📚 Now available to pre-order in paperback from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c... @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

CCC is available today in Ebook format 📚 Still prohibitively expensive, unfortunately. But the paperback is on the way… www.bloomsbury.com/uk/culture-c...

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

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...

My first visit to the Steinway and Bluthner buildings in London. Really beautiful pianos.

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-...

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...

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...

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...

Worth a watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=h3At...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

Netflix walks away from Warner Bros deal, paving way for Paramount victory

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...

Listen! @mivich.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fantastic The Division of Rationalized Labor newbooksnetwork.com/the-division...

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

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 [email protected]

My author’s copies arrived recently from Bloomsbury 📚 Another great cover design from Eleanor Rose! Thanks to NBC for permissions.

Still one of the best cover images I can imagine. Wish I could use it for more than just one book.

Oh my.

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

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

Still one of the best cover images I can imagine. Wish I could use it for more than just one book.

Out now in hardback from @edinburghup.bsky.social

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...

My author’s copies arrived recently from Bloomsbury 📚 Another great cover design from Eleanor Rose! Thanks to NBC for permissions.

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.

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 📚

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.

#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...

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 📚

"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

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

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

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

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.

Lecturer in Media & Film, York St John University, applications close 7th November 2025 jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Author’s copies 📚 This may be my last one for a while

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...

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...

Listen! @willkitchen.bsky.social talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the fascinating "Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work" newbooksnetwork.com/culture-capi...

My New Books Network interview with Prof Dave O’Brien is now available: newbooksnetwork.com/culture-capi... @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

In advance of my author’s copies, one early hardback has arrived. Another very nice production from Bloomsbury @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

In advance of my author’s copies, one early hardback has arrived. Another very nice production from Bloomsbury @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

I'm so excited to finally announce that ReFocus: The Films of John Waters is now available for pre-order on EUP's website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus... Use the 30% discount code, NEW30. #johnwaters @edinburghup.bsky.social

This is interesting isn’t it? Is there a tipping point where trust in institutions recovers because those attacking them are finally recognised mostly as dim, corrupt, charlatans or grifters (or their mouthpieces).