From Glamour Girls to Nolly Babes

In Cinema and Cultural Modernity, Cardiff University’s Gill Branston explains film as visual imagery seen, in complete form, on large cinema screens, in spaces both private and public. However, modern day film has evolved beyond the screens of cinemas, and ‘film culture’ is one that, today, incorporates an exhausting number of technological devices. Regardless of how you consume films, imagery remains vital to understanding the consumers, the public and public culture; as despite the new,

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