James C. Taylor
@jamesctaylor.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick's Film and TV Department. Wealth and fame I ignored, pursuing academia as my reward. He/him.
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James C. Taylor
@jamesctaylor.bsky.social
· Apr 23
My physical copies of my book - The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning - arrived today. It's now 100% a real tangible thing that exists in the world!
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👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026
Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
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Thrilled to share the very open Call for Proposals for BAFTSS 2026 on 15-17 April in Bournemouth. Amid all the stress and uncertainty of HE, the annual conference is a great place to reconnect, reflect, think new thoughts and make new plans. Join us! @baftss.bsky.social
www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html
www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html
CFP 2026
The 14th annual BAFTSS Conference will take place 15-17 April at the Bournemouth Highcliff Mariott Hotel. Keynote speaker : Professor Julian Henriques (Goldsmiths) This year, BAFTSS embarks on...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Thrilled to share the very open Call for Proposals for BAFTSS 2026 on 15-17 April in Bournemouth. Amid all the stress and uncertainty of HE, the annual conference is a great place to reconnect, reflect, think new thoughts and make new plans. Join us! @baftss.bsky.social
www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html
www.baftss.org/cfp-2026.html
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My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
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August 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post:
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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!
Cheeky thing just lounging in Jacob's territory (my garden)
September 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Cheeky thing just lounging in Jacob's territory (my garden)
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Shop our Lucky Summer Sale August 6–15 for a 50% discount on all titles, including THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER by James C. Taylor! @jamesctaylor.bsky.social
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Purchases made during the sale period will be entered for a chance to win SIX FREE UPM TITLES of the winner’s choice!
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Purchases made during the sale period will be entered for a chance to win SIX FREE UPM TITLES of the winner’s choice!
August 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Shop our Lucky Summer Sale August 6–15 for a 50% discount on all titles, including THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER by James C. Taylor! @jamesctaylor.bsky.social
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Purchases made during the sale period will be entered for a chance to win SIX FREE UPM TITLES of the winner’s choice!
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Purchases made during the sale period will be entered for a chance to win SIX FREE UPM TITLES of the winner’s choice!
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WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.
Stop using WeTransfer.
Stop using WeTransfer.
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FTV’s James C. Taylor has a new chapter published on the Lovecraftian image in Film and Television from an edited collection titled Authenticity and Adaptation. Chapter and collection seen here modelled by James’ cat:
July 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
FTV’s James C. Taylor has a new chapter published on the Lovecraftian image in Film and Television from an edited collection titled Authenticity and Adaptation. Chapter and collection seen here modelled by James’ cat:
Looks like my book, The Superhero Blockbuster, is currently available at 30% discount - just in time for the release of the new Superman film!
The Comics Studies Society 2025 conference starts today! To celebrate, we're offering a 30% discount on any of our Comics Studies titles with code CSS2025 at checkout on our website!
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July 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Looks like my book, The Superhero Blockbuster, is currently available at 30% discount - just in time for the release of the new Superman film!
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Our panel on adaptation and television studies had an interesting mix of ideas. I spoke about what the fields could offer one another, @jamesctaylor.bsky.social spoke about intertextuality, hierarchies and televisual MCU adaptations and Liam Burke spoke about kids TV adaptations, policy & culture.
July 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our panel on adaptation and television studies had an interesting mix of ideas. I spoke about what the fields could offer one another, @jamesctaylor.bsky.social spoke about intertextuality, hierarchies and televisual MCU adaptations and Liam Burke spoke about kids TV adaptations, policy & culture.
I've just finished supervising an undergraduate dissertation on A Christmas Carol adaptations and am starting supervising one on Robert Eggers. I didn't expect these two projects to suddenly become so directly connected!
June 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
I've just finished supervising an undergraduate dissertation on A Christmas Carol adaptations and am starting supervising one on Robert Eggers. I didn't expect these two projects to suddenly become so directly connected!
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A new podcast conversation between Jose Arroyo and James Taylor, focusing on James’ new book, ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’. Listen here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/06/j...
Jose Arroyo in Conversation with James Taylor on ….THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE AND MEANING
Just as the Superhero film loses centrality in the culture there comes a book that is not only a brilliant accounting of the various strategies of adaptations the mode engages with but also offers …
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June 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A new podcast conversation between Jose Arroyo and James Taylor, focusing on James’ new book, ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’. Listen here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/06/j...
