- Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Philip Drake
Manchester Metropolitan University, Arts and Humanities, Department Member
- Edge Hill University, Media, Faculty MemberQueen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Media Communication and Performing Arts, Faculty Memberadd
- Faculty Head of Education and Professor of Media and Creative Industries Manchester Metropolitan University Professo... moreFaculty Head of Education and Professor of Media and Creative Industries
Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor of Film, Media and Communications
Director of the Centre for Communication, Cultural and Media Studies (CCCMS)
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (2017-19)
Head of Media and Professor, Edge Hill University (2013-17)
Reader in Film, Media and Culture and Director of Research in the School of Media and Performing Arts at Middlesex University (2012-2013)
International Assessment Board Member, Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences, IRCHSS (2009-)
Advisory Board, Creative Futures Research Centre (http://www.creativefutur.eu/) (2011-15)
Department of Film, Media and Journalism/Stirling Media Research Institute (2005-12)
Lecturer in Media and Culture, University of the West of Scotland (2002-5)
Research Fellow in City Development, University of Glasgow (2000-2002)
Visiting Lecturer in Film, University of Glasgow/Glasgow School of Art (1996-2002)edit
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This conference marked a coming of age for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). DiGRA was formed in 2002 following a series of discus-sions between researchers pursuing games-related research, predominantly in north-western... more
This conference marked a coming of age for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). DiGRA was formed in 2002 following a series of discus-sions between researchers pursuing games-related research, predominantly in north-western Europe and the USA. ...
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Chapters on key topics, including copyright, trademark, piracy, antitrust, censorship, international exhibition, contracts, labour and tax. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, Hollywood and the Law.
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The 2010 general election was the first in the UK in which a series of televised leaders’ debates were broadcast. This article takes forward research on mediated political performance and the relationship between celebrity and politics... more
The 2010 general election was the first in the UK in which a series of televised leaders’ debates were broadcast. This article takes forward research on mediated political performance and the relationship between celebrity and politics through an analysis of these debates. By discussing how the candidates perform ‘personality’, the article highlights the use of performance in constructing informality and a personalised audience address, contrasting these with where candidates engage in conventional political speech-making. The article also examines the strategic use of language, particularly where it is designed to align speakers with the public in opposition to the political establishment. The article argues that celebrity should not be viewed as an innate quality but instead as an interpretative set of frames, the terms of which are established through performance. The article concludes by reflecting upon the implications that can be drawn about the relationship between performance, framing and political celebrity.
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Docherty I., Gulliver S. and Drake P. (2004) Exploring the potential benefits of city collaboration, Reg. Studies 38, 445-456. As they emerge from extended periods of economic restructuring, many large cities are searching for innovative,... more
Docherty I., Gulliver S. and Drake P. (2004) Exploring the potential benefits of city collaboration, Reg. Studies 38, 445-456. As they emerge from extended periods of economic restructuring, many large cities are searching for innovative, more effective ways to ...
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Chapters on key topics, including copyright, trademark, piracy, antitrust, censorship, international exhibition, contracts, labour and tax. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, Hollywood and the Law
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Research Interests: Engineering, Sociology, Linguistic Politeness, Environmental Studies, Environmental Communication, and 12 morePolitics, Celebrity Culture, Argumentation, Masculinities, Politeness theory, Multidisciplinary, Authoritarianism, Environmentalism, Humour Studies, Broadcast Talk, Conflict Talk, and Anti-Authoritarianism
Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented – from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into production, to the copyright laws that... more
Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented – from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into production, to the copyright laws that govern its distribution and the censorship laws that may block exhibition. Equally, Hollywood has left its own impression on the American legal system by lobbying to expand the duration of copyright, providing a highly visible stage for contract disputes and representing the legal system on screen.
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Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented – from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into production, to the copyright laws that... more
Since the earliest days of cinema the law has influenced the conditions in which Hollywood films are made, sold, circulated or presented – from the talent contracts that enable a film to go into production, to the copyright laws that govern its distribution and the censorship laws that may block exhibition. Equally, Hollywood has left its own impression on the American legal system by lobbying to expand the duration of copyright, providing a highly visible stage for contract disputes and representing the legal system on screen.
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Through development and analysis of a slate of film releases on the We Are Colony Video-On-Demand (VOD) platform, alongside contextual qualitative research, this project explores the value of additional materials as part of an innovative,... more
Through development and analysis of a slate of film releases on the We Are Colony Video-On-Demand (VOD) platform, alongside contextual qualitative research, this project explores the value of additional materials as part of an innovative, extended digital distribution approach to UK independent film. Project partners, Film London using the We Are Colony platform and researchers from Edge Hill University, wanted to explore how different VOD releases, supported by additional content, can deepen audience engagement, provide filmmakers with a better understanding of their online audience, and demonstrate potential for new digital business models. The research showcases a mix of potential new strategies for audience engagement and rights exploitation, as well as noting current barriers to adoption.
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In this chapter I consider the autonomy and independence of creative talent in the American film industry of the 1970s and 1980s, through a case study of the film director Hal Ashby.
