chris-orourke.bsky.social
Film historian | interested in British cinema, silent cinema & queer/trans film histories | Associate Prof at the University of Warwick
👤 Joined on 13 November 2024
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@chris-orourke.bsky.socialThe latest issue of Early Popular Visual Culture is out, featuring cinema exhibition in Lombardy, lantern projection in Scottish education, caricature in early Republican China, Robinson Crusoe in pottery, and the intermediality of century lantern shows www.tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/c...
Show PostA day filled with young men falling into the clutches of predatory women. Standard fare for Le Giornate del Cinema Muto silentlondon.co.uk/2026/10/08/l...
Show PostA wonderfully restored A Page a Madness complete with Benshi at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto on a globe-trotting Day Five: Sweden, Weimar Germany, Czechoslovakia and Old Hollywood were also on the travel pass... ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/10/mask...
Show PostI am really sad to hear that Gaylyn Studlar died today. A towering figure in feminist film history, her work on gender, stardom & fan culture had an immeasurable impact on my own thinking. Way ahead of her time on masculinity and masochism. Also a kind & generous human, all too rare in this biz.
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