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‘This Is Going to Be Part of Soccer History’
American Samoa’s 2-1 win over Tonga in 2011 ended a lengthy losing streak and was portrayed by international media as completing a redemption arc from…
Oct 31
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Dion Georgiou
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Honey Don’t!
The second instalment in Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s planned ‘lesbian B-movie trilogy’ offers a queer perspective on the detective genre and on class…
Oct 23
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Dion Georgiou
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Stop, Look, and Listen #51
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
Oct 4
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Dion Georgiou
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September 2025
Eddington
This portrayal of a small New Mexico town at the outset of the pandemic meditates on how individual self-interest, ambition, and resentments fuel…
Sep 24
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Dion Georgiou
Stop, Look, and Listen #50
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
Sep 20
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Dion Georgiou
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Changing the Tune
The evolution of the theme tunes of popular British children’s television programmes offers a useful prism for looking through at processes of…
Sep 7
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Dion Georgiou
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August 2025
‛...But Who Do You Consider ‛A Ten’?’
Television interviews conducted with the director and cast of the 1996 film Beautiful Girls further captured the gender dynamics not just of the film…
Aug 25
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Dion Georgiou
Superman
The latest big-screen incarnation of the Man of Steel defies some dominant conventions of superhero movies, while concerning itself explicitly with…
Aug 20
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Dion Georgiou
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Stop, Look, and Listen #49
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
Aug 16
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Dion Georgiou
Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service (2008–2017)
The BBC’s readaptation of the adventures of Britain’s most famous fictional postman mirrored many concurrent neoliberal transformations of its postal…
Aug 14
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Dion Georgiou
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Stop, Look, and Listen #48
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
Aug 9
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Dion Georgiou
Stop, Look, and Listen #47
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
Aug 2
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Dion Georgiou
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