{"id":2470,"date":"2025-02-19T09:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2025-02-19T09:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T09:53:19","slug":"pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-26th-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/02\/19\/pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-26th-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 26th Feb)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The next session of Pop Culture Theory Group will focus on queer activism, to tie in with this year&#8217;s LGBTQIA+ History Month theme, and in collaboration with ROLES, UoB&#8217;s sexuality and gender studies network.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the session, we&#8217;ll be watching the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/gb\/episode\/television-as-a-tool\/umc.cmc.1u80weyc2q64oi0n62pof7xzi?showId=umc.cmc.1zkna505r4jre6fh7mjcncio0\">second episode of\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/gb\/episode\/television-as-a-tool\/umc.cmc.1u80weyc2q64oi0n62pof7xzi?showId=umc.cmc.1zkna505r4jre6fh7mjcncio0\">Visible: Out on Television<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(2020), a documentary made for Apple TV+. If you fancy some light reading between now and then, we have a recommendation from ROLES: Julia Himberg&#8217;s &#8216;The Television-Industrial Closet&#8217;, from\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/birmingham-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/f\/19a9mc5\/TN_cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9781000862522\">Television Studies in Queer Times<\/a><\/em>, which discusses the documentary.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Content warning: in the documentary, queerphobia including violence and death; in the reading, references to suicide. During the session, you&#8217;re welcome to leave the room at any point if you need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As always, to grab the info about the room booking or zoom link, email Georgie @\u00a0<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>The next session of PCTG focuses on queer activism, and we&#8217;ll be watching the second episode of &#8216;Visible: Out on Television&#8217;.<\/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-2470","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\/2470","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=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/2472"}],"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=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}