This just in from Edinburgh University Press: Armchair Cinema, an essential addition to the library of any film historian!

Here I am with @norloll at the The Garden Cinema talking about Muriel Box, after a screening of her brilliant meta-romcom The Passionate Stranger (part of the ongoing Women Aren't Funny season) youtube.com/watch?v=yOQLGV…

Honoured to win the Screen Essay Award for my research on costume design and making. Huge thanks to Screen's editorial board for their fantastic support and the amazing women who costumed British cinema 🎥 🪡 🧵

I assume that Starmer's now clocked off for the weekend

The legendary #BrayStudios, which started it's production life as Exclusive Studios, has been bought by Amazon MGM Studios Happy to see a new chapter begun! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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I did a thing for Senses of Cinema all about the British filmmaker Muriel Box sensesofcinema.com/2024/great-dir…

This sequence from the 1943 film Thursday's Child was shot in the canteen at Welwyn Studios. Might be of interest to ReelStreets

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Is it a coincidence that my blog on a film starring animals from London Zoo appears at the same time as Banksy's London Zoo series? Am I Banksy? I'm not saying that I am. But I'm also not saying that I'm not. Anyway, I hope you enjoy reading about Ming the panda's film fame.

I've written about Germany's first dedicated sound film studio, the Tonkreuz as part of our #Studiotec project @stud journal.eahn.org/article/id/104…

More studiotecproject fabulousness from m'colleague Eleanor Halsall! Come for the detailed history of the Tonkreuz, stay for the wonderful illustrations!

A new article! (not open access but if you can't get it through your library, let me know) 'Reflections in a Golden Eye: Exploring the Photographic Art of Margaret Nolan and Shirley Eaton' 🌟🌟🌟 Really pleased to be part of this great Bond special issue euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.336…

An important date in, British studio history. studiotecproject

Great article by Chris O' Rourke in latest SCREEN on Robert Allen, a fascinating figure who worked at Denham academic.oup.com/screen/issue/6…

Sound the new article klaxon! My latest piece for studiotecproject, on detective novels set in interwar British film studios, is now available in the Journal of British Cinema and Television. Come for the murders, stay for the analysis. euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/jb…

Sound the new article klaxon again! My studiotecproject piece on the death and afterlife of Denham film studios is now available for FREE in Industrial Archaeology Review. Features a wonderful picture of a pig in a mail coach and my usual erudite musings. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…