London, City of Paradox – Links_20131106

London, City of Paradox – Links_20131106

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Von: Gloria Withalm <gloria.withalm@uni-ak.ac.at>
Datum: November 6, 2013 16:17:37 MEZ
An: Gloria Withalm <gloria.withalm@gmx.at>
Kopie: Mica Nava <m.nava@eme.uel.ac.uk>, Roman Horak <roman.horak@uni-ak.ac.at>,
Anna Spohn <anna.spohn@uni-ak.ac.at>
Blindkopie: "Adams, Nikola" <nikola.adams@web.de>, "Alam, Brishty"
<bkalam25@gmail.com>, "Drvaric, Ziva" <zivasliva@gmail.com>, "Duller, Anita"
<anita.duller@uni-ak.ac.at>, "Eglhofer, Robert" <aigil@netway.at>, "Falkeis, Stephanie"
<stephanie.falkeis@gmx.at>, "Fischer, Linda" <li.fischer@me.com>, "Genser, Stephan"
<genser@spielraum.co.at>, "Grass, Michaela" <grass.michi@gmail.com>, "Guba, Ilka"
<miklosihillka@gmail.com>, "Gül, Niliz" <nilizguel@web.de>, "Heimel, Kathin"
<kathrin.heimel@gmail.com>, "Igual Capdevila, Matilde" <matilde.igual@gmail.com>,
"Khanmohammadi, Asoo" <asoo.kh@gmail.com>, "Kim, Youngmi"
<a0407731@unet.univie.ac.at>, "Kirsheh, Sandra" <sandra_kirsheh@hotmail.com>,
"Kohlroser, Katharina" <katharina.kohlroser@gmx.at>, "Korpak, Helen"
<helenkorpak@gmail.com>, "Lee, Hyo Kyung" <hellohyo@gmail.com>, "Lengyel,
Alexandra" <lengyel.alexandra92@gmail.com>, "Miggitsch, Susanne"
<s.miggitsch@gmx.at>, "Mozer, Thorsten" <thorsten.mozer@gmail.com>, "Osada, Nao"
<osada.nao@gmail.com>, Laleh POURKATAEE MONSEF <laleh.pm@gmail.com>, "Robles
Ponce, Frida" <fridarobles@gmail.com>, "Ruike, Makiko" <mruike@hotmail.com>,
"Schneider, Jana" <jana.schneider.kirchen@googlemail.com>, "Siddgi, Mahir"
<mahirsiddgi@me.com>, "Skrejane, Anda" <anda.skrejane@gmail.com>, "Topitz, Esther"
<e.top@gmx.at>, "Weberberger, Renate" <renate.weberberger@gmail.com>
Betreff: London, City of Paradox – Links + Literature
Hello everyone,
Just a brief update on the course reserve for the lecture “London, City of Paradox” at the
library of the Angewandte.
In addition to the books in the Main Reading Room (Schwanzer-Trakt, 2nd floor) and the
DVDs in the Periodicals Reading Room (1st floor) [see below the complete list] you will find a
new DVD with two films/television programs Mica mentioned in her lecture: Hackney
Lullabies and the three episodes of Mixed Britannia.
In case you want to check the films on the web on your own here are the details
Hackney Lullabies (dir. Kyoko Miyake 2013)
http://data2.interfilm.de/HackneyLullabies_16-9_PAL_2.0_EnMixDG_DeST.VOB website of
the filmmaker: http://www.kyokomiyake.com/project/Hackney_Lullabies
Mixed Britannia (dir. Fatimah Salaria, pres. George Alagiah; BBC 2011)
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b015skx4 [episodes & clips currently not available]
TVrage
http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-29489
1: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-29489/episodes/1065082769
2: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-29489/episodes/1065088839
3: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-29489/episodes/1065092233
YouTube
promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1iE6nCqy98
1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv8nXwZatO4
2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBWQVHLuKAk
2
3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIJ0H2KLwKA
4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX18wMLozE0
5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huhXfQCuyPw
6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfN38wzlH7Q
7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDF7CDRLfmU
dailymotion
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11ps9r_bbc-mixed-britannia-episode-01_news
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11psiy_bbc-mixed-britannia-episode-02_news
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11pspd_bbc-mixed-britannia-episode-03_news
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The following books from the initial reading list are available as course reserve at the back of
the Main Reading Room:
Brunsdon, Charlotte (2007). London in Cinema: The Cinematic City Since 1945, London: BFI
Donald, James (1999). Imagining the Modern City, London: Athlone Press
Dorling, Danny (2013). 32 Stops: The Central Line, London: Penguin.
Massey, Doreen (2007). World City, Cambridge: Polity
Miller, Daniel (2010). Der Trost der Dinge: 15 Porträts aus dem London von heute. Berlin:
Surhkamp [orig.: (2008). The Comfort of Things, Cambridge: Polity]
Nava, Mica (2007). Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of
Difference, Oxford: Berg.
Selvon, Samuel (2006 [1956]). The Lonely Londoners, London: Penguin (fiction)
Smith, Zadie (2000). White Teeth, London: Penguin (fiction)
White, Jerry (2002). London in the Twentieth Century, London: Penguin
Just to remind you: here are some articles you can find on the internet:
McRobbie, Angela (2007) ‘The Los Angelisation of London: Three short waves of young
people’s micro-economies of culture and creativity in the
UK’, http://eipcp.net/transversal/0207/mcrobbie/en
Nava, Mica (2006) ‘Domestic Cosmopolitanism and Structures of Feeling: the Specificity of
London’, in N. Yuval-Davis, K. Kannabiran and Vieten, U. (eds.) The Situated Politics of
Belonging, London: Sage (Available at http://roar.uel.ac.uk/138/)
Nava, Mica (2010) ‘Is Shopping All Bad?’ 10
Jan, http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/mica-nava-neal-lawson/is-shopping-all
-bad
Pountain, Dick (2013) ‘Cool Capitalism: Changing the Principles of Protest’, 25
July, http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/dick-pountain/cool-capitalism-changing-p
rinciples-of-protest
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In addition to the new DVD you can watch the following movies (DVD or video)
in the Periodicals Reading Room:
A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, GB 1961; Shelagh Delaney)
Kleine schmutzige Tricks [Dirty Pretty Things, dir. Stephen Frears, 2002]
London: The Modern Babylon, dir. Julien Temple, 2012
3
Mein wunderbarer Waschsalon [My Beautiful Launderette, dir. Stephen Frears, 1985]
Notting Hill, dir. Roger Michell, 1999
Performance, dir. Nicholas Roeg 1970
Sparrows Can’t Sing, dir. Joan Littlewood 1962
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And in case you forgot: here are the links for the audio trails:
Ode to Finchleystrasse, BBC R4, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s09k1, 2013
Ports of Call Audio Trails: Walks of Art at the Royal Docks, P. Cohen, T. Butler, J. Thomas and
M. Hunter, Supported by Heritage Lottery Fund and University of East London,
2008 http://www.portsofcall.org.uk/
[radio program on] Mixed Britannia (George Alagiah; BBC
2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcjWh7xLYe4
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For details on opening hours check http://bibserver.uni-ak.ac.at/hbaw/frame/frame1.htm
Don’t forget: the next lecture is on Monday, December 2 – plenty of time to read the books
and watch the movies.
Regards
Gloria
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Mag.a Gloria Withalm
Chairwoman of the Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies ISSS
Honorary President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies IASS/AIS
Dept of Cultural Studies
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