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Star Wars: Myth and fairy tale
What storytelling styles and genres can be applied to Star Wars? Sara Haslam investigates...
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Black Majority Churches (BMCs) and the transformation of British Christianity
John Maiden explores Black and Minority Ethnic expressions of the Christian tradition while Sheena Daley gives a personal reflection on Black Christian Churches...
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Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Enjoy Aristophanes' comic account of one woman's extraordinary method of bringing The Peloponnesian War to an end in this classical studies animation.
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The Persians by Aeschylus
In this animation of the Greek tragedy The Persians by Aeschylus, Persian king Xerxes wages war against Greece but his navy is defeated at Salamis.
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How should Rwanda remember the genocide?
Up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered during the genocide of 1994. A quarter of a century on, how does Rwanda memorialise that event?
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Is it ever morally acceptable to visit a mass murder site?
Why are ‘Jack the Ripper’ tours or visiting sites of genocide in Auschwitz or Cambodia deemed acceptable but the more recent ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ tours seen as immoral? Does time make a difference or does our view of morality run a little deeper?
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Helen Cammock and the art of storytelling
The artist Helen Cammock discusses how her art has transformed from using herself as a conduit for conversations about race to ‘the collective’ in this film. In the article below Philip Seargeant explores how art can operate as a form of storytelling, different to political or media storytelling.
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Professor Sara Haslam on the Brontë sisters’ work
Prof. Sara Haslam was The Open University's academic consultant on OU/BBC drama ‘To Walk Invisible’. Here she discusses what makes the Brontës’ work so fantastic.
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Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
In this free course you will study the ideas of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986). In doing so you will also briefly study the philosophy of Beauvoir’s lifelong partner, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The type of philosophy that links them is called ‘existentialism’. Beauvoir and Sartre are the foremost philosophers of French ...
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Revolutions of the Sixties
Were the Sixties revolutionary?
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Mary Shelley: the expert view
Stephanie Forward outlines the life and legacy of the author of 'Frankenstein', Mary Shelley.
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Finding women in Greek literature
Sam Newington explains that discovering the real lives of Greek women takes more than just a first read of the texts