Luke McKernan

Thanking librarians is good thing to do lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...

Thanking librarians, past and present lukemckernan.com/2025/10/05/t...

Today the Fedora podcast is 1-year-old. To celebrate, my brilliant birthday buddy, Professor Stacey Abbott (@profsaabbott.bsky.social), joins me to explore all things John Wick.

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This month from Sticking Place Books!

Charles Chaplin’s THE FREAK: the unmade, almost produced final film by the master! screenplay finally published in full, w/ storyboards, production notes & archive material. A haunting tale of wings, innocence & corruption.

YouTube video by Slapp Happy - Topic Slow Moon's Rose

#Listeningto anything sung by Dagmar Krause, but especially this piece of gentle poetry youtu.be/vE-yHdbTEBg?...

Did you miss our online webinar earlier this week? You can now watch the recording of the event via @wcmlibrary.bsky.social's Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2UT...

Using screengrabs not only allows you to select exact images but also provides a good defence for publication (under fair dealing or fair use), as opposed to published stills, which are stand-alone creative works i.e. you are quoting from a work rather than reproducing a work in full

One of the features I like in my new book Let Me Dream Again is use of DVD screengrabs to get telling images e.g. L'enfant sauvage, Great Expectations (Pip coming out of the mist), Masked and Anonymous, Dickensian stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...

This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.

Great news for many, but there's nothing wrong in paying for the BNA if you can. It's what enables more British Library newspapers to be preserved through digitisation, benefitting everyone

One of a number of obituaries for Guido Convents, promoter of African film, exceptional early film historian, and a good friend www.signis.world/headline/12-...

The Gold Tip Pfitzer and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘V.’

Essential re-reading RIP Tony Harrison www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

Join us for an online People's Papers research project workshop to learn about the history of 1970s alternative newspapers, their archival preservation & their continued relevance for today. All welcome! Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-...

On a Kent country walk through Ryarsh and Birling

Why not buy your copy of the 836,103rd best-selling book on Amazon? www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...

It's good to be squeezed in among some great names

Happily Amazon now has the correct back cover for my book Let Me Dream Again, with generous recommendations from Nick Hornby, @pamhutch.bsky.social and @illuminations.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Me-Dream...

The Death of Tragedy and a decaff latte #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

My book Let Me Dream Again: Essays on the Moving Image is cheapest from the publisher's site. £24 hardback, £20 paperback stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...

LET ME DREAM AGAIN by @lukemckernan.bsky.social @stickingplacebk.bsky.social and an americano with oat milk #thebookimreadingthedrinkimdrinking

Good choices

There were at least two film camera operators on the Titanic. Shame that the sinking took place at night...

"I'm looking for that Ingmar Bergman film where a vicar plays ludo with the Devil". Some entertaining footage enquiries from my time as a film archive cataloguer lukemckernan.com/2025/09/11/i...

Remembering the battle of Flodden, 9 September 1513 lukemckernan.com/2025/09/09/o...

Some of the extra copies I've ordered are taking a while to get here...

Glad you got hold of a copy so quickly

Just got my hands on this superb collection of essays on the moving image (in all senses) by the mighty @lukemckernan.bsky.social from Sticking Place Books stickingplacebooks.com/let-me-dream...

Remembering Flodden, 9 September 1513 lukemckernan.com/2025/09/09/o...

Get yourselves a copy.