Author: CSTonline

Should a series be watched in production, broadcast, or some other order? Most viewers will never...

The Star Wars franchise is perhaps best known for its rather Manichean outlook on good and evil as...

“If something is to stay in the memory, it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt...

‘Do you come from the land Down Under? Where women glow and men plunder?’ ‘Down Under,’ Men at...

I’m passionate about the written word but conversely, I’ve turned to digital media to encourage...

I write biographies.  So far, I’ve written two, one on Hedy Lamarr, and another on the silent era...

NB: This is part of research that will be published in a special issue of Popular Culture Studies...

Trump is back in office, letting Elon Musk loose and apparently giving in to Russia’s demands as...

‘In the not-too-distant future…’ For those of us of a certain age and from a certain...

Because of the ambiguities inherent in the job, spy dramas tend to have morally grey characters,...

I have something of an ambivalent relationship with travel documentaries.  While I often enjoy...

Santa has been very kind to me again this year.  You may recall that in recent years she’s been...

In the 1960s and 70s, US TV networks were broadcasting a plethora of situation comedies, many of...

Science fiction and comedy are often used for social commentary and animated sf/fantasy sitcom...

In the final act of Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, Matt Woods’s John Belushi ice skates in his...

Disclaimer:  This blog post is derived from my master thesis titled “New Aspects of Communal...

This blog considers the psychological conundrum of ageing within the academic workplace, offering...

I initially started writing this blog on Tuesday (we’ll certainly remember, remember, this 5th of...