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@gwendayoung.bsky.social
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Here for cinema, esp silent cinema and Hollywood, plus art, animals.y_gwenda on X. Pub:Clarence Brown:Hollywood’s Forgotten Master. Researching Mickey Neilan

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gwendayoung.bsky.social @gwendayoung.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Dogs of Musée de Beaux-Arts in lovely Carcassonne @carcassonneagglo.bsky.social
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gwendayoung.bsky.social @gwendayoung.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Hanging out at Duckett's Grove, Co. Carlow
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gwendayoung.bsky.social @gwendayoung.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
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Vipers, butterflies & parrots: the secret life of Roger Casement
Best known for his role in Ireland's fight for independence, Casement's fascinating zoological legacy can be found in many Irish museums and archives
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gwendayoung.bsky.social @gwendayoung.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
All they will find is sand www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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gwendayoung.bsky.social @gwendayoung.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Ireland's wildlife, Saltee islands
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gwendayoung.bsky.social @gwendayoung.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Gorgeous Iceland 🇮🇸
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gwendayoung.bsky.social @gwendayoung.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Film fragment, Marshall Neilan research. Paris. Another 'Forgotten Director'?🤔
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media @alphavillej.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In “Documenting the Territory in Saint-Louis (Senegal)”, Laura Feal Sánchez interviews Mamadou Sellou Diallo, exploring his work in the creation of “audiovisual projects” that “document a space in all its complexity” doi.org/10.33178/alp...
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media @alphavillej.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In “The Muestra de Cine Afrodescendencias in Costa Chica: Intersections of Afrodescendance and Decoloniality in Curatorial Practice” Claudia Lora et al analyse “the curatorial work and collective exhibition of the Muestra de Cinea Afrodescendencias doi.org/10.33178/alp...
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media @alphavillej.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Issue 28 features an array of book reviews, from City Films, to Gaza on Screen, to studies of auteurs such as Yasujirō Ozu and Preston Sturges, to pandemics & zombies! doi.org/10.33178/alp...
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Alphaville Issue 28, Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals. Table of Contents
Issue 28 - This Alphaville issue brings together contributions that probe innovative approaches and methods of decolonising knowledge in screen cultures. Beginning with the question of what and whose ...
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media @alphavillej.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Kane Geary O’Keeffe @Mouldyfajita reviews Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies, by Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social @OKState_History and Lee Mordechai published @edinburghup.bsky.social doi.org/10.33178/alp...
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Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies, by Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai
The Covid-19 pandemic exposed the mass inequalities experienced in late-stage capitalism. This recent rediscovery of the sociological shifts enabled by disease makes Diseased Cinema an appropriately t...
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Abby Keating @abkeating.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New issue of Alphaville 👇🏼
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Loretta Goff @lorettag.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Check out the latest issue of Alphaville, hot off the presses!
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media @alphavillej.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Issue 28 is launched! “Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals” edited by Sheila Petty and Estrella Sendra @ucclibrary.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uregina.bsky.social @filmstudiesff.bsky.social doi.org/10.33178/alp...
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media @alphavillej.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Coming soon..............
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a drawing of a girl standing in front of the number 28 by minka comics.com
ALT: a drawing of a girl standing in front of the number 28 by minka comics.com
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Milestone Film & Video @milestonefilms.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Charles Burnett's Annihilation of Fish trailer has been made public! www.indiewire.com/news/trailer...
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Charles Burnett’s Lost Comedy ‘The Annihilation of Fish’ Lands 4K Theatrical Release — Watch the Trailer
Charles Burnett's lost comedy 'The Annihilation of Fish' has a 4K release.
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Kellee aka IrishJayhawk66 @kelleepratt.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
This is a lovely obit for our friend, Donna Hill: www.evesobits.com/post/donna-h...
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Donna Hill, 1960 – 2024
Silent film biographer and researcher Donna Hill, 64, died in her San Francisco apartment on Dec. 30. Donna helped me with just about all of my books, supplying contacts, facts, and great gossip. In 2010 she wrote the gorgeous coffee-table book Rudolph Valentino the Silent Idol: His Life in Photographs, and at the time of her death was working on a Dorothy Gish bio. One online “virtual friend” wrote that Donna was “a kind, thoughtful, unfailingly generous friend, and a helpful and supportive sch
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 18/02/2025
‘The King of Comedy’ at 42. Martin Scorsese’s ‘The King of Comedy’ remains a chillingly relevant satire on fame, obsession, and loneliness. Explore the film’s making, themes, and legacy in our deep dive. cinephiliabeyond.org/the-king-of-...
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Silent Beauties @silentbeauties.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Jack Pickford (born John Charles Smith, August 18, 1896 – January 3, 1933), was a Canadian-American actor, film director and producer. He was the younger brother of actresses Mary and Lottie Pickford. Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wik... #silentfilm #silentera #cinema #film
Black and white photo, circa 1916. He has short, blac, straight hair. He is wearing a black suit, a stripped tie and a white shirt with high collar.
