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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Sep 2

I thought that was the whole reason the 🐝 had an S today!

Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Jun 13

New BFI Film Classics incoming this Fall from @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social
Hester Street by Julia Wagner
Hanyo (The Housemaid) by Youngmin Choe
Nashville by Heather Hendershot
Die Hard by Jon Lewis

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Apr 13

Thousands of shoes laid out in Dutch city of Leiden in memory of children killed by Israel in Gaza.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4dznck

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Apr 6

Aw Steve Cohan #SCMS #SCMS2025 @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Apr 5

At #SCMS #Scms2025? Interested in writing for our International Screen Industries series? Come by the @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social booth in the book exhibit between 12.45-2pm today to chat to me and series editors Alisa Perren and Yannis Tzioumakis.

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Apr 4

42 is middle aged, isn’t it?

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Apr 3

I’m here at #SCMS #SCMS2025 - come by the @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social booth to see our lovely new books and chat to me about your book ideas.

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Mar 21

I’ll be at #BAFTSS2025 next week - come by the @bloomsburymedia.bsky.social table in the book exhibit to say hello, check out our beautiful books & chat about your book projects.

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Feb 10

So excited to be working with @aperren.bsky.social and Yannis Tzioumakis, new editors of the BFI International Screen Industries series 👇🏼

Alisa Perren @aperren.bsky.social · Feb 10

Excited and honored to assume series co-editorship of BFI's International Screen Industries series with Yannis Tzioumakis.

Thrilled to expand on the fantastic work that founding series editors Michael Curtin and Paul McDonald undertook. Encourage you to check out prior books in the series! 1/2

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Jan 28

Sign to show your support for the Prince Charles Cinema

Prince Charles Cinema @princecharlescinema.com · Jan 28

#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

Save The Prince Charles Cinema

The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Jan 7

I’ve asked for a reprint!

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Jan 1

She’d moved to California I think long before we moved in - we have some memorabilia of her life here though.

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Jan 1

Dinah Sheridan lived in our house! Have I told you that?

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Hannah Hamad @hannahhamad.bsky.social · Dec 16

“Elphaba comes to realise the horrendible truth: the explanations being offered up by those she previously trusted for the changes taking place at the university are a crock of Dear Old Shiz. HE in Oz is shrinking. We loathe it all.” 💚🩷

#HigherEdIsShrinking

blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Academic life on the big screen | LSE Higher Education

We asked nine film studies academics for their top picks of movies that feature academic life. From The Birds to Wicked, here are their recommendations.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Dec 16

Jon Lewis introducing ‘The Godfather, Part II’ at the lovely Garden Cinema this Saturday

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Rebecca Barden @rebbarden.bsky.social · Dec 3

Join me and Dana Polan for a Bloomsbury Lecture on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the New (and Newer New) Hollywood, this Thursday 5th at 11am EST, 4pm UK time. Registration is free via this link: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Bloomsbury Lecture: Close Encounters of the Third Kind between 70s New Hollywood and the ’Newer New’ Hollywood. After registering, you will receive a confir...

Professor Dana Polan examines how Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) stands between what some writers term the "New Hollywood" of the first part of the decade — a Hollywood devoted to gritty ta...

zoom.us

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