Anyone else find they do their best “writing” when they are away from their keyboards? On walks, etc. This week inspiration struck when I was driving home from work so I did text-to-speech recording. Whatever works, I guess?

Spiers, Assistant Professor at Texas A&M and contributor to the Women Film Pioneers Project, brings a sharp feminist lens to questions of historical erasure and recovery. 👉 Register and join us for this essential conversation on film history and preservation: filmpreserve.org/eve... 4/4

#OtD 6 Feb 1916 the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub opened in Zürich, Switzerland. Described as "history's wildest nightclub" it was the spiritual home of the often radical Dada art movement, formed by artists revolted by the capitalist carnage of WWI stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1060...

A short blog post about my research for ARCHIVING THE PAST, now available from University of California Press www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/r...

Coming in April from @criterion.bsky.social! FINALLY! 🎉 @wfhinetwork.bsky.social www.criterion.com/boxsets/8685...

I was honored to get to participate in this episode! It was a pleasure chatting with @alfredmartin.bsky.social and getting to read his fabulous book!

This semester I’ve started taking attendance @ "Intro to Film" screenings by having students complete brief exit survey. They pick an adjective to describe what they watched and explain why. I make a word cloud and share at our next class. Here’s how my ~75 students described IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.

Anyone else ever think that Microsoft is trolling us with how utterly awful Outlook, OneDrive, and Bookings are? Why can’t I ever find emails? Why are permissions for OneDrive so cumbersome? Why can’t OneDrive handle large video files? Why are bookings incredibly frustrating to program?

Let us “CLUW” you in… Pamphlet for the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the group for trade union women affiliated with the @aflcio.org. In fact, the first president of CLUW was Olga Marar, then VP of the @uaw.org. From the archives at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Yesterday in Film History we watched BONNIE & CLYDE and I briefly lectured on New Hollywood. Did an in-class reading and discussion exercise I long dreamed of: comparing and contrasting initial Bosley Crowther and Roger Ebert reviews from 1967. Was really productive exercise!

Please join us on Friday, Feb. 13 @ 1pm Eastern for a book talk with @bridgetkies.bsky.social and @melstanfill.bsky.social on their new book "Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies." Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Great film with titles sequence by some of my favorite animators — John and Faith Hubley!

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Obviously still thinking about this so...I just gave my gen ed “Intro to Film” students an extra credit assignment this week asking them to read, critique, and reflect on this essay in any way they’d like. I’m really hoping they take me up on it.

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

I’m pleased to announce that the teaching moment I’ve been waiting for since the fall has almost arrived… ….get ready for THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS my Film History II students! If PTA thinks BATTLE OF ALGIERS is worth referencing in his film, surely my students will get excited….right?! 😂

I just have to note that this is the same Atlantic author who wrote the “kids don’t read books anymore” piece a couple years ago, which misquoted my then-department chair to fit the pre-set narrative & ended with her bragging about having read the Odyssey or something

It's the same story with every new medium! Constant moral panics about how x is ruining/degrading the mental faculties of the younger generals; they were writing the same thing about magazines in the late 1800s.

'Some professors are treating wilting attention spans as a problem to be solved, not a reality to accept.' Ah, well, ya don't say!!!

Really glad this has generated chatter. Another key thing that colleague elsewhere mentioned is administrative: university officials cutting designated screening times from courses. Example: I’ve taught a 2x weekly course (75 min sessions) w/ no designated screening block.

I turn my phone off before the trailers and it's not because I'm better than you it's because I know I'll break and look if I don't. The self loathing at my own addiction is very strong.

I don't fully embrace the framing of this piece. There's no doubt that we, collectively (as opposed to just "kids these days"), have a different relationship to film, media and temporality. I do like the idea of watching slow-paced films as a way to "retrain our perception."

I don't at all doubt that things have gotten worse (I've fought the phone urge myself as well) but I also remember my undergrad years and how many kids treated class materials as something they just needed to skim and get through.

