Serious Feather Arts with Brett Gregory

The Radical Film Network is the largest network for activist and experimental film in the world. Free to join and run by and for its members, the RFN supports progressive film culture in all its forms across the globe. If you’re interested in radical film – as a maker, teacher, critic, curator or even just a viewer – the RFN is for you. The Radical Film Network was founded in the UK in 2013 when a...

Glasgow: A History (Vol. I of VI) available at: https://strengthinnumbersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/glasgow-a-history-volume-i-of-vi The Tenementals socials: https://www.instagram.com/tenementals/ https://www.facebook.com/tenementals https://bsky.app/profile/tenementals.bsky.social https://x.com/tenementals Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Full hyperlinked transcript available at: https://www.seriousfeather.com/music.html#glasgowhistoryalbum Glasgow A History (Vol. I of VI) available at: https://strengthinnumbersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/glasgow-a-history-volume-i-of-vi The Tenementals socials: https://x.com/tenementals https://www.instagram.com/tenementals/ https://www.facebook.com/tenementals https://bsky.app/profile/tenementals....

This text examines how British female comedy authors have flourished in the contemporary televisual landscape - Examines key female writers/performers creating UK television comedy - Updates Kathleen Rowe’s conception of the ‘unruly woman’ to account for changes in contemporary comedy - Identifies trends in the comedy genre (with a focus on dramedy, sitcoms, and semi-autobiographical/confessional...

Full hyperlinked transcript available at https://www.seriousfeather.com/music.html#owlofminerva https://strengthinnumbersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/glasgow-a-history-volume-i-of-vi The Tenementals socials: https://x.com/tenementals https://www.instagram.com/tenementals/ https://www.facebook.com/tenementals Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brett Gregory speaks with David Archibald, founding member and frontman of The Tenamentals, a group of academics, artists and musicians who are developing a series of songs which recount a history of Glasgow, and breathing new life into some old protest songs in innovative covers. Here, Archibald talks about some of their recent releases, which cover songs related to Spain, Scotland and Santiago,...

Full video and hyperlinked transcript available at www.seriousfeather.com Overview Introducing the key concepts and thinkers within the Marxist tradition,  Marxism Goes to the Movies  demonstrates their relevance to film theory and practice past and present. Author Mike Wayne argues that Marxist filmmaking has engaged with and transformed this popular medium, developing its potential for...

Full video and hyperlinked transcript available at www.seriousfeather.com Overview 'AI in the Movies' analyses film representations of artificial intelligence, from their first emergence in the 1950s up to 2020. These strong or general artificial intelligences take different forms: some are digital AIs, some robot AIs, some move between material and digital forms. Some are indistinguishable from h...

Young Rebecca is forced to move with her father from the UK to Jerusalem, in the hopes that a new beginning can help her heal from her mother’s sudden death. Soon after settling into an old house in a neighbourhood known as the Valley of the Ghosts, a series of mysterious events begin and Rebecca is blamed. Diving deep into the mystery of the house and the mystical city of Jerusalem, Rebecca sets...

This insightful volume critically explores activist events in their scale and their capacity to attract media attention through a critical event studies lens, offering new perspectives on protests and social movement. This book conceives events of dissent as the public manifestation of counter-narratives that articulate advocacy for policy change. It focuses on the material and virtual manifestati...

AMERICONNED is an award-winning film about income inequality in the US and its tragic destabilizing effects to Americans. Deep inequality has led to radicalization at every level of society, and this powerful documentary depicts what happens when America hits its tipping point, by looking back through our history at similar critical moments of instability. The labour movement of the past was born...

A working-class photographer captures the impact of Thatcherism on the north of England but is unable to escape the poverty and inequality she exposed. Driven by a commitment to document the impact of deindustrialisation on working class communities in Northeast England in the 1970s and 1980s, Tish Murtha used her camera to expose societal inequality. She felt she had an obligation to the people a...

George A. Romero’s Independent Cinema is the first in-depth analysis of Romero’s Laurel Entertainment, revealing the decision-making and business planning that takes place away from Hollywood, while offering an industry-determined analysis of such films as his zombie masterpiece Dawn of the Dead and the seldom-discussed Martin and Knightriders. Tracking Laurel Entertainment across four decades, th...

What is folk horror and how culturally significant is it? This collection is the first study to address these questions while considering the special importance of British cinema to the genre's development. The book presents political and aesthetic analyses of folk horror's uncanny landscapes and frightful folk. It places canonical films like Witchfinder General (1968), The Blood on Satan's Claw (...

'Top Gun: Maverick was the biggest hit of 2022, but audiences were largely unaware that a behind-the-scenes contract with Paramount gave the military the right to "weave in key talking points," edit the script, and screen the film before its release. This was not the first time, of course. Internal documents from the Pentagon's Entertainment Media Office praised its work with "Top Gun" (1986) as h...

Jean Luc-Godard, the titan of cinema who passed away in 2022, leaves behind a prodigious legacy that eschews easy analysis. Cyril Leuthy's comprehensive feature-length documentary attempts to make sense of the filmmaker's vast output and influence across 140 films, from his formative contribution to the French New Wave to his later innovations in the fields of political cinema, video art and film-...

James MacDowell's (University of Warwick) research is primarily concerned with exploring the aesthetic strategies of popular screen art, with a particular focus on the generic conventions, narrative strategies, and stylistic properties of Hollywood film, American independent cinema, and (most recently) YouTube. His work is influenced by philosophical aesthetics, and by critical traditions dedicate...

David Archibald is Professor of Political Cinemas at the University of Glasgow. His previous publications include The war that won’t die: The Spanish Civil War in Cinema (2012), and many essays on film and film culture. He is the Series Editor of the Edinburgh University Press Political Cinemas Series, sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Class and Culture and Media Practice and Education, a...

Iconic director Werner Herzog reveals extraordinary anecdotes about the filmmaking process. Featuring interviews, archival footage and never-before-seen excerpts. For more information: https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/werner-herzog-radical-dreamer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a schoolboy aged 14, Nick Broomfield met Brian Jones, by chance, on a train. Brian was at the height of his success, with the world at his feet, but just six years later, he would be dead. This film takes a look at the relationships and rivalries within The Rolling Stones in their formative years, exploring the iconoclastic freedom and exuberance of the 60s, a time of intergenerational conflict...

How is the American political landscape represented in cinema? What is the relationship between Hollywood and Washington? From Arnold Schwarzenegger's rise to the Governorship of California through to the drama of the celebrity-fuelled 2008 Presidential election, Hollywood and politics have never been more intimate. In this interview chronicling the evolution of American political cinema from the...

The Drive-In meaningfully contributes to the complex picture of outdoor cinema that has been central to American culture and to a history of US cinema based on diverse viewing experiences rather than a select number of films. Drive-in cinemas flourished in 1950s America, in some summer weeks to the extent that there were more cinemagoers outdoors than indoors. Often associated with teenagers inter...

Brett Gregory interviews Dr. Darren Elliott-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Film and Gender Studies at the University of Stirling (UK)  Over recent weeks, we've been exploring cinema, not only as a playground for entertainment, escapism, and egos but also as an economic, political, and ideological battleground for social class, gender, ethnicity, technology, and, as we're going to discover in this...

Andy Willis (Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME in Manchester), curator of the Look Who's Back: The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist cinema programme, dives into the thinking behind the political context of this era of Hollywood filmmaking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Establishes the cultural and historical contexts for representations of female ageing in British film since the 1930s Examines issues around ageing femininities using a range of case studies of films and actresses, both known and forgotten Establishes the case for the importance of the character actress at the heart of the history of British cinema Provides an overlooked historical context for con...