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Associate Lecturer, AUB | Non-Executive Director, Workers Policy Project | Author of 4 books with Bloomsbury & EUP

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Our members at the University of Nottingham will strike this Wednesday and Thursday in their fight against compulsory redundancies and course cuts. Show your solidarity as they head onto picket lines, ahead of sustained strike action from 5 October to 11 December. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1466...
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University of Nottingham staff to strike for three months from October in redundancy fight
Staff at the University of Nottingham will strike on Wednesday 30 September and Thursday 1 October, and then solid strike action from 5th October until 11 December in a row over jobs and course cuts, ...
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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South Park creators rename show 'South America' in apparent dig at Trump
Since beginning his second term, the US president has said he wanted to use the word 'America' to rename a lake, a gulf and even a US state.
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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The Call for Papers for the 13th International Women and the Silent Screen Conference (2027) is now live on our website! La convocatoria de participación para el XIII Congreso Internacional de Mujeres y el Cine Silente (2027) ya está disponible en nuestra página web. www.wfhi.org/2027-mexico-...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Every academic outside of a small inner core of universities should consider themselves permanently at risk of redundancy. The sector will operate a rolling redundancy wave from about this point on. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nuclear...
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‘Nuclear’ restructure at London South Bank seen as ‘test bed’
University claims its changes will protect academic jobs and strengthen teaching but striking staff say reforms pose an ‘existential’ threat
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
NEW on That '70s Movie Podcast Night Moves D: Arthur Penn, W: Alan Sharp, DP: Bruce Surtees, Ed: DeDe Allen w/Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, ++ Hear us debate whether it's great, or, as I argue, Monumentally Great open.spotify.com/episode/3SEo... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
📚 You can find my book on Lindsay Anderson at EUP…
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
📚 Now available to pre-order in paperback from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
CCC is available today in Ebook format 📚 Still prohibitively expensive, unfortunately. But the paperback is on the way… www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c...
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Seán Patrick Donlan @spdonlan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The Programme's up! The Fleadh's 'a week-long international film festival ... every July ... in Galway .... to be a platform for the boldest new films, and to bring audiences & filmmakers from around the world together, to celebrate our shared passion for film.' www.galwayfilmfleadh.com
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38th Galway Film Fleadh | 7th -12th July 2026
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
BOTD Roger Ebert!!! One of the great American critics His T10 of all time: www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/... Ebert & Scorsese: www.rogerebert.com/chazs-blog/r... From us via @bostonreview.bsky.social on his memoir + Great Movies III: www.bostonreview.net/articles/jon...
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
My first visit to the Steinway and Bluthner buildings in London. Really beautiful pianos.
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
5/7/58: Arthur Penn's 1st feature, The Left Handed Gun w/Paul Newman Gore Vidal in on screenplay #3 on Truffaut's 1958 T10 (#1: Touch of Evil, #5: 7th Seal) More: @nathanrabin.bsky.social: www.nathanrabin.com/happy-place/... Namwene Mukabwa via Collider: collider.com/paul-newman-...
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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I wrote for @timeshighered.bsky.social about Sussex -v- OfS. In short I think the regulator needs to urgently review its current approach. The sector needs to be confident that its regulator is acting lawfully, fairly and proportionately www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/suss...
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The Sussex case raises urgent doubts about the OfS’ free speech approach
The OfS’ approach was opaque, highly discretionary and appeared to lack basic procedural safeguards, says Smita Jamdar
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
600 job cuts. Closure of 42 degree courses. Nottingham University is selling its King's Meadow and brand-new Castle Meadow Campus which "for as little as £14.4 million despite bosses spending around £80m on the ill-fated project." #highered #academicsky www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
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University plans 600 job cuts in major cost-cutting move
The university hopes the move will stop it from running out of cash
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
BOTD Rod Steiger!! MCCT5: 5)Heat of the Night (Jewison) 4)Hands over the City (Rosi) 3)Innocents w/Dirty Hands (Chabrol) 2)Pawnbroker (Lumet) 1)Waterfront (Kazan) More: Interview: brightlightsfilm.com/confessions-... @chlopinions.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rod-st...
