Matt Melia
@docmelia.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in English Literature, Film and Media
Lover of Archives
Beckett, Burgess, Ballard, Ken Russell, Kubrick, Beatles, Bowie, Mogwai The Fall, Guided By Voices. Hip Priest, Evertonian, Jaws nut, 007 fan, Charlton Athletic.
Lover of Archives
Beckett, Burgess, Ballard, Ken Russell, Kubrick, Beatles, Bowie, Mogwai The Fall, Guided By Voices. Hip Priest, Evertonian, Jaws nut, 007 fan, Charlton Athletic.
Some exciting conference news!
A Call For Papers - Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse
@kingstonuniversity.bsky.social #viscontistudio 11th/12th September 2026
Please visit this link
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More details to follow
A Call For Papers - Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse
@kingstonuniversity.bsky.social #viscontistudio 11th/12th September 2026
Please visit this link
wp.me/p3VQVb-y0
More details to follow
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Some exciting conference news!
A Call For Papers - Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse
@kingstonuniversity.bsky.social #viscontistudio 11th/12th September 2026
Please visit this link
wp.me/p3VQVb-y0
More details to follow
A Call For Papers - Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse
@kingstonuniversity.bsky.social #viscontistudio 11th/12th September 2026
Please visit this link
wp.me/p3VQVb-y0
More details to follow
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Chelsea vs Everton, today - two clubs whose fans were entertained by the skills of Pat Nevin. The Scottish forward called in for a chat with us in St Luke’s a couple of years ago.
Watch it, here:
youtu.be/vYZqg9kiuTU?...
Watch it, here:
youtu.be/vYZqg9kiuTU?...
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Chelsea vs Everton, today - two clubs whose fans were entertained by the skills of Pat Nevin. The Scottish forward called in for a chat with us in St Luke’s a couple of years ago.
Watch it, here:
youtu.be/vYZqg9kiuTU?...
Watch it, here:
youtu.be/vYZqg9kiuTU?...
#Hammer does #AgathaChristie (a.i.)
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
#Hammer does #AgathaChristie (a.i.)
Rewatched Peril at End House again earlier. ITV's #Poirot Would definitely be my #ComfortBlanket choice @gralefrit.bsky.social !
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Rewatched Peril at End House again earlier. ITV's #Poirot Would definitely be my #ComfortBlanket choice @gralefrit.bsky.social !
In all the fuss about a new #TaylorSwift album id just like to point out that @gbvlyrics.bsky.social #gbv #GuidedByVoices have a new single our. Just saying like...
open.spotify.com/album/6xR0mZ...
open.spotify.com/album/6xR0mZ...
Phantasmagoric Upstarts
open.spotify.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
In all the fuss about a new #TaylorSwift album id just like to point out that @gbvlyrics.bsky.social #gbv #GuidedByVoices have a new single our. Just saying like...
open.spotify.com/album/6xR0mZ...
open.spotify.com/album/6xR0mZ...
Current reading..been on a real #Dylan kick at the moment and just finished Vol.1 of Chronicles. Richard Thomas' Why Dylan Matters follows it up nicely..often one book leads to another and I'm more and more fascinated by Dylan's appropriation of Greek myth so I'm cracking on with The Odyssey
October 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Current reading..been on a real #Dylan kick at the moment and just finished Vol.1 of Chronicles. Richard Thomas' Why Dylan Matters follows it up nicely..often one book leads to another and I'm more and more fascinated by Dylan's appropriation of Greek myth so I'm cracking on with The Odyssey
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RIP Claudia Cardinale
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
RIP Claudia Cardinale
@theguardian.com
What? Why is The Prisoner omitted from this list?
#iamnotanumber
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
What? Why is The Prisoner omitted from this list?
#iamnotanumber
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Hard to believe it happened! 70 unforgettable (and unforgivable) shows from 70 years of ITV
From TV so controversial the Foreign Office tried to ban it … to Emmerdale Farm. As the broadcaster hits 70, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
@theguardian.com
What? Why is The Prisoner omitted from this list?
#iamnotanumber
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
What? Why is The Prisoner omitted from this list?
#iamnotanumber
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
#guidedbyvoices #thickrichanddelicious #newalbum are we going to get any uk @gbvlyrics.bsky.social gigs this time? Come on Uncle Bob!
September 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
#guidedbyvoices #thickrichanddelicious #newalbum are we going to get any uk @gbvlyrics.bsky.social gigs this time? Come on Uncle Bob!
