The latest film by Clio Barnard, Reader in Film at the University of Kent, has\u00a0received exceptional reviews\u00a0from film critics.\u00a0\u2018The Selfish Giant\u2019 is an adaptation of Oscar Wilde\u2019s famous short story of the same name. Now set in a housing estate in Bradford, it tells the tale of two outcast teenage boys who get caught up in the world of copper theft.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The film will be shown on Friday 15 November at a \u2018Film meets Sociology\u2019 event at the Gulbenkian<\/a>.\u00a0 Following the screening, Clio Barnard and colleagues from the University\u2019s School of Arts and School of Social Policy, Sociology\u00a0and Social Research (SSPSSR) will discuss the aesthetic and sociological issues raised by the film.<\/p>\n more ….<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest film by Clio Barnard, Reader in Film at the University of Kent, has\u00a0received exceptional reviews\u00a0from film critics.\u00a0\u2018The Selfish Giant\u2019 is an adaptation of … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}