The ‘creativity challenge’: fears and opportunities
28/11/2013
One of the privileges of working as part of the Institute for Screen Industries Research (ISIR) is to witness first hand one of the most dramatic shifts of power in the history of the film industry, namely the growth in influence and importance of China as a film market. Since we have been lucky enough …
Alice Munro: Nobel Laureate
14/10/2013
‘It was anarchy she was up against – a devouring muddle. Sudden holes and impromptu tricks and radiant vanishing consolations.’ (Alice Munro, Open Secrets) The award of the Nobel Prize to Canadian short story writer Alice Munro (b. 1931) has been greeted with pleasure by admirers from around the globe. Munro’s artistry is appreciated equally …
Gibraltar: More than ‘Britain in the Sun’
12/08/2013
On the back of successful viewing figures, Channel 5 has lost little time in commissioning a second series of its fly-on-the-wall documentary ‘Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun‘. Notwithstanding the personal trials and tribulations of the individuals featured in the programme, the overall picture presented of Gibraltar is overwhelmingly positive. Glossy production values, quick edits, overlapping …
Malaysia’s General Election Stand-off: Will the revolution be web-streamed?
22/05/2013
Malaysia’s general election on 5th May has seen the world’s longest-incumbent elected government claim another term of office, yet appears also to have radically, perhaps permanently, altered the country’s political culture. After the closest and most bitter electoral contest in national history, the victory of the Barisan Nasional coalition, in power since 1957, has been …
General Election 13 in Malaysia: The view from UNMC
04/05/2013
Following on the success of the University’s Tri-Campus Language Teaching Conference in September, a second gathering of staff working in Modern Languages and Cultures from all three University of Nottingham campuses was held in Malaysia last week. A UK delegation, led by Professor Judith Still, Head of the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, …
The New Pope and Latin America
21/03/2013
Had a Latin American been elected Pope in 1978 (when John Paul II was chosen), he would probably have been someone influenced by the politically progressive ‘Liberation Theology’ which (declaring ‘an option for the poor’) then dominated Church thinking there. Now, however, the election of Argentina’s Jorge Bergoglio (as Francis I), following three decades of …
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