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This edited volume focuses on the cultural production of knowledge
in the academy as mediated or presented through film and
television. This focus invites scrutiny of how the academy itself
is viewed in popular culture from The Chair to Terry Pratchett's
‘Unseen University’ and Doctor Who's Time Lord Academy
among others. Spanning a number of genres and key film and
television series, the volume is also inherently interdisciplinary
with perspectives from History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies,
STEM, and more. This collection brings together leading
experts in different disciplines and from different national
backgrounds. It emphasises that even at a point of mass, global
participation in higher education, the academy is still largely
mediated by popular culture and understood through the tropes
perpetuated via a multimedia landscape.
​This book considers how legal history has shaped and continues
to shape our shared present. Each chapter draws a clear and
significant connection to a meaningful feature of our lives today.
Focusing primarily on England and Australia, contributions show the
diversity of approaches to legal history’s relevance to the
present. Some contributors have a tight focus on legal decisions of
particular importance. Others take much bigger picture overview of
major changes that take centuries to register and where impact is
still felt. The contributors are a mix of legal historians,
practising lawyers, members of the judiciary, and legal academics,
and develop analysis from a range of sources from statutes and
legal treatises to television programs. Major legal personalities
from Edward Marshall Hall to Sir Dudley Ryder are considered, as
are landmarks in law from the Magna Carta to the Mabo Decision.
This edited collection encourages philosophical exploration of the
nature, aims, contradictions, promises and problems of the practice
of education within prisons around the world. Such exploration is
particularly necessary given the complex operational barriers to
education, and higher education in particular, within prison-based
teaching and learning. These operational barriers are matched by
cultural and polemical barriers, such as the criticism of diverting
resources to and spending money on prisoner education when the cost
of some education seems prohibitive for people outside prison. More
so than in other education contexts, prison education may fall
short of higher ideals because it is shot through with both
practical and moral-political problems and challenges, especially
in the age of global late capitalism, high technology and mass
incarceration or securitization. This book includes insights and
issues around a wide range of areas including: ethics, religion,
sociology, justice, identity and political and moral philosophy.
This book considers how legal history has shaped and continues to
shape our shared present. Each chapter draws a clear and
significant connection to a meaningful feature of our lives today.
Focusing primarily on England and Australia, contributions show the
diversity of approaches to legal history's relevance to the
present. Some contributors have a tight focus on legal decisions of
particular importance. Others take much bigger picture overview of
major changes that take centuries to register and where impact is
still felt. The contributors are a mix of legal historians,
practising lawyers, members of the judiciary, and legal academics,
and develop analysis from a range of sources from statutes and
legal treatises to television programs. Major legal personalities
from Edward Marshall Hall to Sir Dudley Ryder are considered, as
are landmarks in law from the Magna Carta to the Mabo Decision.
Armed with pistols and wearing jackboots, Bishop Henry Compton rode
out in 1688 against his King but in defence of the Church of
England and its bishops. His actions are a dramatic but telling
indication of what was at stake for bishops in early modern England
and Compton's action at the height of the Restoration was the
culmination of more than a century and a half of religious
controversy that engulfed bishops. Bishops were among the most
important instruments of royal, religious, national and local
authority in seventeenth-century England. While their actions and
ideas trickled down to the lower strata of the population, poor
opinions of bishops filtered back up, finding expression in public
forums, printed pamphlets and more subversive forms including
scurrilous verse and mocking illustrations. Bishops and Power in
Early Modern England explores the role and involvement of bishops
at the centre of both government and belief in early modern
England. It probes the controversial actions and ideas which
sparked parliamentary agitation against them, demands for religious
reform, and even war. Bishops and Power in Early Modern England
examines arguments challenging episcopal authority and the
counter-arguments which stressed the necessity of bishops in
England and their status as useful and godly ministers. The book
argues that episcopal writers constructed an identity as reformed
agents of church authority. Charting the development of this
identity over a hundred and fifty years, from the Reformation to
the Restoration, this book traces the history of early modern
England from an original and highly significant perspective. This
book engages with many aspects of the social, political and
religious history of early modern England and will therefore be key
reading for undergraduates and postgraduates, and researchers
working in the early modern field, and anyone who has an interest
in this period of history.
