Dr Daniel Sheppard
@danieljsheppard.bsky.social
Visiting Lecturer in Film, Birmingham City University | Assoc. Editor, Quarterly Review of Film and Video | Assoc. Director, Cine-Excess | Your Local Gay™ 🌈 | He/Him
🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more information & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-2025.html
September 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
🚨 Schedule for Cine-Excess 2025, “Reanimated! Reviving Cult Film’s Dead Objects,” is now LIVE. Scheduled guests include Brian Yuzna (RE-ANIMATOR), Lynn Lowry (SHIVERS), and keynote speaker Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. For more information & delegate passes, visit cine-excess.co.uk/cine-excess-2025.html
🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP
July 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
🚨 Updated CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985) & 50 years of Shivers (1975). We’re delighted that Brian Yuzna, producer of Re-Animator, is scheduled to join us in person. Lynn Lowry, star of Shivers, joins us online. More info from bit.ly/CECFP
This afternoon, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉
June 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This afternoon, Xavier Mendik and I are delighted to present at Birmingham City University’s BCMCR conference. Here, we’ll be introducing an excerpt of our forthcoming feature-length documentary, Scum of the Earth: Creating America’s Rural Communities of Horror 🤓🎉
Gorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤
June 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Gorgeous PowerPoint slides, ready and waiting for the Doing Women’s Film and Television History conference at the University of Lincoln 👻🖤
DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉
May 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
DELIGHTED to receive my gratis copy of GAMES OF TERROR, courtesy of @uniwalespress.bsky.social. This revised volume contains Vera Dika’s full original text w/ additional writings, as well as an all-new foreword that I am SO incredibly proud to share, co-authored with @wick85c.bsky.social 👻📚🎉
🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP
May 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🚨 CfP for Cine-Excess 2025 is now LIVE. This year’s theme, REANIMATED! REVIVING CULT FILM’S DEAD OBJECTS, marks 40 years of Re-Animator (1985). Legendary producer Brian Yuzna is scheduled to join us in person with keynote speaker, Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes. Plus special guest speakers TBA: bit.ly/CECFP
CAREER MILESTONE: after five years, today a student presented me with my first ever “thank you” gift 😭
April 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
CAREER MILESTONE: after five years, today a student presented me with my first ever “thank you” gift 😭
Which slide for tomorrow’s class on Hollywood feminism vs. feminist counter cinema? 🤪
March 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Which slide for tomorrow’s class on Hollywood feminism vs. feminist counter cinema? 🤪
🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, @wick85c.bsky.social astutely described the selection as “brilliant and telling.” This year, with some major changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death and the gay are more evenly distributed.”
December 31, 2024 at 2:40 PM
🎞️ And so the NYE tradition continues, charting my 15 most watched films since 2019. Last year, @wick85c.bsky.social astutely described the selection as “brilliant and telling.” This year, with some major changes in habitual viewing, he remarks: “the death and the gay are more evenly distributed.”
My boyfriend & I are having our “Christmas Day” together, and if his gifts give indication to how he perceives me . . . I’m an insufferable communist with a love for Dirty Dancing?
December 21, 2024 at 4:44 PM
My boyfriend & I are having our “Christmas Day” together, and if his gifts give indication to how he perceives me . . . I’m an insufferable communist with a love for Dirty Dancing?
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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December 14, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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December 13, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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December 12, 2024 at 8:56 PM
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December 11, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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December 10, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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December 9, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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December 8, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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December 7, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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December 6, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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December 5, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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December 4, 2024 at 7:10 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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December 2, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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December 1, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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November 30, 2024 at 7:32 PM
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