Category Archives: News

As we have observed in class, drug advertising was a mainstay in the advertisements accompanying many of Dickens’ publications. Today, prescription drugs are heavily advertised on U.S. televisions. However, the “drugs” of Dickens’ day are quite different from the prescription … Continue reading →

In 2011, James Delingpole wrote an article for the Telegraph about the resurgence of Dickens’s popularity through various television interpretations of his novels in the UK. I found this article when looking into the BBC’s version of The Mystery of … Continue reading →

Home for Thanksgiving, I find myself watching much for TV than I usually do. My parents have local news running in the background almost all morning, and as most local news stations do, they have local businesses and organizations on … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending a Carolina Panthers football game with my family. Of course, when you are watching football on TV, you expect to be bombarded with male-centric advertising at every possible moment. But I had forgotten … Continue reading →

All through our discussion of Charles Dickens dying in the middle of releases of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, I have been reminded of one specific contemporary example in which people are worried about this occurring. George R.R. Martin is … Continue reading →

I recently watched the 2004 BBC miniseries adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, a novel that was published in Household Words. According to some quick Internet searches, it appears that Charles Dickens thought Gaskell’s novel was too long (seems hypocritical … Continue reading →

Lately there has been a news story circulating that depicts a slightly ridiculous controversy that reveals a lot of our country’s expectations about how Christmas is supposed to be experienced. The controversy I am referring to is the current change … Continue reading →

Modern advertising has become somewhat…creepy. When you google something today, it will most certainly come back to haunt you in the form of an advertisement personally tailored to your “interests.” For example, I’ve been thinking about purchasing a new pair … Continue reading →

This last year, I’ve started watching Shameless, a Showtime television show based on a UK series by the same name. As we’ve progressed through this class, I’ve drawn a lot of similarities between the show and the books we’ve read in class, … Continue reading →

Humanity has a fascination with death that stems from a fear of the unknown and the inevitable. This fascination is often played out in television and films where characters are subjected to horrible, bloody deaths (as in horror movies) or … Continue reading →