Media and Exploration of Space
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
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- 2010
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multicomponent output
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- I published my monograph on media representations of the first Space Race, Live from the Moon: Film, Television and the Space Race for I.B. Tauris in 2009. In the years since that publication date, I have been actively engaged in further researching into the relationship between film and television and the exploration of outer space. My central argument has always been that humankind’s interest in the universe, and its modest attempts to explore its nearest reaches through manned spaceflight, has always developed in parallel and unison with the development of the sound and imaging technologies which have allowed those celestial bodies to be viewed, analysed and represented. I have been actively promoting my findings both in printed form and in a succession of highprofile events, conferences and symposia. Interest in my work on media and space exploration has received periodic boosts with the 40th (2009) and 50th (2019) anniversaries of the first moon landing, as well as cycles of rejuvenated activity in space mission activity, not only by America but also by other countries as they have initiated their own space programmes in recent years and my research has kept in step with these changing areas of focus. Public interest in space travel, especially involving human participants, has perennially captured the collective imagination for its visual spectacle and overwhelming technological prowess. My appearances at both public and closed events over the past decade - for example, at the ICA in 2016 and the Science Museum in 2019 - have always been the result of invitation rather than application; these invitations being the result of my specialist knowledge in the subject. The two events described here were at the ICA LSFF special event “A Cosmonaut’s Trip”, at the Science Museum I was a participant in the Culture Space Research Network
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- Non-English
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