Might've been a somewhat bad idea to put literally all teaching, learning, and assessment tools and identifying information for university members on one universal hub. 🤷‍♀️

In Canvas We (Should Not) Trust.

SCMS attendees, please check out these videographic-affiliated panels and DHVC SIG events listed below! 🧵 with panels/events by day below:

[in]Transition 13.1 is live! intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1729/i... mediation in video games, philosophy and AI, data centers and the environment, Catalan documentarian Joaquim Jordà, Coen Bros folk music, and fish tanks. Plus our inaugural SCMS SIG Grad Student winner on THE RED SHOES!

Carleton FTW!

I’ve finalized my list of films students can work with for our video essay exercises this semester. Purple Rain is joining the ranks this term for some Minnesota solidarity. Stay safe and strong, friends ☔️💪🖥️

So well deserved, can’t wait for this piece to be out in the world! Congrats to Veronika!!

In case anyone is looking for things to stream for their toddlers today, three cheers for PBS Kids TV, which has an amazing range of fun, entertaining, educational, thoughtful shows. We’ve been esp loving Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum!

Join the Professional Development Committee’s “How to Prepare for the Job Market” virtual workshop this Friday, June 6 at 1PM EDT. Guidance on preparing materials, cover letters, and research/teaching statements. Sign up to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/GENr6MkLGzi1.... @swapnilrai.bsky.social‬

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

If you’ve ever sat on an NEH review panel (as many of us have), you know how difficult it is to win a grant. It’s an incredibly exacting process, with way too many excellent projects competing for funding. Awardees are scrutinized from every direction, with more rigor than DOGE can even imagine.

@humanitiesall.bsky.social statement on the potential decimation of the Nat’l Endowment for the Humanities: “The NEH connects Americans in every state with our nation’s rich history and culture.” NEH $$ was essential in my quest to chronicle Lois Weber’s career. nhalliance.org/nha-statemen...

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders. Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

Filmmakers! Musicians! Actors! Illustrators! Artists of all kinds! Please take 5 minutes and make your voice heard

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

This is what a cap on “indirect costs” through NIH grants will do. Going from >50% of grant total to 15% will change how your local university healthcare systems function everyday.

!!!The best video essays of 2024!!! Honoured to be 1 among the 47 contributors from 17 countries who together submitted a total of 256 votes, which amount to 183 unique entries. @sightsoundmag.bsky.social | BFI www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

I co-edited the Sight and Sound poll for the best video essays of 2024! Thank you to everyone who contributed a list. We've highlighted a few notable essays, but it’s worth diving into the full list (183 unique vids!) Thanks for having me @sightsoundmag.bsky.social 🎉 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

The Sight and Sound video essay poll for 2024 is out! My first time voting which was a real honour (thanks to the organisers for inviting me). Something for everyone in here. Enjoy! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

So honored to be mentioned by Oswald Iten in this year’s Best Video Essays of 2024 poll from Sight and Sound, and bursting with pride that my former student Nancy Jia also made the list!!! 🥰 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

Happy to announce the MEP's special early cinema issue of e-Media Studies edited by Mark Williams is public today! Authors include @orphanfilm.bsky.social, @cinemajok.bsky.social, @marshagordon.bsky.social, and many others who haven't made the jump to bluesky yet. pub.dartmouth.edu/journal-of-e...

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today. youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

Hi everyone! For those new to my feed, I work a lot on film history and craft, the intersections between film and dance industries/cultures, style/aesthetics, video essays, and musicals. I wrote a book about all that, Storytelling in Motion (OUP, 2024). Happy to chat more about it!

Join us on the Zoom Events platform for the SCMS 2024 Virtual Symposium. We’re keeping things simple and accessible with the same Zoom interface, you know. Access invitations and a helpful user guide will be sent on December 4. All session times are in U.S. Central. www.cmstudies.org/page/VSsched...

Working on primary school apps and when I asked my toddler which words he thought best described him he helpfully offered “doody, boody, and foody” 🤣 #nothelpful

Lots of new followers over here, so hello! I research classical Hollywood musicals, fantasy spaces in media, and stars like John Travolta & Barbra Streisand. I’m a recovered Disney Cast Member & am currently hyperfixated on Dropout. But mostly, I wax poetic about Gene Kelly’s thighs.

Hi everyone! For those new to my feed, I work a lot on film history and craft, the intersections between film and dance industries/cultures, style/aesthetics, video essays, and musicals. I wrote a book about all that, Storytelling in Motion (OUP, 2024). Happy to chat more about it!

There wasn't a good list of accounts related to video essays - so I made this starter pack! Who did I miss? Who do you know who should join Bluesky to share & talk about video essays? go.bsky.app/PtthhCc

Reposting because the film/media history starter pack is quite popular. Feel free to make suggestions! Happy that we've been building a community so quickly over here. go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5 #mediahistory #filmhistory #books #history #media

For all the feminist media scholars who just joined Bluesky...consider submitting a proposal to Console-ing Passions 2025! We're hosting it at Georgia State University and we're looking forward to lively conversations! fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-...

Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings. Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.

Very excited to be included in this amazing, two-part special issue of Academic Quarter on "Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities", edited by Libertad Gills, @filmstudiesff.bsky.social and Alan O'Leary. Read/watch both parts: journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak... journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...

This unit on form fundamentals in my new film analysis class is going to be intense and FUN 🤩 #StreetOfShame #Gilda #HisGirlFriday #MonOncle

The introduction to my book Storytelling in Motion is free to read online for the next month! ( if you miss the window, just message me 😊 ) academic.oup.com/book/57631/c... If you want a physical copy, get 30% off by ordering through OUP's website with code AAFLYG6

This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge

Excited to share my new article, “Crafting Genre Performance.” American Delsartism, Florence Lawrence, analysis of early cinema acting, dance’s influence on cinema, primary document research, and digital tools FTW 😊 www.fulcrum.org/epubs/794081...

So excited to have my first film festival acceptance be for a video essay from my first book, and to be in such great videographic company! 🥰 marienbadfilmfestival.com

I'm excited to share my third, final, and favorite video essay from my forthcoming book, Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical, out in a few weeks!! vimeo.com/cinemajok/en...

Author copies are here! Many thanks to everyone @utexaspress.bsky.social and to Ross Melnick and Rob King for their generous blurbs. Order here using the code UTXM25 for 25% off and free shipping: tinyurl.com/37re8z3k

I'm delighted to be able to share a second videographic chapter from my forthcoming book, Storytelling in Motion! Lots of sonic loops and thoughts about genre in this one. vimeo.com/cinemajok/di...

Thank you, Katie! 😊

I'm excited to announce that the first (and most explanatory) of three video essays that I created for my book is now public! I'll continue to share these videographic chapters as the book release date approaches. Chapter abstract and book link in video description. vimeo.com/cinemajok/se...

My book has a cover, this is starting to feel real!! 😱 Out in spring 2024!

Several great film events happening later this week for those in the Champaign-Urbana area! media.illinois.edu/ebertlecture... media.illinois.edu/ebertlecture...

NEH's Office of Digital Humanities is seeking a Program Officer (AKA a Humanities Administrator.) Apps are due Sept 26. We have to re-run our previous search, so if you applied before, apply again. More detailed instructions are in the announcement. www.usajobs.gov/job/748496600

A busy work weekend for his papa means baking, shrimp apps, Bubble Guppies, and of course egg white cocktails 🍪🍤🧜‍♀️🍸

I’ve been trying to make things along with my video essay students, so please enjoy this silly Pecha Kucha all about Hans Gruber from DIE HARD… vimeo.com/861083639