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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Congratulations Polina (and thanks for the website news item!)

Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Non academics always ask whether looking closely at a film 'ruins' it. I have never had that experience until writing my monograph chapter on Suspiria (2018), a film I (honestly!) did used to like. Pleased that I have written the final line of it today. Goodbye, cursed object, I am so over you!

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a woman in a red tank top has her arms up

ALT: a woman in a red tank top has her arms up

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James C. Taylor @jamesctaylor.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My book, The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning, is out today in ebook format, published by @upmississippi.bsky.social! You can buy the ebook from the usual vendors and if you're affiliated with a university you may already have access at JSTOR here: doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Dad's been told he's got to have an insta for his fruit and veg biz and I have to say the images of kiwis and radishes are quite a soothing addition to my timeline

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Hannah Strong @hannahstrong.co.uk · 21/03/2025

Take note: what is happening in the USA could easily happen here if we don't vocally, definitively resist

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Thank you to @baftss2025.bsky.social for facilitating my dream (talking about Charli XCX at length with 2 brilliant scholars). The female pop doc (edited by @profkirsty.bsky.social) coming soon!

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Tom Hemingway @tomhemingway.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Presenting as part of the Comedic Aesthetics panel at #BAFTSS2025 tomorrow! My paper is called ‘It’s Not TV, It’s A24’ and will be looking at how A24 have positioned themselves as a producer of televised stand-up comedy and the ways in which this reinforces their strong brand identity.

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

@baftss2025.bsky.social is go! Building on my work on resilience discourse & pop music on friday I'll be presenting on Charli XCX's Alone Together & how the film responds to & exceeds resilient formations of the recent female pop doc through an emphasis on LGBTQ fandom & digital space building

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Gábor Gergely @ggergely.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Really looking forward to delivering this paper on a fascinating film that sunk without a trace with the brilliant @havasjulia.bsky.social as part of Friday's Genre Hybridity panel @baftss2025.bsky.social

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Warwick Film & TV @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

James MacDowell’s new article, ‘Breaking (and making) the Fourth Wall on YouTube’ is now published (and is open access) in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Read below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Breaking and Making the Fourth Wall on YouTube: Direct Address and Audiovisual Narration in Online Video

Published in Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Nice to be on home (Warwick!) turf for @baftss2025.bsky.social this week. I'll be presenting on the Performance & Stardom SIG sponsored panel, sharing research on the female pop doc alongside @profkirsty.bsky.social. Come for the screenshots of my Instagram feed, stay for the hyperpop bangers!

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James C. Taylor @jamesctaylor.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Looks like a preview of my book - The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning - is now available on Google! It's a clumsily formatted ebook version with no images but still good for a sneaky peek. books.google.co.uk/books/about/...

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The Superhero Blockbuster

The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning builds an innovative framework for analyzing one of the most prominent genres in twenty-first-century Hollywood. In combining theories of adap...

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James C. Taylor @jamesctaylor.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Come join us for BAFTSS 2025! We've got so many great papers scheduled.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/01/2025

"But is it fascist?" My book A NAZI WORD FOR A NAZI THING has the answer: yes it is. So is endlessly classifying shit, which is eugenics. What do we do about it? My book also has the answer: make & love messy queer anarchist art to keep each other alive. peninsulapress.co.uk/products/a-n...

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A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing

by So Mayer An essay on art, bodies and fascism In an era where identity politics is being weaponised against the very people it has sought to make visible, how can we reclaim complexity? In 1937 the ...

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Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Speechless with rage that our greedy capitalist overlords want to destroy a rare thriving cultural hub and beloved cinema landmark in central London because…..why? They don’t have enough money already? Sign this petition.

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This got absolutely no traction, but if you (like me) loved The Brutalist here is a link to my article on Brady Corbet's Vox Lux, a film that I find even more interesting as a take on American politics & neoliberalism & discuss through the lens of its focus on pop stardom

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

It strikes me the Corbet is one of our foremost chroniclers of capitalist realism- something I explore in my article on Vox Lux. One of his tools is tone: the sense of inevitability & foreboding that pervade films about 'plucky' individuals is a reckoning with history but also late stage capitalism

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Call for papers is here call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/09/....

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cfp | call for papers

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Excited to share that i'll be a keynote (!!) at the first British Popular Culture(s) Conference at Falmouth Uni in June. Probably banging on about British woman filmmakers, dance, new realism (and of course Andrea Arnold). It's on 5th-7th of June and a nice excuse for a little excusion to Cornwall!

