Contributor Luke Charnley

The ASBOwave and the Cultural Politics of Broken Britain

by Luke Charnley

The far-right‘s increasingly hostile culture war against migrants echoes the fantasies of social collapse that weaponised British vigilante cinema in the 2000s.

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Scene Report

Inside the North West Film Clubs building a regional community around cinema

by Luke Charnley

Across Liverpool and Manchester, a dynamic network of film clubs is occupying community spaces and encouraging a DIY approach to film curation.

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