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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 22h

The @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social conference schedule is online and it looks amazing!

#FanStudies

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FSNNA 2025 Conference News

FSNNA PRESENTS:REPUTATION: Influence, Power, and Capital October 23-26, 2025 FSNNA2025 Conference Program TWO-PAGE SPREAD PROGRAM SINGLE PAGE PROGRAM ACCESSIBLE PROGRAM ...

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Ashley Carter @ashleycarter.bsky.social · 22h

Disney World will update the Elsa, Anna and Kristoff animatronics in Frozen Ever After at EPCOT early next year. For the refresh, the animatronics will ditch the projection faces and get a look inspired by the figures featured at World of Frozen in Hong Kong Disneyland.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

It's staggering how quickly a 2013 Hollywood speculative sci-fi romance movie became a documentary. I guess props to Spike Jonze for nailing it

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends

AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes

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Shakespeare Institute @shakesinstitute.bsky.social · 4d

📣Check out our brilliant Dr Erin Sullivan's new article, just published in 'Adaptation' (@adaptstudies.bsky.social)🎉🎉🎉
'Adaptation as reception—or, Lady Bird as The Tempest': academic.oup.com/adaptation/a...

#Shakespeare #Adaptation #Ladybird #GretaGerwig #TheTempest #Publications

Adaptation as reception—or, Lady Bird as The Tempest

Abstract. The idea that audiences are a crucial part of the adaptation process is widely acknowledged, and yet research exploring reception as an engine of

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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 6d

Mattel is seeing double with the latest Monster High Skullector release arriving next week: Lupita Nyong'o's Adelaide and Red from Jordan Peele's US.

‘Monster High’ Sees Double with Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Adelaide and Red Skullector Dolls

Mattel and Monster High are seeing double for the latest Skullector doll release: Adelaide and her doppelganger Red from Jordan Peele’s Us. Red and Adelaide are ready to dance into your home when this...

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 7d

The English Department at Hunter College, CUNY is very happy to announce a Tenure Track position in #Medieval British Literature at the Assistant Professor level. Applications from scholars in interdisciplinary and/or global approaches are especially encouraged to apply.

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Jobs | City University of New York

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 7d

Periodic reminder that we have a YouTube archive of talks, video essays, and other adaptation-adjacent academic content! www.youtube.com/@association...

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 8d

The Very First Film Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a Thomas Edison Production (1910)

The story of humans creating monstrous beings in their image may have perennial relevance, even if it seems specific to our contemporary cultural moment. What, after all, is Oscar Isaac’s AI inventor ...

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 9d

The Shifflet Brothers are brilliant. The people and creatures have astonishing detail, and so lifelike. The one below is plausible as a thing that could actually exist.

The Shiflett Brothers @shiflettbros.bsky.social · 9d

Elder God looking all handsome for his cover Amazing Figure Modeler Magazine cover appearance 😊

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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 10d

Terence Stamp Pre-Shot ‘Priscilla Queen Of The Desert 2’ Scenes Months Before He Died; Filmmaker Stephan Elliott Says Actor Had “Time Of His Life”

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Breaking Baz: Terence Stamp Pre-Shot ‘Priscilla Queen Of The Desert 2’ Scenes Months Before He Died; Filmmaker Stephan Elliott Says Actor Had “Time Of His Life”

Stephan Elliot tells Deadline that Terence Stamp spent his final months reprising his role as Bernadette for 'Priscilla Queen of the Desert 2'.

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FANGORIA @fangoria.bsky.social · 11d

FYI: The first-ever officially licensed ROCKY HORROR SHOW graphic novel, BRIDE OF ROCKY HORROR, is ready to shock and awe readers everywhere.

Exclusive: Return To The World of THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW With New Graphic Novel Sequel

The first-ever officially licensed ROCKY HORROR SHOW graphic novel, BRIDE OF ROCKY HORROR, is ready to shock and awe readers everywhere.

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Seda Öz @ssedaozz.bsky.social · 11d

📣 Join us for the first talk in our Fall World Literature Webinar Series!

Prof. Helga Lenart-Cheng: Telling Lives Across Borders

Oct 29 | 2PM NY / 7PM Paris / 9PM Istanbul

🔗 Register: udel.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#WorldLiterature #LifeWriting #Webinar

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 13d

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An Adapted Harry Potter Fanfic Is the Season's Most Anticipated Novel

Author SenLinYu explains the process they undertook to adapt their popular fanfiction Manacled into their debut novel Alchemised.

