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Adaptation studies; Classical Hollywood; film noir; TV, musical theater
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EXTENDED DEADLINE: AAS 2026 is now accepting proposals until 15 January 2026!
adaptstudies.bsky.social Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 18d
⏱️ COUNTDOWN to the AAS 2026 proposal deadline, 15 Dec! Adaptation & Aurality, echoing through the Canadian Rockies at Burman University...sounds amazing!👂

Online panels also available for participants who cannot join in person. 💻 Details on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
AAS Conference 2026 - Call For Papers - The Association of Adaptation Studies
Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026 “Adaptation and Aurality” Call for Papers Dates: July 7-10, 2026 Location: Burman University - Lacombe, Alberta, Canada Hosted by: Burman Unive...
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December 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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The full schedule is now *live* for 'To Save and Project' at MoMA in NYC, Jan 8 - Feb 2, 2026!!! 😍🎞️ So many gems in this line-up!

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To Save and Project: The 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation | MoMA
Film series. Jan 8–Feb 2, 2026. MoMA presents the 22nd annual edition of To Save and Project, an international festival dedicated to celebrating newly preserved film treasures from archives, studios, ...
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December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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“Hello, Arthur? This is your mother”—I love Elaine May so much. NICHOLS AND MAY @tcmtv.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Related to ongoing discourse, just going to return to this newsletter collaboration with @kristenwarner.bsky.social from April on the box office reporting around #Sinners, and the challenge of blaming the Asterisk People for systemic industry failures.
Week-to-Week: Sinners' Box Office vs. the Asterisk People
Kristen Warner returns to break down the discourse around the contentious performance of Ryan Coogler's latest film
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December 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Really looking forward to this—tomorrow, Friday, 12-1pm Eastern! Still time to register! @adaptstudies.bsky.social @adaptationtoday.bsky.social

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December 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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This!☝️ I’m hoping to squeeze in a rewatch over the Christmas. Also paging @grossmjj.bsky.social, co-editor of Penny Dreadful and Adaptation!
December 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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I watched Penny Dreadful for the first tme earlier in the year and I agree 👇

The Best Gothic Horror Series Ever Made Needs More Recognition, Every Frame Is Art | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT share.google/3JjBLlGEOApP...
The Best Gothic Horror Series Ever Made Needs More Recognition, Every Frame Is Art
Once confined to Showtime, this big-budget gorgeous gothic horror is now on streaming, and it's still worth watching today.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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It was a good mail day today! If you’re interested in archives, women’s labor and/of French movie culture, this is for you.

Congrats @aurspiers.bsky.social! It’s a great book.

@ucpress.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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For those in NYC this weekend, “Ladies in Retirement” (1941) is a must see! Great film and Ida Lupino’s favorite role. 👇
paristheaternyc.bsky.social The Paris Theater - NYC @paristheaternyc.bsky.social · 9d
Three spinsters are caught in a web of murder in on the English moors in King Vidor’s 1941 noir LADIES IN RETIREMENT, starring Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes & Ida Lupino.

