Heroes in Contemporary British Culture (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)

This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama. Drawing on case studies including programmes such as The Last Kingdom, Spooks, Luther and Merlin, the book explores the aesthetic strategies of heroisation in television drama and contextualises the programmes within British public discourses at the time of their production, original broadcasting and first reception. British television drama is a cultural forum in which contemporary Britain's problems, wishes and cultural values are revealed and debated. By revealing the tensions in contemporary notions of heroes and heroisms, television drama employs the heroic as a lens through which to scrutinise contemporary British society and its responses to crisis and change. Looking back on the development of heroic representations in British television drama over the last twenty years, this book's analyses show how heroisation in television drama reacts to, and reveals shifts in, British structures of feeling in a time marked by insecurity. The book is ideal for readers interested in British cultural studies, studies of the heroic and popular culture.

Business & Money

Korte, Barbara

Falkenhayner, Nicole

Industries

Routledge

Have you ever wondered why you're here? Do you want to understand life at a deeper level? Would you like to bring more guidance and magic into your life? 
Memoirs a MysticMisfit takes you and Barbara's intimate, memorable, and often times humorous journey to heal and transcend her life in ways most people couldn't imagine. Her incredible journey shares her interactions with an invisible teacher which guides her through past life visions, ghosts, a soul exchange, meeting the masters, and working with a group of Beings who are here to oversee the Earth's Ascension process. 
That work send her on an amazing global journey to gather her energy back from past lives, while helping to activate, clear and seed in the new era that is beginning to unfold on this planet. It also brought on incredible inter-dimensional experiences like visiting middle earth, interacting with UFOs and meeting Bigfoot, Fairies and Star Beings.

Memoirs of a Mystic Misfit: Healing Disfunction in Programming to Unlock Your Unlimited Potential

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Funky Chicken Publishing

The tilt of a head, the quirk of an eyebrow, or a shift in position can eloquently portray a wide range of emotions without a single word being spoken. Body language is a critical component of everyday communication, yet the importance of body language, or non-verbal communication, in such a verbal medium as literature has not been fully studied.In Body Language in Literature, Barbara Korte has produced an important interdisciplinary study, by establishing a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language.  By focusing major works of literature, including stories by D.H. Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and J.D. Salinger, Korte shows body language to be a vital, yet unexplored method of communication in literature.

Body Language in Literature (Theory / Culture)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

The tilt of a head, the quirk of an eyebrow, or a shift in position can eloquently portray a wide range of emotions without a single word being spoken. Body language is a critical component of everyday communication, yet the importance of body language, or non-verbal communication, in such a verbal medium as literature has not been fully studied.
In Body Language in Literature, Barbara Korte has produced an important interdisciplinary study, by establishing a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of the phenomenon in the English language. By focusing major works of literature, including stories by D.H. Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and J.D. Salinger, Korte shows body language to be a vital, yet unexplored method of communication in literature.

University of Toronto Press

Poverty in Contemporary Literature: Themes and Figurations on the British Book Market

Der englische Reisebericht: Von der Pilgerfahrt bis zur Postmoderne (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft

War correspondents are prominent actors in the media world. They took hold in the cultural imaginary soon after their profession had been created in the mid-19th century. With a particular focus on Britain, this study investigates the representation of war correspondents from Victorian times to the present, in memoirs, novels and films. Such representations react to prevailing notions that exist about war reporters and participate in their further construction. With its cultural approach, this book complements studies of war correspondents in media and communication studies, history and ethnology.

Represented Reporters: Images of War Correspondents in Memoirs and Fiction (Cultural and Media Studies)

Professionals & Academics

transcript publishing

Britain's recent historical culture is marked by a shift. As a consequence of new political directives, black history began to be mainstreamed into the realm of national history from the late 1990s onwards. Black History – White History assesses a number of manifestations of this new cultural historiography on screen and on stage, in museums and other accessible sites, emerging in the context of two commemorative events: the Windrush anniversary and the 1807 abolition bicentenary. It inquires into the terms on which the new historical programme could take hold, its sustainability and its representational politics.

Black History - White History: Britain's Historical Programme between Windrush and Wilberforce (History in Popular Cultures)

History

Pirker, Eva Ulrike

Europe

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