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A Window on the World: June 2013

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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Friday, 7 June 2013. Fun for all the family? I don't know how they have the nerve! The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'. BBC-1, TX: 14/12/1988 - 04/01/1989). It's always been a part of me, for as long as I can remember, really. I enjoyed Star Trek Into Darkness. Unlike i...

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A Window on the World: July 2011

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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Sunday, 17 July 2011. Coronation Street (ITV1, 04/07/2011). Where better to start than with the longest-running British soap opera, set in the bizarre netherworld of Weatherfield. For example.' ( Chavs: the Demonisation of the Working Class. Verso, 2011, p.132).

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A Window on the World: April 2011

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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Thursday, 21 April 2011. Play for Today #003: The Lie. TX: 29/10/1970 (dir. Alan Bridges, w. Ingmar Bergman, trans. Paul Britten Austin). We have to be able to lie to live together.". And - for me, more affectingly - The Entertainer. 23/10/1970, p.15). 23/10/1970)&#4...

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A Window on the World: January 2014

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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Wednesday, 22 January 2014. Pissing in Duchamp's Urinal: Arts Television in the Early Nineties. TX: Channel 4, 13/05/1992. The South Bank Show. TX: ITV, 05/01/1992. Paul Morley to Brian Eno: "You're good at lying aren't you? Lynne Truss attacked the 'stream of gabble...

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A Window on the World: March 2011

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A Window on the World. The very simplicity of the concept of "giving the public what it wants", and its too frequent use by those whose professional skill is cajolery of the simple-minded, should make us suspicious.' - Sir Hugh Greene, 1962. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. 10 O'Clock Live (Channel 4, 24/03/2011). The problem for me is not that it is left-wing - which it is, in a lukewarm Guardianista. Manner - but that it is all so predictable. Brooker's bits are very much News Wipe. Lauren Laverne is okay, ac...

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Between Sympathy and Detachment: November 2010

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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Tuesday, 9 November 2010. I am currently revisiting Raymond Carney's. American vision: The films of Frank Capra. And in the chapter 'Frank Capra and American Romanticism', Carney offers a quotation from Emerson's 'The Divinity School Address' which I also feel compelled to reproduce:. Links to this post. Monday, 8 November 2010. I got to see. For the piece where praise multiplied by prestige of outlet is highest). In the case of. Has repeatedly been drawn in reviews, one ...

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Between Sympathy and Detachment: Archives, libraries, television and television studies

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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Thursday, 22 December 2011. Archives, libraries, television and television studies. So I was sorting through and shelving those lovely old objects too. That have found their way into my office, at the same time that I simply enjoyed the weight of the objects, and holding these things that had been in the world longer than me in my hands, I absorbed material and made connections that I do not think I would have if I had been accessing Screen. S digital holdings would uncov...

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Between Sympathy and Detachment: Small, Striking Moments: The Corner and The Wire

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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Sunday, 15 August 2010. Small, Striking Moments: The Corner and The Wire. The HBO ‘miniseries’ The Corner. 2000) is now predominantly viewed and marketed as a warm-up or sketch for The Wire. 8217;), but he returns the greeting before it has even finished in a tone that ends the conversation, and moves past the frame without breaking his stride. Thus do we see figures variously frustrate the curiosity of the camera by doing nothing, turning around, and ploughing onwards.

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Between Sympathy and Detachment: November 2009

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Between Sympathy and Detachment. Sunday, 22 November 2009. Three pieces that have caught my eye lately. I'm still gearing up and gathering sources before I write a blog about some things that are currently going on in higher education, but this week two people independently drew my attention to this quite long but exceedingly eloquent article. Collini asks these questions and many more in an impassioned and engaging fashion. 2 Mobile phones in Iraq. A fascinating short article. About Alan McKee, a profes...