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What Makes Reading Social: One Direction and Inline Comments

LUCY ROUSE: It’s the year 2013. Beyonce played the Superbowl, Apple released the iPhone 5s– with a revolutionary fingerprint scanner, Cronuts (the fusion of croissants and donuts, obviously) became a thing, and most importantly, the British boyband One Direction was dominating the charts. With a rabid fanbase, me included, One Direction firmly cemented their placeContinue reading “What Makes Reading Social: One Direction and Inline Comments”

Spontaneous applause: A reflection on film reception after COVID

DJOYMI BAKER: The lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the closure of cinema theatres, and for academics such as me, who would normally teach cinema studies on campus at universities, the temporary end to weekly film screenings for students on the big screen. Instead, our “film of the week” had to shift to streaming atContinue reading “Spontaneous applause: A reflection on film reception after COVID”

Thoughts on the ‘Firebrand’ trailer

STEPHANIE RUSSO: I have thought a lot about queens. I wrote a book about the most infamous English queen, Anne Boleyn, and as somebody who specialises in historical fiction, there is never any shortage of fiction about queens, so queens seem to creep in at the edges of everything I write. Queens are a handyContinue reading “Thoughts on the ‘Firebrand’ trailer”