Centre for Film, Media, Discourse & Culture

Research group in the Faculty of Arts, Business & the Social Sciences / University of Wolverhampton

[Chris Hawkins @chris_hawkins]

My great guests on Thursday’s show are editors of the fantastic new book, ‘Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip Hop’ - Pop Prof @ProfKFairclough and Rock Doc @BenHalligan. Join us @BBC6Music

[King's Film Studies @kingsfilm]

🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 📷 ‘Global Circulations of Film Theory’ will be taking place 30-31st August 2024. Deadline for submitting proposals: 29 January 2024
More info: https://t.co/wwoYUbUiM2

[Benjamin Halligan @BenHalligan]

Tomorrow night @SODAmcr:
Diva! Feminist and Fierce – book launch with @ProfKFairclough @Sharadai @BenHalligan
& ultra-rare screening of 1997 Aaliyah tour documentary.
Tix free: https://t.co/WCn0UJzI2E
Get fabulous!!

[School of Digital Arts @SODAmcr]

🪩 DIVA: Feminist and Fierce – Book Launch
14 Nov 23, 6 - 7.30pm
SODA at @ManMetUni
Free, registration required

The editors of DIVA: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop explore the importance of the diva in the post-millennium cultural landscape: https://t.co/Ri6qa5d7CO

[Benjamin Halligan @BenHalligan]

recent books from me:

+ "Hotbeds of Licentiousness: The British Glamour Film and the Permissive Society"
https://t.co/pVDQ8NjArC
https://t.co/RWgfi4hQY0

+ "Politics of the Many"
https://t.co/2rpcfPspCb

+ "Adult Themes"
https://t.co/eNqfmBjpjJ

+ "Diva"
https://t.co/zmnjav3Nf2

[Benjamin Halligan @BenHalligan]

Thrilled to receive a copy of the *enormous* new @routledgebooks "Companion to Folk Horror" @RobCEdgar; my chapter on @genesis_band, taking in
#DavidBowie #JethroTull @CharterhouseSch
#LedZeppelin #JimmySavile #BenDover #DHLawrence #MarkFisher #Machynlleth #hogweed #OssieClark

[Benjamin Halligan @BenHalligan]

Obligatory new book selfies: @ProfKFairclough & @BenHalligan (& with @Sharadai & Nicole to follow!)

HOT off the press from @BloomsburyMus: https://t.co/zmnjav3Nf2

GLAMOROUS launch at the V&A "Diva" exhibition in Oct: https://t.co/Ehqlb3q8dn

... and way more coming on the book!

[Benjamin Halligan @BenHalligan]

I'm speaking at @V_and_A's "Diva" exhibition, 13 Oct, with @harrietannereed @ProfKFairclough @Sharadai, & Nicole Hodges Persley, further to our @BloomsburyAcad @BloomsburyMus book "Diva: Feminism & Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop". Details & booking (free): https://t.co/Ehqlb3q8dn

[BFI @BFI]

This Monday, join @EllieTomsett for a discussion about her new book, Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms: Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities.

Book now https://t.co/UcaKOZRiLU

[That's Me! @ThatsMePGR]

Hello everyone! If you're a WLV doctoral researcher keen on teaching/demonstrating roles, kindly send your CV and a cover letter to @WLV_DoctoralCol via [email protected]. The deadline is September 1st. Exciting opportunities await! 📚🎓

[Benjamin Halligan @BenHalligan]

Article I co-wrote with Laura Wilson in 2015 👇... v proud to have contributed to the emerging discourse reclaiming yesteryear's gay porn as a sociological access to the "earlier civilization" of pre-AIDS queer subcultures, and my thanks to @FrameworkN for supporting us in this!

[Centre for Film, Media, Discourse & Culture @CentreDiscourse]

Call for Proposals:
"The Films of Michael Cimino"
via @BenHalligan

"... this divisive figure: acclaimed and lionised, dismissed and demonised, and marginalised and forgotten thereafter, only to be haltingly reappraised shortly before his death... "

https://t.co/jngNCY0Ks5

[Centre for Film, Media, Discourse & Culture @CentreDiscourse]

Call for Proposals:
"The Films of Bernardo Bertolucci"
via @BenHalligan

"Bertolucci is remembered as a poet of the cinema, who blended eroticism with Marxism, whose cinema was rich and mysterious, revolutionary in both ideology and aesthetics..."

https://t.co/rZ6dGR2NGq

[Adult Themes @adultthemesX]

Chapters include:
"Paternalism, Bohemianism, and the X Certificate: The Party's Over and the Pre-Swinging Set"
from @realkmflanagan

[Adult Themes @adultthemesX]

Chapters include:
"What Are the X-Rated Secrets of the Windmill Girls?"
from @retroramblings

[Adult Themes @adultthemesX]

Chapters include:
"Class and Classification: The British Board of Film Censors' Reception of Horror at the Time of the Festival of Light"
from @BenHalligan

[Adult Themes @adultthemesX]

Chapters include:
"Colour, Realism and the X Certificate: Horrors of the Black Museum and Peeping Tom"
from Sarah Street

[Adult Themes @adultthemesX]

Chapters include:
"Mediating Desire: Karel Reisz's Adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"
from Simon Lee

[Adult Themes @adultthemesX]

Chapters include:
"The Commercial Idealism of Controversial Cinema: Raymond Stross and the Censorship of The Flesh Is Weak"
from Christopher Weedman

[Adult Themes @adultthemesX]

Chapters include:
"Lolita, Censorship, and Controversy: The Archival Remains of the Dispute Between Canon L. J. Collins and Stanley Kubrick"
from @JamesFenwick87