Another book for #ICBD #InternationalChildrensBookDay is this essay collection edited by Dominic J. Nardi & Keli Fancher on #Japan 's #StudioGhibli as #adaptations of children's books such as "Howl's Moving Castle", "Earthsea", "Anne of Green Gables" & more

#AdaptationStudies #FilmStudies

🆒 A Oficina de História e Imagem do IHC vai regressar em Abril, com a sessão "'Becoming Opaque' — A opacidade como resistência ao estereótipo fílmico". O anfitrião será a Tigre de Papel e a oradora a nossa @paulaalbuquerque

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/ohi-2026-01/

#Histodons #CulturalStudies #FilmStudies #HistóriaEImagem #EstudosFílmicos #EstudosCulturais #Cinema #Colonialismo #Colonialism

#AcademicJob | #PostDoc

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (EOI)

📍University of Aberdeen, UK

EOI for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships (2026–27). Open to early career researchers (PhD awarded 2024–2027) in #music, #film #visualculture, #folklore, and #ethnology, including interdisciplinary projects.

Deadline: 08/06/2026

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/schemes/postdoctoral-fellowships/

#Musicology #FilmStudies #Ethnomusicology

Artificial Intelligence and Film Studies: Midjourney versus CAMELS

CAMELS? As an English teacher, I’ve done a lot of analytical film studies over the years. The biggest problem is always students’ grasp of technical language: film analysis tends to drift off into character and plot description, even more so than for written texts. So, when I teach film, I lean more into my Media Studies background. In the UK I completed my undergrad in English and American Literatures. When I trained to teach, it was in English, Media, and Drama. Then, when I first […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/03/29/artificial-intelligence-and-film-studies-midjourney-versus-camels/

#AcademicJob

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Film Studies (Performing Arts)

📍Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Teaching across BA and MA programmes in Performing Arts with a focus on film studies, combining theoretical and practical training (filmmaking, editing, sound, screenwriting).

https://academicpositions.com/ad/universite-grenoble-alpes/2026/senior-lecturer-filmmaking-practices/245852
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu

#FilmStudies #PerformingArts #CinemaStudies #HigherEducation #VisualCulture

Senior Lecturer - Filmmaking Practices - Academic Positions

Teach film studies & filmmaking workshops (screenwriting, editing, sound) in BA/MA Performing Arts; supervise Master’s theses; develop industry partnerships;...

Like many military-themed films, the films Top Gun, Transformers and several of the Marvel films were supported by the U.S. Department of Defense. But this support comes at a price: Producers need to follow several rules when working with the DoD on a film project, and the Pentagon censors various topics.

Laura Herges demonstrates how one such topic, homosexuality, has been suppressed by both the film industry and DoD regulations for several decades 👇

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/6765

#FilmStudies

From the First Gay Kiss to “Woke Garbage” – the Department of Defense’s Censorship of Queerness in Film

by Laura Herges May 16, 1929, would go down in history as the birthday of the world’s most prestigious awards...

HCA Graduate Blog

Book 3), "Toxic Nostalgia on Screen" is an essay collection ed. by Simon Bacon on how the past haunts and feeds on us. 21st c #popculture & #Gothic / #Horror examples illustrate the toxic "undead memory"

#CulturalStudies #MemoryStudies #FilmStudies #LiteraryStudies

Interregnum interviews Dr Jacob Engelberg on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happens when bisexuality breaks the rules.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/the-dangerous-thrill-of-destabilisation-interview-with-dr-jacob-engelberg-on-cinemas-of-bisexual-transgression/

#bisexual #queer #bi #film #bisexualrepresentation #birepresentation #cinema #transgression #kino #filmstudies #queerfilm #queerfilms #LGBT #womeninfilm #representation #interview #academic #media #indiemedia #indiefilm #avantgarde

📖 @paulaalbuquerque is the author of the chapter ‘Glitching Colonial Film Archives Digital File Manipulation and Ecological Analogue Processing as Decolonial Anarchival Strategies,’ included in the book 'Slow Technology Reader', edited by Carolyn F. Strauss.

👉 https://valiz.nl/en/publications/slow-technology-reader

#Histodons #FilmArchives #Anarchive #Colonialism #ColonialFilms #Cinema #Arquivos #Colonialism #FilmStudies

#newissue 44 & 45 of #CinémaetCie, #film and #mediastudies journal

Where volume 45 depicts another #HistoryOfCinema beyond the supposed hegemony of #Hollywood, volume 44 analyzes #DecolonialPractices in #WorldCinema, such as that of #Palestine, #Uruguay, and #Cameroon.

⬇️ Available here in #OpenAccess: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/cinemaetcie/issue/archive?mtm_campaign=mastodon

@cultura #filmstudies #movies #culture