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The Hunger Games and the Female Driven Franchise (Part 1)
Female-led film franchises are few and far between, especially in the traditionally masculine genres of science fiction and fantasy. There are, of course, exceptions to this ‘rule’ which I shall...
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The Hunger Games and the Female-Led Franchise Part 2
While teaching an undergraduate film module this week, I asked my student cohort to come up with any female-led film franchises. We were discussing gender and I was trying to illustrate how inequality...
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True Detective’s True Detectives
True Detective is one of those shows. You know the kind I am talking about, right? The kind of show that lights a fire in the popular imagination and becomes the spark for conversation, dialogue and...
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I, Reboot (Part 1)
Following the completion of The Dark Knight Trilogy in 2012, director Christopher Nolan stated: “It’s a sign of how quickly things change in the movie business. There was no such thing conceptually...
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I, Reboot (Part II)
Casting off my weak and overused metaphor of a motor vehicle for a moment, I will tell the story of a “word,” and how it semiotically multiplied into a conceptual hubbub of meanings, and why. My thesis...
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Guardians of the Galaxy and The Marvel Method
Disney keeps on truckin’ with the Marvel Studios films coming thick and fast, leaving bête noire, DC, submerged in a swamp, largely of their own making. Then again, DC has always done this since Marvel...
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Star Wars Now: Fan Creativity and That Trailer
Has there ever been so much kerfuffle around 88 seconds? Granted, Star Wars fans have often (stereotypically) been viewed as fanatical about the fan object, a fanaticism that borders on obsession and...
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