Sunday links
John Wyver writes: another selection of links, many gratefully harvested from my Twitter follows, to articles and videos that have felt significant over the past week. • You want a Confederate more
John Wyver writes: another selection of links, many gratefully harvested from my Twitter follows, to articles and videos that have felt significant over the past week. • You want a Confederate more
John Wyver writes: I am happy to report that today is the official date for the paperback publication of my book Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company: A Critical History. Bloomsbury more
John Wyver writes: It was sad to learn on Friday of the death at the age of 88 of the great actor Ian Holm. Among the many tributes and obituaries are ones by Michael Billington and more
John Wyver writes: another collection of links to stuff that I have found interesting, enlightening and challenging over the past week, much of it gleaned from my Twitter feed and starting with a remarkable online essay-cum-exhibition and a screen dance more
John Wyver writes: another pot-pourri of links to stuff that has engaged and interested me over the past week, including the exceptional virtual roundtable organised by Variety with the cast of Succession - more on that below the fold. more
John Wyver writes: These are some of the things that have engaged me over the past extraordinary, historic week. The selection starts with four essential analyses, and with a powerful video made by actors who have worked with the RSC more
John Wyver writes: Following on from my two earlier posts, here and here, this one develops my tentative thoughts about screen performance in lockdown and the prevalence - and seeming appropriateness -- of split-screen styles for this moment. more
John Wyver writes: In the first post in this series I suggested that the lockdown has prompted the proliferation of the performance of music, dance and drama in split-screen media spaces. The prominence of work that employs what, following more
John Wyver writes: Two months or so into lockdown I wonder if, along with so much else, we are seeing a fundamental shift in the screen language of our moving image media. So do I have your attention now? I am more
John Wyver writes: another list of links from lockdown, with my thanks once more to those on my Twitter timeline who have prompted many of them. These are some of the articles and videos and more that I have enjoyed more