grossmjj
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Adaptation studies; Classical Hollywood; film noir; TV, musical theater
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As a romantic (in life) and a Romantic (in college studies) I loved Del Toro's Frankenstein—the sweep, the beauty and the headlong emotion of it. Its visual and thematic echoes range from Burke & Hare to Ingres to Hammer, but it's no pastiche—it's a vividly individual film.
October 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
As a romantic (in life) and a Romantic (in college studies) I loved Del Toro's Frankenstein—the sweep, the beauty and the headlong emotion of it. Its visual and thematic echoes range from Burke & Hare to Ingres to Hammer, but it's no pastiche—it's a vividly individual film.
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Heard @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN sneaked at BeyondFest. Here's my review of it from Telluride: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...
Telluride '25: Frankenstein - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/****starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltzscreenplay by Guillermo del Toro, based on the book Frankenstein; or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelleydirected by Guillermo d...
filmfreakcentral.net
October 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Heard @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN sneaked at BeyondFest. Here's my review of it from Telluride: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...
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I want to urge anyone interested in FRANKENSTEIN to see it at a theater where the big screen will let you bask in the visuals. And do it soon after the movie opens (Oct. 17) because I don't think Netflix plans a long stay in cinemas.
I want to check this out when it comes to the Lightbox. This was made to be seen on the big screen
October 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I want to urge anyone interested in FRANKENSTEIN to see it at a theater where the big screen will let you bask in the visuals. And do it soon after the movie opens (Oct. 17) because I don't think Netflix plans a long stay in cinemas.
So excited for the book launch of @mattfee.bsky.social’s FANTASTIC SPACES: IRISH CINEMA AND THE SUPERNATURAL. Join us @lemoynecollege.bsky.social Oct. 29/4:30pm/Reilly 446 (followed by a reception in the pub!).The night before, we’ll screen Kate Dolan’s YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER, 7:15 in Reilly 244!
October 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So excited for the book launch of @mattfee.bsky.social’s FANTASTIC SPACES: IRISH CINEMA AND THE SUPERNATURAL. Join us @lemoynecollege.bsky.social Oct. 29/4:30pm/Reilly 446 (followed by a reception in the pub!).The night before, we’ll screen Kate Dolan’s YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER, 7:15 in Reilly 244!
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“It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders.”
Philosopher Judith Butler issues stark warning to the world
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/judith-butler-patriarchy-non-binary/?utm_content=1759454400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/01/judith-butler-patriarchy-non-binary/?utm_content=1759454400&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
Philosopher Judith Butler issues stark warning to the world
Feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler has made a stark warning about the future of the world at an event in Spain.
www.thepinknews.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders.”
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Almost time for the Giornate del Cinema Muto / #SilentFilm Festival!!! If you can't make the journey to Pordenone, friendly reminder that there are daily screenings online with beautiful music. 🎞️🎶
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/abbonamen...
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/abbonamen...
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION
4 > 11 ottobre 2025
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it
October 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Almost time for the Giornate del Cinema Muto / #SilentFilm Festival!!! If you can't make the journey to Pordenone, friendly reminder that there are daily screenings online with beautiful music. 🎞️🎶
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/abbonamen...
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/abbonamen...
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Last time with this one.
FFC #Telluride25 review: FRANKENSTEIN, by Walter Chaw (@mangiotto.bsky.social). filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...
Telluride '25: Frankenstein - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/****starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltzscreenplay by Guillermo del Toro, based on the book Frankenstein; or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelleydirected by Guillermo d...
filmfreakcentral.net
September 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Last time with this one.
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The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website!
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference | Tulane University
blackmedia.tulane.edu
September 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website!
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
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CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Reimagining Frankenstein in the 21st Century, ed. Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan. For full call text & inquiries, email adaptingfrankenstein@gmail.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Reimagining Frankenstein in the 21st Century, ed. Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan. For full call text & inquiries, email adaptingfrankenstein@gmail.com
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New Ida Lupino movie on blu-ray alert ‼️
“Out of the Fog” (1941) 👇
“Out of the Fog” (1941) 👇
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming on October 28th on Blu-ray in the US from #WarnerArchive: #OutOfTheFog (1941)!
John Garfield and Ida Lupino star in this big-screen adaptation of Irwin Shaw’s play "The Gentle People," a pre-World War II allegory warning of the seductive allure and danger inherent in
Coming on October 28th on Blu-ray in the US from #WarnerArchive: #OutOfTheFog (1941)!
John Garfield and Ida Lupino star in this big-screen adaptation of Irwin Shaw’s play "The Gentle People," a pre-World War II allegory warning of the seductive allure and danger inherent in
September 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
New Ida Lupino movie on blu-ray alert ‼️
“Out of the Fog” (1941) 👇
“Out of the Fog” (1941) 👇
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We are very excited that @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social are sponsoring our #BritNoir strand at #FilmNoirFest 2025. The films for the strand as well as the rest of the festival are below.
Festival passes are priced at £75 and gets you entry to everything: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
Festival passes are priced at £75 and gets you entry to everything: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
September 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
We are very excited that @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social are sponsoring our #BritNoir strand at #FilmNoirFest 2025. The films for the strand as well as the rest of the festival are below.
