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Back Issues of Media Magazine
December 2016: Issue 60
December 2016: Issue 59
December 2016: Issue 58
September 2016: Issue 57
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Leading Ladies – Fat Actress Melissa McCarthy and the Last F**k-able Day
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Bombs, Bangs and Bad, Bad Boys – Representation of Masculinity in The Night Manager
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Why I Love ... Film Noir (MM 2016 Writing Competition Winner)
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Why I Love… Screenwriting (MM 2016 Writing Competition Winner)
April 2016: Issue 56
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Real to Reel: Why Media Representations of Reality Are Not ‘Windows On The World’
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Living and Learning in a Digital Age: Why Researching You(th) Really Matters
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The Media and Power: Foucault, Surveillance, and Reality Television
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‘Golden Years’ from ‘Station to Station’: Covering Bowie’s death
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Childish Things and Goblin Kings: Revisiting the Labyrinth after 30 years
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The A2 Case Study: So what does an A* exam essay actually look like?
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Making the Story Your Own – Understanding the Urge to Create in Modern Fandom
February 2016: Issue 55
December 2015: Issue 54
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Know Your Role and Shut Your Mouth: The Spectacle of The Rock
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Jurassic-sized Box Office: The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming!
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Beach Bodies vs Real Women: When a Marketing Campaign Goes Wrong
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‘The More You Deny Me the Stronger I Get’: Trauma, Repression and Catharsis in The Babadook
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In Plain Sight? Privacy, the Press, and the Protection of the Powerful
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For Your Consideration: What’s the Point of the Movie Awards Corridor?
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September 2015: Issue 53
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The Press and the Prime Minister: Was It the Spin-doctors Wot Won It?
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The Beeb, the Mail and JKR: the Politics of The Casual Vacancy
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Kristen, Kristen on the Wall, Who Is the Fairest of Them All?
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Is Lesbianism the New Black? Representing Sexual Identity in TV Drama
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Spot(ify) the Difference: Swift, Bragg & the Maths of Making Money in the Music Industry
April 2015: Issue 52
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Two Key Concepts: The Relationship Between Audience and Institution
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From The Margins To The Mainstream? Disability, Identity And The Media
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The Missing – Memory, Absence And Loss: The Meaning Of The Title Sequence
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The Last of Us – Or The First Of A New Generation Of Games? Or the First of a New Generation?
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They Live: Understanding Ideology
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Watch Your Language: The Extremely Rude History Of Swearing On TV
February 2015: Issue 51
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Doing Micro-analysis: Cinematography, Sound and Editing in Apocalypse Now
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Representing Place: Versions of the City in The Wire and Treme
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Turning The Unbeatables into a Great Draw: An Interview with Juan Jose Campanella
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Continuum, Sci-Fi Fans and the Power of the Tweet. Or ‘How I Took on the SyFy Channel and Lost’
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December 2014: Issue 50
September 2014: Issue 49
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February 2014: Issue 47
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Educating Yorkshire: The Reality and Representation of the Modern Documentary Format
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Beyond the French New Wave: Brazil, Czechoslovakia and Hungary
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Poetry No More: What’s Gone Wrong with Science Fiction? Elysium and the Decline of a Genre
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Popular Film and Emotional Response: a Case Study on The Reader
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Representations of War in TV News: a Representational Case Study
December 2013: Issue 46
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From Cathedral to Cinema: the Influence of Gothic Art in Film
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The Pleasure of the Forbidden: The Role of the Gothic for Heavy Metal Audiences
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East meets West: Cultural Appropriation and Japanese Gothic Cinema
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Visionary Vampires: Sinking your Teeth into the Gothic Films of Neil Jordan
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A Little in Love with Death: Representation and Intertextuality in Ripper Street
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Restraint and Resurrection: ‘Kiwi Gothic’ in Top of the Lake
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April 2013: Issue 44
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An Interview with David Aaronovitch: In Defence of Media Studies
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New Ideas for Media Studies Needed (Again!): In Search of Media 2.1
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Images and Ambiguities: Ideas about Terrorism in the Homeland Title Sequence
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Dark Knight, Dark Ideas: The Ideology of Nolan’s Batman Trilogy
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New Ideas about the Dead: Revitalising the Zombie Console Game
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Ideas about Storytelling: the Narrative Structure of Computer Games
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The Gender Politics of Survival: The Walking Dead and The Hunger Games
