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Xanthe Pajarillo @xanthepajarillo.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Day 1 of #HorrorNU @horrorstudies.bsky.social is done! Brilliant keynote from Cüneyt Çakırlar followed by countless papers that were both informative and entertaining. Always worth the trek here. #HorrorSky

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

As our Folklore Reimagined season continues, Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar explores the postmillennial wave of djinn-themed horror in Turkish cinema –where Anatolian folklore, Turkic shamanism, and Islamic mythology collide in stories of black magic and demonic possession. buff.ly/OOZJk0E

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Gary Needham (they/them) @garyneedham.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

“She doesn’t have the vernacular she thinks she has, someone lied to her several times telling her she’s fly, hot, sexy and beautiful… she’s nothing of the sort”. Watching Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia (2024) with @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social having been trolled by IMDb keywords.

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

i'm in humbling company in @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social's wonderful edited collection 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳: 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴. my chapter looks at invocations of the dybbuk across postmillennial cinemas beyond the Anglosphere. get your library to order it! doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...

the front cover of a book entitled, Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics. Edited by Cüneyt Çakırlar.

A woman in a wedding dress reaches towards the neck of a man in a suit. From the film Demon (2015).

a man wearing a kippah and a shawl hands a piece of jewellery to another man. from the film Ezra / എസ്ര (2017)

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Horror Lex® @horrorlex.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

An absolute powerhouse of writers talk about int'l folklore in horror films like TUMBBAD, THE WAILING, MR. VAMPIRE. "Transnational Horror" @livunipress.bsky.social @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social @lindsayhallam.bsky.social @jacobengelberg.bsky.social ++ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

The cover of the book "Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics" featuring an abstract painting of a wooden plank decorated with a human face and the shadow of a monster, or maybe a monster mask.

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Cüneyt Çakırlar @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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LSE Higher Education Blog @lseheblog.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What's your top movie that features academic life on screen? Nine film studies academics have picked theirs (from Jurassic Park and The Birds to Wicked, Torso and Legally Blonde) - now tell us yours... blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

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Academic life on the big screen | LSE Higher Education

We asked nine film studies academics for their top picks of movies that feature academic life. From The Birds to Wicked, here are their recommendations.

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Gary Needham (they/them) @garyneedham.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Medellín-set queer Colombian film Anhell69 sticks with you 🖤 The proximity/reality of death/anti-futurity in the queer underground. @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social and I were post-watch discussing how most queer theory is not fit for purpose alongside the film's necropolitics of queer life in the city

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today. youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

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Irani Bag / کیف ایرانی by Maryam Tafakory

YouTube video by maryam tafakory

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Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

DRILL TEAM adapts observations by Danijela Kulezic-Wilson on the similar musicality of Beau Travail (Denis) and The Fits (Holmer) into a rhythmic video essay. @filmstudiesff.bsky.social crafts an audiovisual duet of dancing and exercising characters, illustrating how bodies can become a soundtrack.

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DRILL TEAM: On BEAU TRAVAIL and THE FITS

*For research purposes only* PUBLISHED AS FOLLOWS: Grant, Catherine. “On Drill Team and the Musicality of Videographic Criticism.” Alphaville: Journal…

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Filmscalpel @filmscalpel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Gus Van Sant used parts of a specific Hildegard Westerkamp soundscape composition in two of his films. The video essay COMPOSING PERCEPTION takes the complete musical piece and "visually scores" it with sequences from various Van Sant films. An interesting videographic experiment by Randolph Jordan.

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Composing Perception - Hildegard Westerkamp Meets Gus Van Sant

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