Sarah Thomas

Our Centre for Converged Screen Media and Entertainment (COSME) presents Blackboard Jungle screening and panel discussion. With @garyneedham.bsky.social, Yannis Tzioumakis and Ruth Doughty, March 24th, 4pm University of Liverpool. Register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

The Times has published my letter, co-authored with Dr Mathilde Pavis, on UK government policy on Copyright and AI Training Data. Ministers should listen to ethical AI developers who license data from creative artists, not Big Tech that insists on 'scraping' the internet to seize data illegally.

In celebration of female filmmakers for #WomensHistoryMonth, author Gillian Kelly shine’s a spotlight on #IdaLupino and her contributions to C20th #cinema, as an #actress #director #writer #Producer ➡️ bit.ly/3Dujb1G

Pre-order Gillian Kelly's new book ⬇️
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Have you appeared in UK reality television, or do you know someone who has?

If so, please consider using this QR code to register for an interview to help us understand participants’ experiences of care in UK reality television.

Thank you!

A poster giving details and scannable QR codes to recruit participants for a research project at the University of Liverpool into the creation of accessible and inclusive spaces and resources for TTRPGs.

📢📢 WE ARE RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS📢📢

If you are interested in Dungeons and Dragons or TTRPGs more generally and would like to be involved in research seeking to create accessible and inclusive games and resources for players and GMs then check out this #CFP

@commmedia.bsky.social

New Review of Film and Television Studies Transnational Horror Media Now. Volume 22, Issue 3 of New Review of Film and Television Studies

So chuffed to see this special dossier, on Horror Fans and Audiences (edited by James Rendell and I) published as part of the New Review of Film and Television Studies' new issue focused on Transnational Horror Media www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/2...

The Velvet Light Trap - University of Texas Press

My new article on actors and AI is now out in the new issue of The Velvet Light Trap. '“Somebodies” and “Nobodies”: Generative AI and Audiovisual Performer Labor'. utpress.utexas.edu/journals/the...

The next BAFTSS Performance & Stardom SIG online roundtable is on “Sporting Celebrity”, including Thomas Alcott (Aberystwyth University), Courtney M. Cox (University of Oregon), and P. David Howe (Western University). 11th December 2024 (5pm GMT). Full details here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yay! Our panel on AI and Stardom has been accepted for #SCMS2025 @justinrawlins.bsky.social

Introduction: Transnational Arab Stardom (11th November 2024) YouTube video by Performance and Stardom SIG

Our latest BAFTSS Performance & Stardom SIG online event - the editors of the book 'Transnational Arab Stardom: Glamour, Performance & Politics' talking to Samar. Including a wonderful discussion on Arab divas - really inspiring research! frhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tNVdSz-dhXM

Search the Hollywood AI Database Use this search tool to see how writing from 139,000 movies and TV shows has trained generative AI.

Here's one for the writers. Atlantic magazine wrote a piece on AI and included this searchable database of scripts that have been hoovered up to train the AI engine. 60 of mine on there! How come copyright doesn't appear to exist with AI? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Are you dying to write about a key film in Asian cinema history that doesn't have enough attention? Has BFI Film Classics snubbed an important Asian film for too long? Now's your chance to change that!

Reach out to chat about Lever Press's CINEMAS OF ASIA series! www.leverpress.org/cinemasofasia/

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Studying, researching or teaching the histories of disability? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH

Book Launch: Big Wednesday: Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood Come join us for the book launch of "Big Wednesday: Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood" followed by a screening of the film.

27 November, Sunderland - the launch of Dr Mark McKenna's new book, Big Wednesday: Lamenting Lost Youth in the New Hollywood. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

I'm very excited to share that my department at USC is hosting a new conference this summer - The Hollywood Conference! Please spread the word and come join us in LA (the obviously spot for this) next July. www.thehollywoodconference.com/cfp

Three in four England universities expected to be in the red next year Higher education regulator says sector needs to take ‘take bold action’ and consider mergers or cost sharing

'The OfS report shows larger research-intensive universities, such as those belonging to the Russell Group, have continued to grow at the expense of smaller institutions or those that rely on teaching income.' 1/3

Old Hollywood indoctrination - Dorothy/Minnie hybrid plus Wolfman

The 'Return' of Michael Parkinson YouTube video by The Rest Is Entertainment

So, Christopher Holliday and I are writing a book on interactive digital celebrity, 'Smart Stardom'. Had a great discussion with producer of Virtually Parkinson - an AI version of Michael Parkinson - this week. Can't share that, but here's Richard Osman's take on it youtu.be/18lAXF_uNoY?...

Hoping to motivate myself to be a *bit* more active on this than on the other platform we've all just abandoned.

Hello! Thought I'd see what everyone's up to on here.