{"id":2285,"date":"2023-11-28T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2023-11-28T18:07:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:07:49","slug":"pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-6th-dec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2023\/11\/28\/pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-6th-dec\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 6th Dec)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Our next session will be on Wednesday 6<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;December, from 5-7pm GMT.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following a discussion at the end of the last session, it was decided that we all fancied something festive before we break up for the holidays, so I decided we&#8217;d focus on&nbsp;<strong>TV Christmas specials<\/strong>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your task, if you choose to accept it, is to read (at least some of) &#8216;\u201cA Very Supernatural Christmas\u201d as Nostalgic Holiday Special&#8217; by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr &#8211; which is ostensibly about Supernatural (2005-2020), but also discusses standard Christmas special tropes &#8211; and come to the session with an example of a TV Christmas special that you hold dear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have time to read the chapter, we&#8217;d still love to see you! For access to the reading, zoom details, and info on the room booking, email Georgie at <a href=\"mailto:gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk\">gxr697@student.bham.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-1024x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-1024x500.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/10\/Pop-Cult-Header.png 1230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fortnight&#8217;s session focuses on TV Christmas specials, where we&#8217;ll discuss the standard tropes and some of our favourites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-lit","tag-pctg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}