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WRESTLING SOUPRAW ON NETFLIX or MCDONAGH BUMPERS (Wrestling Soup 1.28.25)In this episode of Wrestling Soup, hosts Anthony Thomas and Josephine Numbers discuss their reactions to Monday's WWE Raw episode leading up to the Royal Rumble. The conversation covers the unpredictable weather, the unusual structure of the Raw episode, the thrilling matches, and vibrant discussions about wrestlers like JD McDonough, Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, Drew McIntyre, and many more. They also touch on the significant moments from CM Punk and Cody Rhodes' deep, intimate promos. Highlights also include humorous critiques of WWE's presentation, celebrity appearances, and ongoing storylines, while light-heartedly jabbing at some elements of popular culture.00:00 Wrestling Soup...2025-01-291h 20
The Greg And Matt Movie ChatShort Films by Famous Directors – The Greg And Matt Movie ChatShort films are an entirely different craft than the full-length feature. With less time to develop characters and narrative, they are heavily reliant on a director's unique style and ability to instantly connect with an audience. In this episode, Greg and Matt dive into some of their favorite short films by famous directors. Does their style come through in the short film format? What makes a good short film? Time to get inspired by the bite-sized films of some of the all-time greats!
Our Lists (most of these short films are available on YouTube, so check em...2020-09-211h 26
#BirkbeckVoicesJosephine McDonagh - Novel Politics LaunchThe Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies was proud to host this launch of Professor Isobel Armstrong’s latest publication, Novel Politics. Democratic Imaginations in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Oxford University Press, 2016).2017-07-0315 min
#BirkbeckVoicesThe Political Picaresque Response - Ian HaywoodIan Haywood - Professor of English at Roehampton University - responds to Josephine McDonagh's lecture on ‘The Political Picaresque: Sunshine and Shadow, and Radical Responses to Migrancy and Settlement around 1850’2017-05-0828 min
#BirkbeckVoicesThe Political Picaresque - Jo McDonaghJosephine McDonagh: ‘The Political Picaresque: Sunshine and Shadow, and Radical Responses to Migrancy and Settlement around 1850’2017-04-261h 06
Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of LettersCosmopolitanism and Provincialism: Distant Intimacy and the Transatlantic Village TaleJosephine McDonagh shows under what circumstances the provincial may also be cosmopolitan by analysing Mary Russell Mitford's work and the case of the village tale. From Three Mile Cross, Mitford’s village home, across the Atlantic to Boston and beyond, Mitford’s village tales could be said to go global. This paper examines the way in which the village tale provides a set of terms and an imagined space through with circles of writers and literary people in different countries collectively conceived a transatlantic literary world. It considers the implications of this and of the instability of the distinctions between the...2016-04-0522 min