scholarly journals Christine Grandy . Heroes and Happy Endings: Class, Gender, and Nation in Popular Film and Fiction in Interwar Britain. Studies in Popular Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017. Pp. 242. $28.95 (paper).

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 420-422
Author(s):  
Michelle Tusan
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Film ◽  
Gender And Nation ◽  
Interwar Britain

Wonks and Warriors: Depictions of Government Professionals in Popular Film

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth A. Wielde ◽  
David Schultz
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Popular Film ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Perceived Reality ◽  
Recent Government

The importance of studying public service portrayals in popular film lies in theimportance of popular culture itself. Popular culture defines generations, both creating and reflecting trends. It provides a window to worlds that may otherwise be a mystery. Popular film messages merge with other media and environmental factors to form a perceived reality for many (Kelly and Elliott 2000).This article examines the depiction of non-elected public servants in movies. It seeks to identify how these individuals are depicted in film and to determine if there are any specific stereotypes or patterns that emerge regarding how Hollywood describes nonelected government officials. It will do this by undertaking a content analysis of a small sample of recent government-themed feature films, ones that have entered into the popular culture mainstream since the late 1980s and early 1990s, as well as certain earlier films that have entrenched themselves into the popular culture vernacular.

Perth Cultural Studies

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Stratton
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Popular Film ◽  
The United Kingdom

In the early 1980s Perth was probably the most important city in Australia for Cultural Studies. Through that decade many intellectuals who became leaders in Australian Cultural Studies and important players in Cultural Studies outside of Australia worked in Perth. Among them were John Fiske, John Frow, John Hartley, Tom O’Regan, Lesley Stern, Graeme Turner and, a decade later, Ien Ang. This essay discusses the presence of these academics in Perth and advances some reasons why Perth became so important to Cultural Studies in Australia. It also discusses the kind of Cultural Studies that became privileged in Perth and considers some of the reasons for this. Perth Cultural Studies in the 1980s was primarily text-based and focused on screen-related popular culture, especially television programs and popular film. Cultural Studies in Perth developed in a city thought of as marginal to Australia, in institutions that were either not universities or, in the case of Murdoch University, was a very new university, by cosmopolitan academics who mostly came from either elsewhere in Australia or from the United Kingdom.

‘Jesus! A Geriatric — That's All I Need!’: Learning to Come of Age with/in Popular Australian Film

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Gottschall
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
The Self ◽  
Popular Film ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Childhood And Youth ◽  
Powerful Means ◽  
Film Texts ◽  
To Come ◽  
Selection Of

Popular film texts are powerful means by which Western societies construct, maintain, protect and challenge concepts of childhood and youth-hood. As a context where audiences learn about the self, their culture, and their place within it, popular film is understood here as pedagogic, that is, as a space where key lessons about the formation of subjecthood might take place, and at what costs. This article takes into account scholarship on popular culture as pedagogy, challenging narrow notions of popular film as a simple transmission of knowledge. Focused on how pedagogies might be at work, this article explores the use of humour, repetition, otherness, becoming and sentimentality within a selection of Australian films, and how they orientate audiences towards knowing the youth subject in particular ways. Questions of generation and how it is constructed as a commonsense battle between ‘young’ and ‘old’ are considered through the coming of age films, The Rage in Placid Lake (2003), Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger (2008), Crackers (1998) and Spider & Rose (1994).

Phantasm of Freud: Nandor Fodor and the Psychoanalytic Approach to the Supernatural in Interwar Britain

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Joanna Timms
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Psychical Research ◽  
Psychoanalytic Approach ◽  
Ernest Jones ◽  
Interwar Britain

The paper examines the appearance of ‘psychoanalytic psychical research’ in interwar Britain, notably in the work of Nandor Fodor, Harry Price and others, including R. W. Pickford and Sylvia Payne. The varying responses of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones to the area of research are discussed. These researches are placed in the context of the increasingly widespead use of psychoanalytic and psychological interpretations of psychical events in the period, which in turn reflects the penetration of psychoanalysis into popular culture. The saturation of psychical research activity with gender and sexuality and the general fascination with, and embarrassment about, psychical activity is explored.

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