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Adaptation studies; Classical Hollywood; film noir; TV, musical theater
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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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selfstyledsiren.bsky.social
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
grossmjj.bsky.social
Fred and Rita in YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (1942). So much fun. #TCM
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
grossmjj.bsky.social
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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scms-starperformer.bsky.social
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
grossmjj.bsky.social
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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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November 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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shelleystamp.bsky.social
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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skot.bsky.social
"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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ladykdesigns.bsky.social
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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adaptstudies.bsky.social
🔆 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
grossmjj.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this! Join us!
adaptstudies.bsky.social Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 26d
Need a mentor in adaptation practice? Look no further!
adaptationtoday.bsky.social Adaptation Today @adaptationtoday.bsky.social · Oct 31
Interested in adaptation, as a practice? Adaptation Today's upcoming mentorship workshop features composers, performers, and directors who will share their experiences adapting stories to bring familiar narratives to life - join us!

Register here: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!

✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026

Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
Introduction to the Call for Papers for the Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026: Adaptation and Aurality. The conference will be hosted at Burman University in Alberta, Canada. A list of suggested topics on the theme of Adaptation and Aurality A short bio and photo of the keynote speaker for AAS 2026, poet/musician/scholar Dr. Sonnet L'Abbé (Vancouver Island University). Submission guidelines and contact information. For further inquiries please write to aas2026@burmanu.ca
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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adaptstudies.bsky.social
Many thanks to @drchrislouttit.bsky.social for putting this together and helping us all get settled in over here! #adaptstudies
drchrislouttit.bsky.social Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · Nov 11
I haven't seen an adaptation studies #starterpack doing the rounds, so thought I'd create it myself! One for you if you're interested in #adaptation in a cultural context in all of its wonderfully various forms. Let me know in the replies if you'd like to be added.
November 12, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social
Come for the Creature, stay for a chaotic digression into Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein from the sexy sexy 90s.
Listen to YMMWT's take on FRANKENSTEIN (2025) here OR wherever you get podcasts! 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-me-watch-that/id1622748155?i=1000736966341
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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alfredmartin.bsky.social
Are you a fan of the 1978 film THE WIZ? I would LOVE to chat with you about your fandom for a book on THE WIZ. You only need to be 18 years old or older and love the film. DMs open and please share.
November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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selfstyledsiren.bsky.social
As a romantic (in life) and a Romantic (in college studies) I loved Del Toro's Frankenstein—the sweep, the beauty and the headlong emotion of it. Its visual and thematic echoes range from Burke & Hare to Ingres to Hammer, but it's no pastiche—it's a vividly individual film.
Frankenstein's laboratory, with rose window Edinburgh used as background in Frankenstein Mia Goth calling up visions of Ingres' Comtesse d'Haussonville in Frankenstein
October 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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mangiotto.bsky.social
Heard @realgdt.bsky.social's FRANKENSTEIN sneaked at BeyondFest. Here's my review of it from Telluride: filmfreakcentral.net/2025/09/tell...
Telluride '25: Frankenstein - FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/****starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltzscreenplay by Guillermo del Toro, based on the book Frankenstein; or: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelleydirected by Guillermo d...
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October 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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selfstyledsiren.bsky.social
I want to urge anyone interested in FRANKENSTEIN to see it at a theater where the big screen will let you bask in the visuals. And do it soon after the movie opens (Oct. 17) because I don't think Netflix plans a long stay in cinemas.
johnshutt.bsky.social johnshutt.bsky.social @johnshutt.bsky.social · Oct 8
I want to check this out when it comes to the Lightbox. This was made to be seen on the big screen
October 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
grossmjj.bsky.social
So excited for the book launch of @mattfee.bsky.social’s FANTASTIC SPACES: IRISH CINEMA AND THE SUPERNATURAL. Join us @lemoynecollege.bsky.social Oct. 29/4:30pm/Reilly 446 (followed by a reception in the pub!).The night before, we’ll screen Kate Dolan’s YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER, 7:15 in Reilly 244!
October 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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shelleystamp.bsky.social
“It is the nostalgic fury of right-wing movements that want to return to an idealised past, one that perhaps never truly existed, and to re-establish hierarchical orders.”
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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hennefem.bsky.social
Almost time for the Giornate del Cinema Muto / #SilentFilm Festival!!! If you can't make the journey to Pordenone, friendly reminder that there are daily screenings online with beautiful music. 🎞️🎶

www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/abbonamen...
ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION
4 > 11 ottobre 2025
www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it
October 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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mangiotto.bsky.social
Last time with this one.
September 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM