Happy Thursday, Dolls!
This week we’re looking at the Folk Horror revival, Fatal Attraction, why Succession is a reality show and lots more! Let’s get into it…
THE POLYESTER PODCAST (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)
Screenwriters are striking, celebrities are turning up on picket lines and creating viral moments, and all our fave shows are ceasing production. But the implications of a writers strike are bigger than the next series of Stranger Things being delayed. In this episode, Ione and Eden are diving into how past writers strikes have effected culture; from the dawn of reality tv, to a decline in media literacy, and whether the 2007 strike paved the way for Trump to become president.
When will they stop making remakes? Sam Moore looks back at Fatal Attraction and the shows being created on the back of 90s classics.
Succession is a Reality Show: Why I’ve Stopped Watching the News (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)
As Succession may as well be a documentary at this point, Sarah Laverty gets into the corruption of news sources and why fake news has been around long before social media.
For this month’s Film Fatale column, Charlotte Amy Landrum looks at why we have always been so obsessed with folk horror in Britain.
Photographer and Polyester mentee Kathryn Coers Rossman is a proud patriot and product of American decline. She has channelled all her cultural anxiety about being an American into this editorial.
Mourning the Death of POC Arts Organisations (S'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre)
With our fav trailblazing publications like gal-dem recently closing down, Gwyneth Tambe-Green explores the lack of financial support for publications led by marginalised identities.
See ya next week!
XOXO,
The Polyester Team <3
