Pat Brereton
Biographic Data
| ID | 640291 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pat Brereton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pat |
| FAMILY NAME | Brereton |
| SIGNATURE | BRERETON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1681-7202 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Becca Voelcker, Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction
"Squid Game"
This study investigates why the Squid Game TV show is so successful among young Saudis across cultural divides. It explores the engagement of young Saudi audiences with the show and the range of enjoyment they derive from it, via a mixed-methodology consisting of two stages: a preliminary survey and comprehensive focus group sessions. The data is gathered via a preliminary online survey (N = 50) involving Saudi youths aged 18 to 21, and from a fo…
Léirmheasanna/Reviews
Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication
This book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications, particularly taking into account the post-COVID challenge of sustainability, remains one of the most important concerns within environmental co…
Irish energy landscapes on film
Landscape, and its relation to place identity, is a powerful tool for visualizing and making legible the effects of environmental change. So often the operations of resource consumption and conservation occur in a way that shapes and changes particular regional landscapes. This is significant in an era where inspiring audiences and policy-makers to respond to unsustainable resource use and environmental change is difficult, but where we are still…
New materialism, object-oriented ontology and fictive imaginaries
This paper takes up the challenge set down by the review work of Hess and Sovacool (2020) and Sovacool et al. \n(2020) and joins the conversation about future research agendas where STS is aligned towards humanities and \nsocial science research of energy solutions. We identified two under-representations in these review papers: 1) \nNew materialism and object-oriented ontological (OOO) approaches and 2) how fictive imaginaries develop the \nlink…
Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change
Citizens’ assemblies can contribute to inclusive, citizen-driven policymaking. This commentary focuses on Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly, an internationally acclaimed deliberative forum that examined pressing social, environmental and political issues facing the country, including climate change. Citizens’ assemblies bring together randomly selected, representative samples of the population and task them with deliberating on public policy questions…
Pilgrim Hill
Irish agriculture is currently dominated by a cattle economy that can be traced from its historical origins under British imperialism to subsequent expansion and intensification since Ireland's accession to the European Union (EU) in 1973. Its current growth-directed trajectory has been underlined by the controversial Food Harvest 2020 document produced by the Irish government with major input from agribusiness interests, which envisages signific…
Environmental Ethics and Film
Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms. In contemporary society, film has provided a powerful instrument for the moulding of such ethical attitudes. Through a close examination of the medium, Environmental Ethics and Film explores how histori…
Transcendence and The Tree of Life
Debates over the ways in which film communicates to its audience have historically revolved around investigations into the meanings of what is seen and heard. Certain films are able to reach beyond the constraints of language so that the experience of viewing becomes a process of communication with a spiritual other. We consider such a concept of transcendence through the writings of two theorists: Emmanuel Levinas, whose philosophy of ethics con…
Post-9/11 counterterrorism in popular culture
This article examines the representation of counterterrorism in contemporary film and television and surveys its reception among active online audiences. Contemporary counterterrorism fiction like The Bourne Ultimatum (2007 The Bourne ultimatum. 2007. Film. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Produced by Doug Liman, Henry Morrison and Jeffrey M. Weiner. USA. [Google Scholar]; Film. Directed by Paul Greengrass) and the TV series 24 (2001-2010; Television…
Neither With You or Against You
Irish public sphere discourse about the United States has, particularly since the September 11 attacks, been regularly reproached for being ‘anti-American’. This paper explores the cultural politics of this charge by creatively juxtaposing the analysis of an Irish current affairs programme with a Hollywood made ‘Irish’ movie. The value of our analysis, we argue, is that, taken together, both objects enable us to problematize the politics of the o…
New media – new pleasures
The promotional and academic discourse surrounding new media suggests that they offer more fun and more pleasure than existing or traditional media. However, academic work within media and cultural studies has failed to interrogate these claims empirically. This article critically assesses the conceptualization of pleasure as it is deployed in media audience research and attempts to update these conceptualizations by drawing upon game design theo…
Nature Tourism And Irish Film
This article provides a historical overview and reading of seminal Irish film from the perspective of nature tourism. Within Irish cultural studies, tourism is frequently equated with an overly romantic image of the island, which has been used to sell the country abroad. However, using notions like the tourist gaze and taking on board influential debates around space/place, one can posit a more progressive environmental vision of nature and lands…
Hollywood Utopia
Utopianism and Fascist Aesthetics
Post-9/11 counterterrorism in popular culture
This article examines the representation of counterterrorism in contemporary film and television and surveys its reception among active online audiences. Contemporary counterterrorism fiction like The Bourne Ultimatum (2007 The Bourne ultimatum. 2007. Film. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Produced by Doug Liman, Henry Morrison and Jeffrey M. Weiner. USA. [Google Scholar]; Film. Directed by Paul Greengrass) and the TV series 24 (2001-2010; Television…
New media – new pleasures
The promotional and academic discourse surrounding new media suggests that they offer more fun and more pleasure than existing or traditional media. However, academic work within media and cultural studies has failed to interrogate these claims empirically. This article critically assesses the conceptualization of pleasure as it is deployed in media audience research and attempts to update these conceptualizations by drawing upon game design theo…
New materialism, object-oriented ontology and fictive imaginaries
