home cooked theory

Cultural studies then

Looking through my trash folder I just found an email that links to video of the keynotes from last year’s Cultural Studies Now conference at the University of East London. Among others, you’ll find Kuan-Hsing Chen, Dick Hebdige, Ien Ang, Doreen Massey, Judith Halberstam, Rosi Braidotti, and of course, that significant moment featuring Stuart Hall. [...]

Manifesto caution

On Saturday night some friends and I went to see Ang Lee’s latest film, Lust Caution. At the time, it felt long, exhausting and tragic — especially given I was already tired from the night before and dissecting the week that spawned not one but two quasi-manifestos from lady bloggers. Was there something in the [...]

No one told you

Whether it’s a sign of the writers’ strike biting or just the serendipity of summer programming, for the past month or two Channel 10 has been screening Friends re-runs at 7pm. This is right about the time that William orders me out of the kitchen, I won’t let myself on the laptop anymore and I’m [...]

When technosexuals grow up…

…they buy a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone (?)

Chasing tails

Glen’s written a lovely and amazing theory-nerd post about Snow Patrol, which has me thinking about something I’ve been meaning to write about Grey’s Anatomy as Ur text for the workaholic Gen X anti-adult. It has something to do with proffering Floppy George as the pin-up boy for queer love because he refuses to subscribe [...]

Vale 80s ideologue rock

Video Hits is giving me what I want this morning: a countdown to tonight’s ARIAs. The ARIAs are probably my favourite award ceremony. You get a bit more spirit than the film or TV ones, where the script, if it’s Australian, is usually about demonstrating the need for more money (the refrain that doesn’t seem [...]

Shake down the thunder from the sky

This year I’m not going to miss it.

MySpace, boys in jackets

Social Networking with Demetri Martin (link changed due to copyright issues).
Last week I used an older clip from The Daily Show to introduce students to the idea of blogging as a subculture. It was good timing on the back of the Emmy Awards, and the ongoing success of Stewart and Colbert’s respective empires. But I [...]

RIP Movie Show

It’s all over – the game where I get to indulge my fascination with Megan Spencer’s stockings and compare current trends in New Farm, Newtown and St Kilda hairdressing.
I feel a bit ripped off. I thought they would have at least provided a summary of the films that scored the highest all-time ratings. It [...]

A Cold Day in DC: The Counter Inaugural

Film Screening
Tuesday 16th May 2006 – 2.00-3.30pm
CCCS Seminar Room, Lvl 4 Forgan Smith Tower,
St Lucia Campus
Presented by Associate Professor David Sholle
On January 20, 2005, Americans gathered in the nation’s capital for the second inauguration of George W. Bush as the President of the United States. A Cold Day in DC: The Counter Inaugural is [...]

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