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Jules O’Dwyer

@julesod.bsky.social

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teaching French and Film at Cambridge | editor at world picture | author of The Seduction of Space (U Minnesota Press 2025) and Hotels (Fordham UP 2025)

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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · Jun 13

Image of boys covertly passing cigarettes between toilet stalls in Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite (1933). As they do so a Chaplin-esque shadow (belonging to actor Jean Dasté) begins appearing on the bathroom wall.

Men passing cigarette smoke through a small straw passing through a tiny (but glorious) hole in their prison cell walls in Jean Genet's Un Chant d'amour (1950).

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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jun 6

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jun 6

Amsterdam University Press is sending out letters today notifying series editors and authors that they have been taken over – or shall we say: annexed? – by Taylor & Francis. Not a good day. The evil empire of academic publishing is growing.

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UCFL - University Council For Languages @ucflangs.bsky.social · May 31

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Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · May 31

I’ve learned so much from @rymontgomery.bsky.social, who is doing excellent work on the French queer filmmaker Lionel Soukaz. À lire absolument

Ry Montgomery @rymontgomery.bsky.social · May 27

Grateful to share that this issue includes my article on the films of Lionel Soukaz, written before his passing earlier this year. There is still so much more to be said about his radical and inspiring vision for cinema, community and resistance - a vision that we all need, now more than ever.

Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social · May 27

Our May issue with a special section on 'Reading Le Manifeste conspirationniste (Seuil, 2022)' is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3...
@asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · May 31

Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · May 29

Brilliant keynote for our graduate symposium delivered by an old friend, Damien Pollard. A fascinating theorisation of the voice in sound cinema, from the dubbed voices that haunt the Italian giallo to the voiceover MCs of Ugandan ‘wakaliwood’

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · May 20

🌿 On Friday 30 May 2025, @maguiregeoff.bsky.social and @julesod.bsky.social host 'Sexual ecologies: Space, nature and queer cinema', a workshop focussing on the queer turn in ecocritical media.
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Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · May 12

Almost ready to launch Hotels. If you’re around London on Wednesday evening, please come join: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/hotels-...

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Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · May 9

Check out the CFP for this year’s World Picture conference hosted in collaboration w/ brilliant colleagues at UvA @jacobengelberg.bsky.social @rhysteven.bsky.social & Abe Geil in November! necs.org/news/calls-f...

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · Mar 11

Excellent new titles out today:

Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film by @joshuagooch.bsky.social

The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema by @julesod.bsky.social

Book cover of Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film by Joshua Gooch. Red-tinted face of horned bull, balefully staring straight out. Title above and author below in gold type.

Book cover of The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema by Jules O'Dwyer. Film still of theater interior with sparse patrons watching a person before a white screen. Around still is white text on purple field.

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Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · Nov 19

second day of ‘Models’ conference with WP & ICI, Berlin. Such a pleasure to be in presence of such brilliant friends and colleagues .

Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · Nov 17

hugely inspiring first day of World Picture conference ‘23 at the ICI, Berlin

Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · Oct 24

Details of this year’s World Picture conference at the ICI, Berlin are now out here: www.ici-berlin.org/events/model... registration opens 1 November. Hope to see you there!

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Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · Oct 16

reminder that World Picture ‘23 takes place at the ICI, Berlin on 17-18 November. Keynotes by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky and Final Party / Barry Johnston. (free) registration opens Nov 1. see you there 👀

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Jules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · Sep 6

world picture Issue 14 on theme of ‘Spell’ (Summer 2023) is now live on our new site. Ten new pieces, plus info on our upcoming conference: worldpicturejournal.com

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