‘A Space Beyond the Binary’: Queering Reproduction in Juno (Reitman, 2007)
Rebecca Siddall As we enter 2026, queer and trans reproduction remains all but invisible in media, and LGBTQIA+ rights are under threat worldwide. Viewing Juno – a film about a heterosexual, cisgender, pregnant teenage girl – 20 years after its release means re-evaluating almost every one of its details. In a recent interview, screenwriter Diablo Cody invites…
Film Society and Black History Month: A Screening of Sinners (2025).
Ren Anthony To celebrate Black History Month, York St. John’s Film Society, in collaboration with the Cinema and Social Justice Project, hosted a screening of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (2025). The film itself represents an important movement across contemporary media, where there is a duly recognised space, as well, for films which challenge a predominantly white-oriented cultural perspective. …
Dreams of integration and legacies of colonialism in French sports films
Jonathan Ervine The way in which contemporary French sports films depict social justice issues is evolving. Not as many are based on the exploits of stereotypically macho males; an increasing amount show men who embrace vulnerability on and off the sports field and assume greater family responsibilities. However, the makers of these films appear reluctant…
The Inside Film Project: Working-Class Knowledge, Prison, and Radical Film Pedagogy
Deirdre O’Neill The Inside Film Project runs both inside prisons and on ‘the out’ working with serving and former prisoners. It recognises the majority of serving prisoners in the UK come from the most marginalized and impoverished sections of the working class. The project begins from an acknowledgment that working-class knowledge has long been denigrated or ignored…
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