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Month: August 2017

Improving Passions
Film and TV

Sentimentalism and the Musical at Eurovision 2017

posted by Emma at EUP August 18, 20178 min read884 Views

The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest was won this year by Portugal’s entry, with a singer called Salvador Sobral, who sang…

Film and TV

American television and off-screen registers: a corpus-based comparison

posted by Ruth Campbell August 17, 20174 min read978 Views

In this post, Tony Berber Sardinha and Marcia Veirano Pinto detail their corpus based research on American television and off-screen…

Cultural Studies

OLR 40th Anniversary – Ann Smock

posted by Rebecca Wojturska August 15, 20171 min read798 Views

Welcome to the not-so-sunny days of August where, in the perpetual spirit of celebrating OLR’s 40th anniversary, we are sharing…

British History

Shining the spotlight on British cinema’s female stars

posted by Emma at EUP August 14, 20178 min read879 Views

Britain has long had a contradictory relationship to movie stardom, as two articles from the fan magazine Picturegoer, both by…

The Edinburgh Festivals
Cultural Studies

Celebrating 70 Years of the Edinburgh International Festival

posted by Emma at EUP August 11, 201713 min read895 Views

An extract from The Edinburgh Festivals: Culture and Society in Post-war Britain by Angela Bartie On Sunday 24 August 1947,…

Cultural Studies

Art, Literature and the Multilingual Spaces of post-Brexit Democracy

posted by Ruth Campbell August 7, 20177 min read1458 Views

The notion of “sovereignty” has been made central to the debate heading toward Brexit, but what does it mean? Does…

Religion

George Mackay Brown and the Scottish Catholic Imagination

posted by Emma at EUP August 7, 20175 min read988 Views

What do you imagine when you think about great Catholic art? Perhaps you call to mind the gilded pages of…

Scottish History

Scottish Migration Since 1600

posted by Emma at EUP August 4, 20174 min read854 Views

Migration today is an increasingly contentious, even toxic, issue. It is being held responsible for Brexit, the coming to power…

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