"Manchester's always been cool... now it's cooler than ever." Our Manchester music expert and BRITs Fringe Steering Group member @profkirsty.bsky.social spoke to Prolific North about what Manchester hosting the BRIT Awards means for the city. 🎶 Read more 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qwNkQw

In honour of its greatest son, Minneapolis should refer to ICE as "a big disease with a little name."

This week, BRITs nominations officially launched in Manchester! 🎤🎉 @profkirsty.bsky.social shares more about our School of Digital Arts hosting a #BRITsFringe event. Watch this space for more info coming soon and tell us your favourite nominees 👇

A new book by popular culture expert @profkirsty.bsky.social challenges the idea of a traditional music autobiography by studying how musicians narrate their lives, from Taylor Swift’s Instagram posts to the childhood homes of Lennon and McCartney. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3N3LvMG

Interesting conversation this morning between @profkirsty.bsky.social and Chris Hawkins about contemporary music / biography #BBCRadio6 Music - Chris Hawkins, 01/12/2025 share.google/dWsDWFC8Tr4s...

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐 'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies' 🗓️ 2-3 February 2026 📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating) Deadline: 14th November Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

Call for chapters: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music edited by Tom Attah, Christian Lloyd and me. This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2017. iaspm.org.uk/the-bloomsbu...

Looking forward to chatting to Sir Phil. homemcr.org/whats-on/an-...

👥 We’re actively recruiting reviewers! If you’d like to join or share feedback on how to improve the journal, we’d love to hear from you! 📖 In the coming months, we’ll also be reintroducing published works from our archives—stay tuned! #Sociology #GradStudent #Research

We’re celebrating the brilliant BFI NETWORK alumni selected for Venice Biennale and Toronto International Film Festival! Read more about their features here: rb.gy/m51r3f 👏 #BFINetwork #VeniceBiennale #TIFF2025

Call for book proposals! We're looking for fresh takes on the punk movement to mark the upcoming 50th anniversary as part of the next instalment of our acclaimed @manchesterup.bsky.social British Pop Archive series.

'I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned' -Yayoi Kusama #WomensArt #MondayMotivation

As he begins his stint as Universities UK president, Malcolm Press tells @helenpacker.bsky.social that the sector’s demands of government need to be realistic and that the sector will have to address its own problems through efficiencies and collaboration #academicsky #edusky

This was entirely predictable in an environment where there is little to no spare cash in universities to cover research expenses.

LAST CALL! Undershed: Call for Immersive Artwork @wshed.bsky.social‬: apply to an exhibition themed around the question: "What does home mean to you?" 🗓️ Deadline: July 20 https://www.watershed.co.uk/jobs-opportunities/2025/07/undershed-call-immersive-artwork

It’s out! Published by @bloomsburymus.bsky.social Loved working with a great team in @Tom Attah and @Christian Lloyd.

I had a chat with Newsweek about Anna Wintour's celebrity status following her departure from Vogue. www.newsweek.com/anna-wintour...

Our book was published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social today! Nice work @profkirsty.bsky.social ‬and #ChristianLloyd and ALL our amazing authors - some very experienced scholars, some brand new voices. Looking forward to our copies in the post. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...

Very pleased to have a chapter on CUD: Rich and Strange @cud.bsky.social (thanks to @williampotter.com) in Rereading Musicians and their Audiences edited by @profkirsty.bsky.social, Tom Attah and Christian Lloyd

out today: 'Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences: Popular Music Autobiographies', ed. Tom Attah, @profkirsty.bsky.social, & Christian Lloyd. featuring my chapter on Lady Gaga as pop's greatest Wildean since Bowie - 'Lady Gaga's Wildean Self-Representations'! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...

Last night at the newly developed Campfield, @mayorofgm.bsky.social launched a bold new vision for the next decade in Mcr. And it’s always lovely to catch up with some of my favourite GM powerhouse women.

Taylor Swift, Charli xcx and Springsteen among live music acts who gave UK £10bn lift in 2024

Today we're at the 'Rethinking Manchester’s Musical and Subcultural Histories' conference at @manmetuni.bsky.social‬ with our list of British Pop Archive, Subcultures & Manchester Music titles 🎧 - Say hi - Buy books - Learn how to publish with us 📗 Organised by @profkirsty.bsky.social‬

As the brilliant Manchester School of Art Degree Show comes to a close, we revisit @profkirsty.bsky.social's article in our recent zine reflecting on the role of the School of Digital Arts at @manmetuni.bsky.social in shaping the next generation of cultural changemakers.

