Charles Leddy-Owen

What the audience wants: Audience research, race, and screen culture in postwar Britain. Dr Christine Grandy, University of Lincoln. 3/3/17

2nd February 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events, What's On

This talk examines the persistent reluctance of producers and shapers of screen culture to regulate images of ‘blackness’ for British audiences in a period of increased immigration from 1948 to 1978. Producers and regulators at a variety of organisations tasked with shaping screen culture in the period, including the BBC, ITV, the BBFC, and various film studios, were newly invested in imagining the responses of British audiences in the postwar period. These organisations, alongside NGOs such as the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association, constructed audiences as impressionable and fragile when it came to sexuality, class conflict, and politics on screen, but largely unaffected by negative representations of black and

CRaB Seminar: Reality or pretence: statelessness, nationality and organised hypocrisy

2nd February 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen Previous Events

On Thursday 26th January, Dr Isabelle Cheng of the University of Portsmouth’s School of Language and Area Studies gave a talk about the notion of national sovereignty as an ‘organised hypocrisy’ (Krasner 1999). Isabelle discussed migrants, mostly women, who marry Taiwanese residents needing to surrender their existing citizenship if they are to obtain residency in Taiwan. Whilst this is not a unique situation, what renders it particularly remarkable is the lack of international recognition for Taiwan as a state (and therefore of any kind of Taiwanese citizenship). Such migrants therefore become, in effect, stateless. As the creation of statelessness for individuals is prohibited

CRaB LONG READ: English nationalism, progressive politics and the Labour Party

18th January 2017 Charles Leddy-Owen Blogs

The question of Englishness – broadly, what should and can be done culturally and politically about ‘the English’ today – doesn’t appear to be going anywhere, in both senses of that phrase. It remains a point of lively discussion among journalists, politicians, academics and the general public, but with any satisfactory answer to the question seemingly as far away as ever. The perceived character, failures and promise of Englishness have of course long been analysed and debated, but it was New Labour’s devolution of powers to the smaller nations of the UK that is widely considered to have ignited the