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Shoestring Inspiration: Issue Two

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Feed Yourself
For the majority, our years at university are not only the first steps to becoming a professional something-or-other. It’s also our first foray into independent living. Read the rest of this entry »

Interview: Alan Bissett

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Admittedly I entered the book launch with free drink on my mind. I passed a guy in the corridor giving a side kiss to a woman dressed in new vintage attire. He wore tight jeans and a drum sergeant major jacket. I rolled my bissett_alan_authoreyes and mentally noted giving it 10 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

Volunteering in the Arts

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A friend re-arranged her work schedule and pushed a few meetings back to take on a voluntary Events Manager position for an arts festival. Three days in we met up. She sat glass in hand, face taught and her angry pointing finger out. Continually chasing the organiser for the details she eventually managed to locate the place for the induction. Identifying a group of performers whose events she’d be managing, introduced herself and was met with a Siberian frost of a response. Read the rest of this entry »

Shoestring Inspiration: Issue One

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shoestring-inspiration2Great news, you’ve secured a job that fits around classes and/or managed to convince someone at the loans dept to support your existence for the coming year. Read the rest of this entry »

Contemporary European Cinema

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Contemporary European Cinema

What does ‘Europeaness’ mean in terms of cinema aesthetics representation and institutional contexts? Does it make sense to talk of a distinct contemporary European Cinema? Read the rest of this entry »

Jung & Film

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Jungian Perspective and Film Theory

Using key concepts from John Izods ‘Myth Mind and Screen’ this article aims to provide theoretical principles to a brief textual analysis of the (1951) Disney screen adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. To begin with, it’s essential to highlight and interpret the key terminology in order to apply it to the analysis with any success. Read the rest of this entry »

Wedding Etiquette

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Single at a Wedding

On opening my sore eyes and adjusting to the feeling of a dull throbbing pain in my temple, I began to recall the events of the day before. I thought it impossible but I had done it, I had survived my first wedding as a single girl. Read the rest of this entry »