Thanks so much @josearroyo.bsky.social for having me on the podcast and asking such conceptually interesting questions about my book The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning.
I hope others enjoy the resulting discussion of writing process, the book's content and its potential uses!
I hope others enjoy the resulting discussion of writing process, the book's content and its potential uses!
A brilliant and important book that will be of interest and use to anyone interested in the subject. I talk to its author --@jamesctaylor.bsky.social --about it in the podcast below: notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/06/j...
Jose Arroyo in Conversation with James Taylor on ….THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE AND MEANING
Just as the Superhero film loses centrality in the culture there comes a book that is not only a brilliant accounting of the various strategies of adaptations the mode engages with but also offers …
notesonfilm1.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Thanks so much @josearroyo.bsky.social for having me on the podcast and asking such conceptually interesting questions about my book The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning.
I hope others enjoy the resulting discussion of writing process, the book's content and its potential uses!
I hope others enjoy the resulting discussion of writing process, the book's content and its potential uses!
In a digital learning tools training session and I can reveal that @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social staff have super healthy favourite foods.
June 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
In a digital learning tools training session and I can reveal that @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social staff have super healthy favourite foods.
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Come work with us in the Film department! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI241/t...
Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at University of Birmingham
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Teaching Fellow in Film Studies opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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June 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Come work with us in the Film department! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI241/t...
Back in the UK after the Association of Adaptation Studies conference in Istanbul. Huge thanks to the organisers for a fantastic three days exploring adaptation and eating delicious mezze, hosted at a campus with an energy museum, some ducklings and, of course, their fair share of the city's cats.
June 4, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Back in the UK after the Association of Adaptation Studies conference in Istanbul. Huge thanks to the organisers for a fantastic three days exploring adaptation and eating delicious mezze, hosted at a campus with an energy museum, some ducklings and, of course, their fair share of the city's cats.
Great first day at the Association of Adaptation Studies Conference in Istanbul. Saw some brilliant papers on AI and sound, presented on the Contemporary Screens panel, and ate Adaptation Cake. Have also obviously been befriending some of the city's beautiful cats.
June 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Great first day at the Association of Adaptation Studies Conference in Istanbul. Saw some brilliant papers on AI and sound, presented on the Contemporary Screens panel, and ate Adaptation Cake. Have also obviously been befriending some of the city's beautiful cats.
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Now we have @jamesctaylor.bsky.social talking on nostalgia and restoration and ‘serialised cinema’
June 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Now we have @jamesctaylor.bsky.social talking on nostalgia and restoration and ‘serialised cinema’
So glad this survived Royal Mail's international post. Enjoy!
It's finally here (safe and sound): my friend @jamesctaylor.bsky.social's book, for which I illustrated the cover. From the first Superhero blockbuster, Superman: The Movie, through the Spider-Man films, alternate timeline narratives in the X-Men series, to the shared universe model in the MCU.
May 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
So glad this survived Royal Mail's international post. Enjoy!
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Do you watch Chinese TV? Do you use English subs, and/or use English to discuss what you're watching?
If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s
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* Project details in form
* Pls share/repost! 💚🙏
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If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s
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* Project details in form
* Pls share/repost! 💚🙏
#cdrama
April 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Do you watch Chinese TV? Do you use English subs, and/or use English to discuss what you're watching?
If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s
* ~10min to complete (+/- free text answers 😅)
* Project details in form
* Pls share/repost! 💚🙏
#cdrama
If so, please fill out my research survey for a pilot study: forms.office.com/e/rCzcDEwJ4s
* ~10min to complete (+/- free text answers 😅)
* Project details in form
* Pls share/repost! 💚🙏
#cdrama
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A superb video essay on Isolation in ONE HOUR PHOTO by Madeleine Lear: notesonfilm1.com/2025/05/14/i...
Isolation in ONE HOUR PHOTO (Mark Romanek, 2002) by Madeleine Lear
This video essay aims to examine how isolation is portrayed visually within Mark Romanek’s 2002 film One Hour Photo. The film is a psychological thriller starring Robin Williams as Sy Parrish, a ph…
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May 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A superb video essay on Isolation in ONE HOUR PHOTO by Madeleine Lear: notesonfilm1.com/2025/05/14/i...
