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Matt Melia

@docmelia.bsky.social
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Senior lecturer in English Literature, Film and Media Lover of Archives Beckett, Burgess, Ballard, Ken Russell, Kubrick, Beatles, Bowie, Mogwai The Fall, Guided By Voices. Hip Priest, Evertonian, Jaws nut, 007 fan, Charlton Athletic.

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TheNewDomShow @thenewdomshow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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NEWS: Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality And The Archival Impulse - Conference In September - God Is In The TV
David Bowie’s late period represents one of the most compelling and enigmatic ‘eras’ in a career marked by sustained processes of artistic reinvention and
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Sonia Overall @soniaoverall.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#DistanceDrift #MaytheFourth
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
#distancedrift #surbiton
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Some exciting conference news! A Call For Papers - Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social #viscontistudio 11th/12th September 2026 Please visit this link wp.me/p3VQVb-y0 More details to follow
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Everton FC Heritage Society @evertonheritage.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Chelsea vs Everton, today - two clubs whose fans were entertained by the skills of Pat Nevin. The Scottish forward called in for a chat with us in St Luke’s a couple of years ago. Watch it, here: youtu.be/vYZqg9kiuTU?...
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
#Hammer does #AgathaChristie (a.i.)
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Rewatched Peril at End House again earlier. ITV's #Poirot Would definitely be my #ComfortBlanket choice @gralefrit.bsky.social !
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
open.spotify.com/album/57oBee... It's new @gbvlyrics.bsky.social album day!
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Thick Rich And Delicious
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
In all the fuss about a new #TaylorSwift album id just like to point out that @gbvlyrics.bsky.social #gbv #GuidedByVoices have a new single our. Just saying like... open.spotify.com/album/6xR0mZ...
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Phantasmagoric Upstarts
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Current reading..been on a real #Dylan kick at the moment and just finished Vol.1 of Chronicles. Richard Thomas' Why Dylan Matters follows it up nicely..often one book leads to another and I'm more and more fascinated by Dylan's appropriation of Greek myth so I'm cracking on with The Odyssey
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Paul Cowdell @paulcowdell.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
RIP Claudia Cardinale
Werner Herzog, Claudia Cardinale and Klaus Kinski on location for Fitzcarraldo.
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
@theguardian.com What? Why is The Prisoner omitted from this list? #iamnotanumber www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Hard to believe it happened! 70 unforgettable (and unforgivable) shows from 70 years of ITV
From TV so controversial the Foreign Office tried to ban it … to Emmerdale Farm. As the broadcaster hits 70, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
#guidedbyvoices #thickrichanddelicious #newalbum are we going to get any uk @gbvlyrics.bsky.social gigs this time? Come on Uncle Bob!
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
God it's really really poor!
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New #GBV #GuidedByVoices and it's a fucking banger @gbvlyrics.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/5dApaQ...
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(You Can't Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Still time to get abstracts in #JGBALLARD @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social arttvfilm.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t...
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CFP: Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century
A Conference Call for Papers Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025 Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century Kingston School of Art, Kingston University #Kingston2025 October 2…
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Listening to the audiobook of #AdamBuxton 's new book. It's fantastic. Chapter 14 'The coming storm is quite emotional.' love also he goes over #MarkESmith on Vinyl Justice. 'You look like an egg'. youtu.be/oMyHNmiLpWs?...
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Going out on a bit of a limb here but I would say Psychomania is one of the blueprints for The Lost Boys
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Looking forward to this. #OsgoodPerkins is one of the few directors making actually interesting horror films these days
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
You don’t want to be cruel, I suppose, but Tebbit’s one of those people where you look at the age, 94, and get annoyed about all the good mates, people who made the world a better kinder funnier place, that you lost in their thirties and forties.
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Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk · 08/07/2025
RIP Norman Tebbitt.
Not Norman Tebbitt. 

