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Happy Birthday to Marie Epstein!

Happy Birthday to Alma Reville! "Best known as the wife and collaborator of Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville’s career as a screenwriter and editor has largely been overshadowed by that of her director husband."

Read about how much fun we just had at the Women and Silent Screen conference in Brussels/Antwerp from the one and only @pamhutch.bsky.social Many thanks to the organizers and @wfhinetwork.bsky.social who created this vital space for feminist scholarship & mayhem! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/06/15/c...

My head is spinning after all the *brilliant* presentations and screenings today at Women & the Silent Screen!!! 🎞️📚❤️ @wfhinetwork.bsky.social @aurspiers.bsky.social @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social @rutuja.bsky.social

Grateful to have the opportunity to present some research in progress at the Women and Silent Screen conference organized by @wfhinetwork.bsky.social in Brussels on Thursday, June 12! Full program here: static1.squarespace.com/static/62238...

"As with many other early women filmmakers, Kathlyn Williams' success in front of the camera created opportunities behind it, but her reputation as a performer may well have limited those opportunities as well." wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-... #BOTD

If you love dogs AND silent film, you might appreciate this new 2-disc Blu-ray collection dedicated to canines in silent films!!! With a superstar line-up of musical accompanists! 🎶🐶 kinolorber.com/product/wond...

When author Rob King uncovered a cinematic treasure in a NJ storage unit, he bought it all. What was inside? You'll have to read his guest blog post to find out: buff.ly/Qu8Qu9J #RadleyMetzger #RobKing #FilmHistory #EroticCinema #ArchiveDiscovery #LostAndFound #Cinephile #CultCinema #ClassicFilm

Very excited to share that my book, ARCHIVING THE PAST, will be released from University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social in January 2026! Many thanks to Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social, Raina Polivka, and their team at UCP for making this possible. www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...

New CFP!! Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social about TEACHING SILENT CINEMA TODAY guest-edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and myself!! Please share!!

Happy Birthday to actress, director, producer & screenwriter Lucille McVey (aka Mrs. Sidney Drew)!

My #SCMS25 book haul!! Excited to dive into new (and new to me) works by Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social, Alison Griffiths, Tom Slater, Alyssa Lopez, Rielle Navitski, Jie Li, and more! @ucpress.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @templeunivpress.bsky.social

#Incomplete (@ucpress.bsky.social) wins the 2025 @scmstudies.bsky.social Award for Best Edited Collection!! And is accepted by a gorgeous gaggle of contributors - a fitting expression of the book's collective feminist ethos 💫💫💫 @stefansolomon.bsky.social #SCMS25

Buckle up, it's time for the Alice Guy panel!!!! 🎞️🎊 #SCMS25 @aurspiers.bsky.social

#SCMS25 is almost upon us! Please join me and my fellow panelists, Jane Gaines, Pam Wojcik, Carolyn Condon Jacobs, and @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social on Thursday, April 3 @ 2.15pm to discuss THE FILMS OF ALICE GUY BLACHE!

Happy Birthday to America actress, producer, screenwriter, and director Dorothy Davenport Reid!

Happy Birthday to American film distributor Edna Williams!

Registration for Doing Women's Film and Television History 7 is now open!! This year's evocative theme is ‘Entangled Media: Past and Present’. 🎞️❤️ womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/11/d...

IMPORTANT UPDATE for QTC members participating in this year's conference. #SCMS2025

Please consider signing this important petition from @jacobengelberg.bsky.social!

Many thanks to @tanyagoldman.bsky.social for inviting me to guest lecture about Céline Sciamma at Bowdoin College! 😀

Happy Birthday to Louise Lovely! buff.ly/40LOTAn #womeninfilm

The second part of our special issue on the British Silent Film Festival & Symposium is now online, including open access articles on William Friese-Greene, silent film music and Maurice Elvey www.tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/2...

