Clampdown: pop-cultural wars on class and gender, by Rhian E. Jones
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Jan 18 2014 10:59
A superb addition to Zero Books' list of slim volumes reaching the sociocultural-political parts other publishers can't reach
Top of the Lake, by Jane Campion, BBC2
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Nov 13 2013 09:29
This bewitching imaginary of symbolic expression and obscene realism has far more depth than your average TV police drama.
The East, directed by Zal Batmanglij
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Oct 21 2013 20:39
A rare cinema fiction tackling radical environmentalism ties itself in knots trying to offer a 'balanced' argument
The Spirit of '45, directed by Ken Loach
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Aug 24 2013 10:54
This elegy to the gains for ordinary people made in the UK after 1945 – now largely clawed back – fails to inspire due to its lack of analysis of what went wrong.
Ill Manors, directed by Ben Drew, and The Angels' Share, directed by Ken Loach
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Oct 24 2012 20:28
Official 'truth' being more dishonest as well as stranger than fiction, Tom Jennings looks instead at feral youth fairytales screened since last August's riots.
Reacting to Reality Television, by Beverley Skeggs & Helen Wood
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Sep 27 2012 15:52
A welcome and invaluable critical analysis of some of the effects of the genre on its viewers.
UK screen representations of youth in austerity
Submitted by Tom Jennings on May 3 2012 16:48
Two decades-worth of British poverty porn reveals more than might be thought.
The War on Terra, by Verbal Terrorists
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Mar 1 2012 13:38
“Rhyming for a reason, we ain’t here for the hell of it: Fuck ya deficit!” (Efeks, ‘Mass Production’)
Wuthering Heights, directed by Andrea Arnold
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Feb 2 2012 20:13
Never mind the prissy costume drama bollocks. This raw punk historicism is a landmark, in several senses, of British cinema.
Top Boy, by Ronan Bennett, Channel 4
Submitted by Tom Jennings on Dec 1 2011 15:22
Yet another teenage gang tall story glimpses beyond the moral panics and tired miserabilism of most poverty porn.
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