If you have any connection to the University of North Carolina system, please consider signing this petition. Making syllabi public records will damage the trust between faculty, students, and the communities they serve. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

You don't want to miss Thursday's Forum On The Hill panels! Today's topics are equity in healthcare, Chapel Hill and Carrboro's housing inventory, and Orange County property value assessments. Check out the schedule and guests here:

It's here! Go and pre-order a copy of ARCHIVING THE PAST for yourself and for your library! The book uncovers the story of women in France who, from the 1920s–1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinema's history, as archivists, witnesses, and activists. @ucpress.bsky.social

A piece on Netflix and its discontents that's worth your time. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

If you know film history, you know @orphanfilm.bsky.social, who has done more to rescue films and uplift filmmakers than almost anyone. For the last six months, he's been caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare that I wouldn't wish on anyone, and needs help recovering. Please donate. gofund.me/6ef186124

Together with Annie van den Oever, I was honored to interview Jane Gaines for NECSUS. Come for the history of Visible Evidence & @wfpproject.bsky.social; stay for the reflections on speculative historiography, Fredric Jameson's legacy & current attacks on higher ed. necsus-ejms.org/the-historic...

Now available online! A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide! Available in print in early 2026. academic.oup.com/book/61621

RIP Peter Watkins. He leaves us just a day after his 90th birthday. A landmark filmmaker who still hasn't got his due. He reprogrammed my brain, there's cinema before and after Watkins. He didn't change the movies, he changed me. After La Commune and Edvard Munch all movies were different.

I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4

For nearly four decades, millions of students in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere watched such 10- to 30-minute academic films to learn about wide-ranging topics like volcanoes, Charles Dickens, and U.S. anti-discrimination laws. https://loom.ly/MZuHOIs

Hot off the press!! I was delighted to contribute this Blu-ray review of Wonder Dogs! to the new issue of FIAF's Journal of Film Preservation. 🐕‍🦺🎞💿 I'm usually a cat person, but couldn't resist the *siren bark* of these 23 dog-forward silent films w/ gorgeous music 🎶📀 www.calameo.com/fiaf/read/00...

CFP — “The Amateur Reconsidered: Media, Labor, Publics” Spectator Special Issue (Volume 46.2 Fall 2026) Essay submissions due December 1, 2025. See images with alt text here and in thread for CFP details. 1/

Research Assistant: Investigating Women’s Labor Migrations in the Early Film Industry disabroad.org/course/resea... @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social

Computers putting college graduates out of work in ... checks date ... 1964.

Stormwater is a community problem that requires community solutions. We can address it, and still build more homes in Chapel Hill. triangleblogblog.com/2025/09/24/w...

John Cassavettes and Gena Rowlands house is for sale. A time capsule. www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angel...

Dear Homerites, Please join us for a webinar from TAP (The Audience Project research group, Oxford Brookes University) on Fri. 12 Sept. 2025 at 12-1pm: "The Enchanting Kinora: Researching Edwardian Audiences," by Prof. Elizabeth Evans, University of Nottingham. Abstract & link in comments.

CFP: Call for Proposals to present at the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium, "Crisis and Community," April 8-11, 2026, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

My dog’s name is Bela!

very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Delighted to have interviewed with WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti "On Point." First half discusses the historical intricacies of the US public media ecosystem. Second half I tried to detail how the GOP rescission bill was designed to attack democratic media.

Chapel Hill is getting denser, as anyone who has driven around the town can attest to. That is a good thing, given our need for more housing and the constraints imposed by a nearly built-out town and the rural buffer.

