Christina Marie Newland recently graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a First Class Honours BA in film & television. She plans to pursue a master's degree in film studies to further her research skills and interests in 1970s New Hollywood, classical genre studies, and Italian national cinema, particularly the work of Luchino Visconti. 
Satirical Excess and Empty Vessels: Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy
“Rupert Pupkin is uniquely a product of late capitalism near the close of the twentieth century; his fantasies reflect mass media’s ability to twist the real world into an insubstantial collection of images that mimic reality — the representation of self becomes more than the actual self, and it becomes impossible to tell the difference.”
