Clem Bastow

Clem Bastow is a cultural critic whose work appears regularly in the Guardian. Their book, Late Bloomer: How An Autism Diagnosis Changed My Life (Hardie Grant) was published in 2021. She has contributed essays to Investigating Stranger Things (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and ReFocus: The Films Of Elaine May (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), and is undertaking a PhD in action cinema and screenwriting at RMIT.

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Daisy Jones and Hollywood’s Fictional Band Problem

Culture

17 Apr, 2023

Daisy Jones and Hollywood’s Fictional Band Problem

Clem Bastow

The onscreen adaptation of Daisy Jones & The Six faced an uphill battle—the reader had been free to imagine the greatest arrangements ever recorded. Films and TV shows about bands have a unique, and almost impossible, challenge to sell songs invented for screen as global chart-topping hits.

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Culture

17 Apr, 2023

Daisy Jones and Hollywood’s Fictional Band Problem

Clem Bastow

Extracts

08 Aug, 2022

Love on the Spectrum’s Deficit Lens

Clem Bastow

Despite providing some much-needed disability representation on television screens, Love on the Spectrum presents Autism as a dilemma to be solved on the road to romantic success.

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Extracts

08 Aug, 2022