Dr. David Christopher has taught media studies at universities in China and Canada. He researches media and popular culture from a combined Cultural Studies and Political Economy perspective with particular attention to identity and class politics as well as anarchist and apocalypse philosophies in science-fiction and horror cinema. Recently, David has begun exploring the sociological implications of digital cinema, social media culture, video games, and contemporary media reception and participation. As a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia in 2021-22, he is collaborating with Professor Ernest Mathijs on a book-length reception study of the films and career of Canadian-Italian auteur-director Vincenzo Natali. 
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This article aims to demonstrate the ways in which media interests at the levels of cinematic production through to their journalistic reception work to control and marginalize certain progressive ideologies[…]
