As 2025 comes to a close, I want to reshare the two issues I co-edited this year. The first is an InFocus of the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, which I put together with Leo Goldsmith. The topic was science fiction and documentary, and included so many amazing essays. Check it out!

In case you missed it, Film @tcddublin.bsky.social & Dr Corey Cribb have a CfP out for an international conference on French Theory and Contemporary Screen Studies next June @tlrhub.bsky.social. Abstracts due in January. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.tcd.ie/ahss/news-an...

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

Rinaldo Walcott considers Sam Cooke and power, connection and promise in Black music.

An extraordinary loss of a generous and bold thinker

one or two best essays on SINNERS? (bonus: an academic article - on genre or film industry or black cultural production or - that helps think about the movie even though not analyzing the movie?)

Since Hamlet was Shakespeare's longest play, maybe it's fitting that my review of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's great biofictional novel, is 2000+ words. In the words of the mopey Danish prince: "Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing." slate.com/culture/2025...

On Monday, December 1, Columbia University Press will be selling all books at 50% off! (And some books at 70%!) tinyurl.com/7wzhyfmv @columbiaup.bsky.social

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

A wealth of talent behind the Hitchcock signature: Alma Reville, Joan Harrison, Daphne du Maurier & Patricia Highsmith.

Citation is how we knit the world.

A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

it's here! FILMING CAPITAL special issue of SAQ "Visual and film studies provide a distinctive lens through which to unravel and confront the complexities of capitalism’s elusive appearance." read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Favorite line from WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY: “Why is it with the phrase ‘women’s writing’ we are led to believe that perhaps a rescue effort from our troops needs to be sent in its aid?”

In honor spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. Griffith, father of cinema.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

What to do if someone you know has been detained — from immigration attorney Michael Foote….

It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...

'Perhaps surprisingly comic.' As if the blessed Virginia isn't actually very funny even in the course of her most serious novels, not to mention the diaries, etc. ‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Fernando" by Kay Dickinson. The latest in our Singles series, it outlines how ABBA’s mega-hit song could express support with anti-capitalist and Third World liberation while simultaneously becoming an icon of global capital. buff.ly/lfEAK8o

It's here!!! *Very excited* to receive my copy of the new @filmquarterly.bsky.social -- which includes our *collectively edited* dossier on CINEMA AND PLEASURE. ❤️🎞️ @girishshambu.bsky.social @caetlin.bsky.social filmquarterly.org/2025/09/12/f...

Literally the master's tools.

IMO it was clear this guy was awful when he started dating a high school girl, but he somehow keeps getting worse www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

"When we exclude QUILTBAG narratives and communities from radical and antifa history, we do the Nazis' work for them." Fighting words by @suchmayer.bsky.social!! Thanks @girishshambu.bsky.social for exactly the book we all need. 🏳️‍🌈🍻

Really looking forward to this! The great @pamhutch.bsky.social on Iris Barry. Out Sept 23. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Any favorite examples of writing on this topic? I'm especially interested in essays that teach well.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Great. But where’s Ann Hui?? Six-time Best Director at the HK Film Awards and *only* director whose work has won a Grand Slam (Best Picture/Director/Screenplay/Actor/Actress) — not once but twice. Lifetime Achievement Awards at Venice, Asian Film Awards and HK Fest.

An absolute legend.

"The Republican party has already shown that its commitment to democratic elections – that is, the kind that they might lose – is paper thin," writes Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan.

Silent film people, I'm reworking the proto-SF in early cinema section of my Science Fiction Film syllabus. Do you have any favorite examples?

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

Revisiting what I wrote about BOUND for the @criterion.bsky.social edition. www.criterion.com/current/post...

In this Directed By Women Viewing Guide: a slasher reboot, two debut dramas, two new docs, U.K. premiere of a restoration, the 5th Annual Arab Women in the Arts, a series at the Academy Museum, a Swedish coming-of-age drama, silent pioneers on TCM, an Oscar-winning doc on PBS, & a Palestinian doc

something you may not know about me is that i am a hurricane katrina survivor. this year is the 20th anniversary of the hurricane and i am honored to be co-curating a film program at MoMA that takes a look at new orleans before, during, & after the storm. learn more: www.moma.org/calendar/fil...

#academicsky: List 10 of your favorite academic writers (1 per day) whose writing style you admire. I'll start: 1. I love @stepforddaughter.bsky.social's writing. Somehow she manages to be aspirational, politically committed, academically rigorous, and fun to read all at the same time!

2 book year for me – BAD LANGUAGE (Peninsula) in Nov & this amazing compendium I've had the honour to edit w/ Sarah Shin @silver-press.bsky.social in Oct! More Le Guin, this time w/ added Bhanu Kapil, @davidnaimon.bsky.social, @unamccormack.bsky.social & more! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I also wrote an essay on the marvellous film critic C.A. Lejeune for this book on Film Critics and British Film Culture, edited by Sheldon Hall and Robert Shail, which will be out next month from @edinburghup.bsky.social edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-film-cr...

I contributed an essay on women working in postwar British Cinema to this fabulous book edited by Ehsan Khoshbakht, which accompanies the retrospective of the same name at Locarno this year shop.locarnofestival.ch/collections/...

The new foreword and the introduction of my revised and expanded edition of Policing Black Lives with Duke University Press and Fernwood has been published on the Duke website bit.ly/3Tv16oQ now available for pre-order. Discount code in the US and worldwide is E26MYNRD

Thinking about Achille Mbembe, and the United States as the postcolony coming home to roost.

Yet to see or hear a single example of a terf/gc book or article that has failed to find a publisher or platform. Big 5 pubs, uni presses, broadsheets, major mags all support. What bugs them is u can publish a pile of horseshit but u can't force bookstores or readers to eat it.

Might I suggest what you want to remember you were doing the day after an American concentration camp opened in your lifetime is not arguing online about the camp’s name, but directly asking one person you trust what you could do together to help close the camp.

"the designation “dip hop”... signals an independent style grounded in both hip-hop and Deaf culture. Like bounce, trap and drill, the label “dip hop” makes a greater distinction from being a variation of rap to a style that is heavily situated within Deaf culture and determined by Deaf aesthetics."

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

Resharing these starter packs for #MarxistMonday and all your historical materialist needs

Kelly and her guests are an essential read. And the transcript is deeply appreciated!

I wrote a book about balloons, trains, animals, snow, bean paste in a few great films. Free PDF: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...