@wstraw.bsky.social
James McGill Emeritus Professor of Urban Media Studies at McGill University. Scholar of cities, media, night Follow news of night culture at https://theurbannight.com/ or visit my research site at https://willstraw.com/
I can't wait to read this!
31.07.2025 12:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A big congratulations to my friend and former post-doc Jamie Jelinski, for this very interesting look at how transit systems document graffiti and the bureaucratic means by which they do so.
www.jamiejelinski.ca/scene-of-cri...
Jean-Pierre Faye a 100 ans (Le Corps miroir) diacritik.com/2025/07/19/l...
19.07.2025 10:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bravo à Marie-Pier Luneau and Harold Bérubé for this new issue of mens: revue d’histoire intellectuelle et culturelle, devoted to crime magazines in Quebec. I have an article on the magazine Détective (1964-1968.) Accessible via Erudit, if your institution subscribes. www.erudit.org/fr/revues/me...
17.07.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Döden er et kjaertegn (Death is a Caress), the 1949 Norwegian film by Edith Carlmar, is often considered the first film noir directed by a woman. Tonight we watched a 1953 film by Carlmar, Ung Frue Forsvunnet (A Young Woman Missing), a very good drama about drug addiction.
05.07.2025 01:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nice to see that this book is out, with a free download. I have a chapter on "Night Studies"
www.puec.unam.mx/index.php/co...
All the best in this new adventure, Shannon!
30.06.2025 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bess Flowers, Queen of the Dress Extras, in Something in the Wind (1947), one of Deanna Durbin's last films.
29.06.2025 21:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Waiting for me on my return from holiday: The New York Daily Column (1968-1969), made up almost entirely of signed columns.
29.06.2025 15:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0World Refugee Day is June 20.
Dr. Candida Rifkind's timely new book, Graphic Refuge, explores recent narratives about a range of refugee experiences, from war, displacement, and perilous sea crossings to detention camps, resettlement schemes, and second-generation diasporas.
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I wish the newly-betrothed couple all the very best, but I'd kill for a movie in which a couple of low-brow comedians crashed this fancy event.
"Dishes included truffle agnolotti, chilled English pea soup and an American Wagyu bavette and grilled prawns."
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/u...
Magazine history: The opening of Slander (1957), one of a handful of Hollywood films responding to the post-Confidential boom in celebrity scandal magazines .
16.06.2025 15:16 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I missed the Drawn & Quarterly lunch of this fine piece of cultural history because I was out of town, then had to wait to get it while D&Q replenished their stock. It's a fascinating book, full of scenes I watched from the edges and people I still know.
16.06.2025 15:08 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0History of a Belgian nightlife magazine
b-i-n-g-o.be/article/out-...
Yves Montand interviewé par Denise Glaser dans le décor et le dispositif technique de l'émission "Discorama" 01/04/1967 - Claude James
📺 Les 20 et 21/11 prochain aura lieu à @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social un colloque sur les émissions de variétés à la TV que j'ai le plaisir de co-organiser avec G. Soulez, S. Denis et C. Rudent 🎶
🎥 ✨ Nous attendons vos propositions de communication jusqu'au 1er juillet
Plus d'infos: calenda.org/1264387
At the M+ Museum in Hong Kong - hard to imagine what this would involve
23.05.2025 07:51 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Barcelona announces a new, comprehensive plan for the night. Links to media reports (mostly in Spanish, but the official announcement is translated into English) may be found here. theurbannight.com
07.05.2025 17:54 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fascinating book.
30.04.2025 14:54 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nice when the mail brings new books by friends.
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