James C. Taylor

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FTV’s James C. Taylor has a new chapter published on the Lovecraftian image in Film and Television from an edited collection titled Authenticity and Adaptation. Chapter and collection seen here modelled by James’ cat:

I take it you'll be trying for tickets?

Looks like my book, The Superhero Blockbuster, is currently available at 30% discount - just in time for the release of the new Superman film!

Our panel on adaptation and television studies had an interesting mix of ideas. I spoke about what the fields could offer one another, @jamesctaylor.bsky.social spoke about intertextuality, hierarchies and televisual MCU adaptations and Liam Burke spoke about kids TV adaptations, policy & culture.

I've just finished supervising an undergraduate dissertation on A Christmas Carol adaptations and am starting supervising one on Robert Eggers. I didn't expect these two projects to suddenly become so directly connected!

Jose Arroyo in Conversation with James Taylor on ….THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE AND MEANING Just as the Superhero film loses centrality in the culture there comes a book that is not only a brilliant accounting of the various strategies of adaptations the mode engages with but also offers …

A new podcast conversation between Jose Arroyo and James Taylor, focusing on James’ new book, ‘The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning’. Listen here: notesonfilm1.com/2025/06/06/j...

Thanks so much @josearroyo.bsky.social for having me on the podcast and asking such conceptually interesting questions about my book The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning.

I hope others enjoy the resulting discussion of writing process, the book's content and its potential uses!

In a digital learning tools training session and I can reveal that @warwickfilmtv.bsky.social staff have super healthy favourite foods.

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Back in the UK after the Association of Adaptation Studies conference in Istanbul. Huge thanks to the organisers for a fantastic three days exploring adaptation and eating delicious mezze, hosted at a campus with an energy museum, some ducklings and, of course, their fair share of the city's cats.

Great first day at the Association of Adaptation Studies Conference in Istanbul. Saw some brilliant papers on AI and sound, presented on the Contemporary Screens panel, and ate Adaptation Cake. Have also obviously been befriending some of the city's beautiful cats.

Now we have @jamesctaylor.bsky.social talking on nostalgia and restoration and ‘serialised cinema’

So glad this survived Royal Mail's international post. Enjoy!

Oh no - Amazon didn't send you this, I did! (And looks like UK's Royal Mail managed to mess it up 😞). I hope the contents aren't too ruined.

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Isolation in ONE HOUR PHOTO (Mark Romanek, 2002) by Madeleine Lear This video essay aims to examine how isolation is portrayed visually within Mark Romanek’s 2002 film One Hour Photo. The film is a psychological thriller starring Robin Williams as Sy Parrish, a ph…

A superb video essay on Isolation in ONE HOUR PHOTO by Madeleine Lear: notesonfilm1.com/2025/05/14/i...

I love getting to see our students' video essays. Always some brilliant work!

My shiny new book, The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning, is currently 55% off on @upmississippi.bsky.social's website (along with all their other titles)! Bargains to be had if you're in the US and get free shipping. www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-...

My contributor's copy of Authenticity and Adaptation, edited by @stinaface.bsky.social, finally arrived 🎉. My chapter explores how different screen adaptations have negotiated the challenges of adapting the Lovecraftian image. Very much looking forward to reading the other chapters!

Exhibition wall showing title: FEAR IN THE BEDROOM. B+W illustration shows a bed with a zombie teddy on top and monster hands stretching out from underneath. Text below reads: "The relationship between childhood and horror has persisted throughout the history of youth culture, from fairy tales and nursery rhymes to the ongoing popularity of Halloween and recent worldwide phenomena like Five Nights at Freddy’s and Stranger Things. It takes the form of short stories, television series, films, books, magazines, comics, toys, music, video games and much more. For today’s youth, who are growing up in an age characterised by anxiety and instability, horror has the potential to help them understand the world around them, other people, and themselves. However, in the past, the meeting of children and horror has consistently attracted controversy due to unsupported perceptions that the genre is a harmful influence upon children and young people.     This exhibition is set up in the form of a child’s bedroom in the golden age of horror-related and horror-adjacent children’s ephemera from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. Despite ongoing debates about children’s access to horror, this 30-year period was one of plenty for the young horror fan, providing a myriad of products and memories, many of which are gathered here in this display.     The exhibition is not so much envisaged as a snapshot of a bedroom at a given moment in a given year, but rather as a time-capsule of children’s horror media in this period, an assembled archive collection of horror-themed products aimed at children in which objects, images and audio-visual items from the 70s rub shoulders with those of the 80s and 90s. This exhibition takes viewers through the history of children, youth and horror media, engaging visitors in the multifaceted world of horror through the eyes of a child. [continued in next image]

[continued form previous] "We invite our visitors to consider the relationship between innocence, play and horror that these exhibits encompass, to bathe nostalgically in their own memories of items both here and absent, and perhaps to introduce a new generation to horror toys, books and games of the past.     Beyond the controversies that have categorised the relationship between youth and horror, our aim is to offer a space of reflection in which we see horror imagery and iconic monsters removed from the narrative contexts of the films or shows which they inhabit and reconfigured as figures of play or pleasure. These sources of horror populated many bedrooms across the UK in these 30 years, sparking the imagination and creativity of young people in the most impactful and fondly remembered ways.  This exhibition is intended for all ages, but some of the items and images on display might cause distress in younger children. Parents and guardians are advised to exert caution. You’re welcome to interact with the exhibits, but please return them to where you found them so that other people can enjoy them, too.

From Goosebumps to gore: exhibition to explore horror genre and its younger audiences
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NewRelease: THE SUPERHERO BLOCKBUSTER: ADAPTATION, STYLE, AND MEANING by James C. Taylor is a detailed exploration of the adaptive practices, meanings, and industrial significance of popular superhero blockbusters. #ReadUP buff.ly/oUzKfxv

Fear in the Bedroom

Mine and @kte75.bsky.social's exhibition 'Fear on the Bedroom' opens in just over 2 weeks!
If you are in the Birmingham area please come along and revisit horror ephemera of the past through the eyes of a child
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

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My physical copies of my book - The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning - arrived today. It's now 100% a real tangible thing that exists in the world!

If you work in comics in the UK (including self publishing) I highly encourage you to read and sign the Comics Cultural Impact Collective’s proposal for a UK Comics Fund before they submit it to DCMS.

It’s very thorough! This fund could be game changing for comics in the UK.

UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

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Now through April 30 use code SCMS2025 at checkout for 30% off The Superhero Blockbuster by @jamesctaylor.bsky.social — featuring a cover I had the legal tightrope-walking thrill of illustrating with characters who are 'definitely' not copyrighted... probably: www.upress.state.ms.us/Collections/...