Hi folks,

This is a sad day indeed. Thank you so much for all your work, Jeremy and co.

As for “where do we go from here”: the mailing list of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, covers much the same ground, and does not solely relate to issues affecting the British context. To subscribe, click here. It’s a jiscmail list too!

Hope this helps.

Best wishes

Johnny

Johnny Walker PhD FHEA (he/him/his)

Associate Professor

Vice Chair, British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies

AHRC Leadership Fellow, Raising Hell: British Horror Film of the 1980s and 1990s.

Department of Arts,

Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences,

Northumbria University

http://drjohnnywalker.co.uk

Recent publications:

Rewind, Replay: Britain and the Video Boom, 1978-92 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

“Activist Horror Film: The Genre as Tool for Change”, New Review of Film and Television Studies (2022)

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Thanks to everyone who has worked so hard on this over many years. I'm sad to see it go. I became involved around 2012 when I started my PhD and I have lots of fond memories of receivng the emails and feeling like part of something important.

Thanks again.

Best wishes

Karen

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As someone who has subscribed to this listserv for approximately 25 years, I am sorry, and sad, to see it end. I do appreciate the link to the archives.

I also want to thank you, Jeremy, for all your work on this over the years (and the University of Alabama for hosting it). It has been a wonderful resource for me and others.

Best wishes to you for the future,

Barbara Baker

Barbara L. Baker, Ph.D.

Emerita Professor, Department of Communication

University of Central Missouri

Warrensburg, MO 64093

AND

Assistant Professor of Instruction

School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology

University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, TX 75080

On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 8:25 PM Jeremy Butler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hello, Screen-L subscribers,

The time has come for Screen-L to end its three-decade run.

Its first non-test message was submitted by Chris Amirault on Wednesday, 20 March 1991 at 19:15:43. I know these specifics because the ENTIRE Screen-L archive is online over here:

https://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=SCREEN-L

Screen-L was the first email discussion list devoted solely to film and TV studies—at a time when email was still a new-fangled communication service. I like to think that over the past 33 years it has provided a useful resource for folks to discuss projects, exchange ideas, solicit papers, announce new work, and network with like-minded individuals they might never meet face-to-face. In recent years, however, email discussion lists have been largely eclipsed by social media. And the messages submitted to Screen-L have become fewer and fewer.

I want to thank all of you for participating in Screen-L. Without its subscribers a discussion list would truly serve no purpose. I also must thank the University of Alabama, which has generously hosted it from the beginning.

I’m still working on the logistics of “sundowning” Screen-L. For one thing, I want to make sure that its archives don’t disappear from the Internet. And so my plan is to straighten a few things out and then for Screen-L to stop accepting new messages on March 31, 2024.

Thanks!

Jeremy

Screen-L founder and “owner” (but, really, Screen-L has always been owned by its subscribers)

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