World Politics and Popular Culture at Newcastle

31/07/2019

https://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/dr-matt-davis-on-his-experience-of-rio-and-his-research/

Dr Matt Davies worked with Cap-a-Pie to create a new audio show The Other City. Rio has famously, though misleadingly,...

30/12/2017

Popular Culture! https://youtu.be/-mmnYlbc_dE

01/12/2017

26/11/2017

There are a lot of good examples of skilled pop culture analysis on YouTube -- this one explores intertextuality.

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07/10/2017

A sophisticated and tightly organised troll army has spent the last three months championing a ‘patriotic revolution’, writes Julia Ebner of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue

07/10/2017

A new Phaidon book by Nicholas Bonner offers new insight into the isolated society’s visual culture

20/09/2017

https://youtu.be/8DgH5_UDq0E

This month, Marvel debuts its first ever Nigerian superhero, Ngozi. The 8-page comic, called “Blessing in Disguise”, is written by award-wining science ficti...

12/09/2017

https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Resistance-9-11-and-the-War-on-Terror-Sensible-Interventions/Chao/p/book/9781138710887

Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the critical lens of cultural resistance. It…

30/08/2017

The programme is now available and registration is open. Come to Newcastle!

23-25 November, 2017

30/08/2017

Like predecessors from Eve to Hillary Clinton, the star fell foul of an ancient narrative that discredits women, says freelance writer Brian O’Flynn

10/08/2017

https://medium.com//sadly-m-i-a-s-pop-stardom-and-the-age-of-obama-didn-t-live-forever-8432e5dd5a89

02/08/2017

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/aug/02/sacre-bleu-why-franco-belgian-comic-book-movies-are-more-fun-than-marvel-and-dc

Home-grown superheroes may rule over Hollywood, but French and Belgian comic-book adaptations are often stranger and sexier than their US counterparts