Good news, my #SilentFilm friends!!! Bonn Stummfilmtage is globally streaming daily screenings with original music! Today's selection is FORGOTTEN FACES (1928) -- w/ accompaniment by the always brilliant @megmorley.bsky.social 🎶😍🎞️ stummfilmtage.culturebase.org#video-anchor

Check out this list of 2025 National Film Preservation Fund grant recipients! Home movies, amateur films, travelogues, 'useful' media, and more. A treasure trove of #nontheatricalmedia! 🤩 @orphanfilm.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social

Now catch the GoTriangle 400/405 every 15 minutes on weekdays between Chapel Hill and Durham, the latest #transit service improvements to be supported by funds from the voter-approved half-cent sales tax transit and the Orange County and Durham County Transit Plans. 🙌🏻

My department @utexasrtf.bsky.social is hiring a TT faculty member in media studies. We are looking for faculty who conduct broad-based research in the following areas: media history and industries associated with film, television, and/or digital media. More here: apply.interfolio.com/171261

This is great news! triangleblogblog.com/2025/08/04/f... Now #gotriangle needs to work on the Chapel Hill-Raleigh connection as well: the CRX is so much more poorly served than the DRX as to be a joke. Improve the service, and the riders will follow.

Blog bloggers love the 405. Many of us have ridden it into Durham for events as it rolls right out of central Carrboro. Now it and the 400 are getting even better! 🚍

Will be amazing. Suspect the authors never imagined that it would have an end date.

Just a heads up if you're scheduling months in advance: My book on post-war Hollywood, McCarthyism, and Christmas movies comes out this November and I would love to come on your podcast or write for your publication about all things American Christmas, political subversion, and Hollywood this fall!

Lookee here! My book has a cover! Coming from @ucpress.bsky.social in April 2026. Many thanks to Tourmaline for allowing us to use her photograph "Summer Azure"!

Long-lost Inuit animation films restored and released after 50 years! nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

Vamos a Rio. Nitrata en Niterói.

I can't capture in a photo how awesome the books in our film|minutes series at @leverpress.bsky.social look in print! Compact, beautifully designed volumes that take every minute of a film as a unit of analysis. Here's the first in the series by @shanedenson.bsky.social on Bride or Frankenstein.

Film scholar Ian Christie at his retirement party, with a lifetime achievement award

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is. Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out. mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Conference proposal and award submission portals are now open! Questions? Be sure to check the General Conference Guidelines and Procedures on our website. #SCMS26 Read more here: conta.cc/40ac5rj

Professional update: This August, I will be beginning new job as Assistant Professor in Department of Communication, Media, Journalism, + Film at Missouri State University. Happy to have landed somewhere permanent with welcoming colleagues, have many to thank for their support over past decade...

It's here!! Just in time to share with folks at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt during my Mercator Fellowship! For anyone interested in how documentary forms ask audiences to listen in order to hold power to account -- order at cup.columbia.edu/.../the.../9... (use code CUP20 for 20% discount)

The official CFP for the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium (theme: "Crisis & Community") is LIVE! Consider submitting if this is up your alley. Among my favorite semiannual academic/archive gatherings! @orphanfilm.bsky.social **PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!** See you in Ohio! wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

The long list of scientists and public servants who feel afraid to even disclose their names is chilling. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

This is why Carrboro's budget, adopted Tuesday, includes significant investments in our capital improvement plan for bike/ped projects. If we wait for SPOT, we'll be waiting forever. It's a heavy burden for a small town so it'll take time, but we need to get started and take care of each other.

it has a cover. it's got a release date. it took forever and a lot of help from others and a hell of a lot out of me but .... 🥹

Attention researchers who use historical California newspapers: Help preserve the CA Digital Newspaper Collection! The CDNC is facing a $300,000 deficit with only weeks left in the fiscal year ending June 30. Please give if you can. The future of the CDNC depends on it www.givecampus.com/w6vvpx

Paula Felix Didier on decolonial preservation practices, discusses the need to circumvent the historical marginalization of Latin American cinema. #NitratePictureShow

Beyond excited to attend my first Nitrate Picture Show!

People who say that the United States can’t build anything anymore must not be sports fans. Barely a year goes by without the debut of a sparkling new stadium or arena, often in the very cities where it’s most difficult to build almost anything else.

Researching the Paragon Feature Film Company, who made as many as 100 "municipal booster" films in the mid-1910s, was one of the highlights of writing my first book. Three of their films survives, including The Lumberjack. publish.iupress.indiana.edu/read/main-st...