Sarah Rance-Riley

@SRanceRiley

What happens at the intersection of heritage & art? Interests: narrative; visual & material culture. Current project:

Joined March 2015

Tweets

You blocked @SRanceRiley

Are you sure you want to view these Tweets? Viewing Tweets won't unblock @SRanceRiley

  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 15

    Ancient Europeans believed seahorses carried the souls of dead sailors to the underworld The Seahorse (1934) Jean Painlevé

  2. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    Born 1903 Eric Blair AKA George Orwell. A most prescient & powerful author: literary criticism, poetry, fiction, polemical journalism.

  3. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    , anyone? Here's John Tenniel's take on the Mad Hatter's tea-party, engraved by Tho. Dalziel

  4. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    What would 🤖 be without a mention of the Replicants in 'Blade Runner'? Directed by Ridley Scott and released 1982.

  5. Jun 25

    Built by Tanaka Hisashige, a Japanese rangaku scholar, engineer & inventor, this Japanese karakuri is a spring-powered archer

  6. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    "O! it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant." Measure For Measure A2:S2

  7. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    CFP: Rereading Stephen King: Navigating the Intertextual Labyrinth, Kingston University, 11 November 2017

  8. Jun 25

    Born 1903 Eric Blair AKA George Orwell. A most prescient & powerful author: literary criticism, poetry, fiction, polemical journalism.

  9. Retweeted
    Jun 25

    "Why, I will fight with him upon this theme Until my eyelids will no longer wag." Hamlet Act 5:Scene 1

  10. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    Work of Czech filmmaker Karel Zeman is a massive favourite around here.Find more in . 'Inspiration' (1948). Remarkable!

  11. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    Apparently considered 'Beasts of the Apocalypse'. In the medieval period, things were really going badly if the frogs showed up.

  12. Retweeted
    Jun 23

    The Acrobat Automaton. Filmed in 1954 - French documentary about Automata; 'L'univers des automates'.

  13. Retweeted
    Jun 24

    First stills for the collaboration film, Green Teeth; "wyrd" happenings and loneliness in London edgelands and canals.

  14. Retweeted
    Jun 23

    Finally they've arrived! Thanks all for patience on the pre orders;finished copies of going out next week!

  15. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    Save the date: Thur 10 Aug Opening Gala of 26th Chichester International Film Festival

  16. Retweeted
    Jun 23

    As 🤖will be ending soon, we're kicking around some ideas for a theme. Please vote below, add suggestions and RT!

  17. Retweeted
    Jun 23

    Hard-pressed to think of a more incorrigibly bourgeois hero than Bilbo Baggins...

  18. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    Excerpt from training film by the Department of Gymnastics of the State Committee for Sports of the USSR. 1987. Exercise with skipping rope

  19. Retweeted
    Jun 23
  20. Retweeted
    Jun 23

    For those of us who may have had a difficult week - here's a little adventure: 'Captain Blood' (1935) dir. Michael Curtiz.

  21. Retweeted
    Jun 22

    'The Postman Always Rings Twice - But Only After He's Knocked a Few Times & Called Politely Through the Letterbox.'

Loading seems to be taking a while.

Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.

    You may also like

    ·