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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · 4d

John Waters loves William Castle and followed in his footsteps with Odoroma! Castle is such an important filmmaker who doesn't always get the scholarly love he deserves.

Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · 4d

I'm so excited to announce that Refocus: The Films of John Waters is out! Use the discount code NEW 30 for 30% off on EUP's website. @edinburghup.bsky.social
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#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult

ReFocus: The Films of John Waters

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes Handcuffed by Federal Agents While Asking About Patient’s ICE Warrant at Hospital

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was detained by federal agents inside Humboldt Park Health, as tensions continue to rise between local residents and officials and immigration agents conducting enforcement...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 7d

I've thought a lot about the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex finds out that the droogs he used to rampage with are now policemen

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · 8d

And that's why it's now it's such a radical thing.

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · 8d

Would love to be on Writers on Film. What are the next steps to make this happen?

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · 22d

My copies arrived! So wonderful to finally see Refocus: the Films of John Waters in print.

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · 25d

I'm so excited to finally announce that ReFocus: The Films of John Waters is now available for pre-order on EUP's website:
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...

Use the 30% discount code, NEW30. #johnwaters @edinburghup.bsky.social

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · Feb 25

And I'm delighted to have it included. These are both excellent volumes.

Jennifer Nolan @jnolan.bsky.social · Feb 25

Alex Mitchell and I are delighted to have Michelle E. Moore’s review essay on our edition, The Complete Magazine Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921-1924 and David Earle’s excellent, Where All Good Flappers Go, included in this volume too! @vincennes.bsky.social

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · Feb 16

Accurate depiction of what revision sometimes feels like.

Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · Feb 16

Medieval scribes used a number of different methods to correct mistakes and omissions. This one used the figure of a man pulling the omitted portion of the text towards the place it belonged - 1st half of the 15th century, Brit. Lib, Arundel 38, f. 65r

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · Dec 4

I'm thrilled to be offering this class, which runs through May, and coediting the first scholarly volume on Waters.
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College credit for watching John Waters movies? There’s a class next spring.

A college course, a literary tribute, and an award are all on the horizon for Baltimore filmmaker John Waters.

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James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · Jan 16

When I’m struggling to write, I often go back to this David Lynch quote.

‘I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath’

My childhood was elegant homes, tree-lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America as it’s supposed to be. But on the cherry tree, there’s this pitch oozing out – some black, some yellow – and millions of red ants crawling all over it. I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · Jan 16

"Lynchian" is a fully realized and instantly comprehensible adjective, as concrete a one-word summation of an artist's aesthetic and worldview as has ever been associated with any artist in any medium. Things will forever be Lynchian, but there was only one David Lynch. #RIP

David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78

With such hallucinogenic masterworks as 'Eraserhead,' 'Blue Velvet,' 'Mulholland Drive,' 'Twin Peaks' and 'The Elephant Man,' he often left more questions than answers.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jan 16

From the archives: David Lynch considers the dark side of fifties suburbia.

BREAKING: David Lynch Has Thoughts on the Dark Side of Fifties Suburbia

That 1950s small-town thing, it’s different, and to catch that mood is important. It’s dreamy, that’s what it is. The 50s mood isn’t completely positive, though, and I always knew there was stuff g…

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · Jan 16

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David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78

Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · Jan 12

Now do dual credit.

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · Dec 23

Much has already been teased about Bill Skarsgård’s transformation as Count Orlok in #Nosferatu, but what about the vampire's bite? Robert Eggers explains the folk horror origins and sound design behind Count Orlok's feeding habits:
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How Classic Folk Vampires Inspired 'Nosferatu' Director Robert Eggers' Version of Count Orlok

Much has already been teased about Bill Skarsgård's Count Orlok in terms of appearance in Robert Eggers' Nosferatu, a new take on the classic 1922 vampire

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · Dec 24

ICYMI: I interviewed Robert Eggers to talk about #Nosferatu, vampires, and why awards bodies are so afraid of horror movies.

www.slashfilm.com/1741062/nosf...

Nosferatu Director Robert Eggers On Why Horror Movies Are Often Undervalued [Exclusive Interview] - SlashFilm

Robert Eggers tells us why horror films are often undervalued by audiences and the Academy Awards, and explains his take on the power of vampire movies.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · Dec 18

Peeps, I'm doing the consultation on this...it is onerous but I think it would help to even partially fill it out. A lot of my responses are basically "if I have to write pleading individual emails to grumpy heirs of literary estates then so should Microsoft" www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · Dec 8

Brilliantly put by Jeanette Winterson: ""And I began to realize that what we must not do is accept false choices, fake realities, imposed on us by other people. And for me, one of the things that books have done, literature's done, art has done is refuse those false choices, but rather...

Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · Dec 8

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The Guardian view on humanities in universities: closing English Literature courses signals a crisis

With degrees disappearing and reading rates plummeting, the arts face a critical moment in education and culture

www.theguardian.com

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · Dec 4

I'm thrilled to be offering this class and coediting the first scholarly volume on #johnwaters! #film #cinema #baltimore
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/coll...

College credit for watching John Waters movies? There’s a class next spring.

A college course, a literary tribute, and an award are all on the horizon for Baltimore filmmaker John Waters.

baltimorefishbowl.com

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · Dec 4

I'm thrilled to be offering this class, which runs through May, and coediting the first scholarly volume on Waters.
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/coll...

College credit for watching John Waters movies? There’s a class next spring.

A college course, a literary tribute, and an award are all on the horizon for Baltimore filmmaker John Waters.

baltimorefishbowl.com

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kate kush @whiskeysour.bsky.social · Nov 17

John Waters' upcoming film 'Liarmouth' with Aubrey Plaza is no longer happening, Waters stating that he has been told "we don't have a penny of the budget."
Source: World of Reel

#popculture #filmsky #johnwaters #aubreyplaza

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Scott Heim @scottheim.bsky.social · Nov 17

Parents, 2020s: "Ban drag queen story hour!"

Parents, 1970s: "Come over here, girls, and let Divine do your makeup!"

John Waters film goddess DIVINE applies lipstick to a young girl while other children watch

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Michelle E. Moore @memoore6.bsky.social · Nov 19

I'd be delighted to be added to this starter pack!