MAGAZINE
LATEST ISSUE: VOLUME 53.02 SUMMER 2024
The final cut: How cinema is being used to change the global narrative
The Summer 2024 issue of Index looks at how cinema is used as a tool to help shape the global political narrative by investigating who controls what we see on the screen and why they want us to see it. We highlight examples from around the world of states censoring films that show them in a bad light and pushing narratives that help them to scrub up their reputation, as well as lending a voice to those who use cinema as a form of dissent. The issue contains stories ranging from India to Nigeria, giving us a global insight into the starring role the film industry plays in global politics.
Outside of our special report, Katie Dancey-Downs investigates book banning in UK school libraries, Laura Silvia Battaglia speaks to the director of a Palestinian theatre company about the harsh reality of life in Gaza and Ugonna-Ora Owoh warns of the queer Ghanaians being persecuted under new anti-LGBT+ laws. Elsewhere, Simon James Green speaks out about his experience of book banning, Anmol Irfan discusses Muslim influencers who are creating a misogynistic subculture online and Can Dündar explains the importance of exiled journalists working together.
ALL ISSUES
The final cut: How cinema is being used to change the global narrative
Volume 53.02 Summer 2024
...The long reach: How authoritarian countries are silencing critics abroad
Volume 53.01 Spring 2024
...Having the last laugh: The comedians who won’t be silenced
Volume 52.04 Winter 2023
...In bad faith: How religion is being weaponised by the right
Volume 52.03 Autumn 2023
...Express yourself: Overcoming neurodiversity stereotypes
Volume 52.02 Summer 2023
...Modi’s India: The Age of Intolerance
Volume 52.01 Spring 2023
...Crown confidential: How Britain’s royals censor their records
Volume 51.04 Winter 2022
...The beautiful game? Qatar, football and freedom
Volume 51.03 Autumn 2022
...The battle for Ukraine: Artists, journalists and dissidents respond
Volume 51.02 Summer 2022
...Index at 50: The battles won, lost and currently raging
Volume 51.01 Spring 2022
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