Publications and research performances

The majority of our research consists of published historical and critical studies, in books, journal articles, edited collections of essays and critical editions. Practice as research forms a significant part of the department's research output, and occurs mainly in theatre. Staff use the process of staging a performance as a means to explore issues such as the interaction of multi-media technology with conventional performance, the conditions of performance in earlier historical epochs, the problems of translation of theatre texts into English, or how theatre can explore social roles (Practice as Research).

To read more about our work, or to search for further published items, see the personal web pages of our academic staff.

2008

• Bignell, J., and A. Fickers, (eds), A European Television History (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
• Bignell, J., 'Method from stage to screen: Performance and authenticity' (trans. C. Adamou), in C. Adamou and L. Yannis (eds.), O Ithopoios Anamesa sti Skini kai Stin Othoni [The Actor from Stage to Screen] (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2008), 100-109.
• Bignell, J., and E. Weissmann, 'Cultural difference? Not so different after all', Critical Studies in Television, 3, 1 (2008), 93-9.
• Bignell, J., 'Atavistic futures: The Time Machine (1960) and history', in M. Houdiard (ed.), Cinéma et Histoire, Film and History (Paris: Jouve, 2008), 19-31.
• Bignell, J., An Introduction to Television Studies, second edition (London: Routledge, 2008).
• Brown, T., 'Spectacle/Gender/History: the case of Gone with the Wind', Screen, 49, 2 (2008).
• Butler, A., 'Feminist perspectives in film studies', in Donald, J. Fuery, P. and Renov, M. (eds.), Handbook of Film Studies (London: Sage, 2008), 391-407.
• Butler, A., 'Documented and Dramatised: This is That Place, Mitra Tabrizian', Source: the Photographic Review, (2008), 64-65.
• Knox, S. "Muito boa qualidade, de facto": Shooting the Past e o caso das séries dramáticas de qualidade da televisão britânica na era da televisão de qualidade americana. Trans. Tico, S. ["Rather good quality, in fact": Shooting the Past and the case of British Quality Television Drama in the age of AQTV]. in G. Borges and V. Reia-Baptista (eds.), Discursos e Práticas de Qualidade Na Televisão (Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2008), 271-286.
• Paget, D., 'New Documentarism on Stage: Documentary Theatre in New Times', Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 56, 2 (2008)
• Saunders, G., Patrick Marber's Closer (London: Continuum Press, 2008).
• Saunders, G., ''Under Redevelopment': The Tradition of City Comedy', in M. Pietrzak-Franger and E. Voights-Virchow (eds.), Contemporary British Drama, in Adaptations: Performing Across Media and Genres, Vol.16 (WVT: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008), 19-30.
• Saunders, G., 'From Resistance to Witness: Changing Spectatorship in the Theatre of Sarah Kane', in C. Fournier Kiss and A. Lüthi (eds.), Place au public. Les Spectateurs du Théâtre Contemporain. (MétisPresses, coll. Voltages: Genève, 2008), 151-163.
• Saunders, G. 'The Persistence of the "Well Made Play" in British Theatre of the 1990s', in E. Redling and P. Schnierer (eds.), Contemporary Drama in English: Non-Standard Forms of Contemporary Drama & Theatre, Vol. 15 (WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2008), 227-239.
• Saunders, G., 'Getting Closer: Patrick Marber's Excursions into the Pinteresque', Critical Engagements. A Journal of Criticism and Theory, 2.2 (2008), 150-164.
• Woods, F., 'Nostalgia, Music and the Television Past Revisited in American Dreams', Music Sound and the Moving Image, 2:1 (2008), 27-50.
• Woods, F., 'Generation Gap: Mother, Daughters and Music in Gilmore Girls', in R. Calvin (ed.), Gilmore Girls and the Politics of Identity: Essays on Family and Feminism in the Television Series (Jefferson, N.C.: MacFarland, 2008), 127-142.

2009

• Bignell, J., 'The Police Series', in J. Gibbs and D. Pye (eds), Close-Up 03: The Police Series, Weimar Cinema, Men's Cinema (London: Wallflower, 2009), 1-66.
• Bignell, J., Beckett on Screen: The Television Plays (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009).
• Broughton, M., 'Nigel Kneale', in M. Bould, A. Butler, A. Roberts and S. Vint (eds.), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction. (London: Routledge, 2009).
• Butler, A., 'Yesterday Girls: Prinzessin', Rouge, 13 (2009). http://www.rouge.com.au/13/prinzessin.html
• Gibbs, J. and Pye, D. (eds.), Close-Up 03: The Police Series, Weimar Cinema, Men's Cinema (London: Wallflower, 2009).
• Murjas, T. (trans. and ed.), Zapolska's Women: Three Plays by Gabriela Zapolska (Bristol/ Chicago: Intellect, 2009).
• Paget, D., 'The "Broken Tradition" of Documentary Theatre and Its Continued Powers of Endurance', in A. Forsyth and C. Megson (eds.), Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
• Purse, L., 'Gestures and Postures of Mastery: CGI and Contemporary Action Cinema's Expressive Tendencies' in S. Balcerzack and J. Sperb, (eds.) Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture, Vol.1, (London: Wallflower Press, 2009).
• Saunders, G., About Sarah Kane: The Playwright and the Work (London: Faber, 2009).
• Taylor, L., 'A Dialogue', in E. Cologni (ed.), Mnemonic Present, Shifting Meaning (Vercelli: Mercurio, 2009), 106-118.
• Thorpe, A., 'The long and the short of it: negotiating the right space for Asian theatre in the university drama curriculum', Studies in Theatre and Performance, 29, 2 (2009), 133-147.

2010

• Broughton, M. 'Landscape Gardens in The Ruling Class', in P. Newland (ed.) Don't Look Now? British Cinema in the 1970s (London: Intellect, 2010).
• Bignell, J., 'Transatlantic spaces: production, location and style in 1960s-1970s action-adventure TV series', Media History, 16, 1 (2010), 53-65.
• Murjas, T. (trans. and ed.), Invisible Country: Four Fin-de-Siecle Polish Plays (Bristol/Chicago: Intellect, 2010).
• Murjas, T., Resurrecting Zapolska; Translating Polish plays for the British stage in R. Baines & C. Marinetti (eds), Staging Translated Plays: Text and Theatre Practice (London: Palgrave, 2010).
• Taylor, L., 'The Hanging Man: death, indeterminacy and the event', Performance Research, 15, 1 (2010), 5-14.