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ReDICo @redico.eu · 14d

Today we celebrate the inauguration of the Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies @uni-jena.de. Learn more about this important milestone highlighted by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology & Space in a profile article: www.geistes-und-sozialwissenschaften-bmbf.de/de/News-Einz...

Einzigartig: das neue ReDICo-Zentrum für Digitale Interkulturalität in Jena | Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften

Am 25. September 2025 eröffnet an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena das ReDICo-Centre for Digital Interculturality Studies, begleitet von der Konferenz â��Interkulturalität neu imaginierenâ��. W...

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SlashFilm @slashfilm.bsky.social · 14d

Joe Dante, the filmmaker behind movies like Gremlins, Piranha, The Howling, and The 'Burbs, has strong feelings about the restoration of cult films.

Why Restoring Cult Movies Is A Public Service, According To Legendary Horror Director Joe Dante [Exclusive] - SlashFilm

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 14d

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 19d

To Be Continued 5... comes to an end! THANKS to organizers @grossmjj.bsky.social, @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social, Con Verevis, & Tom Leitch, who has our best wishes for his pending retirement! Thanks also to hosts @kylemeikle.bsky.social & Steven Leyva @ U Baltimore.

To be continued in 2026! 🕰️

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Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social · 14d

Reading 📖, literacy, & critical thinking are probably the most valuable job skills in this moment of techno-fatalism and fascist hysteria.

Poems, Novels, & Memoirs are the strength training for the muscle of your imagination. Journalism is the cardio. Conversation the cooldown

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ALT: a girl with white hair is reading a book and holding a cup

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 17d

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Reimagining Frankenstein in the 21st Century, ed. Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan. For full call text & inquiries, email [email protected]

Opening text for the call: "...Whether it be fears of technological overreach, social alienation, and the ethical boundaries of human ambition, or concerns over science, identity, and power in the broader sense, FRANKENSTEIN still retains its global allure and timeless appeal, owing significantly to its adaptations on screen and on television."

Further details about the call. Chapters for the volume have already been outlined. Inquiries and submissions should be directed to adaptingfrankenstein@gmail.com

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 17d

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Reimagining Frankenstein in the 21st Century, ed. Cenk Tan & Defne Ersin Tutan. For full call text & inquiries, email [email protected]

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 17d

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Daniel Cook @profdanielcook.bsky.social · 19d

Out soon: www.bloomsbury.com/us/gullivers...

Gulliver’s Afterlives

The first deep dive into the cultural afterlives of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, this book explores how the strange adventures of the 18th-century voyag…

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 19d

Please make sure you catch this new adaptation of A Christmas Carol - Christmas Karma, directed by Gurinder Chadha of Bend It Like Beckham. My partner wrote lyrics for several of the songs and I‘m incredibly excited to hear his work sung by this all-star cast!

Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · Aug 14

Looking forward to this (I think!): this year's Scroogical is Christmas Karma, a Bollywood-inspired, updated take on the Carol directed by Gurinder Chadha. Kunal Nayyar is Scrooge, Eva Longoria, Billy Porter, Boy George the spirits, and Hugh Bonneville features as the Ghost of Jacob Marley.

Character poster of Hugh Bonneville as the Ghost of Jacob Marley in Christmas Karma. A gaunt Marley, surrounded by large chains, looks into the distance.

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Seda Öz @ssedaozz.bsky.social · 26d

That means there are only two titles still looking for a reviewer:
🌹 The Roses (2025) — Jack Roach
⚔️ The Odyssey (2026) — Christopher Nolan

If either of these calls to you—or if there’s another upcoming adaptation you’re burning to review—email me at [email protected]

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 19d

To Be Continued 5... comes to an end! THANKS to organizers @grossmjj.bsky.social, @iainrobertsmith.bsky.social, Con Verevis, & Tom Leitch, who has our best wishes for his pending retirement! Thanks also to hosts @kylemeikle.bsky.social & Steven Leyva @ U Baltimore.

To be continued in 2026! 🕰️

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 20d

One day in the books, one more on the docket for To Be Continued...! Registration is still open: ubalt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
On tonight's program: panels on Franchises and Legacies...

Program text listing participants for the Franchises and Legacies panels of the fifth To Be Continued event.

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