Michelle E. Moore
@memoore6.bsky.social
Professor Film and Lit, Author of Chicago and the Making of American Modernism (Bloomsbury Academic, Historicizing Modernism Series), coeditor Refocus: The Films of John Waters and Refocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (EUP).
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ReFocus: The Films of John Waters
ReFocus: The Films of John Waters
edinburghuniversitypress.com
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
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
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#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
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Folks, if your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask them to buy a copy. Most have a convenient form and will let you know when it comes in. If your library offers ILL, they can even borrow books from other libraries.
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Folks, if your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask them to buy a copy. Most have a convenient form and will let you know when it comes in. If your library offers ILL, they can even borrow books from other libraries.
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Only Canada knows how to do it right...
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Only Canada knows how to do it right...
"Art opens up what is possible."
November 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"Art opens up what is possible."
And we were in skirts following all of the protocol from the Chronicle so we could magically think our way into jobs.
One school had a suite so there was at least not a bed in the room.
One had me sit on the bed.
And these were the schools that has spent $$$$ to avoid the cattle call of big ballrooms full of card tables far too close to each other.
One had me sit on the bed.
And these were the schools that has spent $$$$ to avoid the cattle call of big ballrooms full of card tables far too close to each other.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
November 16, 2025 at 8:20 PM
And we were in skirts following all of the protocol from the Chronicle so we could magically think our way into jobs.
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
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Sunday to Wednesday! Quentin Tarantino and John Waters’ idol Tura Satana (cult icon and burlesque legend, star of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) is honored with a posthumous legacy documentary narrated by Margaret Cho directed by Cody Jarrett (Sugarboxx)!
TURA! - the new, kick ass Tura Satana doc
Oct 26 thru 29 Sun to Wed 8:00pm only!
buff.ly
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Sunday to Wednesday! Quentin Tarantino and John Waters’ idol Tura Satana (cult icon and burlesque legend, star of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) is honored with a posthumous legacy documentary narrated by Margaret Cho directed by Cody Jarrett (Sugarboxx)!
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My copies arrived! So wonderful to finally see Refocus: the Films of John Waters in print.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My copies arrived! So wonderful to finally see Refocus: the Films of John Waters in print.
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"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong
Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975
Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975
October 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
"She is the dream actress that every director should have." —Gillian Armstrong
Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975
Rest in peace to the great Diane Keaton, fearless and unique, a dream actress indeed. 📷 Norman Seeff, Los Angeles, 1975
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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
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
ReFocus: The Films of John Waters
ReFocus: The Films of John Waters
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
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
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
ReFocus: The Films of John Waters
ReFocus: The Films of John Waters
edinburghuniversitypress.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
#johnwaters #camp #LGBTQ #film #movies #cult
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Reposted by Michelle E. Moore
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
October 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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
My copies arrived! So wonderful to finally see Refocus: the Films of John Waters in print.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My copies arrived! So wonderful to finally see Refocus: the Films of John Waters in print.
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
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
Use the 30% discount code, NEW30. #johnwaters @edinburghup.bsky.social
edinburghuniversitypress.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-refocus...
Use the 30% discount code, NEW30. #johnwaters @edinburghup.bsky.social
And I'm delighted to have it included. These are both excellent volumes.
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
February 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
And I'm delighted to have it included. These are both excellent volumes.
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Accurate depiction of what revision sometimes feels like.
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
February 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Accurate depiction of what revision sometimes feels like.
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I'm thrilled to be offering this class, which runs through May, and coediting the first scholarly volume on Waters.
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/coll...
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
December 4, 2024 at 3:36 PM
I'm thrilled to be offering this class, which runs through May, and coediting the first scholarly volume on Waters.
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/coll...
baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/coll...
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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’
‘I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath’
January 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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’
‘I discovered that if one looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath’
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"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.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
"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
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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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January 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
From the archives: David Lynch considers the dark side of fifties suburbia.
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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:
bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3...
bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3...
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
bloody-disgusting.com
December 23, 2024 at 6:09 PM
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:
bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3...
bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3...
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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...
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.
www.slashfilm.com
December 24, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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...
www.slashfilm.com/1741062/nosf...
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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...
December 18, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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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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...
December 8, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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...