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In his latest blog post , Film and Television Studies, reviews Pablo Berger's 'Blancanieves': There are some truly lovely moments: Angelina Molina dancing with her grand-daughter, Maribel Verdú trying on Art Nouveau gowns, the bit where Macarena García is carried out of the bullring, the final tear. It is a re-telling of Snow White through clichés of Spanishness...
Dr , Research Fellow in Numismatics, presents Warwick Department of Classics and Ancient History's Coin of the Month: Osicerda (1292-3) imitating Julius Caesar's elephant and 'snake' coin struck in 49 BC.
Warwick Department of Hispanic Studies' Dr introduces Juan Bautista Luis Augurio Perera, co-founder of Lawn Tennis: "The Gem-Perera origin story for lawn tennis is now widely known and Perera has his own Wikipedia page, but the man himself remains something of an enigma...
In his latest blog post , Film and Television Studies, reviews 'The Place Beyond the Pines', released on DVD on 13 August 2013: "When the movie finished, I overheard various people saying, ‘I read that it’s not one movie but three and it’s true’. It’s not. But when I first saw it, I did think The Place Beyond the Pines was a movie of three sections that didn’t quite cohere...
Dr , Research Fellow in Numismatics, presents Warwick Department of Classics and Ancient History's Coin of the Month: Severus Alexander showing the city of Amaseia.