Angela Devas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1260745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angela Devas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angela |
| FAMILY NAME | Devas |
| SIGNATURE | DEVAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Class in the Classroom
This paper argues that widening participation, which is now part of the agenda of higher education, has been insufficiently acknowledged by the media and cultural studies community, particularly in regard to pedagogic practices. The author examines the teaching of Legally Blonde, a film about an unconventional entrant to Harvard University, to first-year students on a Media Arts course, nearly all of whom came from non-traditional backgrounds. In…
How to be a Hero
This paper explores the representation of the hero in the 1935 Hitchcock classic The 39 Steps. The film, while drawing on the original adventure story of The Thirty Nine Steps, adopts a modernist sensibility in its cinematic depiction of technology and its representation of a bantering heterosexual couple. However, this does not displace the gendered, classed and racialised role of the hero. I examine the construction of the hero via discourses o…
Murder, Mass Culture, and the Feminine
(2002). Murder, Mass Culture, and the Feminine: A View from the 4.50 from Paddington. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 251-265
Murder, Mass Culture, and the Feminine
(2002). Murder, Mass Culture, and the Feminine: A View from the 4.50 from Paddington. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 251-265
Murder, Mass Culture, and the Feminine
(2002). Murder, Mass Culture, and the Feminine: A View from the 4.50 from Paddington. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 251-265
How to be a Hero
This paper explores the representation of the hero in the 1935 Hitchcock classic The 39 Steps. The film, while drawing on the original adventure story of The Thirty Nine Steps, adopts a modernist sensibility in its cinematic depiction of technology and its representation of a bantering heterosexual couple. However, this does not displace the gendered, classed and racialised role of the hero. I examine the construction of the hero via discourses o…
Class in the Classroom
This paper argues that widening participation, which is now part of the agenda of higher education, has been insufficiently acknowledged by the media and cultural studies community, particularly in regard to pedagogic practices. The author examines the teaching of Legally Blonde, a film about an unconventional entrant to Harvard University, to first-year students on a Media Arts course, nearly all of whom came from non-traditional backgrounds. In…
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Adventure (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Alienation (1 works)