267 research outputs found
Book review: 'Young and innocent? The cinema in Britain 1896-1930' edited by Andrew Higson
No full textReview of the book 'Young and innocent? The cinema in Britain 1896-1930' edited by Andrew Higson, published by University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 2002
Bond Rebooted:The Transnational Appeal of the Daniel Craig Bond Films
No full textThe four most recent Bond films starring Daniel Craig have been amongst the most globally successful films of the twenty-first century. We argue the transnational appeal of these films can only be partly explained by their textual attractions, such as the way they play out ideas of British identify. A large part of their success also depends on the business of Bond, from the ownership of rights to the distribution of the films. Indeed, our focus group interviews with audiences in continental Europe reveal an ambivalence about whether the Bond character and the Bond films are perceived as British or American – an ambivalence that actually extends the appeal of the films to different audiences. This chapter therefore provides new insights into Bond’s enduring transnational appeal
Report: Distributing films online: The Farm Group, London, 27 April 2017
No full textReport of a workshop which brought together nine academics and nine industry professionals from UK universities and film companies to discuss the changing nature of distribution. The workshop focused on capturing the perspective of producers, distributors and VOD platform providers who operate at the specialist, indie end of the UK market. We explored the challenges and opportunities that this range of different actors currently face in terms of enabling film access in the online market and reaching UK audiences. The workshop was organised as part of a research scoping project supported by the University of York, which focused on examining how on-demand culture influenced the businesses of films and high-end television drama
Domesticating the Frontier: Gender, Empire and Adventure Landscapes in British Cinema, 1945-59
No full textBefore 1945, films of the empire genre, produced in Hollywood as well as Britain, celebrated the masculinity of the British adventure hero, and promoted an imperial world view. This article explores the significance of the incorporation of white women into empire films in the late 1940s and 1950s, focusing on three films from different moments in the period. What are the range of meanings assigned to white femininity in these films, and their significance to the politics of race and gender? How is the white woman represented in relation to colonised women and men? In addressing these questions the article considers shifts in the gendering of the empire genre as part of an attempt to address a range of anxieties – about the transition from empire to Commonwealth, the rise of American power, and the collapse of boundaries between colonisers and colonised
On the Baum-Connes conjecture for groups acting on CAT(0)-cubical spaces
No full textWe give a new proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture with coefficients for any second countable, locally compact topological group that acts properly and cocompactly on a finite-dimensional CAT(0)-cubical space with bounded geometry. The proof uses the Julg–Valette complex of a CAT(0)-cubical space introduced by the 1st three authors and the direct splitting method in Kasparov theory developed by the last author
Property A and affine buildings
No full textYu's Property A is a non-equivariant generalisation of amenability introduced in his study of the coarse Baum Connes conjecture. In this paper we show that all affine buildings of type A2, B2 and G2 have Property A. Together with results of Guentner, Higson and Weinberger, this completes a programme to show that all affine building have Property A. In passing we use our technique to obtain a new proof for groups acting on buildings.The author was supported by EPSRC postdoctoral fellowship EP/C53171X/1.<br/
Construction of Fedholm Representations and a Modification of the Higson-Roe Corona. In "Russian Journal of Mathematical Physics".
No full textThe Fredholm representation theory is well adapted to the construction of homotopy invariants of non-simply-connected manifolds by means of the generalized Hirzebruch formula [(M)] = hL(M) chA f, [M]i ∈ K0 A(pt) ⊗ Q, where A = C[] is the C-algebra of the group , = 1(M). The bundle ∈ K0
A(B) is the canonical A-bundle generated by the natural representation −→ A.
Recently, the first author constructed a natural family of Fredholm representations that lead to a symmetric vector bundle on the completion of the fundamental group with a modification of the Higson–Roe corona, provided that the completion is a closed manifold.
In the present paper, a homology version of symmetry is discussed for the case in which the completion, with a modification of the Higson–Roe corona, is a manifold with boundary. The results were developed during the visit of the first author to Ancona on March, 2007.
The last version is supplemented by details considering the case of manifolds with boundary
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