Here in Mexico City, the lockdowns that readers are experiencing are not new. Chilang@s had one just a decade ago because of swine flu. But other things are different. Primarily, the current Mexican government is conventionally characterized by the Anglo bourgeois media as a populist left-wing administration. That’s actually nonsense.
The online edition of the Cambridge Dictionary [i] states that ‘cultural appropriation’ is ‘the act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect this culture’. And – quite possibly – there’s a lot more of that going on in the way of watching television than there ever used to be. As I think I mentioned before, I’m rather fond of jazz (even if nobody’s ever really
In 2016, Netflix committed to “doubling down on kids and families” [1] through increased child and family-oriented Originals [2]. Netflix’s most successful and well-known Original series, Stranger Things , (2016- ) significantly contributed to the creation of a new middle ground of shared family viewing in the subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) ecology, in which Netflix resists broadcast TV approaches to family
Like many of you, I am now stuck at home, as my University has become a shimmering new constituent college of the virtual campus.
“█████ turns up in series ███ doesn’t he?” “Oh… for hump’s sake!” [ii] “Sorry… I thought you know.” That was a brief domestic conversation with my wife last night. We’re well-suited and very lucky and very █████ed in that respect.
Given the opportunity to talk about Veronica Mars, you’re going to have to stop me by the third hour. I’ll thrust my DVD boxset onto anyone and everyone. I was jumping out of my seat at the announcement of season 4, and then quietly pretending it never happened.
Described as a “make-under” reality show, Snog Marry Avoid has been subject to scholarly debate and public criticism for equating “middle-class taste with a ‘natural’, desirable state of being” (Murphy, 2012, p.1). This blog will explore if transformational makeover TV enforces Western beauty stereotypes on a diverse British audience, with particular reference to industrial contexts and feminist readings of the texts.
The Great Pottery Throwdown (More4, BBC2, 2015-) is, with its playful filth and flair, the very best of British television. It is unrelentlessly joyful, a triumph of quaint skill and beauty, and a simple celebration in the delight of hobbies. The show’s format derives straight from the giants of GBBO, but whereas the smells and taste of baked goods are trapped by television, pottery makes the perfect on screen subject.
“Excuse me, is it Andrew Pixley?” Yes. Hello. “I hope you don’t mind me coming over, but I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your books –” Viewing notes. “- sorry, viewing notes for the Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969-1974) [i] blu-rays.
Can I be honest? Despite the fact that I’ve watched it for as long as I can remember, and have spent a considerable amount of cash on its various related merchandise over the years, I don’t really like to identify as a Doctor Who fan.