Enthralled academics obsess over Game of Thrones – and it's serious fun for fans
Apr 25, 2016 23:34 pm UTC| Entertainment
If you think youre Game of Throness biggest fan, well, you may want to reconsider. For the past few years on The Conversation, academics have proved that they are a serious breed of superfan. We let them run riot and its...
Why it's tough to find Prince's songs online – and other musicians are thankful
Apr 25, 2016 01:11 am UTC| Entertainment Law
Legendary music icon Prince Rogers Nelson died unexpectedly on April 21, 2016, sending shock waves through the lives of many music lovers. With a career spanning nearly 40 years and even more albums, Prince was one of the...
Prince: a pop chameleon whose music contained multitudes
Apr 22, 2016 07:24 am UTC| Entertainment
Distilling the essence of Prince Rogers Nelson into a few hundred easily digested words is foolhardy, not to mention impossible. To encapsulate Prince-ness would be to describe a universe. Not only is there a vastness to...
Apr 22, 2016 07:13 am UTC| Entertainment
OMG Prince is dead … His publicist Yvette Noel-Schure said: It is with profound sadness that I am confirming that the legendary, iconic performer, Prince Rogers Nelson, has died at his Paisley Park residence...
The who and how of pirates threatening the Nollywood film industry
Apr 20, 2016 05:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment Law
With an average production of 50 movies per week and about $590 million revenue annually, Nigerias film market is booming. Dubbed Nollywood, it has overcome the teething problems of the late 1980s and 1990s to become a...
Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth
Apr 20, 2016 03:12 am UTC| Entertainment
What is it that makes generation after generation respond to Charlotte Bronts books, and in particular Jane Eyre? Bronts novels are bildungsromane, but they differ markedly from, say, the coming of age novels of Jane...
Zootopia-inspired pet trade shows problem of portraying wild animals as cuddly companions
Apr 19, 2016 04:34 am UTC| Entertainment
Films and TV shows keep depicting wild animals as fun and friendly characters, with human-like personalities. Its better than representing them as evil monsters, of course, but sometimes films can have a bad influence on...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects