Melanie Bell 🔔
@feministbell.bsky.social
Feminist Historian of British film 🎥 working with oral history, print ephemera, moving image
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Norden Noir at #IlCinemaRitrovato this summer!! 🤩🤩
March 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Norden Noir at #IlCinemaRitrovato this summer!! 🤩🤩
In Paris talking about Movie Workers with a really enthusiastic audience at the 'Cultural History of Cinema' seminar series. We talked for hours, heaven!
March 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In Paris talking about Movie Workers with a really enthusiastic audience at the 'Cultural History of Cinema' seminar series. We talked for hours, heaven!
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🏆🍀 All three Journalism category nominations in the RTS Yorkshire student awards are from @leedsunimedia.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social. We might just win! Well done everyone. 🏆 rts.org.uk/award/rts-yo...
RTS Yorkshire Student Awards 2025
'The RTS Student Television Awards have a proven track record in discovering and nurturing the next generation of world class talent in video production, film making and television journalism.' Sinead...
rts.org.uk
February 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🏆🍀 All three Journalism category nominations in the RTS Yorkshire student awards are from @leedsunimedia.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social. We might just win! Well done everyone. 🏆 rts.org.uk/award/rts-yo...
This sounds awesome! What a cool project 👌
A book I am so excited about given my future research plans (and the current independent study I am overseeing here at Bowdoin) that I *audibly gasped* when I learned of its existence five minutes ago. Cannot wait to get my hands on a copy. 🤩
press.umich.edu/Books/C/Cine...
press.umich.edu/Books/C/Cine...
February 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This sounds awesome! What a cool project 👌
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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
February 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization.
Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵
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🎬🍿Join us! Screening & discussion of “Making Fiction Flow” on work of script supervisor Penny Eyles (credits include Kes, 1969, Time Bandits, 1981 and Orlando, 1992). 18th February 2025, 5.15pm. Room: SR (LG.16), Michael Sadler building @universityofleeds.bsky.social @feministbell.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🎬🍿Join us! Screening & discussion of “Making Fiction Flow” on work of script supervisor Penny Eyles (credits include Kes, 1969, Time Bandits, 1981 and Orlando, 1992). 18th February 2025, 5.15pm. Room: SR (LG.16), Michael Sadler building @universityofleeds.bsky.social @feministbell.bsky.social
Amazing, well done, really looking forward to this 👏
Amongst the bleak news from every which way, I'm celebrating my book coming out digitally today 🎉
Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present.
It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s...
#skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy
Living with the Dead interrogates family histories and the way they shape our present.
It's totally free to read/download academic.oup.com/book/59440?s...
#skystorians #familyhistorians #genealogy
Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in Modern Britain
Abstract. The dead are everywhere in family life. From a great-grandmother’s recipe made time and again, to a dog-eared black-and-white photo of a family o
academic.oup.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Amazing, well done, really looking forward to this 👏
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Really enjoyed writing about @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'Some of Us just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better' (2023) & how nature writing can call for feminist disability justice for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. Big thanks to the editors for facilitating conversations like this 🌿
@milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social reviews Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (2023) by @pollyrowena.bsky.social, a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writing #medhums #medicalhumanities thepolyphony.org/2025/01/28/a...
Illness and Nature Writing 1: Some of Us Just Fall Book Review
Milena Schwab-Graham reviews Polly Atkin’s Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023), a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writ…
thepolyphony.org
January 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Really enjoyed writing about @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'Some of Us just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better' (2023) & how nature writing can call for feminist disability justice for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. Big thanks to the editors for facilitating conversations like this 🌿
Looks amazing. Thank you so much for hosting this; now more than ever 🙏
RESCHEDULED! The @scmspedagogy.bsky.social SIG is hosting a bell hooks "Teaching to Transgress" 30th Anniversary Book Discussion Group THIS Friday 31 January from 1:00pm to 2:30pm ET. We've reopened the registration link for new attendees!
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January 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Looks amazing. Thank you so much for hosting this; now more than ever 🙏
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Critical thread. ⬇️
A key finding of their research: “Media indoctrination and civil liberties repression are the most predictive of autocratic survival.”
A key finding of their research: “Media indoctrination and civil liberties repression are the most predictive of autocratic survival.”
How do autocrats stay in power?
Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
January 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Critical thread. ⬇️
A key finding of their research: “Media indoctrination and civil liberties repression are the most predictive of autocratic survival.”
A key finding of their research: “Media indoctrination and civil liberties repression are the most predictive of autocratic survival.”
