Dan E. Smith

PhD student: nostalgia in post-2008 British film & TV (@Midlands4Cities / @uniofleicester).

[Slick Media ⚡️ @SlickmediaX]

Lesson learned. Do you think he paid the Price?

[Dan E. Smith @danedsmi95]

New article: short write-up about Deborah Stratman's In Order Not To Be Here (2002). https://t.co/cF5hMTMSpw

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In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life

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My new essay on Alan Clarke's Diane (1975) and British realism's guilt and aesthetic austerity is out now through Culture Film Publication.
https://t.co/PKGnJ1npC1

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My top 100 first-time watches of 2025:

https://t.co/e3AE9LaPTr

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Put together a new short film called Six Nights, available here along with some notes on the process: https://t.co/16jdWagx6H

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Stop the Closure of Film Studies at Uni of Leicester - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/cmJ2l2iY5e via @Change

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My review of Jussi Parikka's 'Operational Images' is out now. Many thanks to Film-Philosophy for publication: https://t.co/qKZxMeUF7b

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Layout is crude at the moment, so this will likely change over time.

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I have a new site!

My previous Medium posts can be accessed here, as well as some more info/links for my other work.

I also have two new posts - one about One Battle After Another (2025), the other about Raven Hawk (1996) - to kick things off.

Thanks!

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Went down to Falmouth couple of weeks ago, shot some stuff whilst I was down there, and collaged it together: https://t.co/APsqxZXW8c

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I'll be reflecting on my doctoral work and its conception of 'post-GFC (Global Financial Crisis) nostalgia', exploring it in relation to The Return as concerned with our post-GFC nostalgic present and MGS4 as a partially pre-GFC anticipation of nostalgia's future.

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Happy to share that I'll be presenting my paper 'The Nostalgia to Come, and the Nostalgia That Came: Pre- and Post-GFC Nostalgia from Metal Gear Solid 4 to Twin Peaks: The Return' as part of Falmouth University's Haunted Modernities conference, July 16-18th.

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Save Academic Excellence at the University of Leicester - Support Our Staff! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/HXTJ5TWP7g via @UKChange

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Found my old camcorder; made a short film about my partner's houseplants. Enjoy.

https://t.co/wThrwOO1qk

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My favourite first-time watches from 2024, split into those I liked and those I loved.

Items in BOLD are 2024 releases.

[HauntedFutures @HauntedFutures]

And that, sadly is a wrap! Thank you so much to all of our wonderful delegates, our keynote speakers @JoanPassey and Ailbhe Callanan, our guests and of course @uccfilmstudies for their support! Now it’s time to celebrate a wonderful 2 days!

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Building upon my blogpost 'Modern Ghosts of the Coast' (link below) and my doctoral research, I'll be exploring the radical nostalgia within the film Bait (dir. Mark Jenkin, 2019) in relation to Svetlana Boym's conception of "the off-modern". https://t.co/lC6uTpD1fd

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Excited to say that I'll be presenting my paper 'Off-Modern Ghosts of the Coast: Bait and the Futures of Radical Nostalgia' at this year's @HauntedFutures conference at UC Cork (29th-30th Oct) alongside so many other fascinating papers on folklore, haunting, and radical action.

[Leigh Claire La Berge @marxforcats]

Fredric Jameson has passed--what an unmatched American intellectual presence for the last 50 (at least) years. "Marxism and Form" is his best book, imho, but my favorite line of his comes from "Brecht and Method": "History puts its worst foot forward." Rest in Power, Fred.