23rd April 2020
John Wyver writes: the current embrace of streaming performance by cultural organisations, broadcasters and audiences means that, amongst a cornucopia of online delights, you can find a rich range of Illuminations' productions and collaborations involving dance. Highlights of the available
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19th April 2020
John Wyver writes: my usual weekly compendium of articles and a video or two that have engaged and interested me over the past week, with the inevitable Covid-19 links -- but hopefully not too many of them.
• By invitation
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16th April 2020
John Wyver writes: among the film treasures nearly accessible online is a digital restoration from the George Eastman Museum of Emergency Ward (1952), a remarkable documentary made at St Vincent's Hospital, New York City. I had read about
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14th April 2020
John Wyver writes: Over the past fortnight or so I have posted on several occasions about the Future States online conference from the Centre for Design History, University of Brighton, which I have been following and appreciating. I
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13th April 2020
John Wyver writes: For those of us who have been working in screen adaptations of stage performances it feels as if, in the specific as well as the general, over the past three weeks the world has turned upside down.
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12th April 2020
John Wyver writes: for this week's round-up of reading and viewing that has engaged me over the past week I tried to limit stuff related to Covid-19, but somehow that proved hard to do - the first links are all
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10th April 2020
John Wyver writes: considering the two television covers of Radio Times from October 1936 in an earlier post piqued my interest as to what the covers of the weekly listings magazine were like throughout the rest of the 1930s.
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8th April 2020
John Wyver writes: The Future States conference, about which I have been writing and which continues online until 17 April, is focussed on illustrated magazines in the interwar period. In Britain, much of the academic work on
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7th April 2020
John Wyver writes: for the past week or so I have been ... what? 'attending', perhaps, or 'participating in', or 'watching', the Future States conference. I've posted before about this, and about its innovative online format, here and
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4th April 2020
John Wyver writes: after nearly a week of not posting to the blog, here's the reading and viewing that has caught my attention over the past week, with just a few elements of Covid-19 related media.
• Why the coronavirus
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