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Month: May 2011

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onMay 27, 2011

All Watched Over By Machines – Adam Curtiz, BBC2 documentary

The televisual essayist and social documentarian and Adam Curtis has just slipped out another fascinating series on BBC2. If the first episode ‘Love and Power’ is anything to go by, it’s going to be a great ride. Curtis has a Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onMay 24, 2011

“I Have Admired You for Many Years”: Fandom and the Performance of Identity

Why fans of different celebrities behave in such similar ways? The 1999 documentary feature film A Conversation with Gregory Peck contained footage of the classic screen icon’s retirement tour of America. For much of the film, Peck recounts tales from Continue Reading …

By Dr M Duffett / Posted onMay 24, 2011

In the Shadow of Your Rattan Cane – On Modern Times (1936)

Here is your pop quiz challenge for the day… What have the following people got in common: Nat King Cole, his daughter Natalie, Rod Stewart, Barbara Streisand, Petula Clark, the late great Michael Jackson and cast of Glee? They all Continue Reading …

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