It is no secret that Hollywood is not the paradise it is often idealised as, especially for women, people of colour and other minority groups. After the prominence of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements at the 2018 Golden Globes, many of the female attendants wore black dresses in solidarity with women who were sharing […]
Since January, US President Donald Trump has persistently shown himself to be undecided on China’s culpability for the coronavirus pandemic. Whilst initially lavishing praise on China and its leader, Xi Jinping, for having the epidemic “totally under control”, Trump and his administration have recently begun to refer to Covid-19 as the ‘Chinese Virus’. This rhetoric […]
I recall telling my father, rather fervently, that, in my defence to pursue English Literature as a degree, that things had changed; we were no longer second class citizens, that everyone was more or less equal now. He laughed, told me I had forgotten my place, and that things had not changed as much as […]
Since the coronavirus outbreak emerged late last year in Wuhan, China, there has been a dramatic increase in global concern as the number of people affected grows daily. There have been over 30,000 reported illnesses and 635 deaths in mainland China, spreading across Asia to Europe, North America and Australia. China’s response has both been […]
Bad guys have accents. Didn’t you notice? Consistently in British and American film and television, the bad guys have distinctive accents or strange reptilian features, impenetrable masks or persistent facial tics. They always stand out as ‘different’ or ‘other’. Indeed, when they are actually Caucasian, more often than not they are played by an actor […]