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February 2013: Issue 43
December 2012: Issue 42
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We’re All in this Together - Structured Reality TV and Social Class
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Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves? An Exploration of the Media’s Ongoing Fascination with Gypsies
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Odd Future, Stranger Past - Issues of Representation in Contemporary Hip-Hop
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Representing the ‘Other’ - The Virtual Middle East in Computer Games
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Images & Icons
September 2012: Issue 41
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How to be gorgeous - George Clooney as an icon of 21st-century Hollywood
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What lies beneath? Lund and Salander - the feminist icons of Nordic noir
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You think you know the story ... icons of horror in The Cabin in the Woods
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God Save the Queen - the iconography of the Sex Pistols 35 years on
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Analyze that- clarity & subtext in the cinematic images of Stanley Kubrick
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February 2012: Issue 39
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December 2011: Issue 38
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The Ps in Production: Product and Productivity
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In Defence of Media 2.0 or How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Being a Geek
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Movie Budgets: Where Does All the Money Go?
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Cash-Strapped Creatives
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Producing Private Ryan: the Story of an Epic-Opening Sequence
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Family Guy: an Institutional Case Study
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Getting into trouble with Bonnie and Clyde
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Freaks: the History of Cinema’s Greatest Sideshow
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Crime Doesn’t Pay - or Does it? Kubrick’s The Killing and Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven
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Production Tips 2.0: Practice, Planning, Professionalism
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Dealing with MEST 2
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Martin Pope: a Producer’s Life
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Wedding-watching: the Production of a Royal Spectacle
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Horror and Heroics: the Cinema of September 11th
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Moving on Up: Studying Production in Higher Education
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How to Make a Good Online Portfolio
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Comments Please
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A Match Made in Heaven Onscreen representations of Sherlock Holmes
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Partners in Crime: Collaboration in Television Crime Drama
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Music and Politics
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Celebrity Endorsement: a Collaboration Made in Heaven
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Food, Fame, Chefs and Celebrity: Genre and Collaboration
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Web 2.0 – Twitter
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Collaboration or Exploitation
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The Curious Collaboration of David Fincher and Brad Pitt
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Quid Pro Quo: Visiting Doctor Lecter
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Indy versus Indie: Contrasting Collaborations between Audience, Industry and Text
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Prince in Print: the Collaboration Between Biographer and Musician
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Marty, Bob and Leo: the Changing Nature of Masculinity
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Cross-platform Storytelling
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Lady Gaga: Mistress of Convergence
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Bullets for Success: Tackling Your Terminal Examination
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Regulating the Press-pack: Right to Reply
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Strictly cultural
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Ethics – New Media Culture
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A Very British Doctor
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Ghetto Culture
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From ‘The Unforgettable Fire’ to Arcade Fire: 25 Years Of Change In The Music Business 1985-2010
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Film – new genre
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New Wave Culture Changing identities and the language of style
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Looking Back at 50 years of Breathless
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Culture and the Burka aka Why I hate Sex and the City 2
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Culture or Culchure? Who decides what’s best?
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Royal with Cheese Quentin Tarantino and the blood-letting of culture
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Hipsterism for Dummies Milestone Movies in Youth Culture
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Horror Monsters
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Wolf Creek
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Frozen Licence Fees and the Culture of the BBC
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Where everyman knows your name - 21st Century culture of Independent Cinemas
MEDIA MAGAZINE
The English and Media Centre publish a quarterly magazine ideal for students of Media and Film Studies. Written by examiners, teachers, college lecturers and leading authors in the field, this publication is aimed at you, written with your age group in mind, and at an appropriate level of learning. It features all that is current and contemporary in media discourse; offering relevant and recent case studies and explaining sometimes complicated theories.