Mickey's looking happy! I wonder could it be that #AlphavillejournalIssue 27 is coming his way?! Stay tuned.... @DrAmyMDavis @hshaswell @larasca @uccfilmstudies

Issue 27 is here. Spotlight on 100 Years of Disney! Edited by @DrAmyMDavis & @hshaswell, it features case studies of the 'house of mouse': its history, its iconography, its appeals to nostalgia and sentimentality, its innovations & its enduring legacy. https://t.co/Wda6xMUxAW

And finally, on #Issue27, check out @DrAmyMDavis and @hshaswell 's podcast on editing the Issue all about #Disney Alphaville Journal of Film & Screen Media Podcast Episode 09, Issue 27, 100 Years of Disney w/ thanks to @mickholly @UCCLibrary @UCC @CACSSSResearch1 @ucccreates

Are you going to see the Barbie movie this weekend?? 💝 Our own Dr Helen Haswell has been discussing the cultural impact and legacy of Barbie on BBC Radio Ulster's Talkback with William Crawley. Listen here at 1h 6m : https://t.co/J2Yz5IYSCl

We are excited to welcome today award-winning filmmaker, writer & Honorary Professor of Film at @QUBelfast Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm for an inaugural student Creative Workshop: Framing Documentary, 2pm. Mark will be screening his film, Storm in My Heart (2018), 10am.

MegamonsterBook is OUT NOW in audio with a MONSTROUS cast including Jim Broadbent, Frances de la Tour, @SP1nightonly @SamanthaBond, @anneodeke – and, of course, David! Get your copy today https://t.co/q88NBXsCSV

CFP: Edited anniversary collection on Disney’s Frozen (2013). Deadline 1st April 2021 for the 300-500 word proposal and a short biography. Contact @hshaswell or @rikkeschubart for more details. We're very excited about this!

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We're so excited to announce #EpicEssex: a special new play to be performed later this Autumn. It celebrates the very best of Essex resilience and spirit, and will be written by four Essex theatre makers: Kenny Emson, @sadiehasler, @g_ting and @anneodeke. https://t.co/4GExNR3Yz4

This anti-racist reference list of animated films and series — and relevant books — is quite a resource. 🎓 off to Mihaela Mihailova for compiling it, @KodiMaier for instigating it, and @fananimresearch for publishing it.

Never forget when Ruby Bridges integrated her elementary school a white woman woman held up a black baby doll in a coffin & another white woman threatened to poison her. The entire school year Ruby was only allowed to eat food that she brought from home, for her own safety.

New blog post! Read Misha Mihailova's "Antiracist Animation Syllabus" that collates significant Film/TV examples with academic scholarship and online resources that are both focused on - and produced by - people of colour. Let's decolonise that curriculum! https://t.co/pEFEnJYdD7

Revealing the first animation from #WallaceandGromit: #TheBigFixUp, the duo's first foray into #augmentedreality, developed with @FictioneersLtd. Rendered in #CG using new technology, fans will interact in fresh ways and get closer than ever to the duo: https://t.co/rUgT62I50b

Wonderful news @DrDSM 🙌🏻

I'm so very excited to be able to share this! Thanks so much @DrAmyMDavis 🎉🎊

Closing panel 8D, Daniel Batchelder discusses the blurring of sound and music in Disney's Bambi and the voice of nature within the film @anistudies #sas2019

In discussing the politics of dubbing, Colleen Montgomery argues that the French dubbing of Disney's Moana (Vaiana) points to ongoing issues of representation @anistudies #sas2019

Lisa Scoggin treating us to a live tin whistle performance in panel 8D, to demonstrate an analysis of the music in Disney's Mulan 🎶 @anistudies #sas2019

Kicking off panel 8D, Luigi Allemano asks, "is sound an audiovisual medium or is it an art?" @anistudies #sas2019