For the next session of PCTG, we’re remembering the late, great David Lynch through a discussion of the “Television Gothic”.
2 February 2025 by Rowe Georgina
Category: English Literature
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 29th Jan)
The next session of PCTG focuses on medievalism in popular culture, reading two short texts by Helen Young and Robert Utz.
21 January 2025 by Rowe Georgina
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 20th Nov)
The next session of PCTG is on Affect and Video Games, and we’ll be reading Paolo Ruffino’s ‘There is no cure: Paratexts as remediations of agency in Red Dead Redemption 2’.
12 November 2024 by Rowe Georgina
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 30th Oct)
The next session of PCTG discusses the modern vampire and their various generic connotations.
16 October 2024 by Rowe Georgina
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 2nd Oct)
In the first session of PCTG for the new academic year, we’ll be discussing Tzvetan Todorov’s ‘The Typology of Detective Fiction’.
20 September 2024 by Rowe Georgina
Page Breaks: Arts Sponsorship (3.30pm, Mon 15 July)
For our final Page Breaks of the year, we will be discussing arts sponsorship. We will be primarily looking at the recent controversy with Baillie Gifford, an investment management firm that invests heavily in the arts, particularly in literary festivals across the UK. At Hay Festival 2024, the literary festival was boycotted by authors and … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Arts Sponsorship (3.30pm, Mon 15 July)”
8 July 2024 by efa035
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 5th June)
PCTG will be back at the start of June to discuss queer podcasts and audio fiction.
25 May 2024 by Rowe Georgina
Page Breaks: Retellings (3pm, Mon 13 May, Zoom)
This week, we are moving to a later time and to Zoom for a change! We will be discussing ‘retellings’ or ‘revisions’: those films and TV shows that have been recently remade (Mr. and Mrs. Smith; One Day), as well as novels that rewrite old works, picking out ‘forgotten’ characters (Sandra Newman’s Julia – a … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Retellings (3pm, Mon 13 May, Zoom)”
8 May 2024 by efa035
Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 24th March)
Our next session will be on Wednesday 24th April, from 5-7pm, looking at Sara Ahmed’s ‘Complaint!’
16 April 2024 by Rowe Georgina
Page Breaks: Works Loved (12pm, Mon 22 April)
In ‘Works Loved’ sessions, we invite you to share a text that you enjoy or has been important to you. We’ll each share a text: this could be a poem that convinced us not to drop out as an undergraduate, a novel that suggested we might need to do an MA to understand it, or … Continue reading “Page Breaks: Works Loved (12pm, Mon 22 April)”
27 March 2024 by efa035