I love getting to see our students' video essays. Always some brilliant work!
A fascinating new video essay by Rowan Abbott on animal affect and subjectivity onscreen: vimeo.com/1084529795
Animal Affect - EO 2022 - Rowan Abbott
Animal Affect – EO (2022) Creator’s Statement Across cinema canon, animals have rarely been considered worthy subjects for a serious film narrative.…
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May 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I love getting to see our students' video essays. Always some brilliant work!
My shiny new book, The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning, is currently 55% off on @upmississippi.bsky.social's website (along with all their other titles)! Bargains to be had if you're in the US and get free shipping. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...
May 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
My shiny new book, The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning, is currently 55% off on @upmississippi.bsky.social's website (along with all their other titles)! Bargains to be had if you're in the US and get free shipping. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...
My contributor's copy of Authenticity and Adaptation, edited by @stinaface.bsky.social, finally arrived 🎉. My chapter explores how different screen adaptations have negotiated the challenges of adapting the Lovecraftian image. Very much looking forward to reading the other chapters!
May 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
My contributor's copy of Authenticity and Adaptation, edited by @stinaface.bsky.social, finally arrived 🎉. My chapter explores how different screen adaptations have negotiated the challenges of adapting the Lovecraftian image. Very much looking forward to reading the other chapters!
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From Goosebumps to gore: exhibition to explore horror genre and its younger audiences
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![Exhibition wall showing title: FEAR IN THE BEDROOM. B+W illustration shows a bed with a zombie teddy on top and monster hands stretching out from underneath. Text below reads:
"The relationship between childhood and horror has persisted throughout the history of youth culture, from fairy tales and nursery rhymes to the ongoing popularity of Halloween and recent worldwide phenomena like Five Nights at Freddy’s and Stranger Things. It takes the form of short stories, television series, films, books, magazines, comics, toys, music, video games and much more. For today’s youth, who are growing up in an age characterised by anxiety and instability, horror has the potential to help them understand the world around them, other people, and themselves. However, in the past, the meeting of children and horror has consistently attracted controversy due to unsupported perceptions that the genre is a harmful influence upon children and young people.
This exhibition is set up in the form of a child’s bedroom in the golden age of horror-related and horror-adjacent children’s ephemera from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. Despite ongoing debates about children’s access to horror, this 30-year period was one of plenty for the young horror fan, providing a myriad of products and memories, many of which are gathered here in this display.
The exhibition is not so much envisaged as a snapshot of a bedroom at a given moment in a given year, but rather as a time-capsule of children’s horror media in this period, an assembled archive collection of horror-themed products aimed at children in which objects, images and audio-visual items from the 70s rub shoulders with those of the 80s and 90s. This exhibition takes viewers through the history of children, youth and horror media, engaging visitors in the multifaceted world of horror through the eyes of a child. [continued in next image]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pcolnff5buffwu4g65q2ubfj/bafkreifox33tofzwazxiwpod4ozir7pxqzxyiuza5j4ckwyhzuw6zush5i@jpeg)
![[continued form previous] "We invite our visitors to consider the relationship between innocence, play and horror that these exhibits encompass, to bathe nostalgically in their own memories of items both here and absent, and perhaps to introduce a new generation to horror toys, books and games of the past.
Beyond the controversies that have categorised the relationship between youth and horror, our aim is to offer a space of reflection in which we see horror imagery and iconic monsters removed from the narrative contexts of the films or shows which they inhabit and reconfigured as figures of play or pleasure. These sources of horror populated many bedrooms across the UK in these 30 years, sparking the imagination and creativity of young people in the most impactful and fondly remembered ways.
This exhibition is intended for all ages, but some of the items and images on display might cause distress in younger children. Parents and guardians are advised to exert caution.
You’re welcome to interact with the exhibits, but please return them to where you found them so that other people can enjoy them, too.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pcolnff5buffwu4g65q2ubfj/bafkreicigrr7ofhyd6qcwkqzkt3wrqqdncnxydjgiqgf3ntjajj4hjnr64@jpeg)
May 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
From Goosebumps to gore: exhibition to explore horror genre and its younger audiences
www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
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