make intellectual interventions. Her pole... Read More about Writing Gaullist feminism: Françoise Parturier's open letters 1968–1974.

The stuff of legend: examining media representations of the Brassens-Brel-Ferré myths (2011)
Journal Article
Haworth, R. (2011). The stuff of legend: examining media representations of the Brassens-Brel-Ferré myths. Contemporary French civilization, 36(1-2), 19-32. https://doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2011.3

Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel and Léo Ferré are often grouped together and referred to as the archetypal French singer-songwriters, the 'big three' of thechanson françaisefrom the 1950s onwards. Looseley (2003) suggests that they have in fact become... Read More about The stuff of legend: examining media representations of the Brassens-Brel-Ferré myths.