CW Editorial Notes
CW weekly editorial notes are archived here.
Film Focus Alfred Hitchcock, -Jan
Film director of the month, January 2009Culture Wars writers take a closer look at some of Hitchcock’s key works in order to understand both his artistic methods, but also the impact these films have on the modern audiences.
CW editorial note - 23 January 2009
Reassessing the Culture War in Obama's AmericaWhat happened to the ‘wrecking crew’? A ‘new cultural paradigm’? Obama: President of the World?
CW editorial note - 16 January 2009
No such thing as society?The future of community, ‘well-being’ in schools and more Alfred Hitchcock.
CW editorial note - 7 January 2009
Happy new yearLiberalism and Protestantism, Che, Alfred Hitchcock and new fiction.
CW editorial note - 19 December 2008
Getting the pictureEuropean cinema, Haitian politics, artistic integrity and emotion in theatre.
CW editorial note - 12 December 2008
Family ups and downsEnglish Civil War drama The Devil’s Whore, London theatre and the Turner Prize 2008.
CW editorial note - 5 December 2008
Revising the PastThe Relevance of Marxism, anti-Maoist revisionism, Obamanomics and The Fall.
CW editorial note - 28 November 2008
Navigating identity and empireNam Le’s The Boat and Byzantium at the Royal Academy
CW editorial note - 21 November 2008
Knowledge transmissionThe ‘New Blue Media’ in the US, science documentaries and discipline and participation in music.
CW editorial note - 13 November 2008
The spectre of therapyKathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes respond to Lee Jones’ review of their book, The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, plus James Bond, Andy Warhol, Annie Leibowitz and Francis Bacon.
CW editorial note - 7 November 2008
Excessive Success?!The week after the Battle of Ideas sees the election of Obama, and CW looks at negativity in supercapitalism, the ploys of fame and the implications of a puppy in the White House.
CW editorial note - 31 October 2008
Come togetherCommunity art, inter-generational anxiety and keynote Battles in Print.
CW editorial note - 24 October 2008
Western eyes2008 Man Booker Prize winner The White Tiger, plus celebrity culture, ethical realism in American foreign policy, death in literature and more.
CW editorial note - 10 October 2008
Winning at the artsThe launch of a new blog on the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, plus coverage of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and the Raindance Independent Film Festival.
CW editorial note - 2 October 2008
Education and the Real WorldA critical take on The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education, by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes; Natsuo Kirino’s Real World; CERN and the Current Affairs Forum
