Today is the deadline!

Our keynotes for the Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference this February here in New Orleans: Tiffany E. Barber (University of California, Los Angeles) Racquel Gates (Columbia University) Zaire Lanier (writer and narrative designer) Kristen Warner (Cornell University)

Reminder: One week left to apply to the 2026 Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference!

We've added another keynote to Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture: Dr. Tiffany E. Barber (University of California, Los Angeles), author of Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women's Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation. CFP below!

The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website! Join us in New Orleans this February! blackmedia.tulane.edu

The Golden Girls turned 40 this past Sunday, so I wrote about its creator, Susan Harris, and her feminist contribution to US television comedy for Time's Made by History website. time.com/7316328/susa...

Check out this fabulous @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with the editors of the new essay collection THE GOLDEN GIRLS:

Now available: @alfredmartin.bsky.social and Taylor Cole Miller discussing The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. newbooksnetwork.com/the-golden-g...

I had a great conversation with Katherine Fusco (@fuscowrites.bsky.social) about her wonderful new book, Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Studio System. You can check it out here: newbooksnetwork.com/hollywoods-o...

I interviewed Justin Wyatt about his new book, Creating the Viewer, on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. It's a great book, especially for those interested in media industry studies and audience studies. newbooksnetwork.com/creating-the...

🎙️ Check out my conversation with @petecant.bsky.social about the #MediaTravels collection! We discuss the need for all media studies to be global media studies, the barriers to achieving this, and the value of embracing partial and fragmentary knowledges. newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels

Really enjoyed discussing Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy with Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social for the New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Please check it out: newbooksnetwork.com/kartemquin-f...

Has your toddler demonstrated a growing interest in prosody or postcritique? Have we got the doll for you...

We're coming back! CFP below.

New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on his new collection, Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media. Check it out. And check out the book -- it's open access! -- in the first comment below. newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? (I'm guessing we're doing psychoanalysis rather than CBT. Neato.)

The world is terrible in so many ways right now, and I am trying to stay focused on what I can control and what brings me joy. While I have promoted the #Newsies book on here, it occurs to me that I haven't really talked about why I love this film and show, and there are so many reasons! 🧵 1/16

Want to learn about how Texas media industry professionals are active in a range of distribution and exhibition activities across film, television, streaming, and podcasting? Check out the latest installment in our podcast series! cc @utexasrtf.bsky.social @texasmoody.bsky.social

New article on "woke Disney" in Popular Communication. Grateful to Ross Garner for his editorial guidance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Monthly check-in at BlueSky to see if anyone is actually using it...

Jennifer Holt and I discuss her new book, Cloud Policy, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. A must-read for scholars of policy, platforms, data, infrastructures, and media industries. newbooksnetwork.com/cloud-policy

Listen to me talk about David Lynch’s American Dreamscape with @petecant.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Just posted: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast interview with Courtney M. Cox (University of Oregon) on Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball. newbooksnetwork.com/double-cross...

This was my comedy studies Super Bowl: Brittney Michelle Edmonds, @dfmorgan.bsky.social, Bambi Haggins, and J Finley discussing critical Black humor studies last week at Pomona College.

New podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Amanda D. Lotz on After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century. Check it out! newbooksnetwork.com/amanda-d-lot...

SCMS members, come volunteer! I'm chairing the Distinguished Pedagogy Award again this year, and our committee has a fairly light workload *and* you get to learn all about the fabulous things our colleagues are doing in their classrooms and communities!

On May 2, at 1 PM Eastern, the Media Industries SIG will host a Zoom roundtable event on book publishing with authors and series editors. To attend, please fill out the form here: forms.gle/o6NVUNaVGNvs.... The Zoom link will be provided Thursday afternoon.

Check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @alfredmartin.bsky.social to discuss his powerful new book, Fandom for Us, by Us. He might've left me speechless a few times... 😆 newbooksnetwork.com/fandom-for-u...

Out this week: Victoria Ford Smith and I edited a collection on children making culture as writers, artists, actors, activists, and content creators. Check it out, and please ask your libraries to buy it.

New interview on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Henry Jenkins on Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America. It's a great book for folks in children's media studies, childhood studies, and popular culture studies. newbooksnetwork.com/where-the-wi...

Always an exciting day when one of our writing group gets their book out into the world... 😍 Congratulations, @alfredmartin.bsky.social! It's gorgeous! 🥂

Check out the latest episode of New Books in Film on Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola's wonderful new collection, Hollywood Unions!

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The Oscar race is experiencing a "shake up" because it's actually a pretty lackluster year. The industry falls all over itself about Conclave and Anora and The Brutalist while The Nickel Boys is right there, being wondrous. www.forbes.com/sites/timlam...

A new year of interviews for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social -- and off to a great start with one of my favorite film and media scholars, Dr. Bess! Check out our discussion of Finding God in All the Black Places! newbooksnetwork.com/finding-god-...

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In 2025, let's stop apologizing for cross-posting and start unsubscribing from listservs.

CFP: Critical Humor Studies in Times of Crisis: Aesthetics, Approaches, and Application In-Person | Hybrid Pomona College | Claremont, CA | April 25-26, 2025 Application Deadline: January 15 criticalhumorstudies.org/conferences/

Prepping for my spring grad media industries seminar, I put together my latest "recent industry books" list (2023-2025). docs.google.com/document/d/1... *Lots of great ones but PLEASE let me know if you have suggestions for additions! *What new media industries books do you recommend assigning?

My New Year's resolution is to drink black coffee. So far, so awful.

Having spent too much time studying these films: I was Team Aladdin as a kid (boy bias?), but am now firmly Team Beauty. My wife, a quite biased redhead, is Team Mermaid. And I think The Lion King is overrated and doesn't quite hold up as well as Mermaid or Beauty. 💁‍♂️

Anyone else watch Emilia Pérez yet? What did you think?

we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you

At last! My article on the many failures (for now?) of the Mulan remake and the need to situate them within a longer history of Disney and China. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Joined on the Watership Down commentary by Chief @cinefeline.bsky.social who’s also worked on the NIMH extras along with @profsaabbott.bsky.social @petecant.bsky.social and many more great academics and writers across the two discs

"Each of the men in my life was two things: an epic and an epidemic. I haven't named them all here because I won't give 'em nothin', not even bad publicity." -- Ethel Waters, in the original draft of her autobiography

Great review of @petecant.bsky.social’s book STAGING A COMEBACK. Buy it, read it, cite it (and request that your university/local library buy it).

Cinephilic joy: UT Austin has bound volumes of the entire run of Premiere

I got to sit at the cool kids' table. Coming February '25. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...