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Autonomous Meridian Sensory Response: from Internet subculture to audiovisual therapy (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Autonomous Meridian Sensory Response: from Internet subculture to audiovisual therapy. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.79

ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) is the name given to a pleasant sensation that can be felt most commonly on the scalp and can be triggered by various gentle sounds (like whispers, crinkles or tapping), smooth and repetitive visual stimuli... Read More about Autonomous Meridian Sensory Response: from Internet subculture to audiovisual therapy.

Gone Girl (2012/14) and the Use(s) of Culture (2017)
Journal Article
Archer. (2017). Gone Girl (2012/14) and the Use(s) of Culture

Looking comparatively and respectively at the two recent iterations of Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel, and the David Fincher-directed film from 2014 – this essay focuses on the texts’ specific concerns with cultural use, within a mass-media a... Read More about Gone Girl (2012/14) and the Use(s) of Culture.

Fascism: The Career of a Concept by Paul E. Gottfried (2017)
Journal Article
Kallis, A. (2017). Fascism: The Career of a Concept by Paul E. Gottfried. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 48(1), 84-85. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_r_01095

Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research (2017)
Journal Article
Archer. (2017). Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research. Mobilities, 509-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1330988

This article argues for the use of film studies in the study of mobilities, with a specific focus on the analysis of genre, and the particularly fictional character of genre film. The article focuses on genre’s emerging and shifting forms across temp... Read More about Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research.

Expectations of Darkness: The ‘Blind Poet’ P.B. Marston (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Expectations of Darkness: The ‘Blind Poet’ P.B. Marston. https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2017.0012

The Abortive Inclosure of Needwood Forest in the 1650s (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The Abortive Inclosure of Needwood Forest in the 1650s

As part of Parliament’s dismemberment of the English monarchy an Act was passed in July 1649 to authorise the sale of Crown lands, including those of held in the right of the duchy of Lancaster.1 In Staffordshire the lands included Needwood forest, w... Read More about The Abortive Inclosure of Needwood Forest in the 1650s.

Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana by Carina E. Ray (Review) (2017)
Journal Article
Bright. (2017). Crossing the Color Line: Race, Sex and the Contested Politics of Colonialism in Ghana by Carina E. Ray (Review). Journal of the History of Sexuality, 26(2), 337 -340

Book review.

Early Twentieth-Century Vogue, George Wolfe Plank and the ‘Freaks of Mayfair’ (2017)
Journal Article
Janes. (2017). Early Twentieth-Century Vogue, George Wolfe Plank and the ‘Freaks of Mayfair’. Visual Culture in Britain, 68-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2017.1317017

Vogue was one of the most influential fashion magazines of the twentieth century. In the 1920s its British edition, launched in 1916, became a focus for various forms of queer visual and cultural expression. The origins of the related ‘amusing style’... Read More about Early Twentieth-Century Vogue, George Wolfe Plank and the ‘Freaks of Mayfair’.

Negotiating Free Will: Hypnosis and Crime in Early Twentieth-Century Germany (2017)
Journal Article
Kauders, A. (2017). Negotiating Free Will: Hypnosis and Crime in Early Twentieth-Century Germany. Historical Journal, 60(4), 1047-1069. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x16000601

The history of free will has yet to be written. With few exceptions, the literature on the subject is dominated by legal and philosophical works, most of which recount the ideas of prominent thinkers or discuss hypothetical questions far removed from... Read More about Negotiating Free Will: Hypnosis and Crime in Early Twentieth-Century Germany.

The Social before Sociocognitive Theory: Explaining Hypnotic Suggestion in German-Speaking Europe, 1900-1960 (2017)
Journal Article
Kauders, A. (2017). The Social before Sociocognitive Theory: Explaining Hypnotic Suggestion in German-Speaking Europe, 1900-1960. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 59(4), 422-439. https://doi.org/10.1080/00029157.2016.1239062

The article intends to retrace and review German discourse on hypnotic suggestion from 1900 onward, demonstrating the variety of arguments advanced to account for the social relationship in the hypnotic setting well before the emergence of sociocogni... Read More about The Social before Sociocognitive Theory: Explaining Hypnotic Suggestion in German-Speaking Europe, 1900-1960.