Jennifer Doveton: Work and Labour - I work in the kitchens

Jennifer Doveton - whose lovely music you hear every time you listen to the technecast - is a postgraduate researcher in her third year at Brunel University. Her research is on middle-class subjectivity and moral value in British screen fantasy. At the moment she's looking at the Harry Potter film series and the His Dark Materials television series for markers of class in characterisation and narratives of upward mobility that reproduce neoliberal ideologies of individual aspiration. In this podcast Doveton takes a look at the role of the labour in these portal fictions and how the characters undertaking labour are presented, including their narrative function, relationship to the protagonist, and how they perceive themselves. You can follow Jennifer on twitter here: @JDHDoveton and find her video essays on youtube under JDH Doveton: www.youtube.com/channel/UCqZMVlLA0y9FHBe4unzTbHwThe previous technecast episode we produced with Jennifer can be found on Spotify here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1aPzFQbz4IBTkBcEWxJ3Rq?si=41b0c0c99ec845a2 - or by scrolling back through your technecast podcast feed to September 2022. ---This episode was produced and presented by Felix ClutsonTechnecast is a research and practice podcast supported by Techne DTPThe music is composed and generously given by Jennifer DovetonIf you’d like to get involved or turn your work into a podcast, please get in touch with us - [email protected] or via X @technecast