Tag: Pop Culture Theory Group

In the next session of PCTG, we’re discussing worldbuilding, the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, particularly from the perspective of geography.

The next session of PCTG focuses on queer activism, and we’ll be watching the second episode of ‘Visible: Out on Television’.

For the next session of PCTG, we’re remembering the late, great David Lynch through a discussion of the “Television Gothic”.

The next session of PCTG focuses on medievalism in popular culture, reading two short texts by Helen Young and Robert Utz.

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’.

The next session of PCTG discusses the modern vampire and their various generic connotations.

In the first session of PCTG for the new academic year, we’ll be discussing Tzvetan Todorov’s ‘The Typology of Detective Fiction’.

PCTG will be back at the start of June to discuss queer podcasts and audio fiction.

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.