Matt Melia
@docmelia.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in English Literature, Film and Media Lover of Archives Beckett, Burgess, Ballard, Ken Russell, Kubrick, Beatles, Bowie, Mogwai The Fall, Guided By Voices. Hip Priest, Evertonian, Jaws nut, 007 fan, Charlton Athletic.
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NEWS: Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality And The Archival Impulse - Conference In September - God Is In The TV
David Bowie’s late period represents one of the most compelling and enigmatic ‘eras’ in a career marked by sustained processes of artistic reinvention and
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Some exciting conference news! A Call For Papers - Late Bowie: Legacy, Mortality and the Archival Impulse @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social #viscontistudio 11th/12th September 2026 Please visit this link wp.me/p3VQVb-y0 More details to follow
Chelsea vs Everton, today - two clubs whose fans were entertained by the skills of Pat Nevin. The Scottish forward called in for a chat with us in St Luke’s a couple of years ago. Watch it, here: youtu.be/vYZqg9kiuTU?...
Rewatched Peril at End House again earlier. ITV's #Poirot Would definitely be my #ComfortBlanket choice @gralefrit.bsky.social !
In all the fuss about a new #TaylorSwift album id just like to point out that @gbvlyrics.bsky.social #gbv #GuidedByVoices have a new single our. Just saying like... open.spotify.com/album/6xR0mZ...
Phantasmagoric Upstarts
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Current reading..been on a real #Dylan kick at the moment and just finished Vol.1 of Chronicles. Richard Thomas' Why Dylan Matters follows it up nicely..often one book leads to another and I'm more and more fascinated by Dylan's appropriation of Greek myth so I'm cracking on with The Odyssey
@theguardian.com What? Why is The Prisoner omitted from this list? #iamnotanumber www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Hard to believe it happened! 70 unforgettable (and unforgivable) shows from 70 years of ITV
From TV so controversial the Foreign Office tried to ban it … to Emmerdale Farm. As the broadcaster hits 70, we look back on the highlights – and lowlights
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#guidedbyvoices #thickrichanddelicious #newalbum are we going to get any uk @gbvlyrics.bsky.social gigs this time? Come on Uncle Bob!
Still time to get abstracts in #JGBALLARD @kingstonuniversity.bsky.social arttvfilm.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t...
CFP: Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century
A Conference Call for Papers Kingston University, UK, 28th and 29th October 2025 Terminal Futures: JG Ballard In The 21st Century Kingston School of Art, Kingston University #Kingston2025 October 2…
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Listening to the audiobook of #AdamBuxton 's new book. It's fantastic. Chapter 14 'The coming storm is quite emotional.' love also he goes over #MarkESmith on Vinyl Justice. 'You look like an egg'. youtu.be/oMyHNmiLpWs?...
Going out on a bit of a limb here but I would say Psychomania is one of the blueprints for The Lost Boys
Looking forward to this. #OsgoodPerkins is one of the few directors making actually interesting horror films these days
You don’t want to be cruel, I suppose, but Tebbit’s one of those people where you look at the age, 94, and get annoyed about all the good mates, people who made the world a better kinder funnier place, that you lost in their thirties and forties.
Two fantastic papers on African horror cinema and celebrity, media platforms and depression in the global South. - given by Gabi Zietsman and Viraj Suprasad. @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025
@iamhist.bsky.social @llewellachapman.bsky.social gives a fascinating paper on the gendered game design of #LaraCroft #TombRaider #iamhist2025
Great panel on British television and British television archives covering Early channel 4 short films, the Michael Palin Archive and Grandma television @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025
A really fascinating Approaches to Archives panel @iamhist.bsky.social #iamhist2025 with papers on A.I and decolonising the Archive, the work of Student interns at the #UCT archives, AIDS research at UCT archives and wildlife docs, wedish, restoration death cleaning and the archive
