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Warwick Film TV PhD • Researching sex on screen in the #MeToo era • 🏳️🌈
'Sex in Contemporary Media', a special issue I co-edited with the wonderful Harri Charles is now out in Vol 13 of Porn Studies! Featuring our editorial and a selection of incredible papers (if I may say so myself). www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/1...
Porn Studies
Volume 13, Issue 1 of Porn Studies
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New film The Bride! brings the character to life in moody 1930s Chicago.
A brief cinematic history of Frankenstein’s Bride as a feminist icon
New film The Bride! brings the character to life in moody 1930s Chicago.
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My article on the history of the Bride has been published in @uk.theconversation.com tying in with the release of The Bride! theconversation.com/a-brief-cine...
A brief cinematic history of Frankenstein’s Bride as a feminist icon
New film The Bride! brings the character to life in moody 1930s Chicago.
theconversation.com
Benedict Bridgerton has fallen for a woman from a different class and his class power complicates the issue of consent.
Bridgerton season four explores sexual and class power dynamics more than any season before
Benedict Bridgerton has fallen for a woman from a different class and his class power complicates the issue of consent.
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Really excited to share my first article for @uk.theconversation.com! theconversation.com/bridgerton-s...
Bridgerton season four explores sexual and class power dynamics more than any season before
Benedict Bridgerton has fallen for a woman from a different class and his class power complicates the issue of consent.
theconversation.com
Join us at the #WarwickArtsCentre for a screening of How to Have Sex, followed by a Q&A with Enva Lewis (cast) and Jen Odell (intimacy coordinator) which I’ll be chairing. www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/q88...
Care BTS: How to Have Sex + Panel discussion - Warwick Arts Centre
Molly Manning Walker’s startlingly frank, stylish debut follows three teenage girls on a rites-of-passage holiday.
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We've just sent round details of our Spring Schedule for the SIG but our next event is 18th February on Adaptation and Franchises with @polinazelm.bsky.social and Seren Rose Sonnell. DM if you didn't get the email and want the zoom link.
Some wonderful work and presentations on the special issue on sex and the Hollywood production code this evening. Looking forward to reading the full articles!
Screening Sex@screeningsex.bsky.social · last yr.There's still time to register for our Summer Seminar online, Monday 14th July 6-7pm GMT: SEX AND THE HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTION CODE A roundtable discussion celebrating a special issue of Quarterly Review of Film and Video with Tom Brown, Katherina Glitre, Martha Shearer and Adam Vaughan. Register 👇
Film and scholar community! I’m looking for case studies for my final thesis chapter. Please send my way any recommendations of film/TV that explore sex on screen in a fantasy setting/element. Time travel, sci fi, horror, fantasy - anything Anglophone made between 2017-present.
a woman is wearing a helmet that looks like a sphere
ALT: a woman is wearing a helmet that looks like a sphere
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🎬 Call for Papers 🎬 We’re organising a one-day symposium on the work of Chloé Zhao at the University of Portsmouth (7 Nov 2025). Topics include transnational cinema, Indie v. Marvel, eco and feminist approaches and more! Full CfP here: tinyurl.com/3ajt4tsa Please share! #CfP #AcademicSky #FilmSky
It was when JK Rowling said that the Cass Review was a peer review itself and that's why it didn't need to be peer reviewed I realised she's an idiot. Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass. Guess what it finds?
Dr Chris Noone@chris-noone.bsky.social · last yr.Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Had the most amazing time at the #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium talking about The Ultimatum with my friend and colleague Ellie Smith!
Dr Matt Hilborn@matthewhilborn.bsky.social · last yr.🚩Panel 3 of the #SpottingRedFlagsSymposium will give us a reality TV check! MAFS & hidden abuse? (Anna Dawson), Decoding lesbian toxicity? (@polinazelm.bsky.social & Ellie Smith) @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social @, Redeemable fboys? (@victoriapistivsek.bsky.social) @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
Had a great time presenting at the Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME) PGR Symposium at the university of Liverpool on Monday. My paper on sex and colourblind casting in Bridgerton won the best paper award, topping off an already fab day!
