Dr Simone Knox
@simoneknox
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TV/film scholar | twin mama | socialist | good eater | she/her | what’s all your furniture pointed at?
Joined October 2009
Out now: 86k words. In-depth close analysis. Interviews: Marta Kauffman, Kevin Bright, James Burrows, John Shaffner. Chapters: humour, performance, style & set design, representation & backlash, place in global TV production. Co-authored w @kaischwind
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Kyle MacLachlan pays tribute to David Lynch: “His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that
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42 years ago today, Fraggle Rock debuted. The theme song will always be a banger.
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THIS MONDAY JAN 13TH COMING!!! #MoongateMix A superb panel of Southeast & East Asian heritage filmmakers - Bec Boey, Rosa Fong, Hong Khaou - chaired by the incomparable @suyinsays - with incredible food BOOK NOW: https://t.co/y2GqxBrErX
@moongateprods @OmnibusTheatre
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This petiton is not doing as well as we hoped. There is nothing in UK law to prevent class discrimination. Class discrimination affects education, work, health & your chance of going to prison -please sign and share . https://t.co/WzwlND68JE
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To enact the Socio-Economic Duty of the Equality Act 2010. This requires public bodies to consider inequalities resulting from socio-economic disadvantage when making certain decisions. Successive...
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Congratulations Dr @aiphilip whose PhD, ‘We Tattooed your Mother: Agential Realism, Filmic Realism and Documentary Practice’ was passed by Sarah Cooper (King’s College) and Kiki Yu (Queen Mary). The supervisors Cecilia Mello (São Paulo) & @NagibLucia are delighted, as are we all!
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Gisèle Pelicot finished taking the stand in mass rape trial against 51 men, and said the "macho, patriarchal society that trivialises rape" must change. What this woman has done for history and women is astounding, her courage unfathomable, no honour is too great. MERCI 💙🤍♥️
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The ASFS condemns the University of Wollongong's @UOW proposal to close all languages and linguistics in 2025. Sign and share the petition now: https://t.co/taXvHqeWvP. In a globalised world, language skills and cultural competency are vital and irreplaceable. Co-signed @LCNAU
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Fight the Closure of Languages at the University of Wollongong
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1. I’m sorry to return to this question, but I think it hints at everything that's wrong with our media and public conversations. *When did you last hear a critique of capitalism on the BBC?* A thread/
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I continue to be awed by the courage and grace of Gisèle Pélicot. Sending love and solidarity ❤️
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Letters of recommendation: American: “I am thrilled to recommend!!!” British: “I am willing to endorse” German: “I am annoyed to be asked”
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One thing we simply cannot tolerate from any takeover is the senior management team who have driven Royal Mail into the ground making millions from selling their shares they have been handed for ‘performance’. RT if you think this is an absolute disgrace and must be stopped.
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Absolutely catastrophic news for the @ucu. Five more years of inept, divisive, and toxic leadership. I'm so utterly and profoundly disappointed. UUK and UCEA will be drinking the fancy champagne tonight!
I’m delighted to be re-elected as general secretary, after extensive debates on the future direction of UCU - thank you to everyone involved. We will work together to build our union, take on employers, and win for members. All our focus must now be on this. #Grady4GS
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It was a historic win for workers yesterday, & an important day for our union UCU on USS pensions. Finally, we have inked getting back our pensions which were unfairly cut by circa 40%. (Yes... 40%) and we have inked compensation. As chair of the union side,I feel a curious mix
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Lovely weather for voting in the UCU election ☀️ We had a great time together chuckling about the claims in Jo Grady's manifesto and voting against her and her supporters 👍 #couplegoals
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The Conservatives have been in power for 37 of the last 45 years. That’s why Britain is falling apart. Don’t blame trans people, asylum seekers, the travelling community or people on benefits. Blame the Tories. @Conservatives
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The Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) scheme is offering up to 10 three-year fixed term postdocs to commence in 2025. If you are thinking of applying in Film Studies, please get in touch with me for application details! EOI will close 25 January 2024
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Issue 20 of @comparativecine has arrived! "Cinema's Natures: Comparative Approaches to Ecocinema" contains six fantastic articles on all things ecocinematic, testing the possibilities of this framework for reading film. It begins with my short editorial https://t.co/Of0ti51h56
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Film actors and AI. The Sag-Aftra strike is over. Read my recent piece on the subject in Sight & Sound: https://t.co/3uDUyEDzMT
@FTT @SightSoundmag @UniRdg_Research
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