Liz Watkins
@liziwat.bsky.social
colour, photography & film researcher | convenor BAFTSS Colour & Film https://colourandfilm.com/cfps/ @BAFTSSColorFilm | ❤️ cycling & archives
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Published today: War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation (Bloomsbury) edited by Katy Parry and Mani King Sharpe including essays on the close up, drone vision, and the colourisation of archival film footage
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/war-faces...
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War Faces on Screen
How have images of the face been used to document and distort the phenomenon of war? Such is the question that drives this book, with the face forming a recurri…
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January 22, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Published today: War Faces on Screen: Photography, Film and the Politics of Representation (Bloomsbury) edited by Katy Parry and Mani King Sharpe including essays on the close up, drone vision, and the colourisation of archival film footage
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/war-faces...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/war-faces...
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JUST ANNOUNCED
Our next online talk ...
'Conflict Photography: A Manipulated Reality?' with Hilary Roberts on Tuesday 20th January 2026 (1900 GMT).
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Register via the link in our bio.
Our next online talk ...
'Conflict Photography: A Manipulated Reality?' with Hilary Roberts on Tuesday 20th January 2026 (1900 GMT).
events.rps.org/en/historica...
Register via the link in our bio.
December 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
JUST ANNOUNCED
Our next online talk ...
'Conflict Photography: A Manipulated Reality?' with Hilary Roberts on Tuesday 20th January 2026 (1900 GMT).
events.rps.org/en/historica...
Register via the link in our bio.
Our next online talk ...
'Conflict Photography: A Manipulated Reality?' with Hilary Roberts on Tuesday 20th January 2026 (1900 GMT).
events.rps.org/en/historica...
Register via the link in our bio.
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‘Alt text is, by necessity, often cursory – an issue that is especially pronounced in museums and galleries. How to convey colour, texture and tone in 150 words or less?’ – Emma Cieslik on how the best descriptions can help everyone see art more clearly
How to describe a work of art
Alt text in museums doesn’t benefit only low-vision users – it helps all of us think more deeply about how to understand an artwork
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December 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
‘Alt text is, by necessity, often cursory – an issue that is especially pronounced in museums and galleries. How to convey colour, texture and tone in 150 words or less?’ – Emma Cieslik on how the best descriptions can help everyone see art more clearly
There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
There’s a petition countering proposals to close the Film Studies programme at the University of Leicester. Read more here c.org/WfcP6tX6gG
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Recording: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding (MIT 2025) book launch & seminar is online! Thanks to the amazing authors & presenters @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social @atambersweat.bsky.social Aileen Robinson & Carolyn L Kane! @mitpress.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social
youtu.be/ZmPnT676GMc
youtu.be/ZmPnT676GMc
Color Protocols Book Launch and Seminar HD 1080p
YouTube video by Liz Watkins
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November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Recording: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding (MIT 2025) book launch & seminar is online! Thanks to the amazing authors & presenters @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social @atambersweat.bsky.social Aileen Robinson & Carolyn L Kane! @mitpress.bsky.social @baftss.bsky.social
youtu.be/ZmPnT676GMc
youtu.be/ZmPnT676GMc
The seminar & book launch (online) for Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) starts at 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025
Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The seminar & book launch (online) for Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) starts at 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025
Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Light night in Leeds 2025
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Light night in Leeds 2025
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month
www.jstor.org/action/showL...
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Book Launch: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. Thurs 30th Oct 2025. All Welcome!
Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford).
colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford).
colourandfilm.com/cfps/
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Book Launch: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. Thurs 30th Oct 2025. All Welcome!
Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford).
colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford).
colourandfilm.com/cfps/
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This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
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July 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
The Film Atlas edited by James Layton and Crystal Kui is online. Amazing to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Tinting and Toning combinations used to colour black-and-white film stocks for this. www.filmatlas.com/entry/453
June 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
The Film Atlas edited by James Layton and Crystal Kui is online. Amazing to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Tinting and Toning combinations used to colour black-and-white film stocks for this. www.filmatlas.com/entry/453
The Film Atlas was launched at the Nitrate Picture Show May 2025! An open access visual guide - with high res film fragments - from motion picture film formats, soundtracks & color processes. Edited by James Layton &Crystal Kui for FIAF & the George Eastman Museum. www.filmatlas.com/explore
June 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The Film Atlas was launched at the Nitrate Picture Show May 2025! An open access visual guide - with high res film fragments - from motion picture film formats, soundtracks & color processes. Edited by James Layton &Crystal Kui for FIAF & the George Eastman Museum. www.filmatlas.com/explore
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A recording of the book launch for Feeling Colour is online m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsGh... Author Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, Nl), was joined by Joshua Yumibe (MSU) & Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews). Thanks to the speakers and all who joined us @baftss.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
Book Launch: Bregt Lameris, Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture 1950s-1960s
YouTube video by Liz Watkins
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May 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A recording of the book launch for Feeling Colour is online m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsGh... Author Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, Nl), was joined by Joshua Yumibe (MSU) & Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews). Thanks to the speakers and all who joined us @baftss.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
Day 3: the Colour Fantastic Revisited conference. Film archives & approaches to restoration. From Cine Arte de San Marcos, to Adeline Law’s amazing work on Dufaycolour in the Netherlands, Bin Li on differences in the Desmet method & a collaborative project on managing analogue film fading digitally
May 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Day 3: the Colour Fantastic Revisited conference. Film archives & approaches to restoration. From Cine Arte de San Marcos, to Adeline Law’s amazing work on Dufaycolour in the Netherlands, Bin Li on differences in the Desmet method & a collaborative project on managing analogue film fading digitally
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Day2: The Colour Fantastic Revisited at the EYE Filmmuseum: Li-Chen Kuo’s amazing presentation about the silver retention process for colour film in Tokyo film labs, followed by hand painted experimental films, and Kirsten Moana Thompson on colour lighting in Disney’s nighttime entertainments.
