School of Media & Performing Arts

The Germans forgot about him, the British interned him, and the Indian Cinema audience loved him. Despite the fact that he was celebrated all over Europe between the wars Franz OSTEN is hardly ever mentioned in film books nowadays.

Franz Osten was a pioneer in the development of cinema, even though he was never as well known as his contemporaries like Fritz Lang or F. W. Murnau. He took feature film production out of the studios into the world, and gave his films an authentic quality by introducing documentary techniques into feature films.

Research from both academic and industry sources has repeatedly identified a mismatch between theory and practice in film and TV professionals’ education. A recent report for the British Film Institute has concluded that the skills provision for the industry is not fit for purpose. This investigation aims to reconcile the educational expectations of students, educators and employers and is based on 12 semi-structured interviews with British film- makers attending the Cannes Film Festival. The interviews trace their process of updating skills and know-how to meet the requirements of highly dynamic workflows and so provide a deeper understanding of the mental models underlying the film- making process. Preliminary findings lay the foundation for a grounded theory approach to a study of conceptual knowledge in film-making. Interview analysis establishes the core concept ‘learning by doing’ that gains meaning by deep integration with highly personal and diverse skills development strategies. The film-makers demonstrate how ‘doing’ is affected by previously watched films, by collaborator focused forms of ‘critical thinking’, based on constant communication with collaborators. These combined factors enable the production team’s increasingly shared vision of a film in preproduction. The findings are discussed in the context of established reflective practice concepts to enhance student employability.

... The Germans were to provide equipment, camera crew and the director, Franz Osten; Rai would provide the script, the actors, locations and all the capital necessary. On 26 February 1925, Osten and Rai, together with their cameramen, Willi Kiermeier and JosefWirsching, and ...

‘Lad culture’ has become a popular term for making sense
of sexism, misogyny and sexual harassment in Higher
Education in the UK. However, a gap exists in understanding
student negotiations of the nighttime economy, and how
spatial elements shape the affective dimensions of lad culture
experiences. In this article, we offer the concept of
‘sticky atmospheres’, a combination of Sara Ahmed’s ‘sticky
affects’ and Ben Anderson’s ‘affective atmospheres’. We
demonstrate the usefulness of ‘sticky atmospheres’ by analysing
data produced in co-operative inquiry-inspired discussions
with a Student Union ‘Gender Society’. In doing so, we
offer an understanding of the student-centred nighttime
economy through participants’ accounts of proximity to the
sticky object, described as a pervasive atmosphere. However,
we also explore the potential for atmospheric change.

Digital forms of networked misogyny have received much attention of late, both in public and academic discussions
of changing gender relations. However, less work has paid attention to how lad culture emerges online, or how the
researcher experiences the affective fabrics therein. In this article, we explore our engagement with platforms hosted by
the companies UniLad and The Lad Bible. We define our experience of this field as intimate because (a) we downloaded
them onto our personal mobile devices and social media accounts and (b) of how they are experienced as proximal,
“sticky” and deeply affective. We approach digital lad culture through a methodology of misrecognition, drawing on the
work of Sarah Ahmed, Jessica Benjamin, and Nancy Fraser. We show how accounts of the researcher’s own experiences
through a methodology of misrecognition are crucial, providing new ways of researching, and, in turn, new ways of
challenging, the digital proliferation of misogyny and sexism.

This paper addresses a gap in research on lad culture in British Higher Education (HE) by addressing how gender diverse students understand their subjectivities within this context. To do so, we introduce the concept of 'laddish misrecognition'. Drawing on Benjamin and Fraser, we suggest both psychic and social mechanisms are at play in this mis/recognition. We also draw on Muñoz's 'disidentification' to explore what it means to live in this space. We apply this to discussions with 11 LGBTQIA+ students. We identify the complexity of their negotiations regarding: identifications with masculinity versus distancing oneself from 'the lad'; being misrecognised as 'a lad', and wanting to challenge this; and navigating femininity and same-sex relationships while being misrecognised as heterosexual. By exploring accounts that are often positioned at the margins of discussion about lad culture (i.e. not predominantly heterosexual, cisgender), we suggest laddish misrecognition shows how identities are formed indifference .

