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Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for Shameless Study
Dr Beth Johnson, lecturer in Film and Television Studies from the School of Humanities and Research Institute for Humanities, has been awarded an 18 month Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for her project entitled 'Shameless: Aesthetics, Style & Putting 'cool' into the TV Classics Canon'.
Through the fellowship, Beth will complete a monograph that will provide a unique study of both the original BAFTA winning British series of Shameless and the recent (2011) American remake.
Devoting chapters to the origins of the series, format, aesthetics, social realism, representations of sexuality, nation, state and love, the study will address the socio-political and thematic issues that punctuate the heart of the show, critically considering what Shameless has to say about contemporary society and analysing the original, edgy and 'cool' cinematographic culture of the show.
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