For anyone interested in a persoective from RSE edicators on why screening Adolescence in schools is not a good idea or a solution to tackling misogyny and inceldom. Great piece from a colleague at the School of Sexuality Education schoolofsexed.org/blog-article...
School of Sexuality Education reviews Adolescence — School of Sexuality Education
The Netflix series, Adolescence , was released just over a month ago. As a charity delivering relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in schools, the show centered many topics that are important ...
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My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
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My new (and first!) article 'Between agency and victimhood: "Adult Material" and screening the female porn performer in the #MeToo era' is now out on @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social. Available on open access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Between agency and victimhood: Adult Material and screening the female porn performer in the #MeToo era
The porn star figure has typically occupied a polarizing position within media and feminist discourses, being a symbol of either agency or victimization. This article explores the way the televisio...
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This was such a fun panel for the @screeningsex.bsky.social SIG at #BAFTSS2025 with @polinazelm.bsky.social, Donna Peberdy, and Belén Salinas Torres! I discussed the representation of hook-up apps and their media archaelogies in recent Spanish romantic comedies on streaming
Screening Sex@screeningsex.bsky.social · last yr.Always a pleasure to deliver our SIG sponsored panel at @baftss.bsky.social conference. Big thanks to @polinazelm.bsky.social for convening and chairing. Super presentations given to a packed room who had plenty of questions. Job done!
Super great panel on feel bad TV at #BAFTSS2025 organised by @victoriapistivsek.bsky.social, that ended here:
Huge congratulations to Chris O’Rourke for winning the Best Article Award at BAFTSS 2025!
Always a pleasure to deliver our SIG sponsored panel at @baftss.bsky.social conference. Big thanks to @polinazelm.bsky.social for convening and chairing. Super presentations given to a packed room who had plenty of questions. Job done!
@screeningsex.bsky.social SIG panel this morning at #BAFTSS2025! Had a really great discussion and Q&A and looking forward to more informal chats later! Massive thank you to all the panelists and the generous audience who joined us so early in the morning!
Looking forward to another day at #Baftss2025 and our @screeningsex.bsky.social SIG panel this morning!
Awesome first day, on clipboard duty! Love seeing my friends and colleagues who I only see once a year at BAFTSS 👉👈
BAFTSS Conference 2025@baftss2025.bsky.social · last yr.Our fabulous team of helpers ready to welcome you to the conference! #BAFTSS2025
Linda Williams’ Screening Sex has been such an important text for my PhD; and I feel super lucky to have introduced it to students in my MA teaching this term. Such an incredible scholar!
Screening Sex@screeningsex.bsky.social · last yr.We are deeply saddened by the news of the loss of Linda Williams. Linda's support and generosity made the Screening Sex initiative what it is today. In recognition of Linda and her work we are inviting all to share thoughts and reflections on her enduring influence. screeningsex.com/2025/03/14/l...
Really great day so far teaching sex and consent in the metoo era as part of the MA Screening Bodies module at @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social!
Really excited for these events we’re putting together at Screening Sex. I’m currently looking for contributors from non UK institutions from our Screening Sex network for the October event on Pedagogical Practices 📖 DM me to connect!
Screening Sex@screeningsex.bsky.social · 2y agoWe’re excited to announce our seminar series for 2025! First up in March: IN CONVERSATION: SCREENING SEX COLLABORATIVELY Donna Peberdy & Tanya Horeck in conversation about research collaborations & partnerships in sex on screen research. 👉 Details/register: screeningsex.com/2025/02/21/s...
We’re excited to announce our seminar series for 2025! First up in March: IN CONVERSATION: SCREENING SEX COLLABORATIVELY Donna Peberdy & Tanya Horeck in conversation about research collaborations & partnerships in sex on screen research. 👉 Details/register: screeningsex.com/2025/02/21/s...