If there’s a short answer, how do you teach someone how to watch a movie? It strikes me even with that sentence that our language is not up to the present task: “how to watch a film” has always meant interpretation, not “how to look in one consistent direction for about 100 minutes”

She said it.

For everyone reading this Atlantic piece, check out my talk with @jotorresbarth.bsky.social (and my upcoming one with @landonpalmer.bsky.social). I would love to do a roundtable discussion on this if anyone is interested! youtu.be/-0Okh6Wq7xc?...

Honestly, most of my students are great but last semester I had several students walk out five minutes before the ending of CASABLANCA and was flabbergasted! Like how?!

On a trend us film professors have seen. Free link to “The Film Students Who Can No Longer Sit Through Films” from THE ATLANTIC yesterday. archive.ph/GFWzW

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Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Digging around some thoughtful writing about teachers using AI to help with their course curriculum and materials and no doubt, some of the stuff they've developed is neat, but the question I have is, "is it necessary?" and at least from the outside, the answer for me, is "no."

Greetings, new followers! My beloved @mzspress.bsky.social & I have an online arts bookstore, and we just added a bunch of new titles—new, used, rare. And yes, we have merch! See "New Arrivals" here: mzs.press/New-Arrivals...

Article in the November 29, 1969 issue of the New Jersey Record about 18-year-old movie buff Leonard Maltin

"Roughly, we wanted to follow a timeline from its beginning to when the internet arrived, and it sort of lost its place in the world. But along the way, there were gazillions of amazing shows. So, did it have an archive that was preserved and available to us?" https://loom.ly/NuCuAkU

THE book we need right now is out in the world! Allyson Nadia Field’s ACTS OF LOVE: BLACK PERFORMANCE AND THE KISS THAT CHANGED FILM HISTORY has dropped from @ucpress.bsky.social. Film recovered by USC archivist Dino Everett. 21st century public premiere at 11th @orphanfilm.bsky.social in 2018. ❤️

Eagerly awaiting my author copy to arrive! Publications never feel official (to me) until you have the physical copy in your hands. This book gave me the (likely once-in-a-lifetime) opportunity to write about an extremely niche 16mm trade association that existed from 1939 to 1949. 😜

People power! And support your local public media stations!

Celebrate Dr. King Day by watching an interview from "Eyes on the Prize." WashU's Film and Media Archive has digitized them all and is sharing them online. Link to first series interviews: repository.wustl.edu/admin_sets/e.... Second series: repository.wustl.edu/spotlight/ey...

First, two of the most important film preservation groups - the American Genre Film Archive and the Texas Archive of the Moving Image @texasarchive.bsky.social share an office and a mission of preserving movie history from the grind house to the home movie. www.austinchronicle.com/arts/film-pr...

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“This has to be the most expensive documentary ever made that didn’t involve music licensing,” said Ted Hope, who worked at Amazon from 2015 to 2020 and was instrumental in starting the company’s film division. “How can it not be equated with currying favor or an outright bribe?”

GenAI literally cannot function without owning everything & everything servicing it. It's pointless to itself and its own aims unless its total. So every evasion, denial, refusal and sabotage counts.

This incapsulates so well why I get angry whenever I hear colleagues and friends talk about using LLMs for basic tasks. Thank you @suchmayer.bsky.social.

A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

I’m also teaching upper-level undergrad film analysis/theory/ criticism course centered around JAWS. Idea and majority content gifted from UC Santa Cruz's Dr. Jenny Horne (thank you!) PSA: JAWS AT 50 documentary is very enjoyable, better than most of its doc genre, in my humble opinion.

liberalism is a radical and revolutionary doctrine again

Many, many, many limitations to my "Film History 1960 to Present” screening list (films screened in their entirety list only) but here’s what I came up with due to constraints. Students filling in gaps w/ three independent screenings (list of choices geared to non-US gaps) and final projects.

Tell everyone you know HALF A BILLION $ apnews.com/article/trum...