This paper takes up the challenge set down by the review work of Hess and Sovacool (2020) and Sovacool et al. \n(2020) and joins the conversation about future research agendas where STS is aligned towards humanities and \nsocial science research of energy solutions. We identified two under-representations in these review papers: 1) \nNew materialism and object-oriented ontological (OOO) approaches and 2) how fictive imaginaries develop the \nlink…
Nature Tourism And Irish Film
This article provides a historical overview and reading of seminal Irish film from the perspective of nature tourism. Within Irish cultural studies, tourism is frequently equated with an overly romantic image of the island, which has been used to sell the country abroad. However, using notions like the tourist gaze and taking on board influential debates around space/place, one can posit a more progressive environmental vision of nature and lands…
Utopianism and Fascist Aesthetics
Utopianism and Fascist Aesthetics
Hollywood Utopia
New media – new pleasures
The promotional and academic discourse surrounding new media suggests that they offer more fun and more pleasure than existing or traditional media. However, academic work within media and cultural studies has failed to interrogate these claims empirically. This article critically assesses the conceptualization of pleasure as it is deployed in media audience research and attempts to update these conceptualizations by drawing upon game design theo…
Nature Tourism And Irish Film
This article provides a historical overview and reading of seminal Irish film from the perspective of nature tourism. Within Irish cultural studies, tourism is frequently equated with an overly romantic image of the island, which has been used to sell the country abroad. However, using notions like the tourist gaze and taking on board influential debates around space/place, one can posit a more progressive environmental vision of nature and lands…
Neither With You or Against You
Irish public sphere discourse about the United States has, particularly since the September 11 attacks, been regularly reproached for being ‘anti-American’. This paper explores the cultural politics of this charge by creatively juxtaposing the analysis of an Irish current affairs programme with a Hollywood made ‘Irish’ movie. The value of our analysis, we argue, is that, taken together, both objects enable us to problematize the politics of the o…
Post-9/11 counterterrorism in popular culture
This article examines the representation of counterterrorism in contemporary film and television and surveys its reception among active online audiences. Contemporary counterterrorism fiction like The Bourne Ultimatum (2007 The Bourne ultimatum. 2007. Film. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Produced by Doug Liman, Henry Morrison and Jeffrey M. Weiner. USA. [Google Scholar]; Film. Directed by Paul Greengrass) and the TV series 24 (2001-2010; Television…
Transcendence and The Tree of Life
Debates over the ways in which film communicates to its audience have historically revolved around investigations into the meanings of what is seen and heard. Certain films are able to reach beyond the constraints of language so that the experience of viewing becomes a process of communication with a spiritual other. We consider such a concept of transcendence through the writings of two theorists: Emmanuel Levinas, whose philosophy of ethics con…
Environmental Ethics and Film
Environmental ethics presents and defends a systematic and comprehensive account of the moral relation between human beings and their natural environment and assumes that human behaviour toward the natural world can and is governed by moral norms. In contemporary society, film has provided a powerful instrument for the moulding of such ethical attitudes. Through a close examination of the medium, Environmental Ethics and Film explores how histori…
Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Climate Change
Citizens’ assemblies can contribute to inclusive, citizen-driven policymaking. This commentary focuses on Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly, an internationally acclaimed deliberative forum that examined pressing social, environmental and political issues facing the country, including climate change. Citizens’ assemblies bring together randomly selected, representative samples of the population and task them with deliberating on public policy questions…
Pilgrim Hill
Irish agriculture is currently dominated by a cattle economy that can be traced from its historical origins under British imperialism to subsequent expansion and intensification since Ireland's accession to the European Union (EU) in 1973. Its current growth-directed trajectory has been underlined by the controversial Food Harvest 2020 document produced by the Irish government with major input from agribusiness interests, which envisages signific…
Irish energy landscapes on film
Landscape, and its relation to place identity, is a powerful tool for visualizing and making legible the effects of environmental change. So often the operations of resource consumption and conservation occur in a way that shapes and changes particular regional landscapes. This is significant in an era where inspiring audiences and policy-makers to respond to unsustainable resource use and environmental change is difficult, but where we are still…
New materialism, object-oriented ontology and fictive imaginaries
This paper takes up the challenge set down by the review work of Hess and Sovacool (2020) and Sovacool et al. \n(2020) and joins the conversation about future research agendas where STS is aligned towards humanities and \nsocial science research of energy solutions. We identified two under-representations in these review papers: 1) \nNew materialism and object-oriented ontological (OOO) approaches and 2) how fictive imaginaries develop the \nlink…
Essential Concepts of Environmental Communication
This book draws on a broad spectrum of environmental communications and related cross-disciplinary literature to help students and scholars grasp the interconnecting key concepts within this ever-expanding field of study. Aligning climate change and environmental learning through media and communications, particularly taking into account the post-COVID challenge of sustainability, remains one of the most important concerns within environmental co…
"Squid Game"
This study investigates why the Squid Game TV show is so successful among young Saudis across cultural divides. It explores the engagement of young Saudi audiences with the show and the range of enjoyment they derive from it, via a mixed-methodology consisting of two stages: a preliminary survey and comprehensive focus group sessions. The data is gathered via a preliminary online survey (N = 50) involving Saudi youths aged 18 to 21, and from a fo…
Léirmheasanna/Reviews
Becca Voelcker, Land Cinema in an Age of Extraction
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Irish (3 works)