John AyresJohn D. Ayres is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Manchester. He has published peer-reviewed articles on aspects of 1950s British cinema in both the Journal of British Cinema and Television and the Journal of War and Culture Studies, ad has a chapter entitled ‘Untraditional Traditions: Modern mediations on seasonal motifs’ in a forthcoming 2023 Bloomsbury edited collection focusing on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). Read More Read Less