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Drake explores the under-researched relationship between European film production and distribution, and examines a range of European policies designed to support film distribution, including digital and video-on-demand (VOoD)/Over-the-Top... more
Drake explores the under-researched relationship between European film production and distribution, and examines a range of European policies designed to support film distribution, including digital and video-on-demand (VOoD)/Over-the-Top (OTT) distribution. Significant focus has been placed on understanding production in European cinema; however, there has been a lack of scholarly analysis of distribution. The article offers an analysis of MEDIA programme support for distribution, presenting data across participating countries, and highlights differential forms of subsidies for pan-European film distribution. It concludes with an analysis of two recent European initiatives to support cross-border digital distribution: Walk This Way (WtW) and The TIDE Experiment, and considers how alternative forms of distribution across national boundaries (‘co-distributions’) might reach wider audiences through a combination of traditional and digital distribution platforms.
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Organised into eight sections - Approaches to Film and Politics; Film, Activism and Opposition; Film, Propaganda, Ideology and the State; The Politics of Mobility; Political Hollywood; Alternative and Independent Film and Politics; The... more
Organised into eight sections - Approaches to Film and Politics; Film, Activism and Opposition; Film, Propaganda, Ideology and the State; The Politics of Mobility; Political Hollywood; Alternative and Independent Film and Politics; The Politics of Cine-geographies and The Politics of Documentary.
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Chapters on key topics, including copyright, trademark, piracy, antitrust, censorship, international exhibition, contracts, labour and tax. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, Hollywood and the Law.
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In this paper I want to examine how pop music in film performs a sense of 'past-ness', and how this past-ness functions as an aesthetic and commercial strategy in contemporary Hollywood cinema. More specifically, what... more
In this paper I want to examine how pop music in film performs a sense of 'past-ness', and how this past-ness functions as an aesthetic and commercial strategy in contemporary Hollywood cinema. More specifically, what function does 'musical memory'perform in narrative film? ...
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Chapters on key topics, including copyright, trademark, piracy, antitrust, censorship, international exhibition, contracts, labour and tax. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, Hollywood and the Law
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This conference marked a coming of age for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). DiGRA was formed in 2002 following a series of discus-sions between researchers pursuing games-related research, predominantly in north-western... more
This conference marked a coming of age for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). DiGRA was formed in 2002 following a series of discus-sions between researchers pursuing games-related research, predominantly in north-western Europe and the USA. ...
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This article considers the format and cultural politics of the hugely successful UK television program Top Gear (BBC 2002–2015). It analyzes how—through its presenting team—it constructed an informal address predicated around... more
This article considers the format and cultural politics of the hugely successful UK television program Top Gear (BBC 2002–2015). It analyzes how—through its presenting team—it constructed an informal address
predicated around anti-authoritarian or contrarian banter and protest masculinity. Regular targets for Top Gear presenter’s protest—curtailed by broadcast guidelines in terms of gender and ethnicity—are deflected onto the “soft” targets of government legislation on environmental issues or various forms of regulation “red tape. Repeated references to speed cameras, central London congestion charges and “excessive” signage are all anti-authoritarian, libertarian discourses delivered
through a comedic form of performance address. Thus, the BBC’s primary response to complaints made about this program was to defend the program’s political views as being part of the humor. The article draws on critical discourse analysis and conversation analysis to consider how the program licensed a particular form of engagement that helped it to deflect criticisms, and considers the limits to such discursive positioning. We conclude by examining the controversies that finally led,
in 2015, to the removal of the main presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, and the ending of this version of the program through the departure of the team to an on-demand online television service.
predicated around anti-authoritarian or contrarian banter and protest masculinity. Regular targets for Top Gear presenter’s protest—curtailed by broadcast guidelines in terms of gender and ethnicity—are deflected onto the “soft” targets of government legislation on environmental issues or various forms of regulation “red tape. Repeated references to speed cameras, central London congestion charges and “excessive” signage are all anti-authoritarian, libertarian discourses delivered
through a comedic form of performance address. Thus, the BBC’s primary response to complaints made about this program was to defend the program’s political views as being part of the humor. The article draws on critical discourse analysis and conversation analysis to consider how the program licensed a particular form of engagement that helped it to deflect criticisms, and considers the limits to such discursive positioning. We conclude by examining the controversies that finally led,
in 2015, to the removal of the main presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, and the ending of this version of the program through the departure of the team to an on-demand online television service.
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... in Europe in 1960s, Petr Szczepanik's presentation on the function of the dramaturge in Czechoslovakian cinema and Alex Zons's work on ... Anna Zoellner's study of documentary production for... more
... in Europe in 1960s, Petr Szczepanik's presentation on the function of the dramaturge in Czechoslovakian cinema and Alex Zons's work on ... Anna Zoellner's study of documentary production for television in Germany and the UK and Dimitrinka Stoyanova's research in British ...
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This conference marked a coming of age for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). DiGRA was formed in 2002 following a series of discus-sions between researchers pursuing games-related research, predominantly in north-western... more
This conference marked a coming of age for the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). DiGRA was formed in 2002 following a series of discus-sions between researchers pursuing games-related research, predominantly in north-western Europe and the USA. ...
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Published by Nesta, Dec 2015
Funded by a Digiral R&D for the Arts Grant
Co-authors: Michael Frankline, Sarah Tierney, Deborath Sathe
Funded by a Digiral R&D for the Arts Grant
Co-authors: Michael Frankline, Sarah Tierney, Deborath Sathe