How do you teach the language of cinema to a student who's never been told their way of seeing matters?

In this episode of Anything Goes, we sit down with James Taylor, a film scholar and two‑year veteran of an inclusive teaching forum at Warwick. He teaches everything—from first‑year core modules to advanced courses on horror, gothic, and the machinery of film franchising.

We talk about what it actually takes to make a classroom feel like it belongs to everyone. Not just in principle, but in practice: how you make genre theory land for a student who feels like an outsider.

A conversation about the one thing he would change about how we teach film, the monsters and heroes who show up in our syllabi, and why “anything goes” might just be the most radical thing we can say in a classroom.