Resumen. Estamos viviendo, desde hace algunos años, una polarización del debate público en lo concerniente a la cuestión de la igualdad de género, siendo la violencia sexual cometida contra mujeres un punto caliente de dicha discusión. De manera paralela al avance de una "cuarta ola" feminista, se ha consolidado un movimiento antifeminista que se articula en torno a la reivindicación de los derechos de los hombres y la negación de la existencia de una violencia con un componente específico de género, que se ha articulado principalmente en y desde Internet. El calado de los discursos afectivos-ideológicos en la sociedad general (y en determinados colectivos en particular) se está evidenciando en estudios que muestran la tendencia creciente entre los hombres jóvenes a afirmar que la violencia con un componente de género no existe, sino que se trata de un "invento ideológico" 4. En este artículo, aportamos explicaciones sobre la emergencia, la configuración y la polinización de discursos antifeministas que surgen de comunidades misóginas de Internet (de la denominada manosfera española 5) y que son determinantes en la configuración de la percepción social de la violencia sexual cometida contra mujeres en España. Hemos obtenido los resultados mediante una investigación cualitativa multitécnica que combina la etnografía digital multiplataforma, las entrevistas cualitativas a expertas y el análisis sociohermenéutico de memes. En nuestro estudio concluimos que a través de la memética y de otras prácticas sociales digitales en la manosfera española se está realizando un trabajo ideológico fundamental que contribuye a la banalización, la normalización y la legitimización de la violencia sexual cometida contra mujeres en sus diversas formas. Palabras clave: violencia sexual contra mujeres; sensibilización; misoginia online; manosfera; antifeminismo; España.

En los últimos años ha aumentado el interés por el estudio de la misoginia, como consecuencia de los cambios sociales relacionados con la visibilización y denuncia de este problema, de la emergencia de nuevas formas de misoginia con la llegada de Internet y porque se considera fundamental su estudio para comprender la naturaleza de la violencia cometida contra mujeres y niñas. En este contexto, ofrecemos el detalle metodológico de dos investigaciones realizadas en el pasado sobre misoginia y reflexionamos sobre la propuesta de la investigación feminista para su estudio. Comenzamos explicando la propuesta de la metodología afectiva feminista, que sirvió para el estudio de la cultura lad, un conjunto de prácticas misóginas que se dan en entornos universitarios británicos. Después, se detalla una propuesta de investigación basada en la etnografía digital feminista en el marco de una investigación destinada a comprender el papel de las subculturas digitales misóginas de la manosfera esp...

Digital forms of networked misogyny have received much attention of late, both in public and academic discussions of changing gender relations. However, less work has paid attention to how lad culture emerges online, or how the researcher experiences the affective fabrics therein. In this article, we explore our engagement with platforms hosted by the companies UniLad and The Lad Bible. We define our experience of this field as intimate because (a) we downloaded them onto our personal mobile devices and social media accounts and (b) of how they are experienced as proximal, “sticky” and deeply affective. We approach digital lad culture through a methodology of misrecognition, drawing on the work of Sarah Ahmed, Jessica Benjamin, and Nancy Fraser. We show how accounts of the researcher’s own experiences through a methodology of misrecognition are crucial, providing new ways of researching, and, in turn, new ways of challenging, the digital proliferation of misogyny and sexism.

The use of the Internet as a publishing tool is often seen as a threat by those in the traditional media. Claims that online publishing will one day supplant magazines, newspapers and books fuel this negative perception of the medium, yet the Internet holds a host of possibilities for those in these traditional media. Magazine publishers in particular can leverage the Internet as an audience research tool and bridge the gap between long lead-time, thereby cementing the relationship with readers. By examining what magazines in South Africa and the United States are already doing with the Internet and by surveying the views of South African and US media and the general South African public, this study hopes to propose a set of flexible guidelines for the successful utilisation of the Internet as a supplement to and complement of the traditional print magazine. This study has found the importance that media and users place on the creation of an online community as part of Internet use ...

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The use of games to communicate messages is not new; however the evolution of the digital environment has opened up opportunities for brand communicators to use games as a means to communicate with audiences in ways that were previously impossible. In South Africa, so-called advergaming currently does not reach a mass audience because of the low number of Internet users and the high cost of Internet access. However, as a brand communication tool, advergaming has the potential to be used as a viral marketing tactic. The article analyses the perceptions of advertising agencies about the use of advergaming in the South African context.