Evening viewing recommendation? Watch our BlackStar Film Festival Presents collection! Now in its 15th year, the BlackStar Film Festival was established in 2012 to platform the voices of Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists who expand the possibilities of cinematic storytelling.

It's conference season, so I wanted to share the AI refusal statement I put at the end of my presentations and book talks. Feel free to use it!

I think about this a lot with scientific films. There's so much out there we don't know about. It's like a vast ocean that's mostly been explored by three people in a row boat.

Thrilled to see Onyeka Igwe featured on Criterion Channel: www.criterionchannel.com/short-films-...

Film studies job alert apply.interfolio.com/188579?fbcli...

Anthropological research on subsistence is offered in the dangerous and authoritarian “report” on the humanities as a key example of supposed ideological weakening of scholarship. This critique begins to show how the key example cited actually proves the opposite. Let’s go into it in some depth 1/

I recently joined the editorial advisory board for the new book series Women's Broadcasting Histories at University of Exeter Press. If you or someone you know has a book project in the area, please feel free to reach out to me. I would be more than happy to connect you with the editors.

#Hacks! Good TV the whole way through.

AI boom discourse has gotten so out of hand that it’s making the New Yorker relatable🫢 (with alt text)

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

At an exhibit of Sylvia Wynter’s papers at Duke University, I was struck by the presentation of her notes. Not for further insight into her brilliance, but as evidence of the friction of thought. The work of thinking that AI “brainstorming” erases. Scribbles of process that capture our humanity.

Doing research on Ayi Kwei Armah's book "Fragments" and found this advertisement in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. Armah describes this advertisement in a scene when Baako, Araba, and his mother are discussing when to have an outdooring for Araba's son.

If you have questions about the position or are interested in nominating yourself, feel free to message me.

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Happy May Day! Workers unite.

Application due tomorrow, April 27th!

Happening later today!

NEW POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY will work on the history of Ghanaian postcolonial film and efforts to support its digital restitution. Postdoc is part of a team of scholars, filmmakers, and archivists from Egypt, Ghana, Sudan, UK, and US (including me!). Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Happening tomorrow! Last day to register for this event.

Join us this Friday, April 24th at 1pm ET for a Virtual Roundtable on Teaching Game Studies! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Data centers are a physical manifestation of AI infrastructure and they've become a flashpoint precisely because they're tractable. They exist in specific places, consume specific resources, can be seen and pointed to. I spoke with @lorenaoneil.com @rollingstone.com about our urgent AI reckoning.

NEW POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY will work on the history of Ghanaian postcolonial film and efforts to support its digital restitution. Postdoc is part of a team of scholars, filmmakers, and archivists from Egypt, Ghana, Sudan, UK, and US (including me!). Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

My print copy of the new issue of Discourse just arrived over the weekend! I'm excited to read the other articles published alongside my piece, especially Lani Akande's piece on Nigerian realist cinema. Check out the whole issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56665

The digital version is finally up! If you don't have institutional access but would like to read it, please reach out to me. I can send you a PDF. muse.jhu.edu/pub/27/artic...

Following the conclusion of #SCMS26 in Chicago, the TV & Radio History SIG is pleased to share recent and forthcoming publications from our members. Featured books include recent/future work by Jason Loviglio, Cynthia Meyers, and Amanda Keeler. #MediaStudies #TVHistory #RadioHistory #SCMS2026

Following @jenniferpete.bsky.social's lead, here’s my blog post on film I’m presenting in just over a week at the Orphan Film Symposium in Ohio. I’m on a mission for everyone in the world to see the joyous SUNDAY ON THE RIVER (1961) #Orphans2026 @orphanfilm.bsky.social wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

If you missed our #SCMS26 workshop on writing in the media studies classroom - you can check out our handout complete with keywords, slides, and assignment shares! Thanks to everyone who came for a wonderful discussion (and sometimes vent session). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We're helping to kick off #SCMS26 tonight -- and you can help too! Come record a short chat about any new publications with @chrisbecker.bsky.social and @stephbrown.bsky.social, and it will appear in a future episode! (If you don't arrive in time but still want to participate, just reach out.)

Also, check out the excellent individual papers related to TV/Radio History:

If you’re headed to the @scmstudies.bsky.social conference in Chicago this week, I’ve put together this feed that pulls in every post tagged with #SCMS26 to make it easy to connect and follow along! Say hey if I’ll see you there! ✌️

We are thrilled to share the remarkable TV/Radio History panels at #SCMS2026 in Chicago. Check out the linked flyer to see the SIG's sponsored and recommended panels. See you all there! #SCMS26

Calling all killjoys in Boston, NYC, Philly and DC. Come along and say no loudly and together to the abusers and the harassers and the fascists and the systems they create that create them 🔥🔥

I'm so excited! My new article just came out with Discourse. This has been a labor of love and I am so thrilled to have it out in the world. In it I follow the Ghanaian adaptation of Hamlet, (Hamile) across media to challenge "the medium is the message." digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/vo...

Very interesting essay (as always) by @melhogan.bsky.social on "The Ends of AI: Sycophancy and psychosis": "The rage against DEI and the humanities is part of the ongoing project of building up the logics of AI and metrics as the great authority." disjunctionsmag.com/articles/end...

Wednesday! #FilmSky

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists variety.com/2024/film/ne...

Another one down. Doctor Who collectors are amazing

Excellent piece in @theguardian.com featuring @mattseybold.bsky.social, @dorazhang.bsky.social and others (including a shoutout to against-a-i.com) on AI in the humanities classroom.

Pluribus anyone? youtube.com/clip/UgkxNRa...

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

still waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

The judge, a President George W. Bush appointee, likened the administration’s rationale for removing the panels to the authoritarian regime in George Orwell’s novel "1984."

Here's a 1989 interview with Rev. Jackson from Eyes on the Prize II. He discusses Harold Washington, the 1972 National Black Political Convention, and much more. Thank you, Rev. Jackson. Preserved by the Film &Media Archive at the @washulibraries.bsky.social. repository.wustl.edu/concern/vide...

Don't forget about the Feminist Influences online roundtable today! Email the office for the Zoom details.

Still time to sign up for this book talk!

SCMS+ Event: Continuing feminist film theory from Part 1 during the Virtual Symposium, the Gender & Feminisms Caucus will host a roundtable, “Feminist Influences,” on Thu, Feb 12 at 4:00 CST / 5:00 PM EST. Speakers will reflect on key essays or book chapters. Email the SCMS office for Zoom details.

My contribution to tonight's discourse I haven't seen mentioned yet is the reference to Torres García's América Invertida when listing the countries.

I love a well planned use of mise en place and scene to make an entertaining yet political point. Good job Benito. #suoerbowl

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