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  • The art of touch: A photo-essay 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Taylor and Francis, 2011)
    This photo-essay explores artworks and technology that deploy touch, either literally or virtually, in order to interrogate the nature of contemporary being and meaning.
  • The Body in the Text 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Melbourne University Press, 1995)
    It occurred to me only in hindsight that The Body in the Text seems like nothing so much as the title of a detective novel, or at least a critical exploration of detective novels as a genre. In working through th~any ...
  • Canonical iconoclasm : William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Australian Teachers of Media, 2007)
    A brief study of a canonical example of iconoclastic postmodernism in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is presented. It addresses the issue of authority that exemplifies changing attitudes to contemporary media and ...
  • Connexions 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (James Nicholas Publishers, 2006)
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  • Critical Dialogues 1 
    Chapman David; Wilson Louise; Cranny-Francis Anne (Macquarie University, 2008)
    Our collaborative sound art project is focused on the Falkland Estate in Fife, Scotland (to the north of Edinburgh) and has been slowly evolving following a series of visits over the last year, primarily funded by a research ...
  • Ecce techno, or, suiting the biomechanical platform: immersion and contemporary embodiment 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Sage, 2007)
    This article examines what happens in the experience of embodiment when a person is immersed or clad in technologies designed to redefine the edges and to extend the communicative capabilities of each individual body. The ...
  • Engendered Fiction: Analysing Gender in the Production and Reception of Texts 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (New South Wales University Press, 1992)
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  • Evaluation for Effective Web Communication: An Australian Example 
    Gillard Patricia; Cranny-Francis Anne (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002)
    The communications platform of the Internet and the World Wide Web has provided a new medium for disseminating the work of museums and cultural institutions. In this article, we argue that while we remain influenced by the ...
  • Fabric(ated) Ontologies: the biopolitics of smart design in clothing and jewellery 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (RMIT University, 2008)
    This paper exploresthe biopotiticsof smaf design as it is realised in contemporary smart clothing and jewellery. The discussion hinges on our understanding of the meanings of technology and of the relationship between ...
  • Feminist Fiction: Feminist Uses of Generic Fiction 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Cambridge UK and New York, 1990)
    One of the most innovative and interesting areas of contemporary literary production is feminist genre fiction - the feminist appropriation of the generic 'popular' literary forms, including science fiction, fantasy, utopian ...
  • From extension to engagement: mapping the imaginary of wearable technology 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Sage, 2008)
    This article maps the metaphors that have been used to facilitate human engagement with wearable technologies - extension, enhancement, augmentation - and locates the values and assumptions about the body and technology ...
  • The Ghost In/On The Machine: Magic, Technology And The "Modest Witness" 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Macquarie University, 2004)
    In her essay, "Modest_Witness@Second_ Millenium" Donna Haraway writes about the ?modest witness?, the scientific observer whose disinterested observation of phenomena is central to the scientific method. Haraway deconstructs ...
  • Mapping Cultural Auracy: The Sonic Politics of The Day the Earth Stood Still 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Routledge, 2007)
    Anna Kassabian writes in Hearing Film that 'classical Hollywood film music is a semiotic code, and that it can and should be subjected to various semiotic and cultural studies methods, such as discourse analysis and ideology ...
  • Mediating human-technology relationships: explorations of hybridity, humanity and embodiment in Doctor Who 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (University of Edinburgh, Graduate School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, 2009)
    The relationship between human beings and technology has been a regular concern of the television series, Doctor Who. Though its titular hero moves through space-time by means of advanced technology and he is by his ...
  • Moving the Matrix: kinesics, space and embodiment in the Matrix trilogy 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Wallflower Press, 2005)
    The Matrix (1999) is movement, establishing the kinesics that characterise the trilogy generally and make their viewing a breathtaking experience. From the opening scenes of the first film to the final battle between Neo ...
  • MultiMedia: Texts and Contexts 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Sage, 2005)
    This book provides an accessible and much needed introduction to the diversity of multimedia appearing and proliferating in our society. The phenomenal growth of multimedia has given rise to debates on the role of ...
  • Popular Culture 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Deakin University Press, 1994)
    This book is the product of many years close involvement with 'popular culture' as consumer-critic and teacher. I first became theoretically interested in popular culture while writing a Ph.D. on the work of William Morris, ...
  • Semefulness: A social semiotics of touch 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Taylor and Francis, 2011)
    This paper explores the multiple significances (semefulness) of touch, as experienced by us as embodied subjects.
  • Somatic Technologies: Embodiment, New Technologies and the Undead 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Macquarie University, 2006)
    After the publication of Donna Haraway's 'A Cyborg Manifesto' (Haraway 1991) the trope of the cyborg, already widely deployed in science fiction, became a major tool for critical analysis of the relationship between human ...
  • Sonic Assault to Massive Attack: touch, sound and embodiment 
    Cranny-Francis Anne (Macquarie University, 2008)
    In Dorothy L. Sayers¿ novel, The Nine Tailors (2003)the man whose death is being investigated by Lord Peter Wimsey is killed by sound. Accidentally locked in a church bell-chamber during a celebration New Year¿s change-ring ...