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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Fascinated by Melania Trump’s description of her film. It’s not a documentary, she said. “It is a creative experience that offers perspectives, insights and moments.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/30/p...

Still time left to register for this! And if you HATE AI and don't want to talk about it, you'll be surprised how you'll enjoy and get out of this ;)

I keep thinking about the line from bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody, "Patriarchal masculinity teaches men that their sense of self and identity, their reason for being, resides in their capacity to dominate others."

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...

CFP for the @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social SIG's Student Essay Award! Click the link to read the full description. Be sure to send to your colleagues and students! amianet.org/wp-content/u...

SCMS-2026 GSO Mentorship GSO is hosting one-on-one mentorship meetings (in person at SCMS or virtual) connecting grad students,recent grads, & precariously employed scholars with advanced academic & alt-ac mentors. 👉 Mentor & mentee sign-up forms are linked and available via QR codes in the flyer.

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In our latest issue, Laura McMahon explores an increasingly distinct tendency in Black feminist experimental film and video to turn to dance as a way of reimagining colonial histories, archives, and afterlives. Open access now! doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Over half of the 544 public radio and TV stations that received CPB funding were considered rural, giving 99% of Americans access to public media. https://loom.ly/fpuAgSo

The digital version is now up! Please check out this wonderful issue of Black Camera. Reach out if you want to read my article and don't have institutional access. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56164

My article, "Sambizanga (1972/2021): The Thin Green Line Between Canons and Revolutions," just came out as part of a Close-Up on Sambizanga guest edited by Gust Burns for Black Camera. Also in this issue is a Close-Up on Sara Gómez. I couldn't have asked for better holiday reading.

Thank you for your contribution to the special issue and to today’s conversation @briannajc.bsky.social. I learned and was inspired. What a good way to close out the semester.

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Thank you @tanyagoldman.bsky.social for attending and being part of the conversation. I wish we would have had more time to talk. It was definitely one of the highlights of my semester being in a virtual room with so many dedicated teacher/scholars.

This Friday! Register now for link.

This Friday! Register now for link.

On my way to AMIA! Excited to hear about all the amazing work archivists are doing in the field.

Friends! This week, Rowan's Gender Affirming Wardrobe project is running a fundraising campaign at giving.rowan.edu/project/48526. If you can, maybe toss in a couple bucks to help this project organize donations and buy things that don't/shouldn't get donated (like binders and makeup).

This promises to be an interesting discussion. Please join us!

This promises to be an interesting discussion. Please join us!

This book has been a labor of love! It's Linda Williams' final writing alongside brilliant essays by great scholars, examining the role of melodrama in current life and politics across the globe. Available for pre-order from the always-wonderful @dukepress.bsky.social

Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?

Had the pleasure of chatting with my friend Anita Afonu before seeing "The Eyes of Ghana" at Doc NYC yesterday. Not only does she appear in the film championing Ghanaian film preservation, she worked as a producer on the film. You can watch "Eyes of Ghana" online until Nov. 30 here: lnkd.in/egCNfxxP

New in ‘Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies’, a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas, guest edited by ODID’s Dan Hodgkinson with @jennblaylock.bsky.social and Anita Afonu. journals.openedition.org/sources/3100

Now available online! A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide! Available in print in early 2026. academic.oup.com/book/61621

The Gilded Age is an absolutely ridiculous show…and I’ve watched every minute of it. By far, its most trenchant social analysis is the scene where Ms Thing goes to Brooklyn to perform her little conspicuous condescending charity. I think of those shoes all the time.

If you are in San Francisco this weekend, please go see "The Eyes of Ghana" on Saturday, Nov. 8 @ 11am at the Vogue Theater! Tickets and more information here: sffilm.org/event/the-ey...

BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!

With a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas guest edited by @jennblaylock.bsky.social, Anita Afonu and Dan Hodgkinson, the lastest edition of Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies, is now out! journals.openedition.org/sources/?lan...

Check out the new issue of Sources: Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies co-edited by Anita Afonu, Dan Hodgkinson, and I. Excited to see these essays and their accompanying sources finally make it out into the world. @kinolaus.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/sources/3100

💥💥💥 DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK! We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share! (This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!) #DefendHighEd ⬇️⬇️⬇️ go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k

⭐️Poetics and Politics returns to UC Santa Cruz! Organized by my wonderful colleagues. CFP below. Join us in the redwoods!⭐️ poeticsandpolitics.ucsc.edu

Thank you so much to @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social for hosting this virtual book launch!

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

Committee for the First Amendment in 1947 looking good

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere. Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website! Join us in New Orleans this February! blackmedia.tulane.edu

"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Thrilled the documentary 'The Eyes of Ghana' opened the Toronto Film Festival last week. It features the work of Chris Hesse and Anita Afonu to preserve Ghana's film heritage. After collaborating with them for years, I'm excited to see them celebrated on the big screen. deadline.com/video/the-ey...

I agree. Great doc.

Has someone made a short, approachable video about the ills of AI? There's lots of great written resources I could assign students, but I think showing them something in class might be more effective.

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

A few more hours to apply for membership fee waiver! @scmstudies.bsky.social

I worked on a digitisation project around a decade ago. Earlier this year, I found that host organisation subsequently lost the digital files, but the physical archive (which was also restored in the project) is still there.

I will never forget watching Bushman (1971) this evening in Lagos. Watching a film about a Nigerian living in 1968 San Francisco, with images of the Bay that brought me back to a region that will forever be my home, I felt like I was crisscrossing through time and space with the film’s circulations.