Dr Ellen Wright 🎬

I worked in a library whilst doing my PhD. This was everyday at work. 😑

Bratmobile at The Belasco

What a beautiful street!

El Coyote

Research ready...

Double bill (before phones were turned OFF)at @newbeverly.bsky.social

Monarch butterflies EVERYWHERE!

Market strolling

Harvesting, ready to go visit family

What?!?

Went to the Tail O'the Pup (of LA Story fame and one of the last remaining 'ducks' in the city) and then on, through a *secret door,* (squeals with excitement) to the glorious Lucky Tiki cocktail bar.
#LA

Excited for the roundtable discussion with the curators of the upcoming #Jaws exhibition at @academymuseum.bsky.social
##HWC2025
#Hollywood

Katherine Fusco's paper on Hal Roach's female comedy duos.
#HWC2025
#hollywood
#filmstudies

Really enjoyed Noura Alaboudi's paper on the accusations of communism made against Hazel Scott and Lena Horne
#HWC2025
#hollywood #filmstudies

Huge auditorium (we are sat half way into the room) and a packed audience for the 75th anniversary 4k restoration of Sunset Boulevard. Exciting stuff.
I'm ready for my close-up...
#THC2025
#Hollywood

Brain is going 100 MPH but that may be jetlag!

cinema magazines, Adrienne McLean on marketing facial types in 30s Hollywood & Shelley Stamp on noir aesthetics in 40s women's advertising
3rd Panel: in conversation with Andrea Kalas - cinema archive expert from BFI, Paramount, UCLA, iron mountain, dreamworks and Discovery...

work with Hitchcock & excellent response from Emily Carman (whose book, 'Independent Stardom' I loved)
2nd Panel: Jennifer Lynn Peterson on the outdoor girl in 20s cinema, Laura Isobel Serna on photographs of US stars being social in Mexico in Mexican...

1st panel: @_lisawithans on the false svengali narrative around Minnelli & Garland, @cathylomax on reappraising Jennifer Jones, Lucy Bolton on Carole Lombard's...

#hollywoodconference kicked off with 3 SUPERB panels...

Convo with aca friends re what academic conferences should offer included:
🎓pool party
🎓Karaoke and/or disco
🎓nap room with gong bath
🎓bouncy castle or trampoline
🎓plant/seed exchange
🎓Crochet/crafting/lego corner
🎓creche, obviously.
Any other suggestions?

Day 1 #DWFTH.
Shelley Stamp: Female Audiences and The Noir Aesthetic
Dimini Kulkarni: 'Cinema Reception as History: Women Audiences in Early Post-Independence India'
Monia Acciari: “Waste” that matters. Pictures in the gravel and Bottom-up histories of women entrepreneur in peripheral India.

Wrote a piece for the THE

I feel seen...

Hey! @thejacobmosha.bsky.social how are you doing? Well I hope!

I wasn't thick, I'd just not had the opportunity to excel.
I wholeheartedly support the review of the criteria used for contextual university submissions. There's so many kids out there with such amazing potential who just don't get the chance.

This was me, my Grandpa & my Grandma at my graduation.
Having a degree entirely changed my life & prospects. I didn't think a degree was for the likes of me. I didn't understand it. I didn't know what a seminar was, or a First. But once I got onto the course (a miracle in itself) I realised...

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