CW: contains spoilers for the film Transit (2018). In Christian Petzold’s Transit (2018), the main character, Georg (Franz Rogowski), tells a story to the US Consulate (Trystan Pütter) about a person who arrives in Limbo and stands before the door to the afterlife. …

This is my second assessed essay for my MA in Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London written for the module Contemporary American Cinema. Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (2018) are similar films in many respects but were recognised by the American…

This is my first assessed essay for my MA in Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London written for the module Key Concepts in Cultural and Critical Studies: Part 1. It did fairly well in terms of marks but in retrospect I can see that I was trying…

This term I’m taking a module in Contemporary American Cinema as part of my MA in Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. The focus of the class is the Academy Awards and specifically the 89th Academy Awards ceremony in 2017. …

The first David Lynch work I ever saw was his 2000 commercial, Welcome to the Third Place (2000, dir: David Lynch), for the Sony PlayStation 2. The ad is a one minute long, black and white spot and features such Lynch hallmarks as doppelgängers, industrial and noise-influenced soundscapes, exaggerated thumbs-ups…

This is a critical bibliography of five texts on the subject of media and technology. It was produced as coursework for my MA in Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. …

This is my selection for student-selected readings for my MA in Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Ahmed, Sara, ‘Against Students’, The New Inquiry, 29 June 2015 <https://thenewinquiry.com/against-students/> [accessed 20 November 2018]. My selection for student-selected readings is Sara Ahmed’s essay, Against Students, for The New Inquiry…

CW: contains references to strong violence. Also contains spoilers for the film Suspiria (2018) and, for all I know, Suspiria (1977). I can pinpoint the exact moment where Suspiria (2018) lost me. Over halfway through the film, Sara (Mia Goth), a student at the Markos Dance Academy, is becoming suspicious…

This is the edited script of a micro-presentation that I gave as part of my MA in Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London on 2018–10–29. Edit 2019–04–29: A slightly extended version of this was also presented at Fantastic! Conference 2019 in Sheffield, UK on 2019–04–26. In September…