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My great guests on Thursday’s show are editors of the fantastic new book, ‘Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip Hop’ - Pop Prof @ProfKFairclough and Rock Doc @BenHalligan. Join us @BBC6Music
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🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 📷 ‘Global Circulations of Film Theory’ will be taking place 30-31st August 2024. Deadline for submitting proposals: 29 January 2024
More info: globalfilmtheory.net/news/ge…
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Tomorrow night @SODAmcr:
Diva! Feminist and Fierce – book launch with @ProfKFairclough @Sharadai @BenHalligan
& ultra-rare screening of 1997 Aaliyah tour documentary.
Tix free: schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.u…
Get fabulous!!
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🪩 DIVA: Feminist and Fierce – Book Launch
14 Nov 23, 6 - 7.30pm
SODA at @ManMetUni
Free, registration required
The editors of DIVA: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop explore the importance of the diva in the post-millennium cultural landscape: bit.ly/49mhOgB
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recent books from me:
+ "Hotbeds of Licentiousness: The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society"
berghahnbooks.com/title/Hall…
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016yx…
+ "Politics of the Many"
bloomsbury.com/uk/politics-o…
+ "Adult Themes"
bloomsbury.com/uk/adult-them…
+ "Diva"
bloomsbury.com/uk/diva-97815…
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Thrilled to receive a copy of the *enormous* new @routledgebooks "Companion to Folk Horror" @RobCEdgar; my chapter on @genesis_band, taking in
#DavidBowie #JethroTull @CharterhouseSch
#LedZeppelin #JimmySavile #BenDover #DHLawrence #MarkFisher #Machynlleth #hogweed #OssieClark
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Obligatory new book selfies: @ProfKFairclough & @BenHalligan (& with @Sharadai & Nicole to follow!)
HOT off the press from @BloomsburyMus: bloomsbury.com/uk/diva-97815…
GLAMOROUS launch at the V&A "Diva" exhibition in Oct: vam.ac.uk/event/DVVp0ooqAa/y…
... and way more coming on the book!
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I'm speaking at @V_and_A's "Diva" exhibition, 13 Oct, with @harrietannereed @ProfKFairclough @Sharadai, & Nicole Hodges Persley, further to our @BloomsburyAcad @BloomsburyMus book "Diva: Feminism & Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop". Details & booking (free): vam.ac.uk/event/DVVp0ooqAa/y…
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This Monday, join @EllieTomsett for a discussion about her new book, Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities.
Book now theb.fi/3sGENlC
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Hello everyone! If you're a WLV doctoral researcher keen on teaching/demonstrating roles, kindly send your CV and a cover letter to @WLV_DoctoralCol via [email protected]. The deadline is September 1st. Exciting opportunities await! 📚🎓
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Article I co-wrote with Laura Wilson in 2015 👇... v proud to have contributed to the emerging discourse reclaiming yesteryear's gay porn as a sociological access to the "earlier civilization" of pre-AIDS queer subcultures, and my thanks to @FrameworkN for supporting us in this!
"LA Plays Itself is mysterious and yet mythical: it could almost be said to be an unearthed artefact from an earlier civilization..."—@BenHalligan & Laura Wilson, "'Use/Abuse/Everyone/Everything': A Dialogue on LA Plays Itself," Framework 56.2, @wsupress/FrameworkNow.com.
Call for Proposals:
"The Films of Michael Cimino"
via @BenHalligan
"... this divisive figure: acclaimed and lionised, dismissed and demonised, and marginalised and forgotten thereafter, only to be haltingly reappraised shortly before his death... "
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.ed…
Call for Proposals:
"The Films of Bernardo Bertolucci"
via @BenHalligan
"Bertolucci is remembered as a poet of the cinema, who blended eroticism with Marxism, whose cinema was rich and mysterious, revolutionary in both ideology and aesthetics..."
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.ed…
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Chapters include:
"Paternalism, Bohemianism, and the X Certificate: The Party's Over and the Pre-Swinging Set"
from @realkmflanagan
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Chapters include:
"What Are the X-Rated Secrets of the Windmill Girls?"
from @retroramblings
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Chapters include:
"Class and Classification: The British Board of Film Censors' Reception of Horror at the Time of the Festival of Light"
from @BenHalligan
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Chapters include:
"Colour, Realism and the X Certificate: Horrors of the Black Museum and Peeping Tom"
from Sarah Street
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Chapters include:
"Mediating Desire: Karel Reisz's Adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"
from Simon Lee
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Chapters include:
"The Commercial Idealism of Controversial Cinema: Raymond Stross and the Censorship of The Flesh Is Weak"
from Christopher Weedman
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Chapters include:
"Lolita, Censorship, and Controversy: The Archival Remains of the Dispute Between Canon L. J. Collins and Stanley Kubrick"
from @JamesFenwick87


















































