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Category: Cultural Studies

Photo of Lionel Messi kicking a football at the World Cup
Cultural Studies

Sublime goals? Sport and the egalitarian sublime

posted by Naomi Farmer December 6, 20198 min read44 Views

James Williams argues that one of the main lessons of the search for an egalitarian sublime is that exceptional achievements in sports should not be called ‘sublime’.

Marley's-ghost
Cultural Studies

Christmas hauntings

posted by Carla Hepburn December 4, 20193 min read39 Views

Catherine Belsey discusses our love for ghost stories. Follow her on a spine-tingling journey of our facination with Christmas hauntings.

Photograph of ruins in the Nagorno-Karabakh region as a result of the Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict
International Relations

A forgotten rivalry in the Caucasus: 30 years of Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict

posted by Zuzana IHNATOVA December 4, 20198 min read46 Views

Laurence Broers writes on the 30-year Armenian–Azerbaijani conflict: one of the most embittered territorial disputes in the world.

cover detail from Evolution Before Darwin
British History

Henry H. Cheek

posted by Anna Glazier December 3, 20195 min read44 Views

Bill Jenkins introduces us to the short life and tragic death of Henry H. Cheek, a pre-Darwinian evolutionist. At the…

Cultural Studies

An interview with Wyatt Moss-Wellington, author of ‘Narrative Humanism’ and co-editor of ‘ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze’

posted by Zuzana IHNATOVA November 27, 201910 min read196 Views

Wyatt Moss-Wellington is Assistant Professor in Media and Communication Studies at The University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. He is the…

Filmmakers_Philosopher
Film and TV

Philosophical Filmmaking is Alive and Well in Russia: Three Russia-Based Directors with Roots in Philosophy

posted by Carla Hepburn November 21, 20196 min read141 Views

Alyssa DeBlasio The Russian novel has long been synonymous with philosophical literature. These are the unwieldy and existentially thick novels…

Film and TV

“One Day More”: Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests

posted by Kirsty Crosbie October 30, 20198 min read347 Views

“One Day More”: Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests

Tom Ue discusses the relation between Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests

The Stillness of Solitude
Film and TV

An interview with Michelle Devereaux, author of ‘The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film’

posted by Emma at EUP October 4, 20199 min read292 Views

The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film is available now in the Traditions in American Cinema series….

Film and the Imagined Image
Film and TV

Imagining with Film

posted by Emma at EUP September 27, 20195 min read337 Views

By Sarah Cooper I revisited my local Odeon cinema in London recently, just prior to receiving the advance copies of…

Elijah and Craig
Film and TV

Celebrating 20 Years of Spike Jonze’s ‘Being John Malkovich’

posted by Emma at EUP September 24, 20195 min read287 Views

By Kim Wilkins This year marks the twentieth anniversary of Spike Jonze’s first feature film, Being John Malkovich. Until Being John…

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