Superheroes & Contemporary Cultures: Cross-Medial Explorations and Societal Perspectives edited by Torsten Caeners and Danny Graydon is out now in hardback! It is a global, interdisciplinary dive into superheroes and their cultural power across media. 👉https://ow.ly/g4c950YMql4

Congratulations to Tiago de Luca, Aaron Jagger, and Betty Stojnic for all receiving runner-up awards at the BAFTSS 2026 conference.

I wrote a review of Shannon Wells-Lassagne and Sophie Aymes' edited collection Adaptation and Illustration: New Cartographies, which I really enjoyed! Might be off interest to @adaptationtoday.bsky.social, @adaptstudies.bsky.social and @adaptationsig.bsky.social. journals.openedition.org/erea/20775

Happy to share that my latest article, exploring posthumanism through the lens of race and robotics onscreen, is now out in Science Fiction Film and Television journal: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/19/1 Thanks to editors and contributors for producing a really interesting issue!

This consultation on immigration reform closes tomorrow night and is worth doing. It only took me about half an hour with the help of the Amnesty guidance linked below

The other news is....we're running a symposium in June (supported by @baftss.bsky.social and B-Film). See below for the CFP.

Forgot to mention that I (or maybe my cat Jacob if the Eventbrite image is accurate) will be introducing a VHS screening of Howard the Duck for King's College London's Trash Film Club tonight. Looking forward to seeing the tape's quality! Do join if you're around. www.eventbrite.com/e/howard-the...

Petition to stop the closure of Film Studies at the University of Leicester - please sign! c.org/6GJL5fBct8

👉 👉 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...

Thrilled to share the very open Call for Proposals for BAFTSS 2026 on 15-17 April in Bournemouth. Amid all the stress and uncertainty of HE, the annual conference is a great place to reconnect, reflect, think new thoughts and make new plans. Join us! @baftss.bsky.social www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

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!

Cheeky thing just lounging in Jacob's territory (my garden)

Shop our Lucky Summer Sale August 6–15 for a 50% discount on all titles, including THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER by James C. Taylor! @jamesctaylor.bsky.social buff.ly/fPSEssq Purchases made during the sale period will be entered for a chance to win SIX FREE UPM TITLES of the winner’s choice!

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

FTV’s James C. Taylor has a new chapter published on the Lovecraftian image in Film and Television from an edited collection titled Authenticity and Adaptation. Chapter and collection seen here modelled by James’ cat:

Looks like my book, The Superhero Blockbuster, is currently available at 30% discount - just in time for the release of the new Superman film!

Our panel on adaptation and television studies had an interesting mix of ideas. I spoke about what the fields could offer one another, @jamesctaylor.bsky.social spoke about intertextuality, hierarchies and televisual MCU adaptations and Liam Burke spoke about kids TV adaptations, policy & culture.

I've just finished supervising an undergraduate dissertation on A Christmas Carol adaptations and am starting supervising one on Robert Eggers. I didn't expect these two projects to suddenly become so directly connected!

A new podcast conversation between Jose Arroyo and James Taylor, focusing on James’ new book, ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’. Listen here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/06/j...

Thanks so much @josearroyo.bsky.social for having me on the podcast and asking such conceptually interesting questions about my book The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning. I hope others enjoy the resulting discussion of writing process, the book's content and its potential uses!

In a digital learning tools training session and I can reveal that @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social staff have super healthy favourite foods.

Come work with us in the Film department! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI241/t...

Back in the UK after the Association of Adaptation Studies conference in Istanbul. Huge thanks to the organisers for a fantastic three days exploring adaptation and eating delicious mezze, hosted at a campus with an energy museum, some ducklings and, of course, their fair share of the city's cats.

Great first day at the Association of Adaptation Studies Conference in Istanbul. Saw some brilliant papers on AI and sound, presented on the Contemporary Screens panel, and ate Adaptation Cake. Have also obviously been befriending some of the city's beautiful cats.

Now we have @jamesctaylor.bsky.social talking on nostalgia and restoration and ‘serialised cinema’

So glad this survived Royal Mail's international post. Enjoy!

Do you watch Chinese TV? Do you use English subs, and/or use English to discuss what you're watching? If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s * ~10min to complete (+/- free text answers 😅) * Project details in form * Pls share/repost! 💚🙏 #cdrama

A superb video essay on Isolation in ONE HOUR PHOTO by Madeleine Lear: notesonfilm1.com/2025/05/14/i...

I love getting to see our students' video essays. Always some brilliant work!

My shiny new book, The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning, is currently 55% off on @upmississippi.bsky.social's website (along with all their other titles)! Bargains to be had if you're in the US and get free shipping. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...

My contributor's copy of Authenticity and Adaptation, edited by @stinaface.bsky.social, finally arrived 🎉. My chapter explores how different screen adaptations have negotiated the challenges of adapting the Lovecraftian image. Very much looking forward to reading the other chapters!

From Goosebumps to gore: exhibition to explore horror genre and its younger audiences www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...

NewRelease: THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE, AND MEANING by James C. Taylor is a detailed exploration of the adaptive practices, meanings, and industrial significance of popular superhero blockbusters. #ReadUP buff.ly/oUzKfxv

Mine and @kte75.bsky.social's exhibition 'Fear on the Bedroom' opens in just over 2 weeks! If you are in the Birmingham area please come along and revisit horror ephemera of the past through the eyes of a child flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

My physical copies of my book - The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning - arrived today. It's now 100% a real tangible thing that exists in the world!

If you work in comics in the UK (including self publishing) I highly encourage you to read and sign the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s proposal for a UK Comics Fund before they submit it to DCMS. It’s very thorough! This fund could be game changing for comics in the UK.

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

Now through April 30 use code SCMS2025 at checkout for 30% off The Superhero Blockbuster by @jamesctaylor.bsky.social — featuring a cover I had the legal tightrope-walking thrill of illustrating with characters who are 'definitely' not copyrighted... probably: www.upress.state.ms.us/Collections/...

Just got a sun lounger and Jacob's already enjoying it in his own way.

Registration for the Youth & Horror conference, 1-2 July at University of Birmingham, is now open! Hooray! Get your delegate pass here: shop.bham.ac.uk/conferences-...

✨ SIGNED COPIES ALERT ✨ James C. Taylor (@jamesctaylor.bsky.social) stopped by the @upmississippi.bsky.social table at #SCMS2025 to sign copies of his newly released book, THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE, AND MEANING. For sale now for only $20!

Another day, another exceptional update from my cat sitter.

Just saw a physical copy of my book for the first time 🎉. If you're at #SCMS2025 you can go peruse it at the @upmississippi.bsky.social table.

Oh yeah I guess I should plug the exhibition shouldn't I. IF YOU ARE IN BIRMINGHAM PLEASE COME TO THE THING I AM DOING it will make all the stress seem worth it, thanks! flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/fear-i...

You can pick up my shiny new book (The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning - pictured here in the top right) with a 30% discount using this code!

My cat sitter sends top quality updates!

My new (and first!) article 'Between agency and victimhood: "Adult Material" and screening the female porn performer in the #MeToo era' is now out on @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social. Available on open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My book, The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning, is out today in ebook format, published by @upmississippi.bsky.social! You can buy the ebook from the usual vendors and if you're affiliated with a university you may already have access at JSTOR here: doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...