JCMS invites applications from current doctoral students for two open positions in the role of Assistant Editor! Read the full Call with instructions on how to apply here: github.com/jcmsjournal/ed…

How I have only just realised that Pharrell's 'Happy' is the adult version of 'If you're happy and you know it clap your hands'?!

The #baftss call for papers is up! Due 16 Dec 2024: sites.google.com/view/baftss-20…

With the BAFTSS CFP now live, here is the CFP for the Adaptation panel:

🎉 It’s #WorldMentalHealthDay! 💙 Help us end the judgement about mental illness. 🔀 Share this post so that people know where to get support.

Beware, the FCW #Halloween Horror Film Competition is back! Send us 30 spooky seconds by Monday 28th October - you must own all the copyright (or no treats). Open to all Uni of Birmingham students! Please share School of EDACS College of Arts+Law @pg_cal Drama@UoB

Less than two weeks until our next event! Adaptation and Fluidity featuring Tom Leitch and Allen Redmon on Weds 23rd October, 4.30 UK time. DM for the zoom link!

Screen RE-turns: Screen Studies Conference 2025 Call for Papers is now live, with a submission deadline of Sunday 5th January 2025 23.00 hrs. tinyurl.com/yc4efy4a

My department is searching for a new colleague! Please share widely: tenure-track position in American literatures and cultures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Review of applications begins November 1st. agilitas.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/LMC/job/Syracu…

This was a sad decision to make!

Could be interesting, but I think Harron's film will remain definitive for a lot of people.

We're reaching the peak of this current vampire cycle if Nolan's now doing a film with them.

Later today! Come along ✨

🥳BIG NEWS!🥳 The CFP for our 2025 Association of Adaptation Studies conference is now LIVE!!! We'll be heading to Istanbul, Türkiye for next year's annual conference, which will be centred on theme of "Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth". Read the full call on our website: adaptation.uk.com/cfp-2025-aas-a…

Our event yesterday on Adaptation and Fluidity went very well! If you missed out, we did record it, so get in touch and we can share the link.

Went as Chucky for halloween this year, didn't quite crack the expression.

It's Halloween, and I'm at work, dressed like Wednesday Addams, and have a brain to eat before teaching. 🎃

In the #Heretic credits, there's a message stating that “No generative AI was used in the making of this film.” "It was important for us to put that out there because we think it’s something people need to start talking about,” Bryan Woods says. variety.com/2024/film/news…

Slowly trying to reckon with being here still (given it's becoming unusable) - have also moved to the other place where my handle is the same - please find me!

We're considering moving across to Bluesky - are people who follow us over there currently? It would be nice to reach people.