We're happy to announce the publication of volume 4.2, a special issue on Cinezoonosis edited by Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, Jaimie Baron + Priya Jaikumar. Read on for analyses of US colonial rabies films, Cronenberg on animals, photochemical ferality... /1
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Bonus read! Eco-Criticism Reading List nrftsjournal.org/eco-criticism/ Feat. articles & reviews by Tim Shao-Hung Teng Jamie Uy (she/her) Matthew I. Thompson Cameron Clark Graig Uhlin Benjamin Halligan Hunter Vaughan et al! Columbia Univ Press FP SIG BAFTSS SCMS AM SIG Children's/Youth SIG Horror Studies - BAFTSS SIG SCMS Media and Environment SIG Media+Environment

Ringing in #EarthDay ! New Review of Film and Television Studies Ecomaterialist Theory Roundtable feat. seancubitt a:-i E. Past (@waynestate) ed. L. de Roo (@Macquarie_Uni) Hunter Vaughan nrftsjournal.org/ecomaterialist… SSAAANZ SCMS BAFTSS SCMS Media and Environment SIG Media+Environment #JEM Media+Environment NECS

Next week at U of Copenhagen: Environmental Film and TV Production: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Screen Industry; thanks to CEMES & Film Studies at LU (SOL) for organising: cemes.ku.dk/research/scree…

CCMPS Warwick Uni Warwick Arts: Research & Impact

An absolute delight of a publication - thanks so much for putting it out there Dr. Corinne Cath-Speth, authors and team!!

Unacceptable in a free society

Some? Hopefully…

It’s been a busy year at MCTD - come check out what we’ve been up to!

Our annual report for 2023-24 is now live! 📗

From policy partnerships to podcasts, this report celebrates the work of our centre, our team and our excellent researchers.

Read more about our busiest year yet, and our ambitions for the future:

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Media Industries conference at KCL is taking place next week! I'll be joining a roundtable on infrastructure and the environment on Thurs 18 April at 11:15 with Patrick Brodie, ana vldv, Julia Velkova, Hunter Vaughan and Flora M Bartlett 👇 Full porgramme: media-industries.org

Very pleased to say that Hunter Vaughan - senior researcher at our centre - will be delivering the Donald R Benson Memorial Lecture for Iowa State University in two weeks

If you're in the area, find out how to attend here 👇

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Why do we draw journeys as lines on maps? What has maritime history got to do with it? My new book is available to preorder! It was my hardest and most enriching writing and research experience to date. Out 29/8 Profile Books (& UChicagoPress in the US) profilebooks.com/work/tracks-on…

Hilariously absurd messenger/message combo! Like Trump promising to help restore liberty or fix the economy. 🙃

This term Hunter Vaughan has been a visiting fellow at University College Dublin's Centre for Digital Policy, examining relationships between growing networks of digital infrastructure in Ireland and the climate crisis.

Find out more in Hunter's blog, here 👇

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#newbooks BFI #Library - 3 new titles from Palgrave Macmillan: American Cinema and Cultural Diplomacy: The Fragmented Kaleidoscope; The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks + Film and Television Production in the Age of Climate Crisis: Towards a Greener Screen Hunter Vaughan

Hmmmmm is that climate action, or environmental informatics-industrial complex expansion…? 🤔 SpaceX, you say…? 🤔 Monitoring means nothing if the most polluting govts and corps don’t change fundamental practices and culture. Just an excuse to launch a rocket and generate data

A bit of budget intrigue:

Florida lawmakers may be growing skeptical of Ron DeSantis' attempt to turn New College of Florida into an explicitly conservative institution (and an easy landing spot for DeSantis administration allies in need of high-paying jobs)....

A highly recommended read on education amidst climate crisis by Dr. Peter Sutoris !!

So grateful to UCD Digital Policy and all our guest speakers for this fellowship opportunity and for making its workshop culmination an incredibly rich conversation around digital infrastructure growth, cultural heritage, coastal communities and environmental sustainability

🔊This week Hunter Vaughan joined Toby Miller on the #CulturalStudies Podcast

He discussed the semi-hidden world of internet infrastructure, the interplay of technology and democracy, and energy use in Hollywood

Listen now⬇️

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