The Eyes in Close-Up
December 2025 marked Battleship Potemkin's 100th anniversary. Read my new article on eyes, surveillance, and political control in Eisenstein's Strike, Potemkin & Ivan the Terrible. Inspired by @uclssees.bsky.social Julian Graffy's 2009 lectures @uclselcs.bsky.social #OpenAccess
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From morose misery to moderate merriment: sniffles, suicide & sadistic, self-immolating trees offered an alternative take on Christmas @oldwoollen.bsky.social. With masterful emceeing by @quantum-sauce.bsky.social, the night moved swiftly from virology to musicology to ecology @uclselcs.bsky.social
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The Quantum Quartet was wonderful and truly made the whole evening come together! I still can't get over the 'Have Yourself a M-i-s-e-r-a-b-l-e Christmas' — that verse will be playing in my head for the next month or so. Dark Qristmassy earworms!
😢Embrace the #Christmas blues!
From Blue Christmas to Wonderful Life,we’re spreading Christmas #catharsis & some festive feel-good!Join @jori-saudade.bsky.social for a Quantum Qristmas speak at #Farsley @oldwoollen.bsky.social.
Dec 2nd,tix at tinyurl.com/ye5dwtm5.Bring your brain & pull up a pint!
Interested in laughter, 19th century clowns, and 1920s cinema? Check out my paper 'The Politics of Laughter: The Afterlives of Clowns Joseph Grimaldi and Jean-Gaspard Deburau in 1920s Cinema'. @uclselcs.bsky.social #Grimaldi #Deburau #clowns #laughter www.mdpi.com/3594520
“Things I once thought were funny are scary now. I often feel like a resident of Pompeii who has been asked for some humorous comments on lava” (2013). Academic and musical satirist Tom Lehrer exposed hypocrisy, vices, and prejudices through song like no other.
A brilliant end to the term! UCL's Celebration of Humanities Education was expertly organised & brought together a range of exciting, inspiring & innovative approaches to education. Proud to have contributed as a member of the Centre's Languages Stream! @ucl-che.bsky.social @artshumsucl.bsky.social
Professor Alexander Samson delivering his fascinating inaugural lecture on 28 May: 'Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern'. @samsonaws.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social #MarianEngland #UniversalClockTime #EarlyModern
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Shirley MacLaine as Ginny in Some Came Running (V. Minnelli, 1958).
My article, ‘A Wounded Cinema: Failed Utopias, Décor Leitmotifs, and the Homo Minnellianus’, is published in MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism.
Among other misfits in Vincente Minnelli's films, I write about one of my favourites: Ginny from Some Came Running (1958).
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📚 My book, "Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film", explores the #Gothic (1920s-1950s) as an aesthetic of memory and exile. Includes chapters on memory-objects, hands, pianos, and amnesia. Download it for free from #PalgraveMacmillan #OA @uclselcs.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
