The Word made Flesh is out today! I've not seen it in the flesh myself yet, but this is a happy day after many years of work. #EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory

We've passed 4000 magazines in our digital library! Every issue is cataloged and text-searchable, so it's easier than ever to do historical research with game magazines archive.gamehistory.org/folder/9a193... Here's a few recent highlights... 🧵

These are lovely

#skystorians (I could only fit one name on the screen, apologies in advance)

may james dobson's name be erased and his bones be eaten by local carnivores

I love digging around primary source material and finding an account from someone just absolutely spilling the tea about my person of interest.

WEAPONS was awesome and also, the man sitting next to us became enraged by someone down front using their phone and exclaimed, "FUCKIN IPAD!" What an icon.

I finally got to Devil House by @themountaingoats.bsky.social. I was expecting a haunted house, but what I got instead was an introspective and moving hauntology. A beautiful book.

“We wanted to rid ourselves of the fashions of historiography,” Burns summarized at one event, “and make a film that simply shows what happened.” That’s not how history works though. You’re making an argument about what happened & what mattered even if you don’t realize you’re doing it. 🗃️

This is an amazing idea, I can't wait to try it out!

So happy to see this news!

I enjoyed Until Dawn, but it was definitely made for people who are very familiar with missing a quick time event and getting embarrassingly mauled by a wendigo in the game.

SINNERS is so good, y'all. Please go see it on the big screen, the way god intended.

Really enjoying Humans: A Monstrous History by @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social!

“Killer of Sheep” has been digitally restored to 4K and remastered by UCLA Film & Television Archive, Milestone Films, and the Criterion Collection. The restoration was supervised by Ross Lipman and Jillian Borders, in consultation with Burnett. www.indiewire.com/news/trailer...

Double feature report: I thought Heart Eyes was fine and LOVED Companion.

Playing around with this 😭

Happy 79th birthday to the immortal David Lynch. Maybe the robins are here, even when it's dark.

Nothing gold can stay

Also.....spoiler?? for Nosferatu: We have to talk about Nosferatu's straight up Vlad the Impaler stache

Just got out of Nosferatu and oh my god, what an amazing analysis of premodern v. modern. This is something horror regularly provides us in imagery and metaphor, but to see Robert Eggers explain history to us directly through the dialogue of horror is wonderful.

I finally watched The Substance. A couple thoughts: A hilarious satire of the unattainable and ephemeral standards of beauty imposed on women. Such standards exist within the larger framework of female sexual monstrosity, which the film does not shy away from.

Sold my soul to spend the 50th anniversary of Brian de Palma's Phantom of the Paradise watching it on the big screen

I have procured the Nosferatu bucket. Popcorn is life! Popcorn is life!

Just watched EXHUMA and.... To me, that's cinema.

It's my birthday and I get to pick the movie!

Trying to crank out a historiographical paper about how French scientists across disciplines helped create a culture obsessed with decay at the fin-de-siecle, but like right now, on Thanksgiving. Typing so fast, so turked up.

Happy to report my copy of the BFI's Cooking Price-Wise is arriving today

I would like to make one more comment about Red Rooms--it's important you read this Tennyson poem after, but I can't explain why without spoilers:

I just finished Red Rooms and my stomach is churning. This one is going to stick with me for awhile.

I finally found some Ben Cooper kids in the wild!!

Ingmar Bergman, David Lynch ...Andy Sidaris, gimme that Hard Ticket to Hawaii

Checking this one out tonight:

Should I title a final paper I am writing "Anthony Comstock: Smut Batman" or...

The best way I can describe Heretic is "what if we inject the philosophical premise of Martyrs into Barbarian?" To be clear, this is high praise.

Same

Oops, I have to do this one too:

Now reading:

My Louis Feuillade crime serials box set arrived today--a small bright spot in a dark reality.

I am so enjoying Veilguard. My Rook is an Antivan Crow spellblade, meaning you can't escape her. #DragonAge #Veilguard

Watched this nice restoration of Yotsuya Kaidan (dir. Kenji Misumi, 1959) from Radiance films, Daiei Gothic box set:

Criterion flash sale recommendation--adapted from Kobo Abe's 1962 existentialist novel:

"The question that presented itself to me, listening to the commonplace, bigoted talk of the man, was, how could anyone so limited and unintelligent wield the power of censor and dictator over a supposedly democratic nation?" -Emma Goldman on Anthony Comstock babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...

I am about to start working on my MA thesis about the Grand Guignol and I am so thankful for the BNF digital archive, Gallica.

The Baron of Bad Taste arrived today from Good Taste Toys!