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Rod Steiger: 10 essential films
One hundred years after he was born, we salute the fury and intensity of Rod Steiger’s presence on screen, from On the Waterfront to In the Heat of the Night.
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Worth a watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=h3At...
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Bernie vs. Claude
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/03/2026
A clear message from the hundreds who turned out yesterday: we are not having it. At Northumbria University, staff are refusing to be forced into worse pensions or pay cuts. This is organised resistance to an organised attack.
Jo speaking to Newcastle
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
HBD Spike Lee!!! MCCT5: 5)Summer of San 4)She’s Gotta Have It 3)Malcolm X 2)25th Hour 1)Do the Right Thing More: @amonwarmann.bsky.social: www.nme.com/features/fil... @roryjdoherty.bsky.social: www.menshealth.com/entertainmen... Grace Barber-Plentie: www.bfi.org.uk/features/whe...
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Where to begin with Spike Lee
A beginner’s path through the films of pioneer and provocateur Spike Lee.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/03/2026
Jürgen Habermas, a philosopher and public intellectual who was one of the most influential and cited thinkers in postwar Germany, died on Saturday. He was 96.
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Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers
In dozens of books, he rejected postmodern cynicism about truth and reason, arguing that rational communication was the best way to redeem democratic society.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A true giant. I was lucky enought to meet him and spend an evening around him and Rorty in Chicago many years ago. RIP apnews.com/article/juer...
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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas has died at age 96. Habermas' work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figur...
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
In global survey of more than 12,000 academics, half agreed that teaching-focused roles were "career-limiting" at their university www.timeshighereducation.com/news/half-ac... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
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Half of academics view teaching-only roles as ‘career-limiting’
Early career academics most likely to express negative views about teaching culture at their institution, survey finds
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/02/2026
Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, paving way for Paramount victory
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Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, paving way for Paramount victory
Streaming service says ‘deal no longer financially attractive’ at price required to match Paramount Skydance offer * Business live – latest updates Netflix has walked away from its planned takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, declining to raise its offer for the media conglomerate’s storied Hollywood studios and streaming business after it determined a sweetened rival offer from Paramount Skydance to be “superior”. In a statement on Thursday evening, Netflix co-chief executives Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters said that “at the price required to match Paramount Skydance’s latest offer, the deal is no longer financially attractive”. Continue reading...
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MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
2/26/69: Z D: Costa-Gavras W: Jorge Semprún DP: Raoul Coutard w/Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant ++ More: @nschager.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/best-picture... @trylon.org: www.perisphere.org/2023/08/11/f... Margaret Spillane/ @thenation.com: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Why You Should Be Watching the Film ‘Z’ Right Now
Costa Gavras’s classic antifascist thriller reminds us that the moment of reckoning constitutes not the end of the story, but the beginning.
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Listen! @mivich.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fantastic The Division of Rationalized Labor newbooksnetwork.com/the-division...
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Michelle Jackson, "The Division of Rationalized Labor" (Harvard UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Number of academics working in UK higher education institutions has fallen for the first time on record after thousands of jobs were axed, official figures reveal www.timeshighereducation.com/news/number-... via @patrickjack.bsky.social
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Number of academics working in the UK falls for first time
Some universities reduce staff teams by more than a fifth after year of cutbacks and job losses, new data show
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BAFTSS @baftss.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
We are pleased to announce that the conference website, including the schedule is now live: www.baftss.org/conference-2... Places are limited - register early to avoid disappointment. Deadline: 8th March 2026. Queries can be directed to baftss2026@gmail.com
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BAFTSS Conference 2026
Welcome to the Homepage of the 2026 edition of the annual conference of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies. This year's conference takes place at the Highcliff Marriott...
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My author’s copies arrived recently from Bloomsbury 📚 Another great cover design from Eleanor Rose! Thanks to NBC for permissions.
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Still one of the best cover images I can imagine. Wish I could use it for more than just one book.
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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Oh my.
