Category: FILM
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ELEPHANT X2 – Neil Fulwood
A TALE OF TWO ELEPHANTS: THE TROUBLES, COLUMBINE AND THE PORTRAYAL OF VIOLENCE Alan Clarke’s Elephant is a 39-minute short first broadcast on BBC2 on 25 January 1989, and arguably the starkest, most disturbing made-for-television production since Mick Jackson’s Threads five years earlier. Elephant is set during the Troubles, though no attempt is made to provide political or ideological context for…
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BOY A – Amy Clarke
Boy A “They said I can choose my own name, any name?” says Eric Wilson, a.k.a. Jack Burridge, in the opening scene of Boy A. It’s a line that immediately establishes what the film is questioning. Identity. Who you are, who you don’t want to be, who you can become. Originally screened on Channel 4…
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Friday the 13th -Lucy Bellingham
Whither Jason? – The Drama and Dichotomy of Friday the 13th Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th might not have been the first slasher – not by a long chalk – but there’s a strong case to be made that it was the first to consolidate the structure, aesthetic and audience expectations of the sub-genre…