James Lyons
Biographic Data
| ID | 3688012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Lyons |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Lyons |
| SIGNATURE | LYONS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8686-8406 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Girlhood, performance and risk: Learning to skateboard in a war zone (if you’re a girl) and the action sports documentary
This article examines the Academy award-winning documentary short Learning to skateboard in a war zone (if you’re a girl) (Citation2019), which depicts girl participants at a skating facility in Kabul, Afghanistan, run by Skateistan, a sports nongovernmental organisation (NGO), until the Taliban returned in 2021. The article uses the film as a case study for a research project interrogating a recent trend in documentary production, namely films s…
Are we having fun yet: The Starz television network and Party Down as indie TV
This article examines the sitcom Party Down (2009-10) one of the first shows commissioned by the US premium cable service Starz as it sought to compete with HBO and Showtime, but cancelled after two seasons due to low ratings. Reports in 2021 of plans for its return characterised it as a 'cult TV' show revived due to fan demand. Yet by analysing its original production contexts and its aesthetic attributes the article argues that it is best under…
Gore is the world’: Embodying environmental risk in An Inconvenient Truth
The challenge of constructing documentary films about environmental risk in order to ‘change political understanding and promote action’ is well recognized. Cinematic attempts to shock the public into action through images of future environmental catastrophe have been criticized for their counterproductive effect. This article looks closely at the most high-profile and commercially successful environmental risk documentary of all time, An Inconve…
I Want My MTS: The Development of US Stereo Television
This article examines the development of stereo television broadcasting in America, in the wake of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling on Multichannel Television Sound (MTS) in 1984. It makes the case for understanding stereo broadcasting as a landmark special effect, playing a pivotal role in fashioning the medium's transformation over the last twenty-five years, helping to usher in an era of 'home cinema' and significantly enhanc…
The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts
Miami Vice
Goal-directed aiming: Two components but multiple processes
This article reviews the behavioral literature on the control of goal-directed aiming and presents a multiple-process model of limb control. The model builds on recent variants of Woodworth's (1899) two-component model of speed-accuracy relations in voluntary movement and incorporates ideas about dynamic online limb control based on prior expectations about the efferent and afferent consequences of a planned movement. The model considers the rela…
Temporal judgements of internal and external events in persons with and without autism
Miami Slice: Surgical Shockings in Nip/Tuck
This article examines controversial TV series Nip/Tuck's deployment of Gothic themes and tropes to attract an audience conversant with this artistic tradition, but also to dispel criticism of its graphic depictions of cosmetic surgery, a legacy of the rise of "body trauma" television in an era of increasing body self-scrutiny. Keywords: Nip/Tuck Gothiccosmetic surgerybody trauma
Think seattle, act globally: Speciality coffee, commodity biographies and the promotion of place
This essay uses the contemporary urban consumption practice of speciality coffee as a means to explore the complex ways in which global brands seek to enhance the promotional currency of their products through the mobilizing of local ‘commodity biographies’. It begins by outlining the place-specific strategies of promotion employed by speciality coffee retailers such as Starbucks and the Seattle Coffee Company, examining the range of ways in whic…
Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans
Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends and ER are examples among many of a new era of the ‘must-see’ programme. These shows and others like The X Files and Ally McBeal, have a compulsiveness, a depth of characterisation and ‘back-story’ that puts much of mainstream cinema to shame. Quality Popular Television examines this new category of mostly US-produced ‘cult’ television and th…
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan: Master Musician of India: Raga Chandranandan; Raga Gauri Manjari
Think seattle, act globally: Speciality coffee, commodity biographies and the promotion of place
This essay uses the contemporary urban consumption practice of speciality coffee as a means to explore the complex ways in which global brands seek to enhance the promotional currency of their products through the mobilizing of local ‘commodity biographies’. It begins by outlining the place-specific strategies of promotion employed by speciality coffee retailers such as Starbucks and the Seattle Coffee Company, examining the range of ways in whic…
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan: Master Musician of India: Raga Chandranandan; Raga Gauri Manjari
Quality Popular Television: Cult TV, the Industry and Fans
Why are some contemporary television shows so compelling? The Sopranos, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Friends and ER are examples among many of a new era of the ‘must-see’ programme. These shows and others like The X Files and Ally McBeal, have a compulsiveness, a depth of characterisation and ‘back-story’ that puts much of mainstream cinema to shame. Quality Popular Television examines this new category of mostly US-produced ‘cult’ television and th…
Think seattle, act globally: Speciality coffee, commodity biographies and the promotion of place
This essay uses the contemporary urban consumption practice of speciality coffee as a means to explore the complex ways in which global brands seek to enhance the promotional currency of their products through the mobilizing of local ‘commodity biographies’. It begins by outlining the place-specific strategies of promotion employed by speciality coffee retailers such as Starbucks and the Seattle Coffee Company, examining the range of ways in whic…
Temporal judgements of internal and external events in persons with and without autism
Miami Slice: Surgical Shockings in Nip/Tuck
This article examines controversial TV series Nip/Tuck's deployment of Gothic themes and tropes to attract an audience conversant with this artistic tradition, but also to dispel criticism of its graphic depictions of cosmetic surgery, a legacy of the rise of "body trauma" television in an era of increasing body self-scrutiny. Keywords: Nip/Tuck Gothiccosmetic surgerybody trauma
The Rise of the American Comics Artist: Creators and Contexts
Miami Vice
Goal-directed aiming: Two components but multiple processes
This article reviews the behavioral literature on the control of goal-directed aiming and presents a multiple-process model of limb control. The model builds on recent variants of Woodworth's (1899) two-component model of speed-accuracy relations in voluntary movement and incorporates ideas about dynamic online limb control based on prior expectations about the efferent and afferent consequences of a planned movement. The model considers the rela…
I Want My MTS: The Development of US Stereo Television
This article examines the development of stereo television broadcasting in America, in the wake of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruling on Multichannel Television Sound (MTS) in 1984. It makes the case for understanding stereo broadcasting as a landmark special effect, playing a pivotal role in fashioning the medium's transformation over the last twenty-five years, helping to usher in an era of 'home cinema' and significantly enhanc…
Gore is the world’: Embodying environmental risk in An Inconvenient Truth
The challenge of constructing documentary films about environmental risk in order to ‘change political understanding and promote action’ is well recognized. Cinematic attempts to shock the public into action through images of future environmental catastrophe have been criticized for their counterproductive effect. This article looks closely at the most high-profile and commercially successful environmental risk documentary of all time, An Inconve…
Are we having fun yet: The Starz television network and Party Down as indie TV
This article examines the sitcom Party Down (2009-10) one of the first shows commissioned by the US premium cable service Starz as it sought to compete with HBO and Showtime, but cancelled after two seasons due to low ratings. Reports in 2021 of plans for its return characterised it as a 'cult TV' show revived due to fan demand. Yet by analysing its original production contexts and its aesthetic attributes the article argues that it is best under…
Girlhood, performance and risk: Learning to skateboard in a war zone (if you’re a girl) and the action sports documentary
This article examines the Academy award-winning documentary short Learning to skateboard in a war zone (if you’re a girl) (Citation2019), which depicts girl participants at a skating facility in Kabul, Afghanistan, run by Skateistan, a sports nongovernmental organisation (NGO), until the Taliban returned in 2021. The article uses the film as a case study for a research project interrogating a recent trend in documentary production, namely films s…
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