Film historian, interested in British/silent/queer cinema. Convenor @BAFTSS_LGBTQIA. Special issues editor, Early Popular Visual Culture https://xitter.cf/t.co/r5KCtogRsF
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Congratulations to Chris O'Rourke for winning best journal article at the BAFTSS Conference 2025 baftss.org/winners-pub-2025.… academic.oup.com/screen/arti…
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As part of the Weimar 100 project, there will be a free screening of the German silent film The Last Laugh (1924) in the FAB Cinema on Thursday 28th Nov at 7pm, w/ an introduction by Dr Ian Roberts of the German department. Reserve a spot here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/weimar-10…..
Did 1920s Hollywood hate itself? And why so many lions? The final post from @WarwickFilmTV student Jess @saturdaymovies_ about her research into Hollywood's silent-era self-mythologising sinclairjess44.wixsite.com/s…
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We're looking for proposals for a SIG panel at the @baftss conference, Warwick, 26-28 Mar 2025. Any papers or panel ideas related to LGBTQIA+ screen studies that respond to the theme of Global Aesthetics are welcome. Get in touch with us at [email protected] by 2 Dec
Fantastic talks at @PordenoneSilent by @magshenny and @hahumiaomiao about their new books on women’s laughter and Anna May Wong - including Wong’s map of the places she visited in the UK
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On writing the lives of two exceptional film pioneers, Elsie Cohen and Constance Bromley lukemckernan.com/2024/09/25/…
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The Autumn issue of Screen Journal is now online! academic.oup.com/screen/issu…
New article in @Screen_Journal about visibility, invisible labour and the career of a trans production worker in 1940s British cinema - Open Access tinyurl.com/59wcrrty
Did silent star Dorothy Dalton invent the multiverse film 100 years before Peter Parker? Another great post from Warwick student Jess's blog about 1920s Hollywood sinclairjess44.wixsite.com/s… @WarwickFilmTV
Here's a wonderful new blog post by Warwick student Jess Sinclair about her trip to the @bdcmuseum in search of 1920s Hollywood fans sinclairjess44.wixsite.com/s… @WarwickFilmTV
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Who doesn't enjoy an encounter with a passionate stranger? Very much looking forward to this on Sunday (part of @TheGardenCinema 'Women Aren't Funny' season that launches tonight 🥳)
Some tickets for this brill Muriel Box film still available! thegardencinema.co.uk/film/t…
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Muriel Box is Britain’s most prolific female director. The Passionate Stranger is a highly satirical takedown of romantic novel tropes that feels decades ahead of its time. On 9 June there is a post-film discussion with @BritFilmMelanie & @norloll
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It’s the return of the most gloriously geeky event of the British silent film calendar! The BSFF Symposium with @norloll, @Markfuller49 currently presenting
Finishing up with @PorterLaraine on silent film musicians, musical publishing and song tie-ins
Lots more fab papers on Birt Acres, early exhibition, serials and the avant-garde, Oswald Mosley, fishing communities on screen, the Antarctic, the Boer War, forgotten screenwriters and unmade films atthepictures.photo.blog/202…
