Academy Award winning actor Gary Oldman becomes champion of Kingston Museum’s Eadweard Muybridge collection! #GaryOldman #muybridge #KingstonUponThames #photography #museum #museumcollection #harrypotter #SlowHorses #siriusblack #jacksonlamb #darknight #darkesthour

this is next week with SCMS AM SIG ! join us in a conversation on teaching about animation and modernism with Dan Bashara and Ryan Pierson. co-organized with @J_Ristola & Chris Taylor. spread the word!

Please join us tomorrow for our second research seminar of the semester @ 4pm, Lecture Theatre B (Avenue Campus)! We will be joined by Professor Melanie Bell, who will give a talk titled "Visibility, Gender and the Archive: Feminist Approaches to Women’s Film Work." Info below:

Next Tuesday, 5th November @ 4pm, we will be joined by Dr Anna Viola Sborgi for a BAFTSS New Connections Talk. Anna will be discussing "Homelessness, Gender and Labour in Contemporary Narrative Cinema." Please do join us for what promises to be a great talk! 🎆

1901 E6 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is here! I speak with Lawrence Napper of King's College London mostly about Mitchell & Kenyon films, which lead us to all kinds of fun tangents. Links to the last guest episode of the season 👇Finale next week!

New open access article alert: oil, Iran, BP, and animation are the topics of my article 'Full Circle: Useful Animation and the Geography of Petroleum Extraction' in a new issue of Media+Environment journal mediaenviron.org/article/123604…

Hot off the press: a new article by our very own Malcolm Cook! Check out "Full Circle: Useful Animation and the Geography of Petroleum Extraction" here: mediaenviron.org/article/123604…

Film and Extraction, a new special issue of Media+Environment journal is out now, and Open Access. Thanks to editors Priya Jaikumar and Lee Grieveson for their work and including my article on BP animated films from during Iran oil nationalisation mediaenviron.org/section/4662-f…

Come join us for a marmalade sandwich in London! A reminder that we are accepting proposals for the 36th Annual SAS Conference (hosted by London College of Communication University of the Arts London). The deadline is Jan. 10 and the full CFP is at bit.ly/3sYuWs8.

Job Alert: we are hiring 2 x Postdocs for the 'Women's Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible' led by Helen Hanson, app by:20/01/25 Details below ⬇️ 1) PDRA in Archives jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui… 1/2

Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil, an online symposium on Friday January 24th, is now open for registration. Full details via the link. Please join us and repost/share. llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-sc…

We are delighted to announce our latest call for applications for stipends to visit and research our amazing collections. Deadline is 31st January 2025 and details are on the link below. bdcmuseum.org.uk/news/call-for-…

The term #greenwashing is in common currency today, and credited to Jay Westerveld in 1986. Yet I can't find any source that actually cites the claimed publication. Can anyone point me to the original, or is this a phantom history?

Not just in the spring catalog but in fact out in the world… get it here: cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cinem…

The website for the 2025 Society for Animation Studies Conference is now live! The conference will take place in London between 7-10 July 2025. Please be reminded that the deadline for paper/screening proposals is January 10, 2025! sas2025.cargo.site Animation Studies London College of Communication

Online Symposium Next Week: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil. More info and free registration: llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-sc…

Research-led #teaching can bring educators’ work and passions into the classroom, making topics such as #climatechange less overwhelming for students. Here are five key takeaways from Malcolm Cook.bsky.social of University of Southampton: timeshighereducation.com/campus/changin… #climate #SDGs

What are the connections between James Bond and oil? Find out more from Evelyn MacPherson's talk at our seminar 'Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil', happening online today (Wed 12th March). eventbrite.co.uk/e/crude-repres… #jamesbond #bp #IanFleming

I'm looking forward to participating in this post-screening panel about the spectacular blockbuster Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2. One to see on the big screen for sure!

Singing out now!