Author: CSTonline

In August 2022, I secured a slot at the BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) in Caversham to look at...

Imagine, if you will, the following scene playing out on a television screen: A trial is underway...

This past March, Fox News personality Jesse Watters, who first came to fame as the pundit Bill...

When the creation of the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham was agreed, at a meeting of the...

“It’s like putting two insects together in a jar and seeing what happens…” (Hill, 2014: 3). When...

Edward G Robinson’s gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948) seems uncertain when...

Richard Wallis and Christa van Raalte argue for greater honesty and pragmatism in addressing the...

In this second podcast, David and Elke are looking at Governance in Crisis – as governance that is...

Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the research presented at the 9th International Visual...

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...