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The Overs Category

The Overs Category in ‘The X Factor’ was notorious for featuring contestants that the public knew wouldn’t win. It was almost a given that surely, they were too old for stardom. Stella, you can’t get your groove back, go and sit down; your osteoporosis is kicking in. Mind you, The Overs is short for over-25s.  […]

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What Fourth Wall?

This post is self indulgent. The time has come to talk about one of my favourite genres – the mockumentary. A mockumentary is a facetious or satirical work presented in the style of a documentary. A portmanteau of “mock” and “documentary”, a mockumentary gives the guise of a documentary by having the typical features such

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It’s So Gross I Love It: Femme Horror and the Abject

A Screenscope Guest Entry by Tara Horror movies are often utilised to showcase the most depraved parts of human nature with the intention of eliciting a strong reaction from its viewer. However, it also takes advantage of the abject. Abject: the phenomenon of being so disgusted but also enamoured by something – to be so

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The Eponymous Show

‘Seinfeld’. ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’.  ‘Martin’. ‘I Love Lucy’.  ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’.  ‘Everybody Hates Chris’. ‘Miranda’. ‘The Bernie Mac Show’. ‘George Lopez’. ‘The Ms Pat Show’ You know what these shows have in common? It’s very easy to see who stars in them. Since the start of television, even though they are acting, many

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