Festival passes are priced at £75 and gets you entry to everything: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
Festival passes are priced at £75 and gets you entry to everything: ti.to/film-noir-uk...
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There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!
Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!
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A British crime double bill is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today from 4:15pm with Out of the Fog (1962) and then The Embezzler (1954) at 5:35pm. #BritNoir
September 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A British crime double bill is on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social today from 4:15pm with Out of the Fog (1962) and then The Embezzler (1954) at 5:35pm. #BritNoir
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I'm so pleased to be quoted at some length in David Hudson's @dwhdaily.bsky.social roundup of writing on Alexander Horwath's fascinating HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT: www.criterion.com/current/post...
September 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'm so pleased to be quoted at some length in David Hudson's @dwhdaily.bsky.social roundup of writing on Alexander Horwath's fascinating HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT: www.criterion.com/current/post...
Just about one week until To Be Continued 5! See here lists of adaptation and seriality panels, speakers, & presentation titles. Free registration here: ubalt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationsig.bsky.social @adaptationtoday.bsky.social @litfilmquarterly.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Just about one week until To Be Continued 5! See here lists of adaptation and seriality panels, speakers, & presentation titles. Free registration here: ubalt.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationsig.bsky.social @adaptationtoday.bsky.social @litfilmquarterly.bsky.social
What a thrilling @lemoynecollege.bsky.social screening of the great Keaton film SHERLOCK JR. last night, accompanied by the society for new music performing the premiere of Nic Scherzinger's new score--wow! If you weren't able to be there, Hamilton College will host another performance on Feb. 8!
September 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
What a thrilling @lemoynecollege.bsky.social screening of the great Keaton film SHERLOCK JR. last night, accompanied by the society for new music performing the premiere of Nic Scherzinger's new score--wow! If you weren't able to be there, Hamilton College will host another performance on Feb. 8!
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🎆🎆🎆
To celebrate our 60th anniversary, @tcmtv.bsky.social will air 18 film & TV titles preserved by the Archive! Restoration world premieres of “Black Girl” (Ossie Davis, 1972) and “The Magnificent Matador” (Budd Boetticher, 1955), a TV noir directed by Ida Lupino + more. Sep. 25–26: ucla.in/4nlxQOb
September 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🎆🎆🎆
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THERE IS STILL TIME ⏳ to register for TBC5, featuring some of my favorite scholars/people tackling some 🔥 topics in intertextual culture studies. A highlight of the Adaptation Studies academic calendar!
Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
THERE IS STILL TIME ⏳ to register for TBC5, featuring some of my favorite scholars/people tackling some 🔥 topics in intertextual culture studies. A highlight of the Adaptation Studies academic calendar!
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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!
AAS 2025 Conference: Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth
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September 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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!
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If you're looking for a firsthand glimpse at the best sidebar chat in online academic conferencing, JOIN US for the 5th iteration of To Be Continued...!
Free to register, with a great slate of presenters & topics 👇
Free to register, with a great slate of presenters & topics 👇
Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...
docs.google.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you're looking for a firsthand glimpse at the best sidebar chat in online academic conferencing, JOIN US for the 5th iteration of To Be Continued...!
Free to register, with a great slate of presenters & topics 👇
Free to register, with a great slate of presenters & topics 👇
Two weeks until SHERLOCK JR., with a new score by Nic Scherzinger performed by the Society for New Music. Le Moyne College, Sept. 9th, 7:15pm.
August 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Two weeks until SHERLOCK JR., with a new score by Nic Scherzinger performed by the Society for New Music. Le Moyne College, Sept. 9th, 7:15pm.
Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...
docs.google.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Touching example of how (most) great actors are *generous.* Plus you get to hear Ida’s late-life off-the-set voice which I find very elegant and beautiful and real.
Here is Ida Lupino discussing an interaction with Humphrey Bogart while they were working on “High Sierra” (1941)—from the 1967 television documentary “Bogart.”
#IdaLupinoFOTW
#IdaLupinoFOTW
August 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Touching example of how (most) great actors are *generous.* Plus you get to hear Ida’s late-life off-the-set voice which I find very elegant and beautiful and real.
Consider submitting a proposal (by 8/15) to a SAMLA (Nov. 6-8, Atlanta) roundtable I'm chairing on doing adaptation studies in the context of changed perspectives on knowledge. Can we process adaptations without sharing a common cultural heritage and knowledge base? southatlanticmla.org/conference/
Conference
TEST
southatlanticmla.org
August 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Consider submitting a proposal (by 8/15) to a SAMLA (Nov. 6-8, Atlanta) roundtable I'm chairing on doing adaptation studies in the context of changed perspectives on knowledge. Can we process adaptations without sharing a common cultural heritage and knowledge base? southatlanticmla.org/conference/
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This was wonderful.
Incredibly, despite having written about television for 30 years, I have never written an entire piece about King of the Hill. I rectified that here. Special emphasis is given to the Dallas connections. www.dmagazine.com/arts-enterta...
*King of the Hill* Makes Its Triumphant Return
With Bobby running a restaurant in Dallas and dating an SMU coed, the most Dallas show ever gets even more Dallas on August 4.
www.dmagazine.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This was wonderful.