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  • #dragrace– Social Media, Audience Studies, and the Drag Race Franchise

    Social media has changed the way in which audiences interact with and consume television. No longer do people simply sit down to enjoy an episode of their favourite show but often also engage in further consumption of it either during or after the show has ended. Audiences take to social media platforms to share their

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  • Searching for a Spark and a Purpose – CGI, Pixar and Philosophy

    Rather than using film to illustrate philosophical ideas or applying philosophical thoughts to film, Daniel Frampton argues in his book Filmosophy that film should be thought of as being in control and conscious of its philosophical arguments. He states “Filmosophy is a study of film as thinking […] Filmosophy proposes that seeing film form as

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  • Review: It Chapter Two (Andy Muschietti, 2019)

    [Originally posted in September 2019 on Fantasy/Animation] I wouldn’t say I am scared of clowns, but I definitely don’t like them. If you Google search ‘fear of clowns’ there are over ten million results, so it seems I am not alone in my dislike towards these peculiar figures. Taking its cue from something of this

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  • Growing Up with Pixar

    [Originally posted in August 2020 on Fantasy/Animation] The most recent Pixar film, Onward (Dan Scanlon, 2020), tells the story of two brothers, Ian and Barley, who set out on a magical quest in a bid to spend one final day with their late father. On Ian’s sixteenth birthday he is presented with a gift left

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  • Review: Toy Story 4 (Josh Cooley, 2019)

    [Review originally published in 2019 on Fantasy/Animation] Since Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995) hit cinema screens worldwide in November 1995, audiences have witnessed a series of dramatic changes within the animated medium, particularly in Hollywood. Having signed a contract with Pixar Animation Studios in 1991, Disney were initially hesitant to give the very first computer-animated

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