May 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Day2: The Colour Fantastic Revisited at the EYE Filmmuseum: Li-Chen Kuo’s amazing presentation about the silver retention process for colour film in Tokyo film labs, followed by hand painted experimental films, and Kirsten Moana Thompson on colour lighting in Disney’s nighttime entertainments.
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The Colour Fantastic Revisited: EYE Filmmuseum, Joshua Yumibe and Sarah Street speaking about the work of Steve McQueen & John Akomfrah. Joined by Kirsten Mairead Gill and Allyson Nadia Field on films by Edward Owen and Crystal Z Campbell www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme...
May 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Colour Fantastic Revisited: EYE Filmmuseum, Joshua Yumibe and Sarah Street speaking about the work of Steve McQueen & John Akomfrah. Joined by Kirsten Mairead Gill and Allyson Nadia Field on films by Edward Owen and Crystal Z Campbell www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme...
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EYE International Film Conference 2025. The Colour Fantastic Revisited. The ethics of colourisation, global film , Bombay Film Color, and Mieke Bal’s lecture on colour as moving matter in installation and video art.
May 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
EYE International Film Conference 2025. The Colour Fantastic Revisited. The ethics of colourisation, global film , Bombay Film Color, and Mieke Bal’s lecture on colour as moving matter in installation and video art.
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Registration open: Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, Archives. 25-28 May 2025. The event is organised by EYE Film Museum, Universities of Amsterdam & Utrecht with Colour in Film (Colour Group GB &HTW Berlin) www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme... @baftss.bsky.social
Eye International Conference 2025 | Eye Filmmuseum
The museum for film and the art of the moving image in The Netherlands. Visit the exhibition or cinema and discover our collection with more than 60.000 films.
www.eyefilm.nl
May 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Registration open: Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, Archives. 25-28 May 2025. The event is organised by EYE Film Museum, Universities of Amsterdam & Utrecht with Colour in Film (Colour Group GB &HTW Berlin) www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme... @baftss.bsky.social
Online: 3-4:15pm Friday 23 May. Bregt Lameris’ (Open Universiteit, NL) will speak about her new book on Feeling Colour in conversation with Josh Yumibe (Michigan State) and Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews).
Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
All welcome.
Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
All welcome.
May 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Online: 3-4:15pm Friday 23 May. Bregt Lameris’ (Open Universiteit, NL) will speak about her new book on Feeling Colour in conversation with Josh Yumibe (Michigan State) and Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews).
Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
All welcome.
Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
All welcome.
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a fascinating piece on historical photography and identity as a key to expand histories
May 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
a fascinating piece on historical photography and identity as a key to expand histories
Looking forward to the online book launch of Bregt Lameris’ ‘Feeling Colour’ in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews) and Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State) @openbookpublish.bsky.social
3:00-4:15pm (London) Friday 23 May 2025
Further details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/
3:00-4:15pm (London) Friday 23 May 2025
Further details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/
May 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Looking forward to the online book launch of Bregt Lameris’ ‘Feeling Colour’ in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews) and Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State) @openbookpublish.bsky.social
3:00-4:15pm (London) Friday 23 May 2025
Further details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/
3:00-4:15pm (London) Friday 23 May 2025
Further details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/
FIAF 2025 Symposium ‘Film Archives Beget Films’ has begun. More information about the programme and exhibitors is online. www.cinematheque.qc.ca/en/fiaf-2025... great to have the opportunity to present online
Congress FIAF 2025
The Cinémathèque québécoise’s mission is to acquire, document and preserve the world’s audiovisual heritage, with an emphasis on Quebec and Canadian works as well as international animation, and to ma...
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April 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
FIAF 2025 Symposium ‘Film Archives Beget Films’ has begun. More information about the programme and exhibitors is online. www.cinematheque.qc.ca/en/fiaf-2025... great to have the opportunity to present online
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My latest article arising from the STUDIOTEC project on the dangers of working in film studios. It's Open Access so read for free!
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
This Studio is Dangerous! Hazards of Working in British Film Studios in the 1930s and 1940s
This article examines the high number of fires in British film studios which occurred in the 1930s and 1940s. The reasons for studios’ vulnerability to fires, and other workplace accidents, are exa...
doi.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My latest article arising from the STUDIOTEC project on the dangers of working in film studios. It's Open Access so read for free!
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
doi.org/10.1080/0143...
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OUT NOW: Feeling Colour by Bregt Lameris! Explore how midcentury cinema's vibrant colours reshaped sensory engagement, emotions & cultural perceptions. Blending media studies, biology & emotion theory, this book is perfect for film scholars & beyond! Discover here: buff.ly/FNZSMs4
March 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
OUT NOW: Feeling Colour by Bregt Lameris! Explore how midcentury cinema's vibrant colours reshaped sensory engagement, emotions & cultural perceptions. Blending media studies, biology & emotion theory, this book is perfect for film scholars & beyond! Discover here: buff.ly/FNZSMs4