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Matthew Sorrento
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Editor of FilmInt Online and Retreats from Oblivion: Journal of NoirCon / Film Studies Lecturer, Rutgers-Camden / Cerebral Palsy Parent / Becoming Nosferatu: Stories Inspired by Silent German Horror, now available from BearManor Media
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · Apr 23
New listing for my new story collection from #BearManorMedia, co-edited with Gary D. Rhodes, and call for press inquiries ( #bookreviews, interviews, features)
#horror #silentfilm #horrorfiction #sf #fantasy #noir
Now Available – Becoming Nosferatu: Stories Inspired by Silent German Horror, edited by Matthew Sorrento and Gary D. Rhodes - FilmInt.nu
A new collection featuring stories and poems in the tradition of Nosferatu and other silent expressionist classics….” Becoming Nosferatu: Stories Inspired by Silent German Horror, edited by Matthew So...
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 1d
Harrowing – no one rests until this stops.
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When a 50s star headed into the New Hollywood like a bullet
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 6d
Silver spoons, and non-stop McNugget binging
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 6d
My first exposure to Groucho, when I caught reruns on basic cable in the early 90s. I laughed non-stop, soon seeking out the early Bro. films….
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 6d
#JohnWaters and #TraciLords introduce #surfrock trio #TheTrashwomen www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0v...
The Trashwomen Live full set Burger Boogaloo 2016 with John Waters and Traci Lords
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 7d
Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 7d
Donnie Donuts McDrumpf
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 7d
MovieFanFare had a great article about Dwight Frye (“Man with 1000 Watt Eyes”) that’s sadly no longer up – need to dig into the Int Archive….
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 7d
Chaney is a treat – the lead in a recent production of Deane and Balderston’s play at #RitzTheatreNJ did a nice tribute of Chaney Jr.
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 7d
Buster Keaton in "Film" - BOTD
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Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social · 22d
"Undocumented in the U.S. South: How Youth Navigate Racialization in Policy and School Contexts" by Sophia Rodriguez

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#Immigration #Undocumented #Education #Children #Politics #South
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 11d
Next on the shortlist: Maggie Hennefeld's Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema

Congrats Maggie and @columbiaup.bsky.social (also again!)
Death by Laughter | Columbia University Press
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate—or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would ha... | CUP
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NPR @npr.org · 10d
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Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 15d
Happy #GospelHeritageMonth!

In-depth & powerful, Kay Norton's SALLIE MARTIN, MOTHER OF GOSPEL MUSIC tells the story of one woman’s role in shaping the music and business of Black gospel.
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Sallie Martin, Mother of Gospel Music Author: Kay Norton
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 11d
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 12d
This is true.
A post from Dan Rather (@DanRather): The reality is we have a sharp partisan divide in this country. And that divide is largely over reality.
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 12d
New on FilmInt Online – George Toles’ on BALL OF FIRE:

“Expressive objects abound in the world of Ball of Fire...a door becomes more charged with significance if we are led to assume that the room behind it contains an armed criminal….”

#filmsky #hollywood #stanwyck

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Lanie Lanowitz @pressingstories.bsky.social · 13d
Just outside the entrance to Reno’s Nevada Museum Of Art 🩵

#art #cairn #statue #human #humanity #grief #eastcoastkin #photography #stones #truth
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𝙹*𝚊𝚍𝚘𝚛𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚐𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎 🍏 @artmyoldfriend.bsky.social · 13d
“The Weight of Grief” by Celeste Roberge
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 13d
The author of FOXFIRE publishes a novel called FOX – intriguing….
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 15d
Monster Bash (Williams, 1998) – at @burythehatchet.bsky.social Axe Throwing, Cherry Hill, NJ #pinball @pinballmap.com #horror #universalmonsters
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 15d
Never finish a paragraph without it. ✔️
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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · 15d
The semi-colon is an essential tool for any serious writer.

Use of the semi-colon has apparently halved in the last 20 years. Yet it is key to great prose style and we should lament its decline.

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The semi-colon is an essential tool for any serious writer
Use of the semi-colon has apparently halved in the last 20 years. Yet it is key to great prose style and we should lament its decline
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Matthew Sorrento @msorrento.bsky.social · 15d
Liquified Aglio e Olio
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