If you're a scholar interested in haptic cinema, don't forget to send us your article proposal at [email protected] Deadline for full articles is January 30. MORE HERE: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

Recordatorio de que Diane Keaton, además de todo lo que hizo en su carrera como actriz, también dirigió un episodio de Twin Peaks y el rarísimo clip de Heaven is a place on Earth

What would the ending of The Godfather be without her face?

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

You like movies? 🎞️ Were born in the US? 🇺🇸 And really really like to talk about Hollywood and all things related? 🍿 Then we're looking for you! Our US case study is about to start, and we want to find out about your movie memories. Register now! hollywood-memories.com/en/participa...

📢 NEW CFP 📢 The next issue of Comparative Cinema invites contributors to reflect on hapticity (or "haptic visuality") in film and television from different perspectives (the affective turn, cinematography, queer studies, and more). Deadline: January 30, 2026 More here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

every time I see another story about AI taking over a creative job I think about this scene in YOU’VE GOT MAIL and weep

Lizzie Borden's (@lizziela.bsky.social) New York Feminisms trilogy is now on Blu-ray thanks to the @Criterion Collection. Here’s an excerpt from my conversation with Borden about her films in my book “Cinema Her Way" Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/celebratin...

There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!

The Consensus for Showdown № 220 is in 🗳️ Here are the top twenty remakes (revisited), as voted by the Letterboxd community 🔁 View the list: boxd.it/OJDEg

“The most valuable thing to me in terms of my mental health is to read a poem or see a painting or listen to music which speaks to me, which breaks me open for a moment, and where I feel an experience honestly & delicately portrayed. That’s another reason AI can never create anything artistically.”

Linguistics lesson for the day: Accountability is crucial to interpreting language. We make sense of something based on who we believe said it. Synthetic text extruded by LLMs was not said by anyone -- so a crucial step in the chain is broken. >>

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

It's really fucked up the news media at large is searching so hard for humanity in machines, while systematically denying humanity to Palestinians, trans people, immigrants, and other persecuted people

Joined forces w/one of my closest friends, the wonderful Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro. "Frontera" is one of my favorite poems, I hope to have done justice to its beauty. Special thanks to @evelynkreutzer.bsky.social for letting this be part of her "Moving Poems" collection! vimeo.com/1111622865

It's a pleasure and an honor to be part of such a beautiful collection of video poems 🌟

New Moving Poem by @brunellatedesco.bsky.social! "Frontier" beautifully hones in on the figure of the horse in mutliple canonical films and relates them to Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro's poetry. Please check out this marvelous piece here! vimeo.com/showcase/957...

hopefully of use in this time suck against-a-i.com

Psst: Our US case study is about to start, and we are looking for people from the US who love to talk about everything Hollywood. 🤩 Sounds like you or someone you know? Then share this information and register on our website: hollywood-memories.com/en/participa...

Real talk (reel talk?): BWDR recently lost a partnership that covered nearly half our operating budget, so things are suddenly very tough. If what we do has ever meant something to you, or you’ve ever thought about subscribing, now’s the time—it *truly* makes a difference.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.

Some great insight here to remember as the school year is about to start. Really curious to know how university professors are rethinking their evaluation methods (and perhaps their whole teaching approach) to deal with this

Colonisers hate libraries, they hate the dissemination and democratisation of information, they hate us knowing anything. Does anyone else get the feeling that this is in part a push to force those of us resisting genAI to use it b/c there is nothing else available? *dusts off Encarta CD-ROMS*

Un honor contar con estos escritos de Christa Blümlinger en nuestro más reciente número de Comparative Cinema. Textos seleccionados por Blümlinger e Ignacio Albornoz, y traducidos por Albornoz.

‼️ NEW ISSUE ‼️ "Echoes and Reverberations: Reflections on Film Trilogies", w/articles on: Ermanno Olmi, Wim Wenders, the Fear Street Trilogy, Eric Pauwels, Terence Davies & Lucrecia Martel. The issue includes a dossier w/Spanish translations of texts by Christa Blümlinger raco.cat/index.php/Co...