Armed with pistols and wearing jackboots, Bishop Henry Compton rode
out in 1688 against his King but in defence of the Church of
England and its bishops. His actions are a dramatic but telling
indication of what was at stake for bishops in early modern England
and Compton's action at the height of the Restoration was the
culmination of more than a century and a half of religious
controversy that engulfed bishops. Bishops were among the most
important instruments of royal, religious, national and local
authority in seventeenth-century England. While their actions and
ideas trickled down to the lower strata of the population, poor
opinions of bishops filtered back up, finding expression in public
forums, printed pamphlets and more subversive forms including
scurrilous verse and mocking illustrations. "Bishops and Power in
Early Modern England" explores the role and involvement of bishops
at the centre of both government and belief in early modern
England. It probes the controversial actions and ideas which
sparked parliamentary agitation against them, demands for religious
reform, and even war. "Bishops and Power in Early Modern England"
examines arguments challenging episcopal authority and the
counter-arguments which stressed the necessity of bishops in
England and their status as useful and godly ministers. The book
argues that episcopal writers constructed an identity as reformed
agents of church authority. Charting the development of this
identity over a hundred and fifty years, from the Reformation to
the Restoration, this book traces the history of early modern
England from an original and highly significant perspective. This
book engages with many aspects of the social, political and
religious history of early modern England and will therefore be key
reading for undergraduates and postgraduates, and researchers
working in the early modern field, and anyone who has an interest
in this period of history.
Globally, police officers are the object of unprecedented visual
scrutiny. The use of mobile phones, CCTV and personal body cams
means that police are not only being filmed on the job but are also
filming themselves. In popular culture, police have featured
heavily on the big screen since the era of silent shorts and on
television since the 1930s. Their fictional portrayals today take
on added significance in light of social unrest surrounding cases
of police brutality and discrimination. These essays explore 21st
century portrayals of police on film and television. Chapters often
emphasize the Black Lives Matter movement and consider the tone,
quality, appropriateness and intention of film and television
featuring police activity. Extensively covered works include
Mindhunter, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cops, Criminal Minds and RoboCop,
and among the major topics addressed are policing communities,
hunting serial killers, police animals, and police in historic
settings ranging from the 19th century through the present day and
into science fiction futures.
The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular
media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media
intersecting is the Edison phonographic recording of Florence
Nightingale's voice in 1890. Since then, a parade of nurses, good,
bad or otherwise, has appeared on both cinema and television
screens. How do we interpret the many different types of
nurses-real and fictional, lifelike and distorted, sexual and
forbidding-who are so visible in the public consciousness? This
book is a comprehensive collection of unique insights from scholars
across the Western world. Essays explore a diversity of nursing
types that traverse popular characterizations of nurses from
various time periods. The shifting roles of nurses are explored
across media, including picture postcards, film, television,
journalism and the collection and preservation of uniforms and
memorabilia.
Science has always been part of Doctor Who. The first episode
featured scenes in a science laboratory and a science teacher, and
the 2020 season's finale highlighted a scientist's key role in Time
Lord history. Hundreds of scientific characters, settings,
inventions, and ethical dilemmas populated the years in between.
Behind the scenes, Doctor Who's original remit was to teach
children about science, and in the 1960s it even had a scientific
advisor. This is the first book to explore this scientific
landscape from a broad spectrum of research fields: from astronomy,
genetics, linguistics, computing, history, sociology and science
communication through gender, media and literature studies.
Contributors ask: What sort of scientist is the Doctor? How might
the TARDIS translation circuit and regeneration work? Did the
Doctor change sex or gender when regenerating into Jodie Whittaker?
How do Doctor Who's depictions of the Moon and other planets
compare to the real universe? Why was the program obsessed with
energy in the 1960s and 1970s, Victorian scientists and sciences
then and now, or with dinosaurs at any time? Do characters like
Missy and the Rani make good scientist role models? How do Doctor
Who technical manuals and public lectures shape public ideas about
science?
Though it started as a British television show with a small but
devoted fan base, Doctor Who has grown in popularity and now
appeals to audiences around the world. In the fifty year history of
the program, Doctor Who's producers and scriptwriters have drawn on
a dizzying array of literary sources and inspirations. Elements
from Homer, classic literature, gothic horror, swashbucklers,
Jacobean revenge tragedies, Orwellian dystopias, Westerns and the
novels of Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh have all been woven into
the fabric of the series. One famous storyline from the mid-1970s
was rooted in the Victoriana of authors like H. Rider Haggard and
Arthur Conan Doyle, while another was a virtual remake of Anthony
Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda-with robots In Doctor Who and the Art
of Adaptation: Fifty Years of Storytelling, Marcus Harmes looks at
five decades of the show's frequent exploration of other sources to
create many memorable episodes.In this volume, Harmes observes that
adaptation in Doctor Who was not just a matter of transferring
literary works to the screen, but of bringing a diversity of texts
into dialogue with the established mythology of the series as well
as with longstanding science fiction tropes. In this process,
original stories are not just resituated, but transformed into new
works. Harmes considers what this approach reveals about
adaptation, television production, the art of storytelling, and the
long-term success and cultural resonance enjoyed by Doctor Who.
Doctor Who and the Art of Adaptation will be of interest to
students of literature and television alike, and to scholars
interested in adaptation studies. It will also appeal to fans of
the series interested in tracing the deep cultural roots of
television's longest-running, and most literate, science-fiction
adventure.
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