Course:
English Literature 
The premier of Channel 4’s newest drama, City of Vice, started in the fashion of all good crime shows: ‘There’s a body in my bathhouse, Sir!’
As a student from abroad, there are many clichés about England, many of which I have found to be true, and others not so. But wherein does 'Englishness' truly lie?
Good? Evil? Polar Bears? Daniel Craig with a little beard? How do these things add up in the cinema adaptation of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights?
The author of "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," "Case Histories" and more recently "One Good Turn" speaks in York.
Director Robert Zemeckis reinterprets the oldest narrative in the English language using the newest innovations in digital technology and creates a cast of warriors, wenches, kings and queens, disconcertingly,neither human nor animation; who age without the awkwardness of prosthetics, and blend in comfortably with outlandish backgrounds and grandiose action scenes. In fact, this vivid effect, resembling a highly advanced computer game, lends itself to Beowulf’s mythic grandeur, itself a step outside reality into a milieu of demons, dragons, super-humans, and sorcery.
Epic action, humour, romance, spectacular dresses and yet-more-spectacular hairdos, ethical dilemmas that would make even Jack Bauer jealous, villainous villains, a heroic heroine—if that’s not what we ask of a blockbuster costume drama, then what exactly are we looking for?
I'd never walked out of a lecture before. I did on Thursday. Find out how renowned scandalous critic Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick drove literary enthusiasts out of her own lecture.
