Autumn colours (and chill!) on campus this morning

Colleagues: If you want to put together a showcase of your students' videographic work, get in touch! 🎬

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar.bsky.social · 3d ago

The call is out: Undergraduates, send us your video essays! We have a rolling deadline for AY26-27--check the link for more info ✍️

If you see this post a vampire that isn’t Dracula.

The Lost Boys: David on the Carousel

ALT: The Lost Boys: David on the Carousel

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Judy (is drawing)@ignatzhoch.bsky.social · 6d ago

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

It's been a long time coming. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare, Biography and Bioadaptation

The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare, Biography, and Bioadaptation offers an authoritative survey on Shakespeare and biographical writing. Featuring chapters by an international team of contributors...

routledge.com

First day of teaching for the year today. Starting off with Adaptation, which makes me happy.

Here’s The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Watching Tony, and Dominic Sessa really is something special.

SAVE THE DATE! 🗓️ AAS 2027 in Venice, 30 June - 3 July. Full call & other details coming soon ✍️

CFP Everydayness in an Intermedial Perspective Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 22-23 April 2027 // Application due 31 October 2026 ceska-literatura.phil.muni.cz/en

Another year begins

Currently watching the Remakesploitation panel and there are some fantastic thought-provoking talks. Still time to sign up for tomorrow!

Association of Adaptation Studies@adaptstudies.bsky.social · 3mo ago

⚠️ To Be Continued... is coming in September! Two days + four panels = this SIXTH EDITION of the virtual highlight of our scholarly calendar! Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorising Serials & Adaptations ...since 2021 🕰️ Info & registration 💻 www.monash.edu/arts/media-f...

Only recently started watching The Pitt and I am full on board the hype train for it.

Special Issue: Climate Adaptation Adaptation (OUP) Deadline for papers: 30 January 2028: academic.oup.com/adaptation (early papers accepted for continuous publication) Ed. Robert Geal and Deborah Cartmell

A fantastic few days of discussion for our IAS Mental Health Humanities Workshop. Just so nice to be in a space and talking about ideas!

Fitting that on World Suicide Prevention day, we (MHHRN) are running an event on mental health humanities, trying to explore how we engage discussions and examinations of mental health through humanities focused approaches.

I finally got round to watching Flashdance last night. Trying to cover films I've heard a lot about but never seen. Visually, great. Plot wise, hmm.

We've just sent round details of our next Adaptation SIG event: Shakespeare and Adaptation on the 29th September at 5-6pm (UK time), with Kibria Nasir and Zeliha Kuruducu. DM for the zoom link!

Kicking off the Modern Masculinities conference today with a keynote from Brendan Gough on Affective Masculinities.

Whilst I was off, a review I'd written of 'Love Me Tender' was published: theconversation.com/in-love-me-t...

In Love Me Tender, a mother’s fight for her child reveals how queerness is still policed

This powerful custody drama questions how society judges queer mothers.

theconversation.com

Am taking a month off after today so will be logging out of Bluesky to stop myself from getting involved. Going to try and have a month of not using my brain 🙃

Got round to reading Emily Wilson's review in LRB, expecting far worse. She actually seems to engage with ideas about adaptation beyond the usual we're accustomed to:

Agreed - and what a fantastic novel too. (I can feel Luke cringing already from all this praise)

David Pattie@davidpattie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Very pleased that @lukekennard.bsky.social is on the Booker long list. Good things happen to good people, just on occasion.

How about Emily Wilson talking about Nolan's film with an adaptation scholar? Can we make this happen?? 👀 👀 👀

Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒@cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'd love to hear her talk about Nolan's adaptation with a film scholar. Essentially, a conversation about what The Odyssey has traditionally meant (the classist perspective) and what this new version is trying to convey (the film studies perspective).

One week left before I'll be taking the longest period of leave I've had since starting in this role. I'm very excited to fully switch off!

Having a great few weeks where I've actually had an idea for some new (academic) writing and it feels so nice to just sit and think. Times like this, I am so happy to have the job I do.

⚠️ To Be Continued... is coming in September! Two days + four panels = this SIXTH EDITION of the virtual highlight of our scholarly calendar! Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorising Serials & Adaptations ...since 2021 🕰️ Info & registration 💻 www.monash.edu/arts/media-f...

Watching the football this evening and it’s so clear why I do not do this often. My stress level is through the roof.

On behalf of adaptation studies: fidelity is subjective.

Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Netflix confirm a “faithful” adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. Now I love Austen, but I swear to Christ there are other women writers with novels worth adapting.

this is the wooooooooooorst

Netflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd: Report

Letterboxd has reportedly held exploratory sales talks with Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures and other parties.

variety.com

'The decision to slash funding for creative subjects comes despite the field being named as one of the UK’s “highest potential sectors” in the government’s industrial strategy.' 1/2

Cuts to creative courses ‘undermining government’s own strategy’

Arts institutions warn creative education is becoming increasingly hard to deliver as government slashes funding from September onwards

timeshighereducation.com