Cillian Murphy in 28 Years Later
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
One of the greatest ever albums
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Me presenting my paper #iamhist2025
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Two fantastic papers on African horror cinema and celebrity, media platforms and depression in the global South. - given by Gabi Zietsman and Viraj Suprasad. @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
@iamhist.bsky.social @llewellachapman.bsky.social gives a fascinating paper on the gendered game design of #LaraCroft #TombRaider #iamhist2025
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Great panel on British television and British television archives covering Early channel 4 short films, the Michael Palin Archive and Grandma television @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A really fascinating Approaches to Archives panel @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025 with papers on A.I and decolonising the Archive, the work of Student interns at the #UCT archives, AIDS research at UCT archives and wildlife docs, wedish, restoration death cleaning and the archive
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IAMHIST @iamhist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Next paper delivered by @hochscherf.bsky.social on 'The Africa Quarter in Kiel, Germany'
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Fascinating to paper from Julie Raviri on conflicting cultural and personal memories and perceptions of Cape Town's District 6. Good to have a couple of excellent conference book recommendations too #iamhist25 #iamhist2025 #capetown @iamhist.bsky.social
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Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Day 1 of the 'Decentering Media Histories & Practices' @iamhist.bsky.social Conference at the University of Cape Town 📻🎙️📺 Such a pleasure to be in South Africa for our biannual event! Looking forward to a packed programme. Thanks to @marthaevans.bsky.social for organising it!
Picture of the program The crowd listening to the welcome wordsA picture of Cape Town's Waterfront
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
#iamhist25 @iamhist.bsky.social First keynote by Sekibakiba Lekgoathi on the role of radio in the liberation of Apartheid South Africa
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
@iamhist.bsky.social 2025 in #CapeTown begins. #iamhist2025
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Our special edition journal 'Franchising Jurassic Park' from 2022 Lots of cool stuff in this doi.org/10.6092/issn... #jurassicpark #jurassicworld
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Just in time for the new film, The Jurassic Park Book is out in paperback! #jurassicpark #jurassicworld #spielberg
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
My book on #JurassicPark is released in paperback on June 26th from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social ! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jurassic-...
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The Jurassic Park Book
The definitive 1990s blockbuster, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park met with almost universal critical and popular acclaim, broke new ground with its CGI recreat…
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The greatest film ever made has just turned 50 so here is a shameless plug for our excellent book (26 quid for the paperback) #jaws #spielberg @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/jaws-book...
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The Jaws Book
After 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: Ne…
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Calling any sitcom/ footy fans. Been rewatching Rising Damp. Could the blue and white bobble hat on the skeleton in Alan and Philips room be an #Everton @evertonfc.com one - Leonard Rossiter was famously a fan...?
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
It's a balmy evening, I've got a copy of this fantastic book, The Replacements on my headphones and I'm watching my kid play football. In this moment life is nice
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The parade/birthday is a pretence. Trump is rolling in the tanks to establish a military enforced dictatorship.
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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‘New Facts Emerge’ and ‘The Otherwise’: Mark E. Smith and The Fall in the 21st century
Paper given at the conference Fear 2000, Sheffield Hallam University in 2021
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
open.substack.com/pub/meels202... A paper given last year at the conference #AntoninArtaud - New Critical reflections @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social on Artaud and Post Punk. It was published last year in the publication Echo Artaud.
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Antonin Artaud and Post Punk
Paper given at the conference "Artaud - New Critical Reflections" (Kingston University, July 2024 and published in Echo Artaud, Issue Number 11)
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This machine is learning @thsmchnslrnng.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
USA 2010 Robert Pollard "God Only Knows" @ Canal Street Tavern, Dayton, OH 7-9-2010
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Robert Pollard "God Only Knows" @ Canal Street Tavern, Dayton, OH 7-9-2010
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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The Garden (Original Soundtrack) - YouTube
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
@marghjenkin.bsky.social thanks to you and Adrian for the great Q and A at the Cornish Bank. I noted down the music you both cited and have found The Garden on YouTube. Been listening to the Enys Men soundtrack on the way home. It's remarkable!
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Matt Melia @docmelia.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
My first chapter proper that ended up not getting published Still quite enjoy this one. Going to work on it a bit more and update it but this was it originally wp.me/p3VQVb-xS
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Reconstructing ‘Space’ in Quatermass and  British Post War Science Fiction Television.
Matthew Melia      Abstract This chapter will address the multiple polysemy  or the multiple understandings of the term Space  in the world of post-war Britain and how these various conno…
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Winamp Skin: darkspaceAMP
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Everton Women @women.evertonfc.com · 22/05/2025
🧤 A brilliant season in between the sticks.
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