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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

  • A man with a bandaged face and a traffic warden uniform standing guard with a rifle in a still from the 1984 film Threads

    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

  • The director Peter Brook is shown in profile in a theatre

    Peter Brook and the empty space

    The late Peter Brook was a theatre director extraordinaire. Tony Graham shows how despite occasional misjudgements, he will inspire future generations for years to come

  • A black man wearing a headset and mic is delivering a report to camera from a city street

    Going live from the picket line with StreetMic

    Wendell Daniel, aka StreetMic, describes how a lifelong interest in photography led to his regularly filming protests live from London’s streets

  • A monstrous male figure, bald, white faced, with long pins stuck into its entire head in a grid pattern

    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?

  • A painting showing witches performing a ritual surrounded by magical items and creatures

    Morality tales

    From cowardly men to wayward wives, pre-modern superstitions transmitted social norms as well as scares, writes Eleanor Janega

  • The global spectres of ‘Asian horror’

    Bliss Cua Lim looks at how the female ghost subgenre illuminates efforts to globalise ‘Asian horror’

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