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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
A higher education commissioner should be appointed to take responsibility for supporting universities before crisis strikes, says Lifelong Learning Institute www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers... via @helenpacker.bsky.social
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Universities commissioner needed ‘to oversee mergers and cuts’
Call for government to create new position mirrored on role that already exists in further education, to help steer sector while avoiding excessive regulation
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Zoë Viney Burgess @zoevb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I am delighted to share that my monograph ‘Women and Amateur Cinema: Redefining Authorship within the Archive’ is under contract to be published with Edinburgh University Press in 2027. 📚 #womenfilmmakers #amateurfilm
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Still one of the best cover images I can imagine. Wish I could use it for more than just one book.
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Out now in hardback from @edinburghup.bsky.social
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Always worth pointing these news stories out for those who dispute the economic value of the creative industries and the degrees that sustain them: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Zootropolis 2 becomes Hollywood's biggest animated film ever
The film has overtaken the previous record holder, Inside Out 2, after making $1.7bn (£1.3bn) worldwide.
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
My author’s copies arrived recently from Bloomsbury 📚 Another great cover design from Eleanor Rose! Thanks to NBC for permissions.
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Over the holidays, I’ve finally been getting to know this production. I’ve attempted a few Ring DVDs in the past, but this Met version from 1990 seems to get it right. The staging is one Wagner would have recognised, and the performances are all very strong; especially James Morris’ Wotan.
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Sean Woodard @swoodard7326.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
go.bsky.app/35LVzZ4
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The Winter book sale at Bloomsbury Academic is over, but a more affordable paperback of "Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work" will be available in 2026. Stay tuned 📚
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Kevin M. Flanagan @realkmflanagan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
excited to receive my contributor copy of ReFocus: The Films of Lindsay Anderson, edited by @willkitchen.bsky.social. Pleased to have finally had a chance to write about The White Bus. Nice thing at the end of the year.
cover of ReFocus: The Films of Lindsay Andersonpicture of first two pages of my chapter The White Bus and Townscape
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
#18 for my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social channel’s festive list is the wonderful @willkitchen.bsky.social chatting about Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work newbooksnetwork.com/culture-capi...
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Will Kitchen, "Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work" (Bloomsbury, 2025) - New Books Network
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The Winter book sale at Bloomsbury Academic is over, but a more affordable paperback of "Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work" will be available in 2026. Stay tuned 📚
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 05/12/2025
"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign." Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq
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Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England
Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Here is the cover design for The Films of Lindsay Anderson, available next month from EUP @edinburghup.bsky.social. For 30% off use code: NEW30
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Here is the cover design for The Films of Lindsay Anderson, available next month from EUP @edinburghup.bsky.social. For 30% off use code: NEW30
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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
👀 psst!  Our #StAndrewsDaySale is coming soon! ✍️ Sign-up to our mailing lists for details... edin.ac/33x7KRT
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Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
CRITICAL THINKING: THE LAURA MULVEY INTERVIEW Over half a century and around the globe, Laura Mulvey’s influence on thinking about film has been unparalleled. As she receives a BFI Fellowship, she talks to Sight and Sound about her career and her influences. By Isabel Stevens.
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Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Lecturer in Media & Film, York St John University, applications close 7th November 2025 jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at York St John University: Lecturer in Media & Film
Lecturer in Media & FilmLocation: YorkFull time, Permanent. Salary: £39,906 – 48,822 per annum. Introduction to YSJ university York St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there has...
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Will Kitchen @willkitchen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Author’s copies 📚 This may be my last one for a while
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Opportunity for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct research in Japan for 12-24 months. You'll receive a monthly maintenence stipend, a settling in allowance, a research grant and round trip air fare. Apply by 10 Dec www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2026
The scheme provides funding for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct cooperative research in Japan, with leading research groups in Japanese universities and other institutions, under the ...
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Paul Greatrix @registrarism.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Competition law exemption ‘needed to prevent courses dying out’ Some comments here in @timeshighered.bsky.social from me on the challenges and impacts of CMA involvement in higher education at the moment. #Regulation #ShakespeareMartineau #CMA www.timeshighereducation.com/news/competi...
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Competition law exemption ‘needed to prevent courses dying out’
Attempts to quell universities’ fears about competition laws may actually be heightening anxiety over collaboration in cash-strapped sector
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