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...casting away - on the side of NASA spacecraft: We thought over a thousand million years there was some chance that some other species of space-faring civilisation might have come upon this ancient, derelict, primitive ship and heave to, and wonder who had made it. So attached to each space ship is a phonograph record. A metal disc with instructions for use written in what...

...cast of assembled characters – Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Mary’s step-sister Claire Clairmont, and Byron’s personal physician John Polidori – were living embodiments of the liberal ideals that were causing such an affront to the conservative and patrician values of the ruling classes in the early nineteenth century. So how, if at all, does Gothic...

...casts their interest in Welsh traditional culture in an interesting and more complicated light than might appear superficially. Their concern to preserve traditional songs in the language of the Welsh people was not just for innate musical and cultural value (though they undoubtedly did appreciate them from this point of view); it was also part of an effort to fight the...

...cast as damsels in distress (e.g. Lois Lane) which serves to infantilise women, or as sidekicks to a main male character(s). This is the case in many of the recent X-men and Avengers movies, for example, very few of which pass the Bechdel test (a simple test with three criteria: 1) features two or more female characters, 2) who have a conversation with each other at some...