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Screening Postmodern Lifecycles

Wham! 10 Days in China
This documentary about Wham!’s 1985 visit to China captures the complex combination of late Cold War politics, commercial imperatives, and cultural…
 • Dion Georgiou
Dead Man’s Wire
A film that captures the economic discontents and ideological confrontations of 1970s America, albeit in ways that elide some of the dynamics at play in…
 • Dion Georgiou
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
This biopic frames the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska in the context of his own psychological turmoil, at the omission of the broader…
 • Dion Georgiou
Foot and Mouth – The Killing Fields in Wales (2021)
This documentary revisited the 2001 foot-and-mouth outbreak and ensuing animal cull in Wales, and its impact on the country’s farmers, in part through…
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…
 • Dion Georgiou
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…
 • Dion Georgiou
‛...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…
 • Dion Georgiou
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…
 • Dion Georgiou
The Apprentice
The depicted relationship between Roy Cohn and Donald Trump links law, real estate, and politics, as well as establishing a lineage of the American…
 • Dion Georgiou
Falling in Love Again (1980)
A forthcoming high school reunion forces a middle-aged couple to confront their marital problems, thrown into sharp relief by the husband’s memories of…
 • Dion Georgiou
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)
This film retells the story of the making of Mary Poppins, and reflects upon the autobiographical aspects of storytelling, and the subsequent conflicts…
 • Dion Georgiou
Bob Marley: One Love
This biopic casts Bob Marley as an almost messianic figure, but offers a very narrow interpretation of its protagonist’s politics.
 • Dion Georgiou
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