Popular Culture

A new book explores how Swift studies is bringing the cultural phenomena of Taylor Swift into academia

The Melbourne International Film Festival program can be overwhelming, so here’s a few tips to help you find your way through Australia’s premier film fortnight

The porn industry has been smuttying up pop culture for decades, and zombie porn just reflects our weird appetites

A 100 per cent tariff on films and a streaming market saturated with overseas content threatens not only Australia’s film industry, but also our unique film culture

Each one-hour episode of Netflix’s Adolescence is realised in a single, unbroken take. No edits. No resets.

What big data tells us about the rising popularity of South Korean ‘Hallyu’ culture around the world

The Melbourne International Film Festival showcases hundreds of films from around the world – here are five highlights to get you started

Boccaccio’s fourteenth-century masterpiece, now a Netflix series, shows the universality of human responses to a pandemic (along with some sex)

Carrie, Pennywise and other Stephen King horrors endure because his stories are grounded in an authentic depiction of suburbia

The Korean Wave is a global phenomenon, but there’s a dark side to South Korea’s soft-power strategy that we need to talk about