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Opening Negotiations – Page 2 – British Culture in the Cold War

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British Culture in the Cold War. January 10, 2016. January 10, 2016. 8220;Spying on Spies” Day 2b: Of welfare capitalism and sunglasses indoors. Continued with a panel I chaired, on Len Deighton – which saw a mix of socio-cultural, literary and film studies approaches to the writer’s work. First up was Laura Crossley. Lord of the Rings. Trilogy. She has written a paper. That I really should read:‘Indicting Americana: how Max Ophu ls exposed the American Dream in. Her paper on the film of. And then she id...

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tommay270982 – Opening Negotiations

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Lecturer, writer, distinctly amateur footballer. December 30, 2016. December 30, 2016. Caught in the contrived timelessness trap: THE CROWN (TV series review). THE CROWN – series one. Queen Mary to Elizabeth II,. Monarchy is God’s sacred mission to grace and dignify the earth, to give ordinary people an ideal to strive towards, an example of nobility and duty you are answerable to God, not the public. Budget augments and does not overwhelm thoughtful screenwriting from Peter Morgan. [5]. The LRB describe...

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Our man in the cinema: Graham Greene, popular culture, underdogs and the Left – Opening Negotiations

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June 28, 2016. Our man in the cinema: Graham Greene, popular culture, underdogs and the Left. In Graham Greene’s 1973 novel. Argentinian love-interest Clara knows ‘the latest dope about a woman called Elizabeth Taylor’, while the honorary consul Charley Fortnum shows his lack of popular cultural capital: ‘a fellow called Burton? I always thought Burton was a kind of beer.’ [1]. Which he was reading in 1922 when he started at Oxford University. [2]. 1924), Lang’s. The Balcon children all speak of a home w...

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“Spies on British Screens” Day 3: Of Whicker, reassuring hawks and burning Londons – Opening Negotiations

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December 30, 2016. 8220;Spies on British Screens” Day 3: Of Whicker, reassuring hawks and burning Londons. Sunday 19th June 2016. Following an enjoyable, inevitably seafood-including meal near Plymouth Harbour and drinks til late, I must admit to being very tired open entering Day 3 of the conference, but just about made it through. Last year. Moreira explained some further influence of Portugal on Bond, with Guincho Beach proving a setting in. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. You Only Live Twice. This d...

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“Spies on British Screens” Day 2: Of female agents, Gizmos, Holmes and Eminent Dragons – Opening Negotiations

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December 23, 2016. December 23, 2016. 8220;Spies on British Screens” Day 2: Of female agents, Gizmos, Holmes and Eminent Dragons. Friday 18th June 2016. The Liverpudlian Cat Mahoney. Northumbria University) began proceedings with an analysis of the TV version of Marvel’s. Is/was Peggy a new popular feminist hero? Next was a connected paper: Laura Crossley. Edge Hill University, Liverpool), dissecting differing manifestations of Peter O’Donnell’s. 1994) was later to allude to it, with Travolta’s character...

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A vital corrective: A UNITED KINGDOM (2016) – Opening Negotiations

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December 24, 2016. A vital corrective: A UNITED KINGDOM (2016). The hit Netflix’s series. 8211; in many ways admirable stuff – almost entirely omits non-whites from Britain’s story; Kenyans feature more as backdrop figures than as agents themselves. British-Nigerian historian David Olusoga has recently presented. Black and British: A Forgotten History. On the BBC. Oxford-born black British actor David Oyelowo pronounced: ‘People of colour have been expunged from Britain’s history’. [2]. I remember waking...

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“Spying on Spies” Day 3: Of British dystopias and battleaxes – Opening Negotiations

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January 11, 2016. 8220;Spying on Spies” Day 3: Of British dystopias and battleaxes. The final day of the conference began, with my delivering my paper on Dennis Potter’s ‘Traitor’ – downloadable here. It was not quite an easy task doing this first thing at 9.30am, after a fair few drinks the previous evening… but ample practice and the excellent conference facilities made it all a relative breeze. Following my 21-minute ‘oratory’, was Paul Lynch. Defence of the Realm. Is considered as a sort of British.

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“Spies on British Screens” Day 1: Lucky eyes, communist maths teachers and the politics of quiche – Opening Negotiations

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July 12, 2016. 8220;Spies on British Screens” Day 1: Lucky eyes, communist maths teachers and the politics of quiche. This piece is a fuller, more rambling expansion of the piece I have written here. I wasn’t quite sure they were so interested in the 1950s boffin, ‘Father Stanley Unwin’ and Glasgow locations standing in for Czechoslovakia (and there was a word limit)! On a pleasant Friday morning (17/06/2016), the. Spies on British Screens. From Russia with Love. And the anti-Bond complexities of. Among ...

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Conference paper: Not so ‘Special’ a Relationship? Cold War geopolitical history in the 1983 adaptation of Graham Greene’s “The Honorary Consul” – Opening Negotiations

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July 6, 2016. July 6, 2016. Conference paper: Not so ‘Special’ a Relationship? Cold War geopolitical history in the 1983 adaptation of Graham Greene’s “The Honorary Consul”. To read and / or download my paper, which I delivered at Plymouth University three Sundays ago; it concerns the 1983 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s. This was part of the excellent. Spies on British Screens. Posted in Adaptation studies. Spies on British Screens. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. 8220;Spies on B...

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The contested politics of Graham Greene on film: the critical reception and context of The Honorary Consul (1983) – Opening Negotiations

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July 4, 2016. July 4, 2016. The contested politics of Graham Greene on film: the critical reception and context of The Honorary Consul (1983). This article seeks to supplement my academic paper on the 1983 film adaptation of Graham Greene’s own favourite of his novels. Giving more detailed attention to the critical reception it received, some further narrative history of its production and focusing on the contexts of the personnel involved. His own and others’ worst critic: Greene, cinema and adaptations.