We are Lady Parts
BoB playlist of Channel 4’s comedy about a Muslim female punk band. Shows Islam with all its nuance and humanity. Contains very strong language.
Big Boys
A playlist of the Channel 4 comedy series, Big Boys, is available at https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/playlists/404470 It deals with friendship at university, is funny and moving in equal measure and has positive messages about sexuality and men’s mental health. Contains adult themes, drug-abuse and strong language.
Banned Books and Academic Freedom
Sage has launched a new collection of free-to-read research of articles from its academic journals highlighting the effects of academic censorship on democracy, social-emotional learning, higher education, and more.Categories in the collection include:
Connecting Africa
Connecting-Africa is supported by the Netherlands African Studies Association (NVAS). It provides free access to digital resources on Africa. Full-text of publications, images and sound from institutional repositories many based in African nations.
Drag up Chinese film
A project led by University of Nottingham and Queer China explores non-western drag culture, looking specifically at its role in the Chinese community. View Drag up!, a documentary based on the ‘Decolonising Drag: Engaging Queer Chinese Community through Art and Performance’ project, May-July 2023, directed by Qianlin Wang, UK, 2023. Running time 52 minutes 24 […]
LGBTQ+ plus heritage on Europeana
LGBTQ+ exhibitions, biographies and images on this cultural site which draws on the collections of national libraries from European nations. As the site puts it “queer stories, narratives and cultural heritage from all around Europe”.
Norwich Women’s Film Weekend: online archive
The Norwich Women’s Film Weekend (or NWFW) was a two-day annual event created by Cinewomen that ran for 10 years, from 1979 to 1989, at Cinema City in Norwich. The NWFW lasted longer than any other women’s film festival in the UK. In 2021 the NWFW archive was deposited with Norfolk Heritage Centre and in […]
Media History Digital Library has expanded
This free online resource, led by Eric Hoyt and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research provides free access to thousands of pages of old magazines and journals covering the history of film, radio and TV. It includes Hollywood trade journals and fan magazines. Also recently added are some sections on early Chinese cinema […]
Say my name right
Say my Name Right is a shareable resource developed by Dr Hannah Deakin-Smith and Dr Jane Pilcher of Nottingham Trent University. It draws on findings from the Say My Name research project funded by the British Academy which explored the impact on students of staff avoiding saying their name or mispronouncing it. It emphasizes how important it is for staff to learn how to […]
Mass media and propaganda in 20th century Europe
Latest new exhibition from Europeana It forms part of the the project Europeana Subtitled, which aims to increase the use of audio-visual media heritage by both professional and non-professional audiences. It includes examples of propaganda cinema and nationalist newspapers from 20th Century Europe. Sections include: radio broadcasting in West Berlin; propaganda in the 1967-1974 Greek dictatorship; the 1990s in Slovenia. […]
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