Two weeks to go!!! 🏔️🥾🌲🏕️❄️🇳🇵

With this coming on top of the recent slashing of Film Studies staff at De Montfort University, Leicester is rapidly becoming a real desert for students seeking a career in the creative industries. Dreadful reputational damage for UoL and a genuine catastrophe for the East Midlands creative economy.

25 days to go…
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My husband just got his British citizenship!! No more collecting utility bills until our drawers burst and watching the latest immigration announcements with a mounting sense of dread about when the wave of new limitations would catch up with us. Today is a good day!!!

Infrastructures of Influence: The British Federation of Film Societies and the Circulation of Soft Power, 1960–2000 This article examines the role of the British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) in the international circulation of film culture from 1960 to 2000, arguing that the Federation functioned as an in...

New article alert! ‘Infrastructures of Influence: The British Federation of Film Societies and the Circulation of Soft Power, 1960–2000’. Just published by the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Fully open access, so please do share! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As someone who is in an academic department that is positively pullulating with global talent, I would just like to note the gratuitous, excessive emotional and financial stress and strain suffered by talented globals in the context of swingeing visa regimes and hostile environments.

Infrastructures of Influence: The British Federation of Film Societies and the Circulation of Soft Power, 1960–2000 This article examines the role of the British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) in the international circulation of film culture from 1960 to 2000, arguing that the Federation functioned as an in...

New article alert! ‘Infrastructures of Influence: The British Federation of Film Societies and the Circulation of Soft Power, 1960–2000’. Just published by the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Fully open access, so please do share! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yeah, people, go listen to the amazing @mwilljones.bsky.social and Keith Williams talk about this mid 60s oddity. 🥹

It’s the time again - the magnificent Ayesha was kind enough to have me back on her utterly fantastic Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever podcast, this time talking moon monsters, steampunk Britain and First Men in the Moon. Such a fun episode and the podcast is always worth your time - check it out! 🌙 👾

It's been a while since I've shared my film/media history starter packs. Still adding more people! Feel free to make suggestions, share, and keep building the community! (Part II below)

go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5

Like Tories fleeing a sinking ship.

Stop Trying to Make the Humanities ‘Relevant’ For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it.

'As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless.' 1/2

It may not be pretty, but this Khmer-spiced veggie shepherd’s pie was an absolute beast of a dinner!

Whisper it for now, but I’m starting to think I may actually finish everything I promised to do during my period of research leave…

Your assumptions are not incorrect, and neither is your summary of spousal behaviour across the ages!

My husband’s work - I cannot claim any talent in this area!

Ok, tis the season.

The BBC staff film society’s in-house magazine letters page in the summer of 1987 was an absolute ROLLERCOASTER

My husband was just granted indefinite leave to remain in the U.K. and now I don’t know what we are going to do with all the drawer space freed up by not having to hold on to 5 years of utility bills, bank statements and council tax statements.

Whichever one of you ordered a sunset for 4.30pm is on my naughty list, I’m afraid.

My brilliant friends and colleagues at @cinemaforall.bsky.social are popping up on ITV News at 6.30pm tomorrow (Weds) to talk about community cinema’s 100th anniversary. Check it out if you can - a taste of the film society life with your dinner!

Awh shucks! 😉

How am I supposed to focus on writing grant applications when Florence has a new album out on Friday?

Oh look - it’s me popping up on Ayesha’s marvellous science fiction cinema podcast again! This time featuring triffids! Come have a listen - I had a proper giggle recording this.

‘A monument to kindness’: the rise of Britain’s community cinemas With more than 1,600 screens, people share how local-run venues are taking them on a film-worthy adventure

Community cinema and its 100th anniversary being celebrated in the Guardian today!!

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We have lots coming up for #halfterm / #readingweek next week! Don't miss our #halloween trail, kids' shadow puppet workshop or our lunchtime talk about our 'Dinosaurs, Dragons & #Monsters' display - all free, all welcome! 🎃🍁 #museumsky #filmsky @exeterlibrary.bsky.social @exeterunilib.bsky.social

Impromptu weekend on Guernsey it is!

There's still time to apply for a Research Stipend 2025-6 - for #international & #UK-based #scholars, researchers & #practitioners to #research using our collections on #cinema & moving image #history. For more information & to apply, visit: tinyurl.com/54wvy2du
#researchsky #filmsky #musueumsky

100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition tour YouTube video by Matthew Rule-Jones

Couldn’t make it to Sheffield for the 100 Years of Community Cinema exhibition I curated with the wonderful @cinemaforall.bsky.social a few weeks ago? Well today is your lucky day - a special guided tour just for you!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyPj...

Episode 42 is detour and a lighthearted chat about one of those stories that connects people through shared refrences and humour.

Don’t Panic: The Hitchhiker’s Guide Phenomenon is out.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧 If you want, that is.