EXTENDED DEADLINE: AAS 2026 is now accepting proposals until 15 January 2026!

The full schedule is now *live* for 'To Save and Project' at MoMA in NYC, Jan 8 - Feb 2, 2026!!! 😍🎞️ So many gems in this line-up! www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

“Hello, Arthur? This is your mother”—I love Elaine May so much. NICHOLS AND MAY @tcmtv.bsky.social

Related to ongoing discourse, just going to return to this newsletter collaboration with @kristenwarner.bsky.social from April on the box office reporting around #Sinners, and the challenge of blaming the Asterisk People for systemic industry failures.

Really looking forward to this—tomorrow, Friday, 12-1pm Eastern! Still time to register! @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationtoday.bsky.social udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This!☝️ I’m hoping to squeeze in a rewatch over the Christmas. Also paging @grossmjj.bsky.social, co-editor of Penny Dreadful and Adaptation!

I watched Penny Dreadful for the first tme earlier in the year and I agree 👇 The Best Gothic Horror Series Ever Made Needs More Recognition, Every Frame Is Art | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT share.google/3JjBLlGEOApP...

It was a good mail day today! If you’re interested in archives, women’s labor and/of French movie culture, this is for you. Congrats @aurspiers.bsky.social! It’s a great book. @ucpress.bsky.social

For those in NYC this weekend, “Ladies in Retirement” (1941) is a must see! Great film and Ida Lupino’s favorite role. 👇

The 2nd edition of IDA LUPINO, DIRECTOR: HER ART AND RESILIENCE is now available for preorder! Very excited! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ida-lupino-d...

More on Fennell's "Wuthering Heights", though to be fair this is an enjoyable piece on Haworth & Brontëmania.

We sent round details of our next Adaptation SIG event - December 17th, 2-3pm. 'Adaptation and Remakes' featuring @drdjohnston.bsky.social and @rosemaryaj.bsky.social - if you haven't got the email and want to come along, DM us!

Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.

Good morning! My essay on THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL (1921), directed by the mighty Cecil B. DeMille, is up at the website for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. A beautiful restoration screened this year, letting people savor the charm of Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson... silentfilm.org/6563-2/

Fred and Rita in YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (1942). So much fun. #TCM

I am only one episode in, but Matthew Macfadyen’s Guiteau in DEATH BY LIGHTNING is giving out a very Rupert -Pupkin vibe—two phenomenal actors doing the classic American energetic self-deluded obsession with being noteworthy and celebrated.

Save the date for our first author talk of 2026, with Justin Rawlins, the author of Imagining the Method! Register for the Zoom (on January 16) here: tinyurl.com/PerfStarAuthor @scmstudies.bsky.social

50% off books in the ADAPTATION AND VISUAL CULTURE series link.springer.com/series/14654 — all 41 books on sale! Use FLSH50 to save on books & eBooks | Until December 5, 2025 11:59 pm EST*

👀 psst!  Our #StAndrewsDaySale is coming soon! ✍️ Sign-up to our mailing lists for details... https://edin.ac/33x7KRT

Advance copies of this beaut arrived today! Congrats to author @aurspiers.bsky.social!! Can’t wait for you all to read it. www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...

Check out Wayne State UP’s holiday sale, including TWIN PEAKS for $11.25! wsupress.wayne.edu

"The monster was the best friend I ever had." -Boris Karloff #BOTD

Day 22 #NoirvemberChallenge Fav #filmnoir musical performance. Submitted by @rmrfromgso. Ida Lupino in Roadhouse (1948). All hail the badass. She sings hauntingly, raspy, & with perfect smoky depression the classic Johnny Mercer song "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)".

@adaptstudies.bsky.social is inviting applications for Editorial Board Members starting January 2026. Join our community of scholars and make a meaningful contribution over a two-year term: oxford.ly/4oZKnHX Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026 ✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Really looking forward to this! Join us!

👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada! ✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025 🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026 Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...

Many thanks to @drchrislouttit.bsky.social for putting this together and helping us all get settled in over here! #adaptstudies

Come for the Creature, stay for a chaotic digression into Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from the sexy sexy 90s. Listen to YMMWT's take on FRANKENSTEIN (2025) here OR wherever you get podcasts! 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-me-watch-that/id1622748155?i=1000736966341

Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.

As a romantic (in life) and a Romantic (in college studies) I loved Del Toro's Frankenstein—the sweep, the beauty and the headlong emotion of it. Its visual and thematic echoes range from Burke & Hare to Ingres to Hammer, but it's no pastiche—it's a vividly individual film.

Heard @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN sneaked at BeyondFest. Here's my review of it from Telluride: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...

I want to urge anyone interested in FRANKENSTEIN to see it at a theater where the big screen will let you bask in the visuals. And do it soon after the movie opens (Oct. 17) because I don't think Netflix plans a long stay in cinemas.

So excited for the book launch of @mattfee.bsky.social’s FANTASTIC SPACES: IRISH CINEMA AND THE SUPERNATURAL. Join us @lemoynecollege.bsky.social Oct. 29/4:30pm/Reilly 446 (followed by a reception in the pub!).The night before, we’ll screen Kate Dolan’s YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER, 7:15 in Reilly 244!

“It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders.”

Almost time for the Giornate del Cinema Muto / #SilentFilm Festival!!! If you can't make the journey to Pordenone, friendly reminder that there are daily screenings online with beautiful music. 🎞️🎶 www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/abbonamen...

Last time with this one.

The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website! Join us in New Orleans this February! blackmedia.tulane.edu

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Reimagining Frankenstein in the 21st Century, ed. Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan. For full call text & inquiries, email [email protected]

New Ida Lupino movie on blu-ray alert ‼️ “Out of the Fog” (1941) 👇

We are very excited that @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social are sponsoring our #BritNoir strand at #FilmNoirFest 2025. The films for the strand as well as the rest of the festival are below. Festival passes are priced at £75 and gets you entry to everything: ti.to/film-noir-uk...

There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!

A British crime double bill is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today from 4:15pm with Out of the Fog (1962) and then The Embezzler (1954) at 5:35pm. #BritNoir

I'm so pleased to be quoted at some length in David Hudson's @dwhdaily.bsky.social roundup of writing on Alexander Horwath's fascinating HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT: www.criterion.com/current/post...

Just about one week until To Be Continued 5! See here lists of adaptation and seriality panels, speakers, & presentation titles. Free registration here: ubalt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationsig.bsky.social @adaptationtoday.bsky.social @litfilmquarterly.bsky.social

What a thrilling @lemoynecollege.bsky.social screening of the great Keaton film SHERLOCK JR. last night, accompanied by the society for new music performing the premiere of Nic Scherzinger's new score--wow! If you weren't able to be there, Hamilton College will host another performance on Feb. 8!

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THERE IS STILL TIME ⏳ to register for TBC5, featuring some of my favorite scholars/people tackling some 🔥 topics in intertextual culture studies. A highlight of the Adaptation Studies academic calendar!

THE LATEST from @adaptationtoday.bsky.social: a conversation about the highlights of the AAS İstanbul conference, led by host @reraddatz.bsky.social and featuring conference co-organizers @ssedaozz.bsky.social and @cbkenkar.bsky.social!

If you're looking for a firsthand glimpse at the best sidebar chat in online academic conferencing, JOIN US for the 5th iteration of To Be Continued...! Free to register, with a great slate of presenters & topics 👇