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Idi Amin: Lion of Africa (2010)
In writing a revisionist account of Idi Amin’s rise to power and expulsion of Uganda’s Asian minority, Manzoor Moghal simultaneously asserted his own…
Feb 17
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Refugee Narratives on The Reunion
Episodes of BBC Radio 4 programme The Reunion have given refugees to Britain opportunities to narrate their stories in dialogue with each other, but…
Feb 10
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Dion Georgiou
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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…
Dec 8, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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Stop, Look, and Listen #52
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past month, on the Horn of Africa; Eastern Orthodoxy; the Balkans; and football, ideology…
Nov 27, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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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…
Nov 22, 2025
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Refugee Narratives on The Reunion
Episodes of BBC Radio 4 programme The Reunion have given refugees to Britain opportunities to narrate their stories in dialogue with each other, but…
Feb 10
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Dion Georgiou
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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, 2025
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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, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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‛...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, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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Idi Amin: Lion of Africa (2010)
In writing a revisionist account of Idi Amin’s rise to power and expulsion of Uganda’s Asian minority, Manzoor Moghal simultaneously asserted his own…
Feb 17
2
2
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…
Nov 22, 2025
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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, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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Katie Morag (2013–2015)
Set on a fictional Hebridean island, this children’s television series gently and thoughtfully reflects on tradition and change in rural community life…
Apr 3, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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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…
Dec 8, 2025
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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, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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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, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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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, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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Stop, Look, and Listen
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Stop, Look, and Listen #52
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past month, on the Horn of Africa; Eastern Orthodoxy; the Balkans; and football, ideology…
Nov 27, 2025
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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, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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Stop, Look, and Listen #50
A round-up of what I have been reading and listening to this past week.
Sep 20, 2025
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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, 2025
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Dion Georgiou
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