DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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STEPHEN TRINDER talks to Andy Hedgecock about why there's little radical vision in science-fiction cinema
Neill Blomkamp's Elysium (left) and (right) Abu Dhabi-based writer and academic Stephen Trinder
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
“IT HAS got to a point where the general public are not particularly shocked or even bothered that the Pentagon would directly intervene on a script that was critical of the US or its military,” says Abu Dhabi-based writer and academic Stephen Trinder.
Trinder is alarmed by declassified government reports of direct interference in film-making by people in power but the real focus of his research and writing is the extent to which neoliberal thinking is reinforced by subtler forms of influence and constraint.
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