“Kubrick makes sure that, whilst we are afraid of the criminals, we are also profoundly uncomfortable with how the state deals with them on our behalf.”
[Essay] Are you watching closely?: Plot Twists in Con-Artist Cinema — Dan Norman
“Welles pretends to deceive the audience, whilst letting us in on it and allowing us to anticipate the rabbit emerging from the hat.”
[Fiction] ‘The Pirate-Diva’ — Dennis Bensie
“The sound is intense, and Hank’s moves are jarring. He’s swinging his arms and head around like a maniac.”
[Poetry] — Avrina Joslin
“My 3D brain is a frog ready to leap, a shrivelled beggar on the street.”
[Essay] Rethinking Hitchcock — Dan Norman
“His detractors often criticise him as callous. Yet, these two shots from The 39 Steps show a filmmaker capable of great compassion.”
[Essay] On Rom-Com — Sam Hancock
“For Adorno and Horkheimer, mass culture is what eats us alive, yet we consume it quite freely and unthinkingly.”
[Poetry] — Allison Grayhurst
“In summer, / sweat drips into the mouth like sunshine”
[Essay] On #YOLO — Charles Bliss
“In the face of the void of oblivion after death, YOLO is an exhortation to action-experience, a mindfulness of our own mortality.”
[Fiction] ‘The Alligator’ — Roy Endean
“He entertained us with references to St. Augustine, the Roman origins of ketchup and the economic ramifications of the common cold.”
[Fiction] ‘Wolves’ — Breyon Gibbs
“The pain was good, I thought; it kept me sharp. Planes would surely be searching for survivors.”
[Essay] Why Marxism and Critical Theory Still Matter — Dan Formby
“It in oppositional reading practices—feminist, post-structuralist, post-colonialist, cultural materialist, affect theory, cybernetics, ecocriticism—that the legacy and future of critical theory lie.”
[Poetry] — Nick Power
“Faint singing in the wire / and I know that it’s you”
[Essay] Sound and the City: Sonic Technologies and Urban Subjectivity – Jamie Bulman
“These personal moments give new meanings to the music we listen to, re-contextualising them within our personalised canon of musical experience.”
[Essay] Dérive: Situationist Architecture and the Modern City — Matilda Roberts
“For Raoul Vaneigem, creativity, love and play are life’s nutrients – the only real ways in which we can participate in the world.”
[Essay] F.M. Mayor and Literary Modernism — Robert Firth
“The subtly crafted modernisms of isolation, doubt and disillusionment are rendered through both character and narrative form by situating both at a subjective and historical fault line marking the border between discontinuity and classic realist denouement.”
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