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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 13d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · 13d

Book Launch: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. Thurs 30th Oct 2025. All Welcome!

Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford).

colourandfilm.com/cfps/

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · Jul 9

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.

mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · Jun 2

The Film Atlas edited by James Layton and Crystal Kui is online. Amazing to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Tinting and Toning combinations used to colour black-and-white film stocks for this. www.filmatlas.com/entry/453

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · Jun 2

The Film Atlas was launched at the Nitrate Picture Show May 2025! An open access visual guide - with high res film fragments - from motion picture film formats, soundtracks & color processes. Edited by James Layton &Crystal Kui for FIAF & the George Eastman Museum. www.filmatlas.com/explore

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · May 29

A recording of the book launch for Feeling Colour is online m.youtube.com/watch?v=NsGh... Author Bregt Lameris (Open Universiteit, Nl), was joined by Joshua Yumibe (MSU) & Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews). Thanks to the speakers and all who joined us @baftss.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Book Launch: Bregt Lameris, Feeling Colour, Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture 1950s-1960s

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · May 27

Day 3: the Colour Fantastic Revisited conference. Film archives & approaches to restoration. From Cine Arte de San Marcos, to Adeline Law’s amazing work on Dufaycolour in the Netherlands, Bin Li on differences in the Desmet method & a collaborative project on managing analogue film fading digitally

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · May 26

Day2: The Colour Fantastic Revisited at the EYE Filmmuseum: Li-Chen Kuo’s amazing presentation about the silver retention process for colour film in Tokyo film labs, followed by hand painted experimental films, and Kirsten Moana Thompson on colour lighting in Disney’s nighttime entertainments.

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · May 26

The Colour Fantastic Revisited: EYE Filmmuseum, Joshua Yumibe and Sarah Street speaking about the work of Steve McQueen & John Akomfrah. Joined by Kirsten Mairead Gill and Allyson Nadia Field on films by Edward Owen and Crystal Z Campbell www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme...

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · May 25

EYE International Film Conference 2025. The Colour Fantastic Revisited. The ethics of colourisation, global film , Bombay Film Color, and Mieke Bal’s lecture on colour as moving matter in installation and video art.

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BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social · May 19

Registration open: Colour Fantastic Revisited: Across Global Histories, Theories, Aesthetics, Archives. 25-28 May 2025. The event is organised by EYE Film Museum, Universities of Amsterdam & Utrecht with Colour in Film (Colour Group GB &HTW Berlin) www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme... @baftss.bsky.social

Eye International Conference 2025 | Eye Filmmuseum

The museum for film and the art of the moving image in The Netherlands. Visit the exhibition or cinema and discover our collection with more than 60.000 films.

www.eyefilm.nl

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · May 19

Online: 3-4:15pm Friday 23 May. Bregt Lameris’ (Open Universiteit, NL) will speak about her new book on Feeling Colour in conversation with Josh Yumibe (Michigan State) and Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews).

Register: colourandfilm.com/cfps/

All welcome.

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Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social · May 4

a fascinating piece on historical photography and identity as a key to expand histories

Joanne Fuchs 🗺🍎 @geojo22.bsky.social · May 2

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When a Historian Saw This Haunting Photograph of a Nameless Native Girl, She Decided She Had to Identify Her

In 1868, Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers. But her identity—and her life story—remained unknown for more than a century

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · May 1

Looking forward to the online book launch of Bregt Lameris’ ‘Feeling Colour’ in discussion with Lucy Fife Donaldson (St Andrews) and Joshua Yumibe (Michigan State) @openbookpublish.bsky.social
3:00-4:15pm (London) Friday 23 May 2025
Further details & registration colourandfilm.com/cfps/

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · Apr 28

FIAF 2025 Symposium ‘Film Archives Beget Films’ has begun. More information about the programme and exhibitors is online. www.cinematheque.qc.ca/en/fiaf-2025... great to have the opportunity to present online

Congress FIAF 2025

The Cinémathèque québécoise’s mission is to acquire, document and preserve the world’s audiovisual heritage, with an emphasis on Quebec and Canadian works as well as international animation, and to ma...

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Sarah Street @sarahstreet.bsky.social · Apr 4

My latest article arising from the STUDIOTEC project on the dangers of working in film studios. It's Open Access so read for free!
doi.org/10.1080/0143...

This Studio is Dangerous! Hazards of Working in British Film Studios in the 1930s and 1940s

This article examines the high number of fires in British film studios which occurred in the 1930s and 1940s. The reasons for studios’ vulnerability to fires, and other workplace accidents, are exa...

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Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social · Mar 8

Bregt discusses more of her work on Teaching Colour here m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw9q...

Teaching Colour Seminar, March 2024

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · Mar 6

OUT NOW: Feeling Colour by Bregt Lameris! Explore how midcentury cinema's vibrant colours reshaped sensory engagement, emotions & cultural perceptions. Blending media studies, biology & emotion theory, this book is perfect for film scholars & beyond! Discover here: buff.ly/FNZSMs4

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RPS Historical Group @rpshistgroup.bsky.social · Mar 5

Our new @rpshistgroup.bsky.social promo card with QR code, website and social media links.

Please like and share with #photohistory friends and fellow enthusiasts.