We designed these pieces to be teachable and broadly read. I hope people like them and, if you teach, they find a place in your courses.

New @filmquarterly.bsky.social issue dropped! Psyched to see our truly global "Franchise Everything" dossier with @cbrannondonoghue.bsky.social @alfredmartin.bsky.social @nitingovil.bsky.social @ncouret.bsky.social Reyna Denison and Marc Francis. online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/79/2

Whoa.

The overused word in every conversation and panel at TIFF this year is “authenticity.”

Girl, same.

I second this!!!

My heart is with everyone impacted by the devastating floods across Texas—those who have lost loved ones & those still searching. Many of the impacted families are from right here in Dallas. We’re mourning with you and praying for comfort, healing, & peace in the days ahead. TX-30 stands with you.

Here’s one example: Harris County, the 3rd largest county in America by population (5 million) and covering 1,703sqmi, is only permitted ONE MAIL BALLOT DROP BOX, on ELECTION DAY ONLY. One mail ballot drop box. One day (technically, 12 hours) only. For 2.7M registered voters.

Y’all my book The Value Gap is at @tiffnet.bsky.social gift shop. What a thrill!! TIFF was an important site of fieldwork for this book & is my fav festival in the entire world. Really feels like coming full circle. (S/o @justinrawlins.bsky.social for the picture!)

Texas film incentive bill moves to the Governor's desk after passage by the House. The ten-year funding horizon represents a significant shift from prior every two year renewal cycle. thetexan.news/issues/texas...

It takes all of 2 minutes to leave a public comment in favor of continuing to make COVID booster shots available to all who want them this year --> www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Push back on the bullies!

who could have foreseen that abandoning the brand name with immense value was a mistake??? Aside from every sentient human not named Zaslav????

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

As the box office press—or as we call them, the Asterisk People—were changing their tune on #Sinners after its second weekend, @kristenwarner.bsky.social and I had a conversation about the discord around the way they reported on its first. Long story short? Facts and feelings don't mix.

Female cinematographers are far and few between. Per the annual industry report the Cellulod Ceiling, female DPs shot just 12 percent of the 250 top-grossing movies in 2024. So, when a high-profile male director hires women it’s a big deal; when he keeps hiring women it’s a big fucking deal.

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Graphic design is my passion. #scms25 #scms2025

Good morning Chicago! #scms25

Boulder, Colorado. Wow.

Oh my.

She is simply the person I teach everywhere all the time. "Film bodies: gender, genre, excess" is a key text in all of film studies for me.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

Also thrilled for Sean Baker and his creative collaborators. It is impossible to teach my indie film & festival classes without his work. Long live independent film!!! #oscars

Thrilled for Walter Salles & cinema brasileiro!!! He was a huge influence when I starting researching & writing about the Brazilian film industry back in grad school. #oscars

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Hulu ruining the Oscars is really poetic coming after Sean Baker’s speech about streaming services killing the movies

I loved Anora but I think this is all about Sean Baker and indie film. He’s a standard bearer in the field. Such consistent work and always getting better. #oscars #hatm

I'm a broken record on this, but in the push to broaden Academy membership over the last decade, it isn't racial diversification or gender parity that has had the greatest effect on what wins. It's internationalization.

The first of the (vast) coverage of new CBS soap, Beyond the Gates, that actually engages with the industry logics that CBS and P&G are employing. No surprise that they include value of soap streaming audience AND brand integrations, just like a proper 1930s radio serial. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Probably going to spend the rest of my life mad that we can’t see the 9-hour Prince documentary

Yes -- STEM is not funding the humanities. Humanists are cheap and don't need as much overhead. Simplifying complexity, but budgets show this. Ex: 1. TT humanist makes 55k, engineer makes 90k. 2. Phd students at my phd uni were 20k vs 50k 3. I need a classroom and paperbacks to teach. No lab.

Basically we are looking at a pandemic/Great Recession sized disaster heading toward higher ed in the US, for no other reason than the fact that the Republican Party is in a culture war with academics.

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

Cancer touches EVERYONE’S lives whether you are in active treatment or survivorship or you are a loved one. Another unconscionable and cruel move in a line of many.

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SCMS congratulates Janet Staiger, recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Career Achievement Award! Join Dr. Staiger and SCMS Treasurer Kristen J. Warner for a special conversation at the SCMS 66th Annual Conference in Chicago on Saturday, April 5, at 2:00 pm. ⁠⁠ #SCMS25

I'm getting a lot of freaked out late-night texts from my friends who are not experienced organizers, looking for advice on how to deal with the constant onslaught of bad news and how to make themselves useful. This is the advice I give.

The inability of the national media to understand this basic point ABOUT AMERICAN CIVICS is simply wild

Everything that Courtney said! I grow more and more grateful for the path she charted and for helping us start a bit further along it than she had to with every new stage of this career.

I am over the moon Janet Staiger has been awarded the DCA award!! Janet was my co-dissertation advisor & one of my amazing mentors at UTexas. I would not be where I am or who I am today without her. I also can confidently say film & media studies would not be what or where it is today without Janet.

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TOP PLACES TO GO IN 2025 * shock * denial * the wringer * quietly mad * Portugal * a little room somewhere deep inside your mind where no one can find you

I’m tired already

“Who said women aren’t men’s equals?” — Rosalind Russell rebuts George Sanders’s earlier tirade against women Photoplay, October 1942

The greatest Oscar campaign of all time

Hugging all my fellow film people today. This is a big loss.

There aren’t a lot of real ones around. David Lynch was a real one But now he is gone.

Rep AOC: "republicans, who have voted consistently against the violence against women's act, who have taken the rights of all women to have control over their own body, who as women are bleeding out in parking lots, now want to pretend today that they care about women."