In run up to July 4, I’ve seen several online pieces w/ critics discussing best films ABOUT America. All are flawed since they overlook Vincent Collins’ groovy 200 (1976) funded by United States Information Agency (USIA)’s Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant Film 🇺🇸 www.archives.gov/research/mot...

In run up to July 4, I’ve seen several online pieces w/ critics discussing best films ABOUT America. All are flawed since they overlook Vincent Collins’ groovy 200 (1976) funded by United States Information Agency (USIA)’s Young Filmmaker Bicentennial Grant Film 🇺🇸 www.archives.gov/research/mot...

really love how this article brought together editors and contributors from so many different regions to write about how gender defies the binary in all of them 🏳️‍🌈

Every time I come across minor (and ultimately inconsequential) errors in academic articles, I am caught between the feelings of (a) being a smug jerk, (b) relief that “it happens to everyone” and (c) fear of having similar types of errors in my work and being judged by other smug jerks like me. 🤣

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

Going to start calling the last ten minutes of class “stoppage time” to get my students more invested in learning

Update: Peacock has some tennis and Bowie really likes Coco Gauff.

Pixar make this buddy movie

As a fairly casual sports fan who sometimes wants to watch the games, the task of finding what services have what games is exhausting. I don’t want more services, I don’t want to sign up for free trials, leave me alone. I just feel like watching a random tennis match today. No sports for me. 😆

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft.

A fun read for the film nerds. “Alfred Hitchcock’s Vandamm House Never Existed, Until They Build Their Own.” With link that should bypass the paywall. www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

I always smile when I see reports like these. And yet, getting the mass public to actually LISTEN to regular reporting of this ilk still feels like a Sisyphean task.

'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.

Anyway….I highly recommend this NYT Daily podcast that dropped on February 1, 2026, about Bad Bunny’s rise and the like. First part does a stellar job succinctly situating his rise as part of historic changes in media delivery (i.e., YouTube and Soundcloud, esp.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/p...

TL;DR but inspired by Bad Bunny’s 2026 show and reception, I had went down internet rabbit hole about history of Superbowl Half Time shows and WOW, so much to unpack. Somebody should realllllyyy do an edited collection. A cursory search already yields what looks to be excellent work! Such as...

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

My mom just unwittingly gave me a A+ idea for final session of my film history 1960 seminar next spring when she asked if I knew about these “YouTube people” whose new horror movies she keeps hearing about 🤣 In all seriousness though, this will be great end-of-semester topic bridging old + new

Will watch anything with Myrna Loy!

Years ago I’d read about rediscovery + UCLA restoration of first sound film produced in Puerto Rico: ROMANCE TROPICAL (1934). I’ve always been eager to see it and lo and behold it's on YouTube with a joyous intro by director Juan E. Viguié’s great-granddaughter! 🇵🇷🎞️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssn...

I try to limit my social media time but how would I get movie recommendations otherwise? Hence, from folks at Il Cinema Ritrovato, I recently learned of DRAKULA IN INSTANBUL (Mehmet Muhtar, 1953) which I will 100% be watching soon via YouTube m.youtube.com/watch?v=n3kk...

Hi all, @jeffschuhrke.bsky.social is teaching a class on the history of general strikes in the United States. It's online, there's a free option, and it's obviously extremely topical to our current moment. Sign up here.

🤩 Dropping soon: Yvonne Tasker + Sadie Weaving’s JILL CRAIGIE: FILM AND FEMINISM IN POSTWAR BRITAIN on @illinoispress.bsky.social! (Filing under: book I want to read but have no idea when I’ll ever get to it b/c it is humanly impossible to keep up with exciting work colleagues keep putting out!)

They're doing the good work over at Muscle Distribution. You should back this if you can.

Years ago I’d read about rediscovery + UCLA restoration of first sound film produced in Puerto Rico: ROMANCE TROPICAL (1934). I’ve always been eager to see it and lo and behold it's on YouTube with a joyous intro by director Juan E. Viguié’s great-granddaughter! 🇵🇷🎞️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=nssn...

One week left for active @scmstudies.bsky.social members in the "Nontheatrical Film and Media" SIG to vote for new co-chair. Check your emails for candidate statements and access to the voting link 🗳️

New in #openaccess! RESTITUTION AND THE MOVING IMAGE: GLOBAL FILM HERITAGE BETWEEN RETURN, ACCESS, AND ARCHIVAL REPARATION, edited by Nikolaus Perneczky @kinolaus.bsky.social and Cecilia Valenti www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Outgoing Precarious Labor Group co-chair here! @scmstudies.bsky.social renewal period is upon us. If you’re a grad student or precarious scholar, apply now for our fee waiver fund. Please share widely! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Outgoing Precarious Labor Group co-chair here! @scmstudies.bsky.social renewal period is upon us. If you’re a grad student or precarious scholar, apply now for our fee waiver fund. Please share widely! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Media studies folks—new visualization for classes!

Any author who is using gen AI isn’t a writer. They’re a reader. Copy and pasting generative output that you didn’t write into a document isn’t writing.

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The apparent increasing dominance of library tv on US streamers is an artifact of the end of peak tv with the strikes and will work its way through like a pig through a python. The slight downturn in library film foreshadows this. We shouldn't mistake production cycles for taste changes.

Last night in Ozark, Missouri. 🎈🔥

"...All of these beautiful young people reviewing Naked Acts on Letterbox kept asking, Why didn’t you make another film? It became clear that people may actually want to hear more from me.” deadline.com/2026/06/brid...

Nation Proud Of Self For Watching, Enjoying Original Movie

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

When I’m in the groove, I find writing immensely pleasurable but oh it is stressful and unpleasant when you’re past deadlines and just can’t get the words out...

@iamhist.bsky.social is looking for book reviewers for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (HJFRT) and have several new nontheatrical and useful cinema books on their list. Give it a look and consider contacting them if you’re available!

Can’t stop thinking about this.

Out here doing some Luddite praxis.

“Editing is the final rewrite, where the poetry is written in cinema language. The film is made or broken in the editing room.” — Mary Sweeney Cinema’s great female editors get their due. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

!! Crossover alert. The Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born was raising money in 1954 to pay for defense of people accused under the Smith Act... but also... Salt of the Earth Tix!! 📽️ (#IYKYK = it played in 1 theater in NYC before the studios squashed it). I love the receipts folder!

I watched that AI feature at Tribeca so you never have to make my mistake!

If news is the first draft of history, the loss of local news archives means a loss of memory, culture, identity and, sometimes, reality. https://loom.ly/Bz_IMr0

¡NINÓN SEVILLA! …and many other bangers.

ATTN active @scmstudies.bsky.social members of the Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group. Elections for our new co-chair are now underway. Polls upon through 30 June. We are lucky to have three stellar candidates. Check your email for candidate statements and voting link! 🗳️

"This young female artist had the vision and skills to create a timeless classic that still speaks to audiences across the world. Even 100 years on, we're still thinking, 'How did she do that?'" https://loom.ly/4jb1RoQ