Expert Comment
Professor Pietari Kaapa, Professor in Media and Communications at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies discusses Hollywood strikes
The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are a historic mobilisation of forces against the undervaluing and undercutting of creativity and labour in the film, TV and streaming industry.
Emergency arts funding: must benefit communities beyond big cities
The UK government has announced that it will support the arts and culture industry - which is suffering heavy losses through the COVID-19 crisis - with a £1.57bn emergency support package. Experts in theatre and culture from the University of Warwick react.
The challenge facing our creative industries - expert comment
As the Chancellor prepares to announce a package of support for workers whose jobs are at risk because of COVID19, Dr Heidi Ashton from the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies highlights the particular challenges for people in the creative sector.
Expert comment: The fire at Notre-Dame, Paris
Dr Jennifer Alexander, from the Department of the History of Art at the University of Warwick comments on the fire at the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
She says:
"French buildings are more vulnerable here than UK ones because they don't usually have a stone tower in the centre that would act as a fire-break, this is what saved York Minster in 1984 when the transept roof caught fire but the tower stopped it spreading further."
Dr Elena Giusti on the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction
Dr Elena Giusti, Assistant Professor in Latin Literature and Language, discusses the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, won by Kamila Shamsie for her novel Home Fire, a reworking of Sophocles' Greek tragedy.