New Realism book cover

Making of ‘New Realism’

Explore how the recently published New Realism: Contemporary British Cinema by David Forrest came to be. The writing of a book begins with conversations, and this one was no different. In 2015, I was invited to a film festival in…

Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered

Sixties British Cinema – Reconsidered!

Read Laura Mayne’s overview of the new book Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered, which re-evaluates a critically neglected period in British film history. Has here been any decade more inconsistent in the public imagination than the 1960s? Lived recollections of the…

Love across the Atlantic: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Love Across the Atlantic

Read on to catch a glimpse of one of the chapters from Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture, edited by Barbara Jane Brickman, Deborah Jermyn and Theodore Louis Trost. Earlier this year, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry…

Diversity in British Cinema

Diversity in British Film and Television

The controversy over ‘all-white’ 2020 BAFTAs once again shows the importance of understanding that issues of diversity are at the forefront of debates film and television. But it’s not just a question of who is, and is not, in the…