A sweep across Gramsci, Ruskin, Althusser, Lukács, Hoggart to explore, as Stuart Hall said, how cultural studies within a Marxist tradition enables us “to understand culture – cultural discourse – the place and relationship of the ideological.”
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On Friday 7th November 2014, Manchester Metropolitan University and the Centre for the Study of Football and its Communities hosted a conference entitled ‘Football and Culture 2014.’ The event aimed to explore the relationship and interaction between football and wider…
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Biographical films like Selma, Diana, 12 Years a Slave and Lincoln claim to be based on real life events. But what makes a good or a bad biopic? And as fashions change in biography, what do we want from the biopic genre?
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‘You don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows’, sang Bob Dylan. Rod Stoneman was in New York when Hurricane Sandy struck. In this post he revisits the shrill media versions of the storm, and considers whether…
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