Amanda Konkle
@thekonk.bsky.social
Pretty into cats, classical Hollywood, DVDs, and the beach. Currently writing on adaptations of Marilyn Monroe as a character. Author of _Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe_. Co-editor of _Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_.
Join us Friday, October 23, 3:00-4:30 PM, for an Author Talk with Mark Gallagher on Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom & Male Sex Appeal. Scholars Chris Holmlund, Russel Meeuf, Isabel Molina-Guzman, & Man Fung Yip will join this conversation. Register for the Zoom at tinyurl.com/Cosmosexuals.
This is open to people who aren't part of SCMS or the SIG but interested in this scholarship!
Performance and Stardom SIG@scms-starperformer.bsky.social · last mo.Please join the SCMS Performance & Stardom SIG for our second author talk of the academic year with Justin Rawlins, author of Imagining the Method! Register at tinyurl.com/46de74pk #SCMS #classicalHollywood
This is open to people who aren't part of SCMS or the SIG but interested in this scholarship!
Performance and Stardom SIG@scms-starperformer.bsky.social · last mo.Please join the SCMS Performance & Stardom SIG for our second author talk of the academic year with Justin Rawlins, author of Imagining the Method! Register at tinyurl.com/46de74pk #SCMS #classicalHollywood
Be sure to register for this upcoming talk! #SCMS #PerformanceandStardom
Performance and Stardom SIG@scms-starperformer.bsky.social · last mo.Please join the SCMS Performance & Stardom SIG for our second author talk of the academic year with Justin Rawlins, author of Imagining the Method! Register at tinyurl.com/46de74pk
Please join the SCMS Performance & Stardom SIG for our second author talk of the academic year with Justin Rawlins, author of Imagining the Method! Register at tinyurl.com/46de74pk
Professors have no time to indoctrinate students. I have spent three full hours this morning just dealing with emails.
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Join the Performance & Stardom SIG for an Author Talk with Barry King, author of Performing Identity: Actor Training, Self-Commodification, and Celebrity. Hunter Hargraves will lead the conversation on Friday, Aug 28 at 3:00 PM EDT on Zoom. Registration required (but free!): tinyurl.com/ymam5mv6
On the late evening of August 4th/early morning of August 5th, Marilyn Monroe left her earthly body. But she lived an amazing life before that. In honor of her life, here’s a postcard she sent before she was Marilyn, in Maurice Zolotow’s papers at the Harry Ransom Center.
77: Some Kind of Mirror @thekonk.bsky.social outstanding academic book on Monroe that uses a blend of close readings and grounded contextual analysis from the 1950s to explain her stardom and persona. A must read for media scholars. @rutgersupress.bsky.social
Read books that make you look up words
Who is good at reading cursive handwriting? If you pull the image out to full size, what is your guess for the C word that begins the fourth line?
I remember this. It was a scandal that rocked the national news!
More people have been arrested for the deranged president's conspiracy theories around the algae in the reflecting pool than have been put behind bars for the Epstein crimes and the architects of the 2008 Financial Collapse combined.
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70 years ago yesterday, New York Times reported, “Arthur Miller, playwright, disclosed today a past filled with Communist-front associations & a future filled with Marilyn Monroe.” Fortuitous for the start of a chapter on how Miller created & recreated versions of MM for the rest of his life.
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Why does Marilyn Monroe still define the 'Ideal Woman'? f24.my/C05Q.BS See my conversation with Annette Young starting at 5:42 in this week's new episode of the 51%.
The 51% - Why does Marilyn Monroe still define the 'Ideal Woman'?
As we mark 100 years since her birth, the enduring legacy of Marilyn Monroe means she still shapes ideas of what makes an ideal woman. Annette Young talks to Professor Amanda Konkle, a film specialist...
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Michelle Obama: "No one has the right to sit in judgment of who is American enough. And that's why, folks, we simply don't have the luxury or time to be cynical or complacent."
"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading." ~ B. F. Skinner
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Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
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Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 4mo agoThis is wild
“Come on, Boomers, stop pushing old back & white movies on us. What possible relevance could an antique like Citizen Kane have on the modern world?”
I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!
www.instagram.com/reel/DZDgbvg... Here’s a fun video I made with university marketing to celebrate Marilyn!
Georgia Southern University on Instagram: "A century after her birth, Marilyn Monroe is still making headlines. But does her fame transcend generations? 👀 We put our students to the test on what wo...
101 likes, 1 comments - georgiasouthernuniversity on June 1, 2026: "A century after her birth, Marilyn Monroe is still making headlines. But does her fame transcend generations? 👀 We put our studen...
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