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Poya Pakzad @ppkzd.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Razed to dust, this is what Israel's apocalyptic erasure of Northern Gaza looks like. Palestinians are "returning" to nuclear-scale desolation.
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Maaike Dirkx 🎨 👀 @maaiked.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Bogie's little helpers: the shoes Humphrey Bogart used during scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca in 1942. 🙂
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap? www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
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Oscars 2025 predictions: Irish actors need a miracle, but what about Kneecap?
Saoirse Ronan, Cillian Murphy and Paul Mescal have struggled this awards season. Only a miracle will see an Irish actor get an Oscar nod next week
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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
CFP from THE MOVING IMAGE! Special issue: "Reassessing Small Gauge, Amateur, and Nontheatrical Film" Guest editors: Hugo Ljungbäck, Louisa Trott, and Patricia Ledesma Villon Proposals due — April 1, 2025 Final manuscripts due — October 1, 2025 amianet.org/wp-content/u...
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 27/10/2015
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media's issue 7 is "Corporeal Cinema" - much good reading alphavillejournal.com via @alphavillej
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
Alphaville is a fully peer-reviewed journal edited and pu...
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gwendayoung.bsky.social @gwendayoung.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Obituary for Claude Jarman, a generous, talented man who I was honored to know for 20 yrs. He was great company when we were guests , w/ @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social, at Clarence Brown Film Festival Aug. 2023, organized by Knox County Public Library & U of Tennessee. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The Wren is still strong in parts of Ireland, notably Kerry, with elements entwined with nature and the old pagan roots of this time of year. "Up with the kettle And down with the pan Give us a penny to bury the wran" Giclée prints of the original linocut here: www.ciaraioch.com/artprints/p/...
Digital copy of the original linocut print of the strawboy design (black and white, crosshatched background, featuring someone wearing the straws, with a wren on each side)
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Denis Condon @deniscondon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
On 11 December 1924, Dublin's Corinthian was showing The Signal Tower (US: Universal, 1924), directed by Clarence Brown, "the perfect melodrama, realistic and thrilling enough to satisfy even the most exciting audience." Images: Evening Herald, IMDb & Archiseek. #EarlyIrishCinema
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
You still have this weekend to submit to Women and the Silent Screen XII, "Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema."
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2025 BRUSSELS & ANTWERP, BELGIUM — Women and Film History International
Registration available for the Women and the Silent Screen XI Conference for our members. Click Here to register and learn more
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
⏰ Proposals are due TODAY for my very favorite conference: Doing Women’s Film & Television History, to be held June 18-20 at the University of Lincoln. womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2024/09/23/c...
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Call for Papers: Doing Women’s Film and Television History VII – Entangled Media: Past and Present
18-20 June 2025, University of Lincoln This seventh iteration of the Women’s Film and Television History Network conference will foreground transnational and transmedial approaches to histories of …
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Proposals for Women and the Silent Screen XII are due December 2, 2024! wfhi.org/2025-brussel...
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Toronto Silent Film Festival @tosilentfilm.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
What’s up #silentfilm folk? Let’s gather our friends around and make this space soar!
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Forests Forever @forestsforever.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic. Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. Exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity. Includes a quote by @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social
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The nature cure: how time outdoors transforms our memory, imagination and logic
Without engaging with natural environments, our brains cease to work well. As the new field of environmental neuroscience proves, exposure to nature isn’t a luxury – it’s a necessity
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Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles @esotouric.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
The Academy fired 16 dedicated archivists and librarians on Hallowe'en, striking horror in the hearts of all who love film preservation. Sign the petition urging the Oscars board to reverse the gutting of its knowledge base and save our Hollywood history! www.change.org/p/to-the-amp...
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
Claire Keegan in Dalkey: ‘I can’t say I’d cry if I was never nominated for the Booker again’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Claire Keegan in Dalkey: ‘I can’t say I’d cry if I was never nominated for the Booker again’
Acclaimed Irish writer doles out beautifully worded nuggets of wisdom during a sold-out Saturday-night appearance at the festival
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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
Happy and proud to say that I have an essay in the collection INVENTING THE MODERN: UNTOLD STORIES OF THE WOMEN WHO SHAPED THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, to be published on Sept. 3. My section is on Iris Barry, the first head of MoMA Film. Available for pre-order! www.amazon.com/Inventing-Mo...
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Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art: Temkin, Ann, Silver-Kohn, Romy, Temkin, Ann, Smith, Anna Deavere, Campbell, Mary Schmidt, Crosley, Sloane, Gabrie...
Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art [Temkin, Ann, Silver-Kohn, Romy, Temkin, Ann, Smith, Anna Deavere, Campbell, Mary Schmidt, Crosley, Sloane, Gabrie...
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