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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
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Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention.
🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD

Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social
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she made her bed, she’ll lie in it
IG post from Spin Magazine, with a pageant queen smiling under a ginormous crown and the headline, “Ignacia Fernández wins Miss World Chile contest after breaking out death metal vocals” Cover of the 1994 album Live Through This, in which Courtney Love prophesied exactly this outcome
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
Daria Morgandorfer and Jane Lane from the animated TV series DARIA (1997-2002) are sharing a skeptical glance at one another.
October 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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...all this to say, reader: this movie is a way more direct adaptation than you would think! the wackiest stuff was right there on the page!
IMDb page screenshot for the film Noah (2014) starring Russell Crowe among others
September 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Some good news!! The program for To Be Continued 5 is LIVE & features SO MANY of my favorite people 🫶 TBC has been an annual highlight for adaptation scholars since its founding.

18-19 Sept, 100% online, 100% fresh insights. Don't miss out! Follow @adaptstudies.bsky.social or DM for full details.
Program for academic symposium "To Be Continued 5" taking place 18-19 September 2025. Presenters are clustered in four roundtables arranged by topic: David Lynch, Copyright, Franchises, and Legacies.
August 21, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Postcards from day 2 @adaptstudies.bsky.social
Restaurant wall graffiti that reads: AAS 2025 FOREVER Anna G Colleen K-K Rebecca E R Ada B Ö More restaurant wall graffiti; AAS 2025! in the center Panelists at AAS 2025 discuss their contributions to the volume Adaptation in Turkish Literature, Cinema and Media. Still from Ada Özduran’s video essay presentation on David Byrne and self-adaptation at AAS2025
June 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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fair warning
A screenshot of some images from the 1965 film LE BONHEUR, and a dual genre categorization of romance and horror. Horror is circled, and scribbled above is “yes”
May 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Le Bonheur (Varda 1965)
A representative image of Agnes Varda’s 1965 film LE BONHEUR. Two adults and two small children are walking across a field at a distance, all hand in hand. In the foreground below them is a patch of sunflowers in full bloom.
May 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This was a LOT of fun, though 🌻
May 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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@sailorjello.bsky.social coming in with the public service 🫡
Spike Lee is impressed (gif)
February 16, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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also definitely becoming-Animal
The Muppet character Animal, head tilted to one side and slightly gesturing with his right hand as if inviting you to join him in an assemblage
December 9, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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will tell my kids this is Deleuze and Guattari
The two-headed monster from Sesame Street
December 9, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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Repost with one of the greatest villains in cinema history #filmsky
Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) in the og Die Hard, seated in a leather chair, wearing a business standard suit, his brow furrowed as the serrated shadow of a Venetian blind falls on the left side of his handsome, bearded, eminently punchable face
November 21, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Delighted to screen Du côté de la côte & Uncle Yanco & Les 3 boutons for the Bilkent Cultural Studies Society’s Auteur Days series tomorrow! 💜 🌻 #varda
Poster for Varda screening event at Bilkent University, Thursday 21 November
November 20, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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the Ramada in İzmit shows us the way
Woman icon on the left unceremoniously shoving a man icon (right) over a bright red background, above a text that reads in Turkish and English: BAYAN SPA / ONLY WOMEN
November 16, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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ok maybe this guy
Charon (Ramon Tikaram) in the Netflix series KAOS
September 6, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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lol absolutely no one
Cast of the Netflix series KAOS, a contemporary reimagining of Greek myths and their key characters.
September 6, 2024 at 10:08 AM
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The way my fist flew into the air when this paragraph came around
Highlighted quote: Despite its purported concerns about copyright infringement, the publishing industry hasn’t always prioritized the rights of individual authors. Last month the academic publishing giant Taylor & Francis angered many scholars by neglecting to mention it was selling their work to Microsoft for $10 million as part of an AI partnership.
August 30, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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What’s your sign?
Road sign in rural PA directing drivers to Punxsutawney (straight ahead), Paradise, Desire, and Panic (right turn).
August 17, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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HBD to Agnès Varda 🌻 may we all keep your joy & anger alive 💜
Director Agnès Varda speaking to the camera: “I tried to be a joyful feminist, but I was very angry”
May 30, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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We had dog season this year at the Oscars, so it’s time to honor the greatest feline film performances of all time. My nomination:
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), the Girl, Arash, and her? his? their?? cat, who deserves all the awards for this tremendous performance, seated in Arash’s vintage car and staring out the dashboard window into an unknown future
March 27, 2024 at 8:14 AM
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Filing this next to “the boomers will be retiring soon, by the time you finish there should be a surge of academic jobs!!!”
An ethnically diverse foursome of millennials taking a selfie and refusing to confront that they’re economically f*€ked
March 1, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Proud to share my collab with the Jimmy Stewart Museum in launching our Video Essay Showcase in his honor! Submission deadline 20 April, happy to take questions 🙌🏻
Photo of Hollywood actor Jimmy Stewart with an announcement about the launch of our Video Essay Showcase dedicated to his career.
March 1, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Last days to catch the excellent Viva Varda! exposition at thé Cinémathèque Française. Very much worth your time if you’re lucky enough to be in Paris. Feeling grateful to all who helped make my visit happen!
A caricature of Agnes Varda marking the end of the exposition showing at the Cinémathèque through 28 January.
January 19, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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haven’t listened yet because Behind On Everything but this will absolutely be my jam 🙏🏻
André 3000’s jazz flute album has an incredible track to time ratio and I am HERE FOR IT
November 25, 2023 at 6:32 PM