Author: Rowe Georgina

Our next session will be on Wednesday 24th April, from 5-7pm, looking at Sara Ahmed’s ‘Complaint!’

This week we’ll be discussing adaptation theory via Julie Sanders’ Adaptation and Appropriation.

This week we’ll be thinking about the portrayal of Ancient Egypt in heavy metal music.

This week we’ll be thinking about Queer Theory via film studies, in celebration of LGBTQ+ history month.

In our next session, we’ll be looking at Sound Studies, through the lens of video games.

This fortnight’s session focuses on TV Christmas specials, where we’ll discuss the standard tropes and some of our favourites.

For our next session, we’ll be reading Nirmala Erevelles’s open access article ‘Thinking with Disability Studies’.

We’ll be discussing Fandom Studies via Henry Jenkins’ Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture.

Next session: Wednesday 18th October, 5-7pm We’ll be discussing Genre Theory via Tzvetan Todorov’s essay ‘The Origin of Genres’, but please come along even if you don’t have time to read it. Contact Georgie at gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk for access to the reading, along with location details and the zoom link.