Nora Gilbert
@noragilbert.bsky.social
Prof. of old British novels and old Hollywood movies
Why the hell of 'It's a Wonderful Life's' Pottersville is extra terrifying this Christmas
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Why the hell of 'It's a Wonderful Life's' Pottersville is extra terrifying this Christmas
By Nora Gilbert, University of North TexasAlong with millions of others, I’ll soon be taking 2 hours and 10 minutes out of my busy holiday schedule to sit down and watch a movie I’ve seen countless ti...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Why the hell of 'It's a Wonderful Life's' Pottersville is extra terrifying this Christmas
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Here's a new piece I wrote for @theconversation.com about the dystopian Pottersville sequence of #It'saWonderfulLife and how it reflects the current political hellscape we're in but also points toward what we need to do to get out of it.
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The dystopian Pottersville in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is starting to feel less like fiction
Frank Capra’s dark vision of corruption and greed highlights both the dangers of concentrated power and the quiet effectiveness of collective action.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here's a new piece I wrote for @theconversation.com about the dystopian Pottersville sequence of #It'saWonderfulLife and how it reflects the current political hellscape we're in but also points toward what we need to do to get out of it.
theconversation.com/the-dystopia...
theconversation.com/the-dystopia...
Happy to have this new piece out in @publicbooks.bsky.social today about political #gaslighting, a lost version of the play #Gaslight, and how the latter can help us reframe the way we think about and push back against the former!
In 2023, @noragilbert.bsky.social uncovered a synopsis of a lost version of "Gaslight" in the MGM archives. This version's different ending is a lesson in radical solidarity—and, Gilbert argues, it should change the way we think of "gaslighting" as a term.
The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed - Public Books
The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Happy to have this new piece out in @publicbooks.bsky.social today about political #gaslighting, a lost version of the play #Gaslight, and how the latter can help us reframe the way we think about and push back against the former!
Happy to share that the collection I've co-edited with Diana Bellonby and Tara MacDonald, "Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice," will be published by SUNY Press next year. We've put together a really fabulous group of essays by a fabulous group of women; go read them when you can!
April 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Happy to share that the collection I've co-edited with Diana Bellonby and Tara MacDonald, "Victorian Gaslighting: Genealogy of an Injustice," will be published by SUNY Press next year. We've put together a really fabulous group of essays by a fabulous group of women; go read them when you can!
Keep forgetting I have a Blue Sky acct, but if FB is going to go the way of X, maybe I should come BS more often. To that end: please check out my article on Bette Davis in the current issue of Screen, if you're into that kind of thing... doi.org/10.1093/scre...
‘Women with careers should be shot!’: Bette Davis and the unwomaning threat of female stardom
From the time the Hollywood film industry first arrived on the popular culture scene, it has shown a remarkably strong penchant for telling stories about i
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January 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Keep forgetting I have a Blue Sky acct, but if FB is going to go the way of X, maybe I should come BS more often. To that end: please check out my article on Bette Davis in the current issue of Screen, if you're into that kind of thing... doi.org/10.1093/scre...
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Attn, attn: The very special issue of Studies in the Novel
Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel
is OUT!
so lovely to co-edit w @megaplex.bsky.social and big thanks to @noragilbert.bsky.social & Tim Boswell @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel
is OUT!
so lovely to co-edit w @megaplex.bsky.social and big thanks to @noragilbert.bsky.social & Tim Boswell @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
December 28, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Attn, attn: The very special issue of Studies in the Novel
Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel
is OUT!
so lovely to co-edit w @megaplex.bsky.social and big thanks to @noragilbert.bsky.social & Tim Boswell @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel
is OUT!
so lovely to co-edit w @megaplex.bsky.social and big thanks to @noragilbert.bsky.social & Tim Boswell @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
Still feel like a bit of a fish out of water here on bluesky, but we just adopted a ridiculously cute puppy yesterday and it seems like the only responsible thing to do is to share this pic of his sweet face as widely possible. I am so very in love with Henry the Dog!
September 6, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Still feel like a bit of a fish out of water here on bluesky, but we just adopted a ridiculously cute puppy yesterday and it seems like the only responsible thing to do is to share this pic of his sweet face as widely possible. I am so very in love with Henry the Dog!