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Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Will Arco win the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, repeating the surprise win of Flow in 2025? Read my @theconversation.com review and see what I thought of the film theconversation.com/arco-blends-...

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Arco blends Studio Ghibli-inspired wonder with a distinctly French surreal imagination

Arco shares an audio-visual heritage with Studio Ghibli films.

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Tristan Ettleman @ettletodd.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Studio Ghibli E16 of The Complete Catalog is live! @malcolmcook76.bsky.social joins me to talk PRINCESS MONONOKE, and boy, what an ep! We dig quite deep into this behemoth of pop culture and its profound themes. Plus: some talk about Ghibli's advertising work! Links 👇

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Tristan Ettleman @ettletodd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Here is an excerpt from my conversation with @malcolmcook76.bsky.social about PRINCESS MONONOKE for The Complete Catalog: Studio Ghibli. Links in quoted post!

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Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

New animation book series klaxon! Animation Cultures at Exeter promises to be innovative and distinctive, and I'm honoured to be on the editorial board to support new scholarship. Get in contact if you have ideas for a book.

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Society for Animation Studies (SAS) @sasanistudies.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Malcom Cook giving the first keynote of #SAS36! His presentation explores useful animation and the petroleum industry.

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Misha Mihailova @mihailova.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Starting this year's Society for Animation Studies conference strong with a fascinating keynote by Malcolm Cook! #SAS36 @sasanistudies.bsky.social @malcolmcook76.bsky.social

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Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

What are the connections between James Bond and oil? Find out more from Evelyn MacPherson's talk at our seminar 'Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil', happening online today (Wed 12th March). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crude-repr... #jamesbond #bp #IanFleming

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Research-led #teaching can bring educators’ work and passions into the classroom, making topics such as #climatechange less overwhelming for students, as @malcolmcook76.bsky.social explains #SDGs #climate

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Miranda Prynne @mirandaprynne.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

"Intellectually, it might seem like a specialist field for scientists; emotionally, it is a topic that raises anxiety." @unisouthampton.bsky.social's Malcolm Cook on why film students may be reluctant to engage with #climatechange and how he tackles this: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/chang...

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Changing the climate of teaching: embedding sustainability into film and media studies

Research-led teaching can bring educators’ work and passions into the classroom, making topics such as climate change less overwhelming for students and linking learning to future skills. Here are fiv...

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Following last week's symposium on BP, petroculture and the cultural imaginary, @malcolmcook76.bsky.social and myself are thrilled to announce a follow-up seminar series! Full programme and free registration to all four events here: tinyurl.com/oily25 Preview of what is happening, in thread below!

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Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

#Filmhistory researchers! Do apply for a stipend to visit and research in the amazing collections of The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the Uni of Exeter, UK. Deadline 31/01/25 www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/call-fo...

Image depicts a items illustrating the range of holdings at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. These include: a film programme, a sterescope view, a fan magazine, a magic lantern slide and a postcard.

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Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Online Symposium Next Week: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil. More info and free registration: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

Image of oil refinery with symposium title 'Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil'

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David McGowan @animatedstardom.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

A reminder that the deadline for submitting paper/screening proposals for the 36th Annual Society for Animation Studies Conference is 11:59pm GMT on Friday, January 10. CFP information here: sas2025.cargo.site/call-for-pap...

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Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The term #greenwashing is in common currency today, and credited to Jay Westerveld in 1986. Yet I can't find any source that actually cites the claimed publication. Can anyone point me to the original, or is this a phantom history?

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a person is painting a wall green with a paint roller

ALT: a person is painting a wall green with a paint roller

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Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, an online symposium on Friday January 24th, is now open for registration. Full details via the link. Please join us and repost/share. llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

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Peter Adkins @peteradkins.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Very happy to be able to share the programme for Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, taking place online on Friday 24th January 2025. See the full programme and register to attend (for free!) here: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-...

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Dr Eve Benhamou @evebenhamou.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I was delighted to see that my monograph "Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood" (EUP, 2022) has been reviewed in the very 1st issue of The International Journal of Disney Studies by Laura O'Flanagan. intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

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Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood, Eve Benhamou (2022) | Intellect

Review of: Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood, Eve Benhamou (2022) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 264 pp., ISBN 978-1-47447-612-6, h/bk, £85.00 ISBN 978-1-47447-613-3, ...

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Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

THE RED SHOES (1948) is on BBC2 right now. I am painting my kitchen instead, but please forgive me summoning my inner Vicky Page to mention that my book on this film is available at a bargain price on the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social website www.bloomsbury.com/uk/red-shoes...

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The Red Shoes

Endlessly fascinating, dark and bright, The Red Shoes (1948) employs every branch of the cinematic arts to sweep the audience off its feet, invigorated by the t…

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Wendy White @wendysotonlib.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Happy birthday @turnersims.bsky.social 🎂🥳50 years of fabulous music 🎻 🎹 🎷! Loving display at Hartley Library gallery showcasing programmes, concerts & joy of music 🎶 ❤️

Raised arms in celebration with group of children helping celebrate

CD partially out of CD sleeve labelled Fanfare

Black & white picture of concert hall on programme celebrating 10th anniversary concert

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Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

1924. What it took to build the set for The Thief Of Bagdad.

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

703,000 feet of lumber, 115 tons of plaster, 800 sacks of Portland cement … in my new book, The Cinema of Extractions, I name the industrialization that created and supported world making with this kind of material dependence a cinema of resource integration

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Harald Klinke @hxxxkxxx.det.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2024

CONF: Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections 🗓️ 12-13 December 2024 📍Marburg, Germany & Online Organized by the Leibniz Research Alliance ‘Value of the Past’ and NFDI4Memory, this event explores the impact of AI on archival practices, focusing on […] [Original post on det.social]

A digital conference flyer detailing the "Artificial Intelligence in Archives and Collections" event, scheduled for December 12-13, 2024, in Marburg. It outlines the conference's focus on AI's applications in heritage institutions, hybrid participation options,

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is still by far the best book I have written. 📔‘Technology and the Historian’ Charting the evolution of digital history practice. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

Cover of ‘Technology and the Historian’ by Adam Crymble

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Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Film and Extraction, a new special issue of Media+Environment journal is out now, and Open Access. Thanks to editors Priya Jaikumar and Lee Grieveson for their work and including my article on BP animated films from during Iran oil nationalisation mediaenviron.org/section/4662...

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Malcolm Cook @malcolmcook76.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

New open access article alert: oil, Iran, BP, and animation are the topics of my article 'Full Circle: Useful Animation and the Geography of Petroleum Extraction' in a new issue of Media+Environment journal mediaenviron.org/article/1236...

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