#Patricia Kneale

[cultfaction]

A for Andromeda (1961)

A for Andromeda is a British science fiction television series that was first aired in 1961. The show was produced by the BBC and consisted of seven episodes. It stared Esmond Knight as Professor Ernst Reinhart who would open each episode with an interview where he discussed the goings on of the series. The show’s plot centers around a group of scientists who receive a mysterious signal from the…

[weirdletter]

Spaces and Fictions of the Weird and the Fantastic: Ecologies, Geographies, Oddities (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies), edited by Julius Greve and Florian Zappe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. Cover image: Netfalls Remy Master/Shutterstock, info: palgrave.com.

This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of “weird” and “fantastic” literature and culture. Given their focus on the culturally marginal, unknown, and “other,” these genres figure as diagnostic modes of storytelling, outlining the latent anxieties and social dynamics that define a culture’s “structure of feeling” at a given historical moment. The contributions in this volume map the long and continuous tradition of weird and fantastic fiction as a seismograph for eco-geographical turmoil from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, offering innovative and insightful ecocritical readings of H.P. Lovecraft, Harriet Prescott Spofford, China Miéville, N.K. Jemisin, Thomas Ligotti, and Jeff VanderMeer, among others.

Contents: Foreword: Weird Geographies, Fantastic Maps – Robert T. Tally Jr. Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Ecologies and Geographies of the Weird and the Fantastic – Julius Greve and Florian Zappe 2. Naturhorror and the Weird – Eugene Thacker 3.Uncanny New Worlds in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “D’Outre Mort” and “The Black Bess” – Michaela Keck 4. The Weird and the Wild: Media Ecologies of the Outré-Normative – Julius Greve 5. Queering the Weird: Unnatural Participations and the Mucosal in H.P. Lovecraft and Occulture – Patricia MacCormack 6. Geological Insurrections: Politics of Planetary Weirding from China Miéville to N.K. Jemisin – Moritz Ingwersen 7. “Indifference Would Be Such a Relief”: Race and Weird Geography in Victor LaValle and Matt Ruff’s Dialogues with H.P. Lovecraft – James Kneale 8. The Oceanic Weird, Wet Ontologies and Hydro-Criticism in China Miéville’s The Scar – Jolene Mathieson 9. “Through the Eyes of Area X”: (Dis)Locating Ecological Hope via New Weird Spatiality – Gry Ulstein 10. Inexistent Ink: Michael Cisco and Quentin Meillassoux on Writing Worlds – Ben Woodard 11. Notes on the Alluring Weirdness of (Materialist) Rumination and Regurgitation: Reading Ariana Reines and Jamie Stewart – Marius Henderson 12. Spaces of Communal Misery: The Weird Post-Capitalism of Beasts of the Southern Wild – Marlon Lieber Notes on Contributors Index

[kwebtv]

Rosie -   BBC One  -  January 5, 1977 - October 30, 1981

Sitcom (27 episodes)

Running Time:  30 minutes

Stars:

Paul Greenwood as PC 'Rosie' Penrose

Tony Haygarth as PC Wilmot

Frankie Jordan as Gillian

Penny Leatherbarrow as WPC Brenda Whatmough

Paul Luty as Chief Inspector Dunwoody

Avril Elgar as Millie Penrose (series 1–3)

Patricia Kneale as Millie Penrose (series 4)

Lorraine Peters as Aunt Ida

Allan Surtees as Uncle Norman

Don McKillop as Bill (series 1–3)

Maggie Jones as Glenda (series 1–3)

[kwebtv]

Esmond Knight, Mary Morris, Patricia Kneale and Peter Halliday in “A for Andromeda”