Surpassing the Love of Riseholme: The Bible and Mapp and Lucia’s Memorial Sermon
The memorial service held for Mapp and Lucia in their eponymous novel by E.F. Benson is a brilliant piece of …
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Miss Pettigrew and the Provincial Lady: Women Looking at Women
Midcentury British fiction by women is one of my favourite genres, and I have the overdraft with Persephone Books to …
Adam and Steve Created He Them: Thoughts on Gender, Sexuality and Genesis 1
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created …
Speak Its Name, by Kathleen Jowitt
“This it what it was like. No matter who you were back then, and whoever you ended up as afterwards, …
“That’s what I’m looking for, sweetheart” – The Hunger Games, Sexuality and Media
When I first read The Hunger Games a year or so ago, I was expecting a critique of modern media …
What Is The “Gay Lifestyle”?
Hillsong Church have recently brought out a press release denying that they let gay people take leadership positions in their …
Family Values: Puritans and Postmodernism in 90s Slasher Movies
The nineties saw something of a renewal in horror movies, as the bloated old franchises such as Halloween, Friday 13th …
Danse Macabre: Matthew Bourne’s Gothic Sleeping Beauty
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty is an astonishing work. Witty, trashy, sexy and unsettling, it rewrites the classic narrative to produce …
Malvolio and Georgie: Twelfth Night Meets Mapp and Lucia
Rewatching Trevor Nunn’s remarkable film of Twelfth Night, I noticed a detail I’d never seen before. Well, two details, to …
Shipping and Subverting: TV Shows and Resistant Reading
It’s a commonplace of cultural criticism that the audience are as much in charge of what a work “means” as …
