Mae Losasso is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her first book, Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School: Something Like a Liveable Space, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2023.
When Britain’s Labour Party introduced tuition fees in 1998, they did so ostensibly to fund the expansion of higher education. But underlying this decision was the confused idea that social mobility could be an alternative to economic redistribution.
Billed as another eat-the-rich movie, Saltburn turns out to be the opposite: a film about the British middle class’s nostalgia for the aristocracy and its desperate desire to take their place.