Category: ECREA
THE HANDMAID’S TALE (2017-) AND CLIMATE CHANGE? by Uroosa Rashid
A stretch too far? Discussing climate change alongside The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu 2017-) is...
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FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS AND WEATHER AUTHORITIES: LOCAL BROADCAST METEOROLOGISTS IN SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS by Melissa Beattie
As a currently-peripatetic academic, I often live and travel in areas that are meteorologically...
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FACING THE MUSIC? THE GOOD PLACE’S JASON MENDOZA by Melissa Beattie
NB: This is a version of a paper given at the The Good Place: Welcome, everything is Fine...
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‘IT’S NOT THAT DIFFERENT’: SPATIOTEMPORAL DISPLACEMENT AND QUEER IDENTITIES IN WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS by Melissa Beattie
Nandor the Relentless (Kayvan Novak): ‘It might have been a he. They [his wives] weren’t all...
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: SUCCESSION AND (AS?) ROMANTIC COMEDY by Melissa Beattie
(Note: This is the third and final part of a series of linked blogs. Part One can be found here...
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LE ROY EST MORT; VIVE LE ROY! SUCCESSION AND HISTORY by Melissa Beattie
(NB: This is the second of three linked blogs. Part One can be found here). In the previous...
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ACCIDENTALLY LIKE A MARTYR: SUCCESSION AND RELIGION by Melissa Beattie
(NB: This is the first of three linked blogs. Part Two can be found here). In my first ever blog...
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IF ONLY WE WERE HUMAN: THE (USUAL) CONCEPTUALISATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE AS TECHNOLOGY by Elke Weissmann
There are, I believe, in all countries myths that emphasise some places as outliers, as different...
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A PIRATE LOOKS AT FORTY: OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH AND LIFE CRISES by Melissa Beattie
‘Mother, Mother Ocean/After all the years I’ve found My occupational hazard/Being my occupation’s...
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WHODUNNIT? SUSPECTS’ AUTHORSHIP by Melissa Beattie
While improvised or unscripted television has been a feature of media industries for decades, most...
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‘A GOOD PLACE WITH GOOD PEOPLE’: HAMISH MACBETH AND THE HIGHLANDS by Melissa Beattie
When I went with a friend to Plockton in the Scottish Highlands, admittedly over a decade ago,...
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LAWYER JOKES? HARVEY BIRDMAN: ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SUBVERSIVE NOSTALGIA by Melissa Beattie
‘Nostalgia is always suspect’ (Atia and Davies 2010: 181). The trope of a hero who looks for a...
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