{"id":2533,"date":"2025-08-07T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=2533"},"modified":"2025-08-13T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:26:07","slug":"pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-13th-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2025\/08\/07\/pop-culture-theory-group-5pm-wed-13th-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Theory Group (5pm, Wed 13th August)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next session of PCTG centres on war in popular culture and fiction, and will take place on\u00a0Wednesday 13th August,\u00a05-7pm BST.\u00a0<br><br>The reading is a chapter by Petra Rau called &#8216;Violent Pleasures: War as Entertainment&#8217; from The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction (2014), pp. 254-267 which is available online via findit. <br><br>As always, if you don&#8217;t have time to read the chapter, please still come along, and we&#8217;ll be meeting both online and on-campus. To grab the info about the room booking or the zoom link, email Kit at\u00a0klr272@student.bham.ac.uk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/08\/Your-paragraph-text-1-724x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/08\/Your-paragraph-text-1-724x1024.png 724w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/08\/Your-paragraph-text-1-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/08\/Your-paragraph-text-1-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/08\/Your-paragraph-text-1-1086x1536.png 1086w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/08\/Your-paragraph-text-1-1448x2048.png 1448w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/08\/Your-paragraph-text-1.png 1587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 80th anniversary of VJ day, PCTG will be discussing war in popular fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2363,"featured_media":2537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-2533","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\/2533","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\/2363"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}