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Dr Penny Goodman
@pjgoodman
Senior lecturer in Roman history. Doctor Who and Gothic horror fan. Queen of Hammer subtext. Lib Dem. She / her. Now also on Bluesky (same username).
Jan 14, 2022 • 21 tweets • 11 min read
Got my booze, got my snacks, I'm ready for the #CellarClub! I've seen this film twice before. The 1st time, I expected too much and was disappointed; the 2nd time I set my expectations at rock bottom and realised it had its merits. 3rd time for the happy medium? #TheFilmCrowd See, these opening shots are fab! Monkey to Lee establishes fears about evolution, degeneracy, the beast within. Two-headed child in the jar establishes split personalities. There is plenty of thought and detail here. Just somehow less than the sum of its parts. #TheFilmCrowd
Oct 1, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read
Ahhhh.... Home, wine, The Devil Rides Out on the telly, and I see I'm just in time to catch my favourite line: "He didn't stay long, did he?" #thefilmcrowd #hammerhorror Richard Eaton must be like the Duc de Richelieu in having so many cars they're neither here nor there to him. That one Rex just crashed into a ditch is never seen or mentioned again for the rest of the film. #TheFilmCrowd
Sep 30, 2021 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
The discussion about this exhibition which I came down to take part in is finished now, ending very congenially over wine in the Great Court cafe. It was a new kind of event, put together by @wmarybeard in her role as trustee, bringing academics and museum curators into dialogue. They wanted to know what we had got out of the exhibition, what an exhibition can do for us as academics, and we wanted to know about the decision-making process, the logistics shaping how it was put together, etc. I think both sides got a lot out of it.
Sep 30, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
A few thoughts about the Nero exhibition, then. Overall I think it's better than the catalogue made me expect, with some nice design and layout decisions and great artefacts. But the source material sure sets up a problem which I don't think any exhibition on Nero can escape. This is the opening question of the exhibition, right by the ticket desk before any artefacts. It gets to the nub of the issue - Nero's reputation as a 'bad emperor'. Any scholar will want to point out that the sources painting that picture clearly have a hostile agenda.