Adrin Neatrour writes - Were an uninitiated observer – say from the planet Mars –to watch a round of golf being played by two men at the Masters, would that observer understand that what he was watching was in fact a sporting contest? To judge by the intoned whispered BBC commentary you might think that what was taking place was some kind of religious ceremony.

Breaking Cover, by Tom Jennings [essay on documentary representations of British and European Muslim women, published in Variant, No. 24, September 2005] [Part two of 'Same Difference' discussing cinema representations of British and European Muslims: see Variant, No. 23, May 2005.

A Hall of Mirrors: Television News and Social Reality, by Tom Jennings (originally published 1992)

Confusion Is The Beginning of Wisdom - The beginning of an unfinished treatment by Chris Gowens

The Hidden Injuries of Theory by Tom Jennings [Essay on Class War, Dream On, and ultra-left critique, published in Here & Now, no. 14, pp.18-22, July 1993]