Dr Leanne Weston

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double - Research Professional News Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”

UKRI award rate halves in seven years as grant applications double.

Trends across research councils prompt warning that system is “overstretched or broken”.

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Do you read fanfiction? Can you help our @stirlingpublishing.bsky.social student Khushi Shokeen with her research by completing her survey, please?

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Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore review Director Shoshannah Stern’s documentary about Marlee Matlin, the first deaf actor to win an Oscar, offers thought-provoking insights into the history of disability inclusion (and exclusion) in America...

“This assured directorial debut from Shoshannah Stern offers an intimate look at the life and career of Marlee Matlin, the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award”

Peter Adams reviews Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

Excited to announce that a Special Issue of Open Screens on the representation of Students on Screen has just dropped. It includes a special episode of The Cinematologists Podcast, articles, book reviews and a round table discussion. Some summer reading!
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wonder if decades of mocking media studies as a Mickey Mouse subject has anything to do with this at all

Are you a fan of Betty White or Angela Lansbury? Take this survey (about 10 minutes) being conducted by @bridgetkies.bsky.social to share your experiences. #angelalansbury #murdershewrote #bettywhite #thegoldengirls
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Review: Elvis Evolution by Layered Reality - Immersive Rumours This immersive exploration of Elvis's life not only lacks the scale and ambition of previous Layered Reality experiences but tells us nothing new about the King of Rock and Roll.

REVIEW: This immersive exploration of Elvis’s life not only lacks the scale and ambition of previous Layered Reality experiences, but also tells us nothing new about the King of Rock and Roll. www.immersiverumours.com/post/review-...

Open Access Article from Practicing Anthropology: Friends, Fandom, Family: A Framework for a Future in Fan Studies by Equinox Hartman doi.org/10.1080/0888...

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#SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology #PracticingAnthropology

Pleased to share that my latest article, 'The Black Android, Janelle Monáe and Crossover Stardom: Race and Technology On-screen', is now available to read from Film-Philosophy via open access!

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Human Traffic’s Cardiff, then and now Capturing late-90s Cardiff as a city of clubbing and hedonism, Human Traffic is a cult classic of the Cool Cymru era. Twenty-six years later, how have its locations changed?

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The 2025 Nitrate Picture Show: It’s a Thin Line, Johnny This year’s annual Nitrate Picture Show presented the past not as a refuge from our present tumult, but as a reflection of it.

New today on the site!

Dylan Adamson writes about his experience attending the 9th annual Nitrate Picture Show, its various films and recurring themes, and a controversial final screening.

"This year’s films presented the past not as a refuge from our present tumult, but as a reflection of it."

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Re-releases heading back into cinemas in 2025 Yearning for some classic films on the big screen? Here's a list of all the re-releases heading into UK cinemas in the near future.

Looking for some classic films to watch on the big screen? Here's a list of all the re-releases heading into UK #cinemas in the near future.
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members “GR Stocks” auf unsplash It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Franc...

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Angela Lansbury at 100 Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy

Call for Papers

Angela Lansbury at 100: Celebrating her Stardom and Legacy

Date: 9th and 10th October 2025

Location: The Exchange, University of Birmingham

Hosted by: Laura Milburn and James Rhodes

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🎶 It's Tracklist Tuesday: #NowPlaying the Cocteau Twins! bit.ly/4lfmmew

On the 3rd Tuesday of each month, we highlight a different book and author from our @3313books.bsky.social series. 📚💙

#indiemusic #nonfiction #music

Even after 20 years, The Descent remains one of the best British horror films The Descent has lost none of its effect in 20 years and modern horror films could certainly learn a thing or two from it. Spoilers!

Now 20, #TheDescent has lost none of its impact - and modern horror films could certainly learn a thing or two from it. Spoilers ahead...
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Fandom in Marginalized Communities: Rethinking Media Effects and Fans An innovative edited collection which examines fandom in marginalized communities from an empirically based, media psychology perspective. This book specifically focuses on fandom communities and cult...

This forthcoming edited collection looks great #FanStudies

Fandom in Marginalized Communities:
Rethinking Media Effects and Fans

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On the left, a screenshot of the article "The Black/Body Gothic: Exhuming and Transcending Racial Mixing, Passing, and Slavery's Afterlives in Lovecraft Country (2020)."

On the right, an image from the 2020 series LOVECRAFT COUNTRY in which Ruby, a Black woman in the 1950s dressed in red, stares out her window, a burning cross on her lawn visible in the reflection.

"I don't know what's more difficult...being colored or being a woman." Jacqueline Pinkowitz's new essay in Black Camera looks at how Black Gothic + Black bodies in LOVECRAFT COUNTRY "interrogates the embodied, physical horrors of race & enslavement." @projectmuse.bsky.social
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Daughters of the Dust: Rephrasing the African American Experience in Julie Dash’s Film and Novel of the Same Name While Julie Dash’s landmark 1991 film, Daughters of the Dust, has received extensive attention as the first by an African American woman director to receive a wide-scale theatrical release in the U...

Publication day! If you're interested in reading my piece on Julie Dash's brilliant "Daughters of the Dust" (film and novel), co-authored with the wonderful Betty Knight, you can read it here. It's Open Access. doi.org/10.1080/0195...

Alongside other things I'm working on as part of my monograph, I guess the only piece left is to make my own research venn diagram and write about Sam Taylor-Johnson's Back to Black. If you know a good avenue for this (genuinely!) get in touch.

Related to the last thread on Amy, For those here for the 'Amy stuff' it's one further piece in the puzzle I've been working through over the last few years.

Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through variou…

More info here. Request it for your libraries now! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...

Huge thanks to Tom Attah, Kirsty Fairclough, and Christian Lloyd for giving me the opportunity to write and share this work. I really loved working on it. So glad it's out in the world! Congratulations on a fantastic collection!

The chapter specifically looks at how media - specifically television - can help us to re-examine Winehouse's legacy, and where that media fits into wider understandings of her posthumous stardom and cultural afterlife.

(Only a tiny bit late) Very pleased to share that Musicians and Their Audiences is out now via @BloomsburyMus. it includes my chapter on Amy Winehouse (who else?!), and I'm in great company. So looking forward to dipping in and reading the work of my fellow contributors.

I absolutely read this in their voice!