See it Sat Dec 13 on 35mm in our series THE GAME IS AFOOT: A Blanc Slate of Whodunnits! paristheaternyc.com/film/ladies-...
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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The 2nd edition of IDA LUPINO, DIRECTOR: HER ART AND RESILIENCE is now available for preorder! Very excited! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ida-lupino-d...
Ida Lupino, Director, 2nd edition
With a new foreword by film historian Imogen Sara Smith, this updated edition focuses on Ida Lupino’s film and television career as director in postwar America and further contextualizes Lupino’s achi...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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More on Fennell's "Wuthering Heights", though to be fair this is an enjoyable piece on Haworth & Brontëmania.
Margot Robbie in red latex, Kate Bush impersonators and a pint of Emily ale: my crash course in Brontëmania
As Wuthering Heights gets a raunchy Hollywood remake, our writer takes a pilgrimage through Haworth, the village where its author lived – and finds her spirit still electrifying the cobbled streets an...
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December 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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We sent round details of our next Adaptation SIG event - December 17th, 2-3pm. 'Adaptation and Remakes' featuring @drdjohnston.bsky.social and @rosemaryaj.bsky.social - if you haven't got the email and want to come along, DM us!
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Wait, what? My son’s friend, traveling in China, is staying at a hotel chain called ‘James Joyce Coffetel’, and instead of a Gideon Bible, they leave a copy of Ulysses by the bedside.
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Good morning! My essay on THE AFFAIRS OF ANATOL (1921), directed by the mighty Cecil B. DeMille, is up at the website for the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. A beautiful restoration screened this year, letting people savor the charm of Wallace Reid and Gloria Swanson... silentfilm.org/6563-2/
Wallace Reid as Anatol puckers up for his lovely wife Vivian, played by the one and only Gloria Swanson. Both are shown in profile with a highly appropriate bouquet of roses behind them. (b&w)
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Fred and Rita in YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (1942). So much fun. #TCM
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I am only one episode in, but Matthew Macfadyen’s Guiteau in DEATH BY LIGHTNING is giving out a very Rupert -Pupkin vibe—two phenomenal actors doing the classic American energetic self-deluded obsession with being noteworthy and celebrated.
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Save the date for our first author talk of 2026, with Justin Rawlins, the author of Imagining the Method! Register for the Zoom (on January 16) here: tinyurl.com/PerfStarAuthor
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December 4, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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50% off books in the ADAPTATION AND VISUAL CULTURE series link.springer.com/series/14654 — all 41 books on sale!

Use FLSH50 to save on books & eBooks | Until December 5, 2025 11:59 pm EST*
Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture
This series addresses how adaptation functions as a principal mode of text production in visual culture. What makes the series distinctive is its focus on ...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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👀 psst! 

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November 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Advance copies of this beaut arrived today! Congrats to author @aurspiers.bsky.social!! Can’t wait for you all to read it.

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Archiving the Past by Aurore Spiers - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Check out Wayne State UP’s holiday sale, including TWIN PEAKS for $11.25! wsupress.wayne.edu
November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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"The monster was the best friend I ever had."

-Boris Karloff #BOTD
Boris Karloff and makeup artist Jack Pierce -Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
November 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Day 22 #NoirvemberChallenge Fav #filmnoir musical performance. Submitted by @rmrfromgso.
Ida Lupino in Roadhouse (1948). All hail the badass. She sings hauntingly, raspy, & with perfect smoky depression the classic Johnny Mercer song "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)".
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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@adaptstudies.bsky.social is inviting applications for Editorial Board Members starting January 2026.

Join our community of scholars and make a meaningful contribution over a two-year term: oxford.ly/4oZKnHX

Deadline: 30 Nov 2025
Adaptation Editorial Board Call for Applications
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026

✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
LFA/AAS Online Conference 2026: Adaptation and Collaboration February 19-20, 2026 When the online joint LFA/AAS conference began in the heyday of a global pandemic, the goal and theme was connection: to meet and mingle with scholars from across the world when circumstances made in-person connection untenable. Now, with half a decade under our belts and increasingly complex global problems facing our cultures and communities, it becomes crucial to think about the ways that adaptations (and adaptation scholars) of all kinds can find strength through an ethic and theory of collaboration, one that recognizes the ways adaptations have always been collaborative and explores new possibilities for intergroup cooperation We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit 8-10 minute presentations on the intersection of textual adaptation (intertextuality, intermediality, industries, and auteurs) and collaboration (cooperation, collective action, interdisciplinarity, and academic partnerships) writ broadly. While we welcome any unique interpretations of this theme, possible approaches could include: Adaptation as a collaborative practice between authors and adapters, readers and viewers, scholars and practitioners, or texts and technologies Adapting (with) non-human collaborators Adaptations that theorize or explore themes of collaboration and collective action Adaptation’s role in collaborative pedagogies Adapting for the sake of international/interdisciplinary collaboration Adapting collaborative technologies for artistic production and cultural reception We particularly encourage presentations and panels which foster cooperation across disciplines and/or bring the spirit of collaboration into the panel format itself – experimentation is welcome! Please submit abstracts using this Google Form by 1 December 2025. All inquiries may be directed to adaptationjointconference@gmail.com We will notify everyone whose proposals are accepted for presentation by mid-December.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM