Dear WFTHN members,
In another of our republications from CST Online, Elke Weissmann considers Ripper Street. Whilst that series is no longer on our screens, despite a brief revival on Amazon Prime, Elke offers us a layered reading which identifies a particular kind of 'contradiction' experienced by modern spectatorship in the face of politically-dissonant material: '...by engaging with the exact opposite, all that happens is that our deep-seated beliefs find further ammunition, which is highly pleasurable precisely because it stirs our emotion.'
Elke Weissmann's contribution was first published with CST Online 20th December 2013. Many thanks to Kim Akass, editor, and the individual contributors, for giving permission for their articles to appear here. These and other articles can be accessed in CST’s archive on their current website: here.
Dr. Shelley Cobb
Associate Professor, Film
University of Southampton
http://www.soton.ac.uk/english/about/staff/sc1p07.page
PI of AHRC-funded Calling the Shots: women and contemporary film culture in the UK, 2000-2015
www.southampton.ac.uk/cswf
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