God it's really really poor!
Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping review – it’s comfortingly surreal to see them doing sketch comedy again
Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping review – it’s comfortingly surreal to see them doing sketch comedy again
There’s a real 00s feel to the double act’s hit-and-miss return. But the highs it hits are proof that this neglected form of comedy has plenty of life left in it
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
God it's really really poor!
New #GBV #GuidedByVoices and it's a fucking banger @gbvlyrics.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/track/5dApaQ...
open.spotify.com/track/5dApaQ...
(You Can't Go Back To) Oxford Talawanda
open.spotify.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
New #GBV #GuidedByVoices and it's a fucking banger @gbvlyrics.bsky.social
open.spotify.com/track/5dApaQ...
open.spotify.com/track/5dApaQ...
Still time to get abstracts in #JGBALLARD @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social
arttvfilm.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t...
arttvfilm.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t...
CFP: Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century
A Conference Call for Papers Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025 Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century Kingston School of Art, Kingston University #Kingston2025 October 2…
arttvfilm.wordpress.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Still time to get abstracts in #JGBALLARD @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social
arttvfilm.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t...
arttvfilm.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t...
Listening to the audiobook of #AdamBuxton 's new book. It's fantastic. Chapter 14 'The coming storm is quite emotional.' love also he goes over #MarkESmith on Vinyl Justice. 'You look like an egg'.
youtu.be/oMyHNmiLpWs?...
youtu.be/oMyHNmiLpWs?...
July 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Listening to the audiobook of #AdamBuxton 's new book. It's fantastic. Chapter 14 'The coming storm is quite emotional.' love also he goes over #MarkESmith on Vinyl Justice. 'You look like an egg'.
youtu.be/oMyHNmiLpWs?...
youtu.be/oMyHNmiLpWs?...
Going out on a bit of a limb here but I would say Psychomania is one of the blueprints for The Lost Boys
July 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Going out on a bit of a limb here but I would say Psychomania is one of the blueprints for The Lost Boys
Looking forward to this. #OsgoodPerkins is one of the few directors making actually interesting horror films these days
July 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Looking forward to this. #OsgoodPerkins is one of the few directors making actually interesting horror films these days
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You don’t want to be cruel, I suppose, but Tebbit’s one of those people where you look at the age, 94, and get annoyed about all the good mates, people who made the world a better kinder funnier place, that you lost in their thirties and forties.
July 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
You don’t want to be cruel, I suppose, but Tebbit’s one of those people where you look at the age, 94, and get annoyed about all the good mates, people who made the world a better kinder funnier place, that you lost in their thirties and forties.
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One of the greatest ever albums
Albums of Scotland: Simple Minds - Empires and Dance. Released on the Arista label in 1980.
July 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
One of the greatest ever albums
Me presenting my paper #iamhist2025
Next on the panel we have Matt Melia, discussing 'Unboxing Stanley Kubrick's Head'
July 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Me presenting my paper #iamhist2025
Two fantastic papers on African horror cinema and celebrity, media platforms and depression in the global South. - given by Gabi Zietsman and Viraj Suprasad. @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025
July 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Two fantastic papers on African horror cinema and celebrity, media platforms and depression in the global South. - given by Gabi Zietsman and Viraj Suprasad. @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025
@iamhist.bsky.social @llewellachapman.bsky.social gives a fascinating paper on the gendered game design of #LaraCroft #TombRaider #iamhist2025
July 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
@iamhist.bsky.social @llewellachapman.bsky.social gives a fascinating paper on the gendered game design of #LaraCroft #TombRaider #iamhist2025
Great panel on British television and British television archives covering Early channel 4 short films, the Michael Palin Archive and Grandma television @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025
June 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Great panel on British television and British television archives covering Early channel 4 short films, the Michael Palin Archive and Grandma television @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025
A really fascinating Approaches to Archives panel @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025 with papers on A.I and decolonising the Archive, the work of Student interns at the #UCT archives, AIDS research at UCT archives and wildlife docs, wedish, restoration death cleaning and the archive
June 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A really fascinating Approaches to Archives panel @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025 with papers on A.I and decolonising the Archive, the work of Student interns at the #UCT archives, AIDS research at UCT archives and wildlife docs, wedish, restoration death cleaning and the archive
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Next paper delivered by @hochscherf.bsky.social on 'The Africa Quarter in Kiel, Germany'
June 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Next paper delivered by @hochscherf.bsky.social on 'The Africa Quarter in Kiel, Germany'