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I am delighted to advertise an executive leadership position in my team - Director of Cultural Collections and Curatorial Practice - Permanent - Grade 10 - Salary range £69,757 to £83,079. #LibraryJobs #ArchiveJobs #Library #Archives #Jobs berwickpartners.co.uk/opportunitie... Come join us at Leeds.
Opportunities – Berwick Partners (an Odgers Berndtson company)
As a leading senior leadership and executive search firm, the relationships we build with our clients and candidates are critical to our success. Applying for and being appointed to a new post can be...
berwickpartners.co.uk
January 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I am delighted to advertise an executive leadership position in my team - Director of Cultural Collections and Curatorial Practice - Permanent - Grade 10 - Salary range £69,757 to £83,079. #LibraryJobs #ArchiveJobs #Library #Archives #Jobs berwickpartners.co.uk/opportunitie... Come join us at Leeds.
Sad news but an occasion to remember his contribution to knowledge 🙏
Pierre Sorlin, the trailblazing historian of cinema, has passed at 91. Minuscule of stature, he was an intellectual giant and incredibly generous colleague and mentor. Gifted with a photographic memory, he had a habit of reciting his written papers from memory rather than reading from a print-out.
January 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Sad news but an occasion to remember his contribution to knowledge 🙏
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What Kevin said! Love Kathy Peiss’s classic monograph CHEAP AMUSEMENTS: WORKING WOMEN AND LEISURE IN TIRN-OF-THE-CENTURY NEW YORK too!
January 15, 2025 at 10:23 PM
What Kevin said! Love Kathy Peiss’s classic monograph CHEAP AMUSEMENTS: WORKING WOMEN AND LEISURE IN TIRN-OF-THE-CENTURY NEW YORK too!
RIP Phyllis Dalton, legendary costume designer, multiple Oscar winner, and liked and respected by the people she worked with #rolemodel #womeninfilm
January 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
RIP Phyllis Dalton, legendary costume designer, multiple Oscar winner, and liked and respected by the people she worked with #rolemodel #womeninfilm
Yes please 🙏
Folks interested in #filmhistory #archives #museums #filmsky do follow the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Hello and welcome to our new Bluesky account!
January 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yes please 🙏
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When I lived in LA I saw a lot of Q&As with Lynch actors and almost every single one could do an amazing impression of Lynch and the notes that he gave as a director. He was a treasure.
January 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
When I lived in LA I saw a lot of Q&As with Lynch actors and almost every single one could do an amazing impression of Lynch and the notes that he gave as a director. He was a treasure.
Yay, welcome!
Hello and welcome to our new Bluesky account!
January 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Yay, welcome!
Sounds amazing 👏 good call!
Ooh, we love @shelleystamp.bsky.social's Feminist Media HIstories CFP on Reproductive Politics & Media Histories!
Maybe someone will be inspired to develop their CP paper to submit for this special issue!
online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
Maybe someone will be inspired to develop their CP paper to submit for this special issue!
online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
online.ucpress.edu
January 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sounds amazing 👏 good call!
I love Screen and I LOVE Glasgow ❤️ I'll be there, great theme and speakers and a fab city - what's not to like!
Didn't get into #SCMS come to Screen if you can. I might show you Glasgow as a Glaswegian. CFP open until the 15th, the theme is "returns" but open to all relevant topics, and abstracts are only 200 words: bonus @helenwheatley.bsky.social is the keynote.
screenstudiesconference.com/2024/08/30/c...
screenstudiesconference.com/2024/08/30/c...
Call for Papers
This year Screen RE-turns. Most obviously because after a one-year hiatus the 33rd Screen Conference in 2025 is back, and returning to its familiar location in the Gilmorehill Halls at the Uni…
screenstudiesconference.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I love Screen and I LOVE Glasgow ❤️ I'll be there, great theme and speakers and a fab city - what's not to like!
Super interesting 👌 looking forward to this!
Super interesting! Women amateur filmmakers celebrated at this online screening curated by @zoevb.bsky.social
www.hants.gov.uk/librariesand...
www.hants.gov.uk/librariesand...
Where are the women?
Women amateur filmmakers in the collection of Wessex Film and Sound Archive (WFSA) - Online Screening
www.hants.gov.uk
January 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Super interesting 👌 looking forward to this!
Yes indeed, always more archiving, writing and curating to be done 💪
January 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Yes indeed, always more archiving, writing and curating to be done 💪
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Started my excellent Christmas present. I heard @victoriandetective.bsky.social on Radio 4 talking about it and it doesn't disappoint.
December 29, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Started my excellent Christmas present. I heard @victoriandetective.bsky.social on Radio 4 talking about it and it doesn't disappoint.