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Moana 2
Heavily referential of its 2016 predecessor, this sequel folds its eponymous hero’s adventures into a reimagined Pacific mythology and expanding Disney…
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Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
This comic fantasy about a forty-something woman who travels back to her senior year after attending her high school reunion offered a circular notion…
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New Labour on Desert Island Discs
Labour politicians who appeared on the Radio 4 show between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s used their musical choices to try and tell stories about their…
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December 2024

Progressive Politics, Popular Culture, and Public Memory in Contemporary Britain
In which our intrepid author agrees to write a book about how both politicians and cultural producers vie to tell ‘progressive’ stories about Britain’s…
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Rage Against The X-Factor
The 2009 battle to be UK Christmas No 1 pitted competing ideas of musical tradition against each other, as well as bringing legacy and new media…
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Conclave
In its depiction of the Vatican in flux following the death of the Pope, Conclave explores the ideological schisms, political workings, and impact of…
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The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
In pitting the celebrated nineteenth-century politician against the devil himself, this film reimagines the economic and legal transformations of that…
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November 2024

Stop, Look, and Listen #40
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
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Stop, Look, and Listen #39
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
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Duck and the Diesel Engine (1958)
The rivalry between the two characters at the heart of this book encapsulated the contest between competing versions of the British railway system’s…
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Law, Film, and the New Deal Era
There is much to be learned by thinking about 1930s debates on American jurisprudence and about Hollywood legal dramas in conjunction with one another.
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Stop, Look, and Listen #38
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
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