Day 1 of #HorrorNU @horrorstudies.bsky.social is done! Brilliant keynote from Cüneyt Çakırlar followed by countless papers that were both informative and entertaining. Always worth the trek here. #HorrorSky

As our Folklore Reimagined season continues, Dr Cüneyt Çakırlar explores the postmillennial wave of djinn-themed horror in Turkish cinema –where Anatolian folklore, Turkic shamanism, and Islamic mythology collide in stories of black magic and demonic possession. buff.ly/OOZJk0E

“She doesn’t have the vernacular she thinks she has, someone lied to her several times telling her she’s fly, hot, sexy and beautiful… she’s nothing of the sort”. Watching Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia (2024) with @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social having been trolled by IMDb keywords.

i'm in humbling company in @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social's wonderful edited collection 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳: 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴. my chapter looks at invocations of the dybbuk across postmillennial cinemas beyond the Anglosphere. get your library to order it! doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...

An absolute powerhouse of writers talk about int'l folklore in horror films like TUMBBAD, THE WAILING, MR. VAMPIRE. "Transnational Horror" @livunipress.bsky.social @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social @lindsayhallam.bsky.social @jacobengelberg.bsky.social ++ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

What's your top movie that features academic life on screen? Nine film studies academics have picked theirs (from Jurassic Park and The Birds to Wicked, Torso and Legally Blonde) - now tell us yours... blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Medellín-set queer Colombian film Anhell69 sticks with you 🖤 The proximity/reality of death/anti-futurity in the queer underground. @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social and I were post-watch discussing how most queer theory is not fit for purpose alongside the film's necropolitics of queer life in the city

There's a fully-funded Ph.D opportunity - Producing/Curating Global Queer Arts through Digital Platforms: Creative Participatory Approaches to LGBTQ+ mental health and community resilience. Info in link www.ntu.ac.uk/study-and-co...

Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today. youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

DRILL TEAM adapts observations by Danijela Kulezic-Wilson on the similar musicality of Beau Travail (Denis) and The Fits (Holmer) into a rhythmic video essay. @filmstudiesff.bsky.social crafts an audiovisual duet of dancing and exercising characters, illustrating how bodies can become a soundtrack.

Gus Van Sant used parts of a specific Hildegard Westerkamp soundscape composition in two of his films. The video essay COMPOSING PERCEPTION takes the complete musical piece and "visually scores" it with sequences from various Van Sant films. An interesting videographic experiment by Randolph Jordan.

Hello blueskies.