What a pleasure to discover director Kimi Takesue's films and to have Kimi come to my graduate seminar this past week @ Texas A&M!!

For Reverse Shot, I spoke with Zeinabu irene Davis about the rejuvenation of her incredible classic COMPENSATION — a film I think is one of the great films about Chicago, deafness and Black life.

Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social is now on bluesky! I'm really excited to have joined the editorial team as book review editor (post-1900) this year!

Excerpt from "Cold Siege Grips Midwest" (1962, 16mm, Frank Koza Collection) News outtakes filmed around Chicago on January 10, 1962—the coldest day of the year, when the temperature dipped to -12° Farenheit. Watch the whole film on our website!: collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objec...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan. 30-Feb. 9) has a "Focus on Katja Raganelli" section. Silent-era programs include: “Katja Raganelli Meets Alice Guy,” “Katja Raganelli Meets Lotte Reiniger,” and “Katja Raganelli Meets Margery Wilson." iffr.com/en/iffr/2025...

Lotte Reiniger playfully demonstrates her animation technique via director cameo (hands only) in CINDERELLA

Great piece in @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy by @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social on Gia Coppola's THE LAST SHOWGIRL, juxtaposed w/ Dorothy Arzner's feminist classic DANCE, GIRL, DANCE (1940)!! 🎞️🎶 www.indiewire.com/features/com... This is a double-feature I'd give my right foot to see on the big screen! 😍

HBD to the magnificent Anna May Wong (1905-1961), who appeared in over 70 films and TV programs over her 42-year-long screen career!!! 🎞️🎉

I don't read German, but if you do, check out this amazing database created by UC Berkeley featuring digitized copies of the film periodical Film-Kurier: digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/search?ln=en...

🗣️ I’m guest editing a special issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social on “Reproductive Politics & Media Histories.” CFP is below. Please get in touch if you’d like to propose something.

Thrilled to announce that I'm the new book reviews editor (post-1900) for *Early Visual Popular Culture*! I can't wait to collaborate with their brilliant editorial team! #filmhistory

No better way to spend the morning! Merci!

The surviving fragment of VICENTA (Musidora, 1919) is now streaming online on HENRI! www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/1...

Excited for the first @scmstudies.bsky.social Silent Cinema SIG event of the year tomorrow! Featuring @hennefem.bsky.social Nicholas Baer and @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social (Zoom link sent to SIG members via email.)

In our 10.4 issue, Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores how Yoani Sanchez, a virtually unknown Cuban blogger, became a media sensation and helped to reshape Cuba. Read Negrón-Muntaner's essay here: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

This is the *last day* to watch (and re-watch) REBELS AT THE TYPEWRITER on Criterion Channel!!!! A cinephilic feast of women-authored 1930s films, many of which are otherwise hard to access! 🎞️🤩🖊️

A great listen featuring Clara Auclair @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social 😍

I'm so grateful to @shelleystamp.bsky.social for supporting this project!!

Yay!! Long overdue history of an astonishing career in early Hollywood. First of many, hopefully. Remind me, how many books have already been written about you-know-who?!?

Entr’acte 2024 on *Creative Historiography* starts today!!! Brought to you by @wfhinetwork.bsky.social 🎞️❤️ www.wfhi.org/entracte-2024

I can't wait for Women and Silent Screen Entr'acte tomorrow + Saturday!! Online, free, registration required! www.wfhi.org/entracte-2024

SCMS Board expresses concern over cuts at Academy Film Archive & Margaret Herrick Library. These cuts risk compromising film preservation, research, and documentation of Hollywood's history. We urge AMPAS to reaffirm its commitment to preserving global film history. Full letter: bit.ly/3OfUWX1

The Guardian asked me to choose a comfort watch for bleak days. Not a difficult decision. www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

Bonjour! I'm a film and media historian working on my first book, about women's work in/with the film archive, and other things related to feminist film historiography. I teach in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts and the Women's and Gender Studies Program at Texas A&M.