Category: Heroes in British Television
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Heroes in Contemporary British Culture: Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change
Barbara Korte and Nicole Falkenhayner Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies, Taylor and Francis, 2021 link to book’s page on Routledge site https://www.routledge.com/Heroes-in-Contemporary-British-Culture-Television-Drama-and-Reflections/Korte-Falkenhayner/p/book/9780367653668 This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of…
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New Publication: Special Issue of the Journal of European Popular Culture on affect and heroisation
Journal of European Popular Culture 11.2 (2020), guest editor Nicole Falkenhayner
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Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture
edited by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt and Nicole Falkenhayner Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption.…
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Posthumane Helden
a collaborative article I wrote with Kerstin Fest and Maria-Xenia Hardt on posthuman heroic figures is out on the online compendium of the collaborative research centre “heroes, heroization, heroisms”. You can read it or download the pdf here: Posthumane Helden
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Program of the Conference “Heroism as a Phenomenon in Global Popular Culture”, 28-30 September 2017, Freiburg
Conference Program Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture Organised by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt, Michael Butter, Wolfgang Hochbruck and Nicole Falkenhayner for the SFB 948 “Heroes, Heroisms and Heroisations”, University of Freiburg, Germany Thursday, September 28, 2017 From 14.00 Coffee, Registration at FRIAS Freiburg 15.00 Introduction 15.00 Barbara…
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Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction since 1800
http://www.springer.com/978-3-319-33556-8?wt_mc=so Just published my chapter for “Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction Since 1800” with #Springercialmedia.twitter.1.SEM.ChapterAuthorCongrat via @AuthorZone
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“Unlikely Hero” of the war-on-terror decade: chapter on Patrick Neate’s City of Tiny Lights (2005) in new volume on heroes
Originally posted on Nicole Falkenhayner: Heroes and Heroism in British Fiction since 1800 Barbara Korte & Stefanie Lethbridge (eds.) This book is about the manifestations and explorations of the heroic in narrative literature since around 1800. It traces the most important stages of this representation but also includes strands that…
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CFP “Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture”
Collaborative Research Center on Heroes Call for Papers: International Conference “Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Popular Culture” Freiburg, Germany, September 28-30 2017 Organized by Michael Butter (Tübingen), Nicole Falkenhayner, Wolfgang Hochbruck, Barbara Korte (Freiburg) and Simon Wendt (Frankfurt a. M.) In an age of globalization and transnationalism,…
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