Desmond Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desmond Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desmond |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Challenging practice
On the nature of creative arts and media research
Truth at 24 frames a second? A working dialogue between a film-maker and a historical consultant about the making of The Enigma of Frank Ryan
We employ a practice-based methodology based on a ‘live’ film project to explore the different ways that film-makers and historians narrate the past. Through a case-study of the production and exhibition of a drama-documentary feature-film, The Enigma of Frank Ryan, on which both authors (film-maker Bell and historian McGarry) worked respectively as director and historical consultant, we explore a range of critical issues arising from our collabo…
One cut too many? History and film
This article explores the different ways that film-makers and historians approach the narrating of the past. It draws upon a collaborative, practice-based case study of a feature film project, The enigma of Frank Ryan, in order to explore the role of the history film as a vehicle for extending historical understanding. In the dialogue between film-maker and historian, a range of issues regarding the import of the history film for the practice or …
Documentary film and the poetics of history
How do documentary film-makers picture the past and in what ways does their approach differ from the orthodox writing of history? In this article I draw upon my own experience as a documentary film-maker to explore a broader set of issues concerned with the relationship between academic history and factual film-making. Does the history documentary as found on television involve a 'dumbing down' of historical understanding? Or does it, as I sugges…
Is there a doctor in the house? A riposte to Victor Burgin on practice-based arts and audiovisual research
I suggest that to properly understand current resistance within parts of the academy to practice-based doctoral programmes in the creative arts one has to understand the deeply entrenched character of the social division between intellectual and manual labour in our society. Victor Burgin's typology of doctoral candidates for visual arts programmes and tripartite structure of doctoral study is, I argue, hierarchical, privileging traditional human…
Creative film and media practice as research
What are the continuities between research activity focused on creative practice, and other forms of film and media research? What are the methodological differences between practice-based research in the still and moving image and traditional academic scholarship in film and imaging studies? In response to the pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and to compete for scarce research funds, some creative media arts academics have sought to legitimize th…
Practice Makes Perfect? Film and Media Studies and the Challenge of Creative Practice
Multimedia and the crisis economy in Japan
This article examines recent developments in the communication sector in Japan in the light of the recent economic meltdown of the former miracle economies of South East Asai. It argues that the telecommunications, computer and electronics industries are undergoing a restructuring of their activities under the state-endorsed banner of `multimedia' which, we suggest, is an extension of earlier rhetorical strategies concerned with the promotion of …
Communications, Corporatism, and Dependent Development in Ireland
Journal Article Communications, Corporatism, and Dependent Development in Ireland Get access Desmond Bell Desmond Bell 1Desmond Bell is a professor in and head of the Department of Photograpy, Film, and Television at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 4, December 1995, Pages 70–88, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb0…
Picturing the Landscape
In this paper we examine how our images of the landscape are framed in and through the media practices involved in tourist promotion. Through a case study of the selling of Ireland as a holiday destination for the German tourist market, we explore the processes of cultural translation and intertextuality which link traditions of landscape painting, photoart and the contemporary tourist brochure. We argue that communication analysis can play a key…
Political theory and postmodernism
1994). Political theory and postmodernism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 426-427
Michel Foucault
Culture and politics in Ireland
Framing Nature
We give a sociological reading of the landscape as a formation not primarily of the natural world but of the social. Landscape is best seen as a terrain on which socially constructed and historically determined significatory practices are at work shaping our perception of nature. Accordingly we must attend to the media forms and practices through which landscape has been represented if we are to understand the inter-textual nature of our experien…
Michel Foucault
On the 25 June 1984, at the age of 58, Michel Foucault, philosopher, historian, social critic and Professor of the History of Systems of Thought at the College de France, died after a serious illness. Like Jean Paul Sartre, who he outlived by such a short time despite his relative youth, Foucault fitted somewhat uneasily into the confines of French philosophy. Throughout his career he practised, like Sartre before him, an ironic detachment from a…
Logics of disintegration
Logics of disintegration: Poststructuralist thought and the claims of critical theory." History of European Ideas, 14(3), pp. 433–434
Universal abandon? The politics of postmodernism
Cultural Studies in Ireland and the Postmodernist Debate
Acts of Union
Using ethnographic methods, the author explores the subcultural world of young Loyalists and examines the role of youth cultural practices in the reproduction of ethnic identity and in the reconstruct
Cable, satellite and the emergence of private TV in Ireland
Toward a Theory of the State and Telecommunications Policy
“As the Irish satellite decision shows, global communication developments conditioned by the interests of multinational capital are having considerable impact on the domestic telecommunication and broadcasting policies of individual European states.”
