Adyasha Sen
@asenfilm.bsky.social
Bachelor of Film Studies, baby in academia - interested in theories of auteurship, horror, children’s films, melodrama, post modernism and wannabe art deco enthusiast & Julia Kristeva’s daughter.
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Mad woman on the line-tic
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Mad woman on the line-tic
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Join the brilliant Charlotte Baker for this short course exploring CHARACTER AND WORLDBUILDING IN HORROR this October - two underrated yet crucial areas in the field! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/character-...
September 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Join the brilliant Charlotte Baker for this short course exploring CHARACTER AND WORLDBUILDING IN HORROR this October - two underrated yet crucial areas in the field! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/character-...
Indian education system really picks up critical concepts and STABS it repeatedly until it becomes just a word to memorise. So excited to watch films, read papers and books after this entrance exam. The exhausting futility of a competitive exam has ignited my curiosity like never before
July 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Indian education system really picks up critical concepts and STABS it repeatedly until it becomes just a word to memorise. So excited to watch films, read papers and books after this entrance exam. The exhausting futility of a competitive exam has ignited my curiosity like never before
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Sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this astounding autochrome photograph of twilight 117 years ago, taken in colour by Julien Gérardin. It is an original colour plate, not colourised.
May 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Sunset on Friday 18th December 1908. I have cleaned-up this astounding autochrome photograph of twilight 117 years ago, taken in colour by Julien Gérardin. It is an original colour plate, not colourised.
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i want to share a memory with you. a place from a long time ago.
May 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
i want to share a memory with you. a place from a long time ago.
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
May 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
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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/...
www.bcu.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Just found out 5 (out of 12) of my books are available on the Internet Archive (including SCARY MOVIES). I don't get royalties from them, so if you want to borrow from the site and read them for free, you do so with my total support.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
April 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just found out 5 (out of 12) of my books are available on the Internet Archive (including SCARY MOVIES). I don't get royalties from them, so if you want to borrow from the site and read them for free, you do so with my total support.
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has someone put this on letterboxd yet
April 14 2024 was Fredric Jameson's 90th birthday. For the 91st he didn't reach, Verso has published his list of greatest films and novels; also linked below is the 90th birthday essay series
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Fredric Jameson's Greatest Films and Novelists
Few radical thinkers have had such a phenomenal impact on literary criticism, critical theory, and philosophy as Fredric Jameson. In celebration of what would-be his ninety-first birthday, Verso edito...
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April 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
has someone put this on letterboxd yet
Took a break from academia and accidentally woke up a year later! Trying to reacquaint myself without any institutional affiliation this time 😭🙏🏽
April 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Took a break from academia and accidentally woke up a year later! Trying to reacquaint myself without any institutional affiliation this time 😭🙏🏽