tfw you grew up with drive-in double features like Godzilla (1998) + Spice World (1997) and now you live in a city that programs this as an outdoor screening
Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies (2 years) at Durham University
'we are especially interested to receive applications from those with specialisms in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries'
Deadline 21 June, start Sept 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRS327/c...
@imems.bsky.social
this is Méliès filtered through Lovecraft and I hate it
we may have lived in the sticks but we knew what movies were meant for the outdoors
Get their asses
Surprised to find that my 2015 piece on Chicken with Plums remains the only full-length article in the journal ADAPTATION about Marjane Satrapi: doi.org/10.1093/adap...
Amazed to learn the thumbnail I get here w/ that doi link is the Sophia Loren nude from the book. (I've played myself.)
Artists' rejection of hyperrealism has longer roots than this article suggests! Zeynep Aras and I discuss analog aesthetics & resistance to mainstream cinema in our forthcoming article (French Screen Studies): doi.org/10.1080/2643...