Sarah Dean
@savdean.bsky.social
working-class film programmer & baby-scholar researching queer & trans film aesthetics — incoming PhD @ King’s College London
Pleased my article “Humanoids in Transition” for Film Matters was recognised with an Honourable Mention for the 2025 Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship! Thank you to all the judges and the team at Film Matters for this honour @intellectbooks.bsky.social
Sarah Dean@savdean.bsky.social · last yr.received a print copy of my peer-reviewed article on trans non-binary humanoids on-screen today! digital copy available via EBSCO's Film and Television Index
I spent £12 renting The Hobbit movies for my first-time viewing them this week and jotted some immediate thoughts down for each one: boxd.it/eENbuL
A review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Narrative free range aside, this might be the strongest entertainment value of the three? We’re grazing at the edges of the fiction, but having a fun time doing so. Found myself wildly fact-checking i...
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Fringe! 2025 kicks off THIS WEEKEND 🚨 🏃 Set the mood for what’s cumming with a peek at our lush trailer 👀 Head to our site to book your tix for all the films featured in the trailer + many more 💙💜💛 Trailer: Stephan Bless Music kindly provided by: Tom Rasmussen - There’s A Lot To Be Happy About
If you want a “fun” yet “mildly stressful” experience, I would thoroughly endorse catching a screening of Jaws (1975) in 4DX.
PWYC Tickets are out for this sweet and sentimental shorts programme that I’ll be delivering an intro + Q&A for at Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest 2025! Hope to see you there. 🎥 💕 @fringefilmfest.bsky.social richmix.org.uk/events/belon...
(be)longings - Rich Mix
Sentimentality, yearnings, and romance bloom across stories of companionship and community. These rhythms run through journeys of self-discovery, missed connections, sapphic staring competitions, and ...
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🚨 It’s time! 🚨 you can now get your filthy paws on the 2025 Fringe! programme 💋 We’re back and our 15th edition overflowing with all the queer feels Whatever you’re into, we’re not going to yuck your yum 😋 Explore the programme & book your tix ⬇️ www.fringefilmfest.com/festival-pro...
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The LFF Critics' Support Fund - helping low income journalists to attend the London Film Festival due to a lack of institutional support - is back for a third year! Find out more and apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I will be delivering a paper at @rolesbham.bsky.social on Monday about trans spatialities and temporalities in the unlikely locus of the laundrette 💜 🏳️⚧️ 🧺
ROLES Sexuality & Gender Studies Network@rolesbham.bsky.social · last yr.Reminder that registration for our conference is now open 🥳 Go to tinyurl.com/ROLES-2025 to register and join us for a wonderful day of presentations!
Can anyone recommend some side-reading to accompany my introduction to Douglas Sirk? I’m distracted by the Freud of it all.
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Last night I watched In The Mood for Love (2000) for the first time, a 35mm print at The Prince Charles (classic). Couldn’t help but notice some parallels in both the theme and visuals with Umbrellas (1964) — fitting given the period of Hong Kong history Wong Kar-wai hones in on.
received a print copy of my peer-reviewed article on trans non-binary humanoids on-screen today! digital copy available via EBSCO's Film and Television Index
Ah, wild. My piece for the journal Film Matters 15.3 is out! This was adapted for an UG paper of mine, in which I trans David Bowie and Scarlett Johansson’s alien humanoid characters. Realised with the support of Professor Rosalind Galt. Available here: intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...
Humanoids in Transition: Corrupted Binaries, Fluidity, and Embodied In-between | Intellect
Are non-binary and genderfluid identities distinct from other trans identities in their screen representation? I look to two examples; The Man Who Fell to Earth (Roeg, 1976) and Under the Skin (Glazer...
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Intellect Books@intellectbooks.bsky.social · last yr.Film Matters 15.3 is out now! Including ‘Contradictions in Metal: A Comparative Analysis of Sound of Metal (2019)’ by Alice Alonso Limongi. #filmstudies #undergraduate Access the issue via Discover 👉 intellectdiscover.co...
Enjoyed presenting my research on the shift towards trans autoethnographies in non-fiction filmmaking and trans archival practices for #baftss2025
Pleased to share that I’ll be presenting my research on Latin American trans ethnographies at @baftss.bsky.social conference on Global Aesthetics next week, a right of passage and an honour!
Slow month for everything, especially my brain. So here’s a drawing of a dog I came across the other day:
Made a lil Letterboxd list for films that exemplify when girlhood is constructed through the male-gaze 🎀 boxd.it/Ebxgk
Girlhood Under the Male Gaze 🎀
In this list of films the male gaze is prevalent either textually, extra-textually, or both. Girlhood is therefore how girls are seen by males and how their habits, fascinations, routines, and collect...
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Ahh I will be delivering my research at a conference in March. Any advice on this is appreciated!!
What do you mean I have a headache? I’ve only had three consecutive cups of tea.
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study for a portrait (1952): the curtain at the height of a greasy spoon window really works for me
Gave myself a 1am anxiety attack the other day when overthinking the lyrics to Wicked’s ‘Dancing Through Life’
Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over. Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed. I have the links
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Nosferatu (2024) is very body-fluid forward film. This thesis shall look at Nosferatu in relation to Hippocrates four humors…
Having an existential crisis in the Lewisham Shopping Centre branch of Chopstix. Merry Christmas!
I adore how It’s A Wonderful Life (1946) depicts its angels. Clarence has waited 200 years for his wings, he’s reading Tom Sawyer, yet all we see is disembodied voices flowing from the stars.
Deeply troubled by the way Bridget Jones says “buffet” in “turkey curry buffet”
Holding space with Defying Gravity on Thursday as a reprieve from PhD applications
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Only two more days until Lindsay Lohan’s third hallmark-esque seasonal movie drops! Still praying my spec “Easter Parade” gets lifted from Letterboxd 🤞🤞🤞
