Dr Lauren Alex O’Hagan explores the overlooked literary depth of Rory Gallagher’s lyrics, arguing for their place within a unique hardboiled blues tradition.
Sunday 19th of February 2017 saw the launch of the BBC’s most recent big budget television drama SS-GB, a dystopian vision of Britain under Nazi occupation. With it, came the re-ignition of the debate surrounding mumbling actors and unintelligible dialogue…
The HBO TV series, The Wire, is well known for capturing a realistic slice of Baltimore life in and around the city’s drug trade. The show is considered to be more in touch with the world it portrays than previous…