Stage and screen
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Monopolywood: Why the Paramount accords should not be repealed
Repealing the Paramount accords could set independent cinema back, writes Vaughn Joy
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The Full Monty at 25
A quarter of a century after its release, The Full Monty still resonates today. Alex Green revisits a working-class story told with compassion and humour
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Riot daze
In the current political climate, despair come easy. From Pussy Riot to queer cabaret, we must find hope in one another, argues Siobhan McGuirk
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Cinema on the move
Inventive films are helping shift migration narratives from suffering to empowerment while expanding the politics of possibility, argue Lily Parrott and Laura Stahnke
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Navigating the apocalypse through popular culture
From plague and pandemics to zombies and ‘cli-fi’, apocalyptic narratives have long reflected and shaped the anxieties of our age, write Siobhan McGuirk and Marzena Zukowska
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The rule of the flesh eaters: capitalism through a horror movie lens
Capitalism entails endless misery and violence writes Mark Steven. Can cinematic horror help us to understand – and overthrow – it?
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Morality tales
From cowardly men to wayward wives, pre-modern superstitions transmitted social norms as well as scares, writes Eleanor Janega
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