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Davinia Thornley
Davinia Thornley is a senior lecturer in media, film and communication at the University of Otago, Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is the author of Cinema, Cross-Cultural Collaboration, and Criticism: Filming on an Uneven Field (Palgrave Pivot, 2014) and editor of True Event Adaptation: Scripting Real Lives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). Her current research centres on representations of the childfree choice in various academic disciplines. However, she is first and foremost a film devotee, and this article touches on two of her favourite fandoms: moviegoing and North Carolina, as Chapel Hill is her alma mater.