TOMORROW (Monday) - @tobyhadoke.bsky.social and myself will be in conversation at HOME in Manchester after a screening of the newly remastered Quatermass Xperiment film… tickets selling like hot rockets (is that a thing?) homemcr.org/spektrix/Cho...

#Manchester is a major musical city and we'll be debating where it's been and where it's going next week... schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/neith....

I’m gathering a list of #OpenAccess or #freelyaccessible #Film, #Television, #ScreenStudies, #audiovisualmediastudies Publications, Editors and Advocates People at Bluesky. Please let me know if you’d like me to add you. go.bsky.app/NBipNnW

As Pride Month approaches, a group of drag artists and their allies are releasing guidelines to help performers navigate a landscape of online harassment and physical violence.

Hello and welcome to our new page! We'll be using this page to share all journal news and articles, as well as some other exciting content, so please drop us a follow and stay tuned. We are also over on Instagram (@journal.transnational.screens) and Facebook - www.facebook.com/groups/12351...

Still as fresh in my mind as the night that it happened. #oneloveManchester #ManchesterRemembers #Manchester

The programme for Neither Factory Nor Madchester @manmetuni.bsky.social is live. Including a performance by DVRK & a collaboration with @officialuom.bsky.social at Jodrell Bank (transport provided)- @davidolusoga.bsky.social in conv with @JazzieB www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/neith...

We are live! The HAMLET Project website is now launched! Explore our mission, pilots, and the transformative technologies driving digital creativity. Join us on this journey! Visit us at: hamlet-project.eu #CreativeAI #DigitalTransformation #CulturalHeritage #Innovation #EUProject

Arrived in New Orleans for the PCA conference 💚🙌🏻

Delighted to see No 2 in our British Pop Archive book series finally in print at our series editor's meeting at the stunning John Rylands Library this morning. Studio Electrophonique by Jamie Taylor is out in glorious green paperback on April 15th. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/british-pop-...

Stop screaming about the Beatles biopic. Start whooping for Zendaya as Ronnie Spector and Lizzo as Sister Rosetta Tharpe. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

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...

Had a great @baftss2025.bsky.social conference! Amongst much doom & gloom around the future HE in the UK, the conference a brilliant showcase of all the fantastic research on film, TV & beyond. Following my paper on Slow Horse's London, it's time for a lie-down!

Thank you to @baftss2025.bsky.social for facilitating my dream (talking about Charli XCX at length with 2 brilliant scholars). The female pop doc (edited by @profkirsty.bsky.social) coming soon!

Government departments including the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will be required to reduce their administrative budgets by 15% by the end of the decade, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed.

@baftss2025.bsky.social conference bound on an actually sunny morning ☀️. Looking forward to catching up with colleagues I haven’t seen for ages.

We're travelling to #BAFTSS2025 day!! Visit our stand to, ▶️Chat to Editor @mlhouston.bsky.social ▶️Browse books ▶️Discover new series Not attending? Get 30% of our #Film, #TVStudies and #MediaStudies stocklist here 👇 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/01... @baftss2025.bsky.social

While you're here be sure to check out the PGR Poster Showcase! #BAFTSS2025

We're excited to be at the British Association of Film, Television & Screen Studies Conference 2025! 📽️📺 Visit the EUP stand to meet Kelly O'Brien, our Senior Assistant Editor for Film Studies, check out our books and enjoy exclusive conference discounts! 💸 #BAFTSS2025 @baftss.bsky.social

Nice to be on home (Warwick!) turf for @baftss2025.bsky.social this week. I'll be presenting on the Performance & Stardom SIG sponsored panel, sharing research on the female pop doc alongside @profkirsty.bsky.social. Come for the screenshots of my Instagram feed, stay for the hyperpop bangers!

Great to be @sxsw.com representing @manmetuni.bsky.social

Looking to find and add people to this UK Arts starter pack go.bsky.app/BZ8Tmob

Deadline 9 March This is an unmissable opportunity for a creative relationship builder with experience in corporate partnerships or commercial account management to join the Roundhouse #musicjobs #artsjobs