Andrew McWhirter
Biographic Data
| ID | 5936025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew McWhirter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | McWhirter |
| SIGNATURE | MCWHIRTER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6361-5964 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The climate-change bubbles thesis: Rethinking communication in a climate crisis
As unwelcome news on climate change temperatures continues, recent narratives have dampened any collective optimism on this problem being the most pressing one to address. Inspired by calls in the climate communication space to do everything we can and to pivot our ideas away from doom and gloom, this article considers a new concept to better understand and progress communication during the climate crisis: the climate-change bubbles thesis. It sy…
Last Year at Marienbad: A scenarist, a director and a protagonist walk into some archetypes
As the 65th anniversary of the modernist masterpiece L’année Dernière À Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961) approaches, we are reminded that this film demands a straightforward retelling. Because, in fact, nothing about this film is straightforward. The director, Alain Resnais (cited in Wilson, 2006:70), explains, ‘In an international palace, a stranger meets a young woman and tells her the love story they lived the previous year. The woman…
A spatially variable scarcity of floating microplastics in the eastern North Pacific Ocean
Plastic waste accumulating in the global ocean is an increasingly threatening environmental issue. To date, the floating and thus most visible fraction of ocean plastic pollution has been mapped at global scale. Yet, large knowledge gaps exist in our current understanding of the transport and transformation processes of positively buoyant plastic debris at the sea surface. Observations at sea typically report an apparent scarcity of microplastics…
Film Criticism in the Twenty-First Century: Six Schools
Beginning with a research question that sought to discover what film criticism actually is, the article uncovers important distinctions between scholarly and practice-orientated conceptions of contemporary film criticism. Through a qualitative mixed-method approach, the article first explores the relevant scholarly literature and a sample of content carriers of film criticism before moving into fieldwork to test findings. Through the process of t…
Film criticism, film scholarship and the video essay
Taking as its starting point the opinions of film critics interviewed at International Film Festivals in the UK and North America, this research note argues that a newer form of film criticism in video essays, essentially short films about films, have become increasingly popular with professionals, amateurs, and in particular cinephile academics. As well as consciously championing the form, there has been a concerted effort by scholars to constru…
The Matrix
Film criticism, film scholarship and the video essay
Taking as its starting point the opinions of film critics interviewed at International Film Festivals in the UK and North America, this research note argues that a newer form of film criticism in video essays, essentially short films about films, have become increasingly popular with professionals, amateurs, and in particular cinephile academics. As well as consciously championing the form, there has been a concerted effort by scholars to constru…
The Matrix
Film Criticism in the Twenty-First Century: Six Schools
Beginning with a research question that sought to discover what film criticism actually is, the article uncovers important distinctions between scholarly and practice-orientated conceptions of contemporary film criticism. Through a qualitative mixed-method approach, the article first explores the relevant scholarly literature and a sample of content carriers of film criticism before moving into fieldwork to test findings. Through the process of t…
Film criticism, film scholarship and the video essay
Taking as its starting point the opinions of film critics interviewed at International Film Festivals in the UK and North America, this research note argues that a newer form of film criticism in video essays, essentially short films about films, have become increasingly popular with professionals, amateurs, and in particular cinephile academics. As well as consciously championing the form, there has been a concerted effort by scholars to constru…
A spatially variable scarcity of floating microplastics in the eastern North Pacific Ocean
Plastic waste accumulating in the global ocean is an increasingly threatening environmental issue. To date, the floating and thus most visible fraction of ocean plastic pollution has been mapped at global scale. Yet, large knowledge gaps exist in our current understanding of the transport and transformation processes of positively buoyant plastic debris at the sea surface. Observations at sea typically report an apparent scarcity of microplastics…
Last Year at Marienbad: A scenarist, a director and a protagonist walk into some archetypes
As the 65th anniversary of the modernist masterpiece L’année Dernière À Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961) approaches, we are reminded that this film demands a straightforward retelling. Because, in fact, nothing about this film is straightforward. The director, Alain Resnais (cited in Wilson, 2006:70), explains, ‘In an international palace, a stranger meets a young woman and tells her the love story they lived the previous year. The woman…
The climate-change bubbles thesis: Rethinking communication in a climate crisis
As unwelcome news on climate change temperatures continues, recent narratives have dampened any collective optimism on this problem being the most pressing one to address. Inspired by calls in the climate communication space to do everything we can and to pivot our ideas away from doom and gloom, this article considers a new concept to better understand and progress communication during the climate crisis: the climate-change bubbles thesis. It sy…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Criticism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)