Dr Ellen Wright 🎬
@drellenwright.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Cinema & TV History. I specialise in material culture of film, classical era Hollywood & representations of gender, class & sexuality.
I love old Hollywood movies, cabaret, drag, cocktails & having adventures.
Available for media work.
I love old Hollywood movies, cabaret, drag, cocktails & having adventures.
Available for media work.
Lovely end to the week, working with Philippa, the Widening Participation team and a whole bunch of really energetic and engaged year 11 students, discussing genre and narrative and then pitching horror films.
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October 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Lovely end to the week, working with Philippa, the Widening Participation team and a whole bunch of really energetic and engaged year 11 students, discussing genre and narrative and then pitching horror films.
🎃 👻 🎬
🎃 👻 🎬
@mrjamesob.bsky.social presumably youve seen that you can now buy these beauties on etsy?
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social presumably youve seen that you can now buy these beauties on etsy?
Pleased myself all day. Paddling, ice cream, and reading in the sun. Lovely.
August 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Pleased myself all day. Paddling, ice cream, and reading in the sun. Lovely.
Bratmobile at The Belasco
July 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Bratmobile at The Belasco
Research ready...
July 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Research ready...
Double bill (before phones were turned OFF)at @newbeverly.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Double bill (before phones were turned OFF)at @newbeverly.bsky.social
Monarch butterflies EVERYWHERE!
July 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Monarch butterflies EVERYWHERE!
Market strolling
July 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Market strolling
Harvesting, ready to go visit family
July 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Harvesting, ready to go visit family
Went to the Tail O'the Pup (of LA Story fame and one of the last remaining 'ducks' in the city) and then on, through a *secret door,* (squeals with excitement) to the glorious Lucky Tiki cocktail bar.
#LA
#LA
July 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Went to the Tail O'the Pup (of LA Story fame and one of the last remaining 'ducks' in the city) and then on, through a *secret door,* (squeals with excitement) to the glorious Lucky Tiki cocktail bar.
#LA
#LA
Excited for the roundtable discussion with the curators of the upcoming #Jaws exhibition at @academymuseum.bsky.social
##HWC2025
#Hollywood
##HWC2025
#Hollywood
July 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Excited for the roundtable discussion with the curators of the upcoming #Jaws exhibition at @academymuseum.bsky.social
##HWC2025
#Hollywood
##HWC2025
#Hollywood
July 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Really enjoyed Noura Alaboudi's paper on the accusations of communism made against Hazel Scott and Lena Horne
#HWC2025
#hollywood #filmstudies
#HWC2025
#hollywood #filmstudies
July 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Really enjoyed Noura Alaboudi's paper on the accusations of communism made against Hazel Scott and Lena Horne
#HWC2025
#hollywood #filmstudies
#HWC2025
#hollywood #filmstudies
Huge auditorium (we are sat half way into the room) and a packed audience for the 75th anniversary 4k restoration of Sunset Boulevard. Exciting stuff.
I'm ready for my close-up...
#THC2025
#Hollywood
I'm ready for my close-up...
#THC2025
#Hollywood
July 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Huge auditorium (we are sat half way into the room) and a packed audience for the 75th anniversary 4k restoration of Sunset Boulevard. Exciting stuff.
I'm ready for my close-up...
#THC2025
#Hollywood
I'm ready for my close-up...
#THC2025
#Hollywood
#hollywoodconference kicked off with 3 SUPERB panels...
July 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
#hollywoodconference kicked off with 3 SUPERB panels...
Day 1 #DWFTH.
Shelley Stamp: Female Audiences and The Noir Aesthetic
Dimini Kulkarni: 'Cinema Reception as History: Women Audiences in Early Post-Independence India'
Monia Acciari: “Waste” that matters. Pictures in the gravel and Bottom-up histories of women entrepreneur in peripheral India.
Shelley Stamp: Female Audiences and The Noir Aesthetic
Dimini Kulkarni: 'Cinema Reception as History: Women Audiences in Early Post-Independence India'
Monia Acciari: “Waste” that matters. Pictures in the gravel and Bottom-up histories of women entrepreneur in peripheral India.
June 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Day 1 #DWFTH.
Shelley Stamp: Female Audiences and The Noir Aesthetic
Dimini Kulkarni: 'Cinema Reception as History: Women Audiences in Early Post-Independence India'
Monia Acciari: “Waste” that matters. Pictures in the gravel and Bottom-up histories of women entrepreneur in peripheral India.
Shelley Stamp: Female Audiences and The Noir Aesthetic
Dimini Kulkarni: 'Cinema Reception as History: Women Audiences in Early Post-Independence India'
Monia Acciari: “Waste” that matters. Pictures in the gravel and Bottom-up histories of women entrepreneur in peripheral India.
Wrote a piece for the THE
May 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Wrote a piece for the THE
This was me, my Grandpa & my Grandma at my graduation.
Having a degree entirely changed my life & prospects. I didn't think a degree was for the likes of me. I didn't understand it. I didn't know what a seminar was, or a First. But once I got onto the course (a miracle in itself) I realised...
Having a degree entirely changed my life & prospects. I didn't think a degree was for the likes of me. I didn't understand it. I didn't know what a seminar was, or a First. But once I got onto the course (a miracle in itself) I realised...
April 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
This was me, my Grandpa & my Grandma at my graduation.
Having a degree entirely changed my life & prospects. I didn't think a degree was for the likes of me. I didn't understand it. I didn't know what a seminar was, or a First. But once I got onto the course (a miracle in itself) I realised...
Having a degree entirely changed my life & prospects. I didn't think a degree was for the likes of me. I didn't understand it. I didn't know what a seminar was, or a First. But once I got onto the course (a miracle in itself) I realised...