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Edited by Holger Pötzsch & Philip Hammond War/Game: Studying Relations Between Violent Conflict, Games, and Play by Holger Pötzsch, Philip Hammond War and games are intrinsically connected. The present editorial maps the war/game nexus, locates the issue in academic discourse, and briefly introduces each contribution included in …
A RECOGNITION OF THE INTENSE ROLE WAR TRAUMA PLAYED IN THE GREAT WRITER’S CHARACTERS AND LEGACY War Noir Raymond Chandler and the Hard-Boiled Detective as Veteran in American Fiction By Sarah Trott University Press of Mississippi ISBN 978-1-4968-0864-6, hardback $65 The conflation of the hard-boiled style and war experience has …
This is a two day conference to be held at Newcastle and Northumbria Universities (30-31 March 2017) which will explore the relationship between conflict and materiality. We are pleased to welcome Professor Nicholas Saunders (University of Bristol) and Dr Julie Gottlieb (University of Sheffield) as our keynote speakers. We will …
A special issue on ‘The Media and the Military’ co-edited by Professor John Corner and Dr Katy Parry is now available at the Media, Culture & Society website [hyperlink: http://mcs.sagepub.com/content/39/1?etoc] The issue uses the idea of ‘the military’, rather than ‘war’ or ‘conflict’ in order to place a focus on …
Presented by Poems on the Underground and the Apollo Chamber Players, Conductor David Chernaik Including a new piece by Evelyn Ficarra: War Poems : the dead returning lightly dance for mixed ensemble and recorded sound Wed Nov 2nd, 2016, 6.30pm for 7pm London Transport Museum, Cubic Theatre and Foyer, Covent Garden http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/events-calendar#pityofwar This new …
By Sarah Maltby Visit the book website Sarah Maltby is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the School of Media, Film and Music, Sussex University. Follow Sarah @warandmedia The Book Remembering the Falklands War: Media, Memory, Identity offers an empirically informed understanding of how identity and agency become wholly embedded within practices …
University of Brighton College of Arts and Humanities present the third annual Graphic Brighton symposium with its 2016 theme of Conflict and Resolution, to connect with the Great War Centenary. The symposium is aimed at scholars, creators, publishers and readers of sequential narratives, and follows successful conferences in 2014 and 2015 which featured such guests …
The War & Media Studies Special Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies invites submissions to its 2016 Graduate Student Writing Award. A $100 cash prize will be awarded to the outstanding essay on any topic related to war and media studies. The award panel will consist of the …
Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film New Book by Phyllis Lassner Espionage and Exile demonstrates that from the 1930s through the Cold War British writers Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, John le Carré, Pamela Frankau and filmmaker Leslie Howard combine propaganda and popular entertainment to call for resistance to …
This new Channel 4 documentary about the Calling Blighty project will be shown on Sunday 26th June at 8pm on Channel 4. Made by Oxford Scientific Films, the programme introduces us to five of the families the project found and reveals their amazing stories. All comments welcome at blighty@mmu.ac.uk About the Project Calling Blighty is …
Organised by the University of Brighton in association with the Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove Speakers include: Steve Bell, political cartoonist Martin Rowson, political cartoonist Professor Ian Haywood, University of Roehampton This event will also include a curatorial introduction to the caricature collection held at the Royal Pavilion …
New Book Edited by Petra Rau Click here for more information and to order Few countries attribute as much importance to the Second World War and its memory as Britain; arguably nowhere else has this conflict developed such longevity in cultural memory and retained such presence in contemporary culture. Long Shadows is …
