Colleen Kennedy-Karpat

@cbkenkar

Assoc Prof, adaptation, Agnès Varda, amateur video essayist. Not necessarily in that order. Trying my best to pay attention. 🇺🇸 born, studied 🇫🇷, teaching in 🇹🇷 Bilkent COMD Co-host @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social Co-chair @adaptstudies.bsky.social

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· 14d

This book is at least within range of that idea! @melstanfill.bsky.social

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· 20d

Jarmusch already launched it

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· 23d

Coffee cannot escape the pull of the distillery: this is the only can of beans I’d ever bother to carry over borders ☕️ purchased @ Bedrock Coffee in Edinburgh (the brew on site was increeeedible)

A can full of coffee beans that looks like a tall can of beer! It is labeled #01 The Whisky One & the website is potcoffee.com

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· 23d

Whisky selections are pure Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 already sampling the Nc’nean 🥃

Two bottles of whisky: Nc’nean Organic single malt scotch & Aerstone Land Cask single malt

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· 23d

Vacation haul: UK remains unparalleled in its skittles game

Three packages of candy: Skittles Squishy Cloudz in Crazy Sours and Fruits varieties, plus Skittles Giants

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jul 2

I am not a true believer in astrology BUT the past ~72 hours has me thinking that the full moon this week has to be one of the most powerful of all time. Exhibit no. 257:

Screengrab from an email alert announcing that Isabelle Huppert has been elected to serve a three-year term as President of the Cinémathèque Française.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jun 11

tfw you grew up with drive-in double features like Godzilla (1998) + Spice World (1997) and now you live in a city that programs this as an outdoor screening

Instagram post from Kült Kavaklıdere in Ankara, Türkiye advertising an outdoor screening of Nuremberg (2025)

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jun 4

Persepolis will no doubt be the focus of coming tributes, but in addition to Poulet aux prunes she directed other films not based on her BD work. I especially appreciated RADIOACTIVE (2019), an offbeat biopic of Marie Sklodowska Curie with an unusual take on nerd romance.

Poster for the 2019 film RADIOACTIVE, directed by the late Marjane Satrapi, featuring its star Rosamund Pike as Marie Sklodowska Curie holding a vile of glowing green material.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· May 22

Le Vertige hits Cannes, and what a delight to have visionary weirdos like Quentin Dupieux out there showing people how to do it in the real world.

Headline "Quentin Dupieux and his new UFO [...]" accompanied by an image of the director and two actors (Alain Chabat and Anaïs Demoustier) looking like human puppets in masks and oddly fitting black tie garb as they walk the red carpet at Cannes.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· May 19

Fucking YIKES

"...I made more money in three days on a project that involved writing shopping prompts for automated lawnmowers and red-light-therapy masks than I did teaching three hours a day for a month at UCLA."

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· May 7

Documenteur (1980)

Screenshot of a title card from feature film DOCUMENTEUR that reads "An Emotion Picture by Agnès Varda"

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Apr 30

tfw you're just scrolling when the matrix starts glitching

Uncanny sequence of posts: 1) "This is pronounced 'staaaar baaaar' in my house/office" plus a picture of a Cadbury Starbar. 2) "New York!!! Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 is joining you LIVE TONIGHT! At Starr Bar in Brooklyn!" and a registration link.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Apr 29

THANK GODDESS this design is a Not All Passports situation; we will need to update one kid's passport before the end of the year and are very much Not In Washington.

The commemorative passport will be the default document for people applying in person at the Washington office, although those who want a standard passport will be able to get one by applying online or outside Washington, officials said.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Apr 26

The best detail of all is when Pierre Curie tries to woo Marie by telling her that he has read her published papers. Nerd love >>>

IMDb page for 2019 feature film Radioactive, directed by Marjane Satrapi and starring Rosamund Pike as Marie Sklodowska-Curie.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Apr 13

Science fiction cinema as sci-comms adaptation: The entire framing of this NPR piece on Project Hail Mary underscores what we call Hollywood's "sci-fidelity turn" (pp. 167-179) www.peterlang.com/document/111...

Headline of an NPR Science article: "The real space science behind Project Hail Mary." Its opening graf then segues into the core sci-fidelity question: "So how much of that science [in the film] is really plausible?"

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Apr 7

We might chalk this up to degree holders encountering more such tasks in the workplace. But still: 😣

The use of Al for humanities tasks was also positively associated with education level, a linkage not found with other types of tasks.
Americans with a bachelor's degree were approximately twice as likely to use Al to write, revise, or summarize text daily or weekly compared to those without the degree. Twenty-three percent of bachelor's degree holders reported turning to Al on a daily or weekly basis to revise or improve something they had written, compared to just 10% of those with some college or an associate's degree and 12% of those with a high school degree or less education.
Eighteen percent of bachelor's degree holders reported using Al to summarize text, compared to less than 10% of those without the degree. Conversely, Americans with a high school were more likely than people with more education to turn to Al to solve a math problem on a daily or weekly basis (13%, compared to 7% of those with at least some college).

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Mar 10

💫 serendipity

Screenshot from Bluesky feed: Top post links to article-quizzicle, “How tuned into food prices are you?” With the comment “They struggle because they desire to be eaten.” Post below reads, “what are y’all having for lunch”

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Mar 9

I also watched Pluribus with this dynamic very much in mind. I haven't related to a TV character in this bone-deep way since Daria Morgendorffer was on ye olde MTV.

Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka, pictured mid-primal scream, on the poster for Apple TV+ series Pluribus. I want a t-shirt that reads Je Suis Carol.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Mar 9

The French are also quite good at this microgenre (bc of course they are) and I really enjoyed La Huppert in L'Avenir / Things to Come (2016). Her character didn't do what I was sure she was gonna do & the movie is better off for it.

French legend of stage and screen Isabelle Huppert on a poster for film L'Avenir / Things to Come (2016), looking askance in the general direction of some hot young kid who I think in the movie is her former student. But it's not what you think (for real this time).

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Mar 9

I'm a film person generally & have recently seen some great examples there, admittedly more art than mainstream, of which the most personally impactful was probably Corsage, I thought it was super great & Krieps plays this exact flavor of ennui soooo well

Vicky Krieps killing it on a poster for her film Corsage (2022) in which she portrays an Empress whose kid dared suggest she is doing middle age all wrong so now I want to burn the world down on her behalf

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Mar 2

Agnès Varda ran a screen test for Harrison Ford when she was in Hollywood with Jacques Demy, who was casting his film Model Shop in the late '60s, but the studio insisted on another actor. She filmed him again when she made L'Univers de Jacques Demy in 1993. They remained friends.

Part of Varda's screen test of Harrison Ford in the late 1960s.

Chalkboard that reads "Harrison Ford dans le Wyoming," from the filming of L'Univers de Jacques Demy (1993)

Harrison Ford clapping himself into Varda's documentary

Harrison Ford shares his memory of visiting an actual model shop (sex shop) with Jacques Demy in Los Angeles, before the studio insisted that the role be recast.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jan 31

My metal lunchbox had Popples!

Someone else’s Popple lunchbox, with matching Thermos, priced to move on EBay at $42 USD

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jan 25

I also looked up what a busk looks like (so you won't have to)

Wikipedia definition of a busk, with illustration: a rigid element of a corset at the center front of the garment.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jan 25

🐋 Ch 100 "He was a darkly-tanned, burly, good-natured, fine-looking man, of sixty or thereabouts, dressed in a spacious roundabout, that hung round him in festoons of blue pilot-cloth..." (Pilot-cloth is covered up thread) veteranarms.com/Union-Civil-...

A US Civil War era roundabout (shell) jacket. Reproductions available at site linked in post.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jan 25

🐋 Ch 77, "I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-colored membrane, like the lining of a fine *pelisse*, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale's case"

A pelisse was originally a short fur-trimmed jacket which hussar light-cavalry soldiers from the 17th century onwards usually wore hanging loose over the left shoulder, ostensibly to prevent sword cuts. The name also came to refer to a fashionable style of woman's coat-like garment worn in the early-19th century. Image includes a portrait from 1812 showing a man wearing a military-issue pelisse over his left shoulder.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jan 25

🐋 Ch 75 "...at a broad view, the Right Whale's head bears a rather inelegant resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe." Power Moby Dick annotation claims this is, simply, a "square-toed" shoe, BUT in an image search these brogue designs came up and imho they look waaay more like whales.

A selection of various Gallic Brogue shoe designs, each with folded layers of leather curving around a large, rounded toe area that is gathered towards the mid-foot and on the ankle with a leather shoestring that ties at the top of the shoe.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jan 21

How about Joe Manganiello? 🐋

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jan 14

further reading for this month's project ("subscription required") 🐋 📖

Abstract
Much like Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) has had a prolific posthumous career, especially when it comes to online slash fiction. That so many queer communities “ship” Moby-Dick promises new insight into what Melville studies might offer to fan studies (and vice versa). To “ship” is to explore romantic or sexual relations that may be latent, repressed, or otherwise only insinuated in a text. But despite writers’ and audiences’ indefatigable energy, most Moby-Dick fanfiction survives in partial or unfinished versions—in abandoned blogs, incomplete works-in-progress, and otherwise jettisoned projects. I argue that it is precisely the transience of these texts that lends them their significance. Focusing on three fragmented collections (the Tumblrblog, The Queequeg Diaries, and slash fiction from AdultFanFiction.org and FanFiction.net ), I consider sexual and textual subcultures not intended to endure. These ephemeral queer counterpublics mark the limits of what I call “ship theory,” or a mode of participatory consumption that flourishes in fleeting contact. To “ship” what happens aboard Melville’s queer ship gestures toward the fragile ephemerality of queer counterpublics. These ribald archives of desire reveal the radical experiments in gender and sexuality that only short-lived shipping can produce.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jan 11

🐋 Ch 16 "[...] a harpooner in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat" A style of tailcoat with a long back split, sometimes referred to as a "swallowtail"

Definition of the shadbelly design, which originated in the UK and popularized by one Beau Brummel.

Beau Brummel, apparently. Image pulled from a 2014 entry in a wordpress blog called Dressage Different that registers loud grumbling about this jacket style still existing as a requirement for formal competition.

Colleen Kennedy-Karpat@cbkenkar· Jan 3

Chapter 6: "Here comes another [green Vermonter(?)] with a sou'-wester and a bombazine cloak."