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I'm so proud of programming films by 3 'insurgent sisters' (Julie Dash, Alile Sharon Larkin & Zeinabu irene Davis). The discussion testifies to how groundbreaking their representations of Black femininity were & how important they continue to be. Discussion link here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k60t...

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Women of the L.A. Rebellion: Shorts Q&A

YouTube video by The Garden Cinema

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Reflecting on last year and all the cool stuff that happened, professionally...one of the coolest being hosting @laurastaab.bsky.social Guilia Rho & Yaya Azariah Clarke for this discussion about short films made by women of the LA Rebellion, which can be viewed at the link below!

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

'Barracks and City Girls open productive paths for studying gathering as they engage in collaborative cultural productions that emphasize paying Black femmes as a radical act and position Black queer and femme scammers as architects of this radical praxis'

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The only journal I *rush* to read as soon as it comes out is Liquid Blackness. There is always a gem. This time Jillian Hernandez's 'Ca$h App Connectivities: High-Maintenance Feminism and Payment as Praxis' - the analysis of City Girl's 'Jobs' we all needed 👏

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I truly believe that car dependency and sprawl help create the sort of superfluous, alienated public that Arendt wrote about in Origins of Totalitarianism

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Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Our AHRC project Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible has 2 postdoc research associate jobs. One will work mostly with me & @helenexeter.bsky.social with hands-on archives work on collections of women filmmakers at the BFI National Archive jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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dr. cat @cinefeline.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Birmingham folks - I am hosting this event for Disability History Month this Thursday! Subtitled screening of The Little Mermaid (1989 animated version) + reading and conversation from Creative Writing researchers on disability and fairy tales. Free to attend.

B-Film and the Department of Film and Creative Writing present THE LITTLE MERMAID (1989),
Thurs 12th
December, 5-8PM
Muirhead Tower
G15 -"The Carroll"
Disability History Month screening with reading and discussion from UoB novelists Beth O'Brien and Prof Ruth Gilligan

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Undergrad interviews today...as an ex school & sixth form teacher, I often well up when I get a glowing, detailed reference for a student from a comp. I know how time pressed teaching staff are (& remember staying up late into the night writing similar references for students dreaming of university)

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Niche London celebrity spotting edition #56: Bobby Seagull was in my Body Pump class (and complimented my form)

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Adapted from a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, i'm delighted to be screening Joyce Chopra’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning SMOOTH TALK (featuring a breakout performance fromLaura Dern!!) as part of TRAILBLAZERS this Sunday!

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Overjoyed to receive my Goethe Institute A1.1 German test back with ticks and smiley faces! Can we please intitute this in peer review processes? (I remember that during PhD @boltonsmotors.bsky.social ticked things and sometimes even offered an enthusiastic underlined 'YES!!' - I miss those days!).

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Ich verstehe viel: 'genau, das möchten wir nicht so gern'.

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Me and my partner have premium duo but it looks like we have premium trio

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It'll be introduced by @clairehly of Girlhood Studies and followed by a discussion in the bar. Tickets: bookings.thegardencinema.co.uk/TheGardenCin...

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The Garden Cinema

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Second marking student screenplay outlines, which I haven't done since I worked for the IB. So interesting to see how this type of writing develops between tertiary and higher education! And how brilliant that my work for the day entails reading a bunch of absolutely delightful little stories!

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If you are wondering what the amazing music is that accompanies the first bit of the Trailblazers trailer, its from A Different Image by Alile Sharon Larkin, one of the films screening as part of the LA Rebellion Shorts Programme on Wednesday: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/l-a-reb...

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Trailblazers: Part II

YouTube video by The Garden Cinema

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Full listings and tickets for final couple of screenings here: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/trail...

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Having such a wonderful couple of months celebrating Trailblazing female filmmakers. V. difficult to pick highlights but the guest feedback from discussion of Union Maids has to be one: 'in the week that Trump has been elected I needed this really hopeful narrative that you can change things'

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

this Sunday, films by Julie Dash, Alile Sharon Larkin, and Zeinabu irene Davis with a post-screening discussion @TheGardenCinema chaired by @laurastaab.bsky.social – come along! www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/l-a-reb...

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

And something needs to fill that gap.... one to think on!

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

That's really shocking! Because it is *undoubtedly* research and work (plus has an absolute monetary value if we are being cynical!)

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Alice Pember @alpember.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Hard Graft exhibition at Wellcome Collection

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