Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast. Media history. Gothic, ghosts, uses and representations of history. Any views my own. Mastodon @drdjohnston@zirk.us
Holywood, Northern Ireland
Joined October 2012
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Gone away to Blue Sky and Mastodon with the same handle (but generally using social media less)
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#OnThisDay 1954: An adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was first aired on BBC Television.
It starred Peter Cushing, Yvonne Mitchell, Donald Pleasence and André Morell.
Watch on BBC iPlayer
bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0…
#bbcarchive #georgeorwell #nineteeneightyfour
ALT Roy Oxley as the face of Big Brother, in a large foreboding circular poster stating 'Big Brother is Watching You'.
ALT Peter Cushing (Winston Smith) and Yvonne Mitchell (Julia), pictured in the woods in a romantic moment from the production.
ALT Peter Cushing (Winston Smith) standing alone in prison style outfit printed with KZ - 6090 Smith W.
ALT George Orwell, pictured six years prior to the publication of his 1949 novel, whilst an employee of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
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Join myself, @drdjohnston and one half of @agothiccookbook for some Festive Gothic this evening (UK time) - DM the Gothica team on one of their socials for a link!
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The Time Machine, Brave New World, 1984: these weren’t the first dystopian novels. There's an interesting history of Victorian and Edwardian literature looking at the impact of modernity on humans and finding it worrying.
Today in pulp I look at some early dystopian books…
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🚨🚨🚨The Kneale-Cartier adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, starring Peter Cushing and Yvonne Mitchell, is being repeated on BBC4 on Sun 17 November.🚨🚨🚨
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00256y…
ALT Yvonne Mitchell, Peter Cushing and Andre Morell as Julia, Winston Smith and O'Brien respectively in a photograph from the 1954 BBC production of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Do you remember watching Play for Today when it was on TV in the 1970s or 1980s? If so, please get in touch (see email address in image)
I'm *especially* wanting to hear from any viewers who lived in Northern Ireland, Northern England, the Midlands, or saw it outside the UK!
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I hate wasps.
So, I have to keep reminding myself that they aren’t just there to annoy us.
"A loss of wasps… leads to reduced pollination, and without wasps our plants are more likely to be eaten by insect larvae otherwise controlled by wasps." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c134…
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A reminder that after 50 years Harlan Ellison's THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS will debut October 2nd, so there's still time to pick up the original DANGEROUS VISIONS and AGAIN, DANGEROUS VISONS before this hits the stores.
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+ COMPETITION +
After a recent rummage in the archives we are giving away a bundle of rarities, sold out items, commissions, prototypes & promotional items. Follow, RT & Like to enter. Winner announced Mon AM. UK only.
Summer sale is still on in the shop. hiddenbritain.bigcartel.com/
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We're hiring a new Curator of Printed Ephemera. We're not exaggerating when we say this is a dream job. The role manages one of the most important collections in the world. Candidates with a qualification in librarianship, archives, or similar, apply here: go.glam.ox.ac.uk/JohnJohnson…
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EXCLUSIVE: First clips for Aislinn Clarke’s Locarno title Fréwaka from @Cineuropa
cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/…
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Congratulations to Broadcast Production award winners ✨
⭐️ Anjool Malde Journalism Award - Louise Simms & Sarah Morrison
⭐️ @QUBelfast Foundation Scholarships - Arwen Fegan & Louise Simms
📸 with lecturers @mrfrankdelaney @elena_caoduro @drdjohnston @_johndarcy & Kurt Taroff
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Huge congratulations @KajaFranck! We'd love a reviewer for this...
It only took me six years but I finally published something on my ongoing interest in trolls. Thank you to @Sylvan_Solace for providing the original inspiration at a conference on Gothic Nature.
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I still can't get over how bad AI has become. And this is coming from a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI.
I fucking LOVE AI, but here are 10 reasons I absolutely fucking hate it now, a 🧵 ...
What a great conference!
Memories of Horror Studies Now 2024 @NorthumbriaUni youtu.be/3PchX6Grlco
#horrorNU
#horrorstudies #CultureCreativityNU
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Variations on this question have been coming up a lot lately, two in the same day (did you guys carpool?) so I’m going to go micro on this for future reference to save writing it again. When casting, you’re looking for someone who is, or can be, the very specific character --
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On holiday 4th July?🌞gov.uk/apply-postal-vote