The emergence of probability
Acts of Union
In Northern Ireland (hereafter called NI), as we all know, the sphere of cultural and political identities is a fiercely contested one. Young people in NI develop a sense of ethnic awareness in an ongoing situation of political mobilization and sectarian confrontation. Historically conditioned cultural divisions are reproduced in and through the education system. Increasing levels of segregation combined with the isolating effect of mass unemploy…
Probability and literary form
Proclaiming the republic
Acts of Union
In Northern Ireland (hereafter called NI), as we all know, the sphere of cultural and political identities is a fiercely contested one. Young people in NI develop a sense of ethnic awareness in an ongoing situation of political mobilization and sectarian confrontation. Historically conditioned cultural divisions are reproduced in and through the education system. Increasing levels of segregation combined with the isolating effect of mass unemploy…
Framing Nature
We give a sociological reading of the landscape as a formation not primarily of the natural world but of the social. Landscape is best seen as a terrain on which socially constructed and historically determined significatory practices are at work shaping our perception of nature. Accordingly we must attend to the media forms and practices through which landscape has been represented if we are to understand the inter-textual nature of our experien…
Political theory and postmodernism
1994). Political theory and postmodernism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 426-427
Culture and politics in Ireland
Proclaiming the republic
Cable, satellite and the emergence of private TV in Ireland
Community Studies
A Community Studies tradition based on the theory and methods of a functionalist social anthropology has since the 1930's been the dominant one in both characterising the social structure of rural Ireland and in theorising social change in Ireland in general. This social anthropological method, while of possible utility in the study of primitive cultures and peoples, confronts certain difficulties when attempts are made to employ pure ethnographi…
Classical thought, egologism and the philosophy of language
Proclaiming the republic
Probability and literary form
The emergence of probability
Acts of Union
In Northern Ireland (hereafter called NI), as we all know, the sphere of cultural and political identities is a fiercely contested one. Young people in NI develop a sense of ethnic awareness in an ongoing situation of political mobilization and sectarian confrontation. Historically conditioned cultural divisions are reproduced in and through the education system. Increasing levels of segregation combined with the isolating effect of mass unemploy…
Toward a Theory of the State and Telecommunications Policy
“As the Irish satellite decision shows, global communication developments conditioned by the interests of multinational capital are having considerable impact on the domestic telecommunication and broadcasting policies of individual European states.”
Cable, satellite and the emergence of private TV in Ireland
Acts of Union
Using ethnographic methods, the author explores the subcultural world of young Loyalists and examines the role of youth cultural practices in the reproduction of ethnic identity and in the reconstruct
Cultural Studies in Ireland and the Postmodernist Debate
Michel Foucault
On the 25 June 1984, at the age of 58, Michel Foucault, philosopher, historian, social critic and Professor of the History of Systems of Thought at the College de France, died after a serious illness. Like Jean Paul Sartre, who he outlived by such a short time despite his relative youth, Foucault fitted somewhat uneasily into the confines of French philosophy. Throughout his career he practised, like Sartre before him, an ironic detachment from a…
Logics of disintegration
Logics of disintegration: Poststructuralist thought and the claims of critical theory." History of European Ideas, 14(3), pp. 433–434
Universal abandon? The politics of postmodernism
Michel Foucault
Culture and politics in Ireland
Framing Nature
We give a sociological reading of the landscape as a formation not primarily of the natural world but of the social. Landscape is best seen as a terrain on which socially constructed and historically determined significatory practices are at work shaping our perception of nature. Accordingly we must attend to the media forms and practices through which landscape has been represented if we are to understand the inter-textual nature of our experien…
Political theory and postmodernism
1994). Political theory and postmodernism. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 426-427
Communications, Corporatism, and Dependent Development in Ireland
Journal Article Communications, Corporatism, and Dependent Development in Ireland Get access Desmond Bell Desmond Bell 1Desmond Bell is a professor in and head of the Department of Photograpy, Film, and Television at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 4, December 1995, Pages 70–88, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb0…
Picturing the Landscape
In this paper we examine how our images of the landscape are framed in and through the media practices involved in tourist promotion. Through a case study of the selling of Ireland as a holiday destination for the German tourist market, we explore the processes of cultural translation and intertextuality which link traditions of landscape painting, photoart and the contemporary tourist brochure. We argue that communication analysis can play a key…
Multimedia and the crisis economy in Japan
This article examines recent developments in the communication sector in Japan in the light of the recent economic meltdown of the former miracle economies of South East Asai. It argues that the telecommunications, computer and electronics industries are undergoing a restructuring of their activities under the state-endorsed banner of `multimedia' which, we suggest, is an extension of earlier rhetorical strategies concerned with the promotion of …
Practice Makes Perfect? Film and Media Studies and the Challenge of Creative Practice
Creative film and media practice as research
What are the continuities between research activity focused on creative practice, and other forms of film and media research? What are the methodological differences between practice-based research in the still and moving image and traditional academic scholarship in film and imaging studies? In response to the pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and to compete for scarce research funds, some creative media arts academics have sought to legitimize th…
Is there a doctor in the house? A riposte to Victor Burgin on practice-based arts and audiovisual research
I suggest that to properly understand current resistance within parts of the academy to practice-based doctoral programmes in the creative arts one has to understand the deeply entrenched character of the social division between intellectual and manual labour in our society. Victor Burgin's typology of doctoral candidates for visual arts programmes and tripartite structure of doctoral study is, I argue, hierarchical, privileging traditional human…
Documentary film and the poetics of history
How do documentary film-makers picture the past and in what ways does their approach differ from the orthodox writing of history? In this article I draw upon my own experience as a documentary film-maker to explore a broader set of issues concerned with the relationship between academic history and factual film-making. Does the history documentary as found on television involve a 'dumbing down' of historical understanding? Or does it, as I sugges…
One cut too many? History and film
This article explores the different ways that film-makers and historians approach the narrating of the past. It draws upon a collaborative, practice-based case study of a feature film project, The enigma of Frank Ryan, in order to explore the role of the history film as a vehicle for extending historical understanding. In the dialogue between film-maker and historian, a range of issues regarding the import of the history film for the practice or …
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