Category: Blogs
VIRGIN ISLAND: A DISCONNECTED SPECTACLE by Poppy Irwin
“It’s like putting two insects together in a jar and seeing what happens…” (Hill, 2014: 3). When...
Read MoreSPORTING RIGHTS—OR WRONGS? by Toby Miller
Edward G Robinson’s gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo (John Huston, 1948) seems uncertain when...
Read MoreSIX MYTHS THAT UNDERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE UK SCREEN INDUSTRIES: A PROVOCATION by Richard Wallis and Christa van Raalte
Richard Wallis and Christa van Raalte argue for greater honesty and pragmatism in addressing the...
Read MoreGovernance in Crisis: Governance Podcast Part 2 by David Levente Palatinus and Elke Weissmann
In this second podcast, David and Elke are looking at Governance in Crisis – as governance that is...
Read MoreTHE INTIMACY REVOLUTION: HEARTSTOPPER AND ITS IMPACT ON QUEER STORYTELLING by Enes Akdağ
Disclaimer: This blog post is derived from the research presented at the 9th International Visual...
Read MoreGOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (CNN, 7 June, 2025) by Kim Akass
I first started writing this blog some weeks ago after I was lucky enough to be invited along to a...
Read MoreDOES VIEWING ORDER MATTER? RANDALL AND HOPKIRK (REASSESSED) by JZ Ferguson
Should a series be watched in production, broadcast, or some other order? Most viewers will never...
Read More‘THE JEDI SAY I CAN’T EXIST’: COLONISATION, CRITIQUE AND THE ACOLYTE by Melissa Beattie
The Star Wars franchise is perhaps best known for its rather Manichean outlook on good and evil as...
Read More‘SOCIALLY CONSTITUTED BODIES’: QUESTIONS OF SELFHOOD AND PAIN IN APPLE TV’S SEVERANCE by Noah Gray
“If something is to stay in the memory, it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt...
Read MoreBACK TO (BBC) ONE: RETURN TO PARADISE AND REPRESENTATION by Melissa Beattie
‘Do you come from the land Down Under? Where women glow and men plunder?’ ‘Down Under,’ Men at...
Read MoreSLOWING DOWN TIME WITH THE VIDEO ESSAY by James Walker
I’m passionate about the written word but conversely, I’ve turned to digital media to encourage...
Read MoreLIVE CHATS WITH DEAD STARS: MEETING WITH ‘MAUREEN O’SULLIVAN’ by Ruth Barton
I write biographies. So far, I’ve written two, one on Hedy Lamarr, and another on the silent era...
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