An as-usual critical piece from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-...

Hoy en “Cosas de las que la gente fuera de la Academia se reiría”. Francamente cansada.

Very happy to have my video essay “Double exposures” shown at the Screen Studies Conference later this month! As always, in great company! screenstudiesconference.com/audio-visual...

➡️ DE NUESTRO NÚMERO MÁS RECIENTE ⬅️ "Imágenes que migran. El modo doméstico como dispositivo fronterizo en las familias transnacionales y sus migraciones y mutaciones en la contemporaneidad", de Pau Tronch i Valls. Más en: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Academic publishers make vast profits, but don’t pay royalties to academics. Instead, universities pay publishers to make the research that the universities have funded widely available, and then pay them again to access other research.

This is per an email to all AUP authors informing us that Taylor & Francis now owns our books. Can't find a public announcement yet. But a UP with 30 years of publishing history—and a good one—now belongs to one of the big for-profit conglomerates.

📢 ¡Es este jueves! 📢 Itxaso del Castillo y Alejandro Melero conversarán sobre el monstruoso femenino en @upf.edu Más información: eventum.upf.edu/135153/detai...

➡️ EVENTO ⬅️ Con motivo de nuestro próximo número sobre el monstruoso femenino en el cine español, el 22 de mayo a las 12 horas celebraremos un diálogo entre Itxaso del Castillo y Alejandro Melero en @upf.edu Más información e inscripciones: eventum.upf.edu/135153/detai...

“No one pretends to use AI for translation, audiobooks, or even writing books because they are better; the only excuse is that they are cheaper. Which is only true if you ignore the vast processing power even the simplest AI request requires.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

‼️ #CALLFORPAPERS ‼️ El Nº 25 de Comparative Cinema invita a abordar el concepto del "monstruoso-femenino" de #BarbaraCreed desde el cine español. La fecha límite de envío es el 30 de mayo. Contáctanos con tu propuesta [email protected] Más información: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

Aquesta línia a DAGUERREOTYPES (1975), quan Varda pregunta a la classe obrera què somia quan dorm, és senzillament demolidora.

Un dia com avui és important recordar projectes com Women Film Pioneers Project, que busca renovar la idea històrica dels «grans pares» fundadors del cinema, posant en valor el treball pioner de moltes dones en el cinema dels orígens. Imprescindible! wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneers/

ℹ️ Have you read our latest issue yet? ℹ️ "How to Inhabit a Ruined Map? Critical Methodologies to Approach Image Production in the Domestic Realm" explores home movies, their archives and their potentiality to offer unconventional gazes. More here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

‼️ NUEVO #CALLFORPAPERS ‼️ El Nº 25 de Comparative Cinema invita a abordar el concepto del "monstruoso-femenino" de #BarbaraCreed al devenir histórico del cine español. Más información: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

Our #CFP "Echoes and reverberations: reflections on film trilogies" is still open for submissions! We accept texts in English, Spanish and Catalan! More info here: raco.cat/.../Comparat... #filmstudies #openaccess

I'm exhausted by all the people out there who are trying to prove they're each the most cynical world-weary disillusioned person who's not gonna ever do a fucking thing ever except dump on everything and expect to be admired for that. Wrote about that in 2016:

Ever wanted to see us on the big screen? Well, not us per se - but it's getting very close. Join us for a video essay screening with contributions from our own @kathleenloock.bsky.social and many others! See you in Hannover on February 3, 4 - 7 pm at Koki Hannover! 📽️ 📌More info below:

"Variations in Minor Mode: The Question of Accent in Chantal Akerman’s Cinema", by Mathias Lavin: "identifying and questioning the expression of a particular accent is a reminder of the extent to which it testifies to an irreducible bodily presence in the voice". MORE HERE: raco.cat/index.php/Co...

➡️ FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE ⬅️ "Can different modes of existence for a film be distinguished? Can a conversation produce a film?", asks Érik Bullot, as he studies "the performative forms of cinema through the format of conference and conversation" MORE HERE: raco.cat/index.php/Co...