Stefania Marghitu
@dearstefania.bsky.social
media studies scholar. motha. friend. wrote a book on Teen TV (2021, Routledge). still working on that book on women showrunners.
Had a great chat with Neia Balao at Yahoo Entertainment about Sterling Point and Megan Park’s command over the elusive “authentic” Teen TV speak! www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
On ‘Sterling Point,’ teenagers say ‘like’ ... like, a lot. Why does hearing teens actually talk like teens feel so refreshing?
Megan Park's YA series is being praised for nailing something that shouldn't feel as rare as it does: teen characters that actually talk and sound like teens.
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It’s very exciting to now be on the editorial board of TV and New Media. The company is 🤯.
HBD to the legendary joyful/angry feminist and superlative filmmaker Agnès Varda (1928-2019)!!! 🎊🎞️
And the sexual politics of it is part of the tongue n cheek of it all to moi.
Stefania Marghitu@dearstefania.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhoever voiced that Sabrina Carpenter was going to be the Sydney Sweeney of pop girlies was so so wrong. She’s one of the most interesting and funny and creative ones. She can remind you of Dolly Parton and Doja Cat seconds away but she’s so her. Her Tiny Desk is a top 5. Coachella set, bril.
Whoever voiced that Sabrina Carpenter was going to be the Sydney Sweeney of pop girlies was so so wrong. She’s one of the most interesting and funny and creative ones. She can remind you of Dolly Parton and Doja Cat seconds away but she’s so her. Her Tiny Desk is a top 5. Coachella set, bril.
Mungiu took home the prestigious Palme D'Or for his film Fjord, a culture-war drama set in Norway. n.pr/49hWVVF
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's 'Fjord' wins top prize at Cannes
Mungiu took home the prestigious Palme D'Or for his film Fjord, a culture-war drama set in Norway.
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Join the TV SIG on Friday, May 15 at 2pm ET for a book launch and discussion with Theresa Trimmel and Stefania Marghitu for Theresa's new book, FEMALE AUTHORSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY US TELEVISION. Check your inboxes in the next few days for the event zoom link. See you there!
One of my favorites!!
MidCenturyCinema@midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 6mo ago2/25/77: Andrzej Wajda's Man of Marble w/Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz More: @marbleicehook.bsky.social / @secondrun.bsky.social: secondrundvd.com/release_more... @jhoberman.bsky.social: cinefiles.bampfa.berkeley.edu/catalog/33602 @dearstefania.bsky.social: eefb.org/retrospectiv...
Step 6: Read Making the Liberal Media, published by Columbia University Press and now available from your favorite book retailer. Your local bookstore or library doesn’t have a copy? Ask them to order some!
First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!
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TOY STORY 5 is "physical toys vs digital/tablets"... something that the Chinese animated movie TOY GUARDIANS did in 2017, and even then it didn't feel extremely original. letterboxd.com/film/toy-gua...
Can’t wait for the I Love LA/Euphoria Crossover where we learn Josh Hutcherson’s character teaches Spanish at the vaguely SoCal suburb of Euphoria High (Marshawn Lynch reprises his role in Bottoms, duh) cc @alyxvesey.bsky.social
Delta State University staff found the body of Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a 21-year-old student, hanging from a tree in the middle of the Mississippi campus on Monday morning. Authorities do not believe foul play was involved. buff.ly/5Sxlxu2
DSU Student Found Hanging in Tree, No Foul Play Suspected
Delta State University staff found the body of 21-year-old student Demartravion “Trey” Reed hanging from a tree in the middle of campus on Monday.
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Such lovely winners, such good shows, such an ineptly done telecast. It might be one of the worst-executed awards shows I’ve covered, and I’ve been covering them for almost 20 years.
8 takeaways from a so-so Emmys night
The Studio, The Pitt and Adolescence took home top prizes on Sunday. And while the wins were deserving, the telecast was meh. Here are a few takeaways from a night that was a real mixed bag.
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@fuscowrites.bsky.social manages to find one more face in the Man of 1,000 Faces. In her new book, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System," she explores public personas of Lon Chaney and other early Hollywood stars. @columbiaup.bsky.social cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywo...
Postdoc in the new @dfg.de Research Training Group 3064 “Technologies of Witnessing: Media and Cultural Practices“ at the University Mainz – Deadline Oct 17 The (RTG) examines technologies of witnessing in contemporary media cultures in transformation. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/50726
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Does America care about these kids? Will tears be shed in Washington D.C. for them? Will people even know their names?
The Colorado Sun ☀️@coloradosun.com · 12mo agoAt least three teenagers were in critical condition after being shot Wednesday afternoon on the grounds of Evergreen High School. The suspected shooter was among the three. coloradosun.com/2025/09/10/e...
Lord save us: "Paramount is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told."
The Bari Market
With Paramount securely in his pocket, David Ellison is on the verge of acquiring Bari Weiss’s The Free Press and tossing her the keys to CBS News. The deal is on the 1-yard line, I’m told.
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I had the pleasure of presenting my work on romanticised depictions of domestic labour on TikTok this afternoon, alongside fabulous co-pannelists @effietheant.bsky.social and @dearstefania.bsky.social. We had a great Q&A session as well, thank you both! ❣️👌
Getting asked to write your first book blurb feels pretty cool.
a man wearing a black hat that says wayne 's world gives two thumbs up
ALT: a man wearing a black hat that says wayne 's world gives two thumbs up
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📣 TOMORROW from 5-6pm BST: a FREE online celebration of women's TV authorship! I'll be discussing my book on UK comedians with Sarah Arnold, alongside Sarah Smyth & @dearstefania.bsky.social on their special dossier exploring authorship/adaptations 📣 Register: shorturl.at/eO3KY
WFTHN Presents: Women's Television Authorship
Join us online for WFTHN Presents: Women's Television Authorship, where we celebrate some recent scholarship on women's television authorshi
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Also biggest congrats to my conference co-author/panelist for so many years in a row now @gryr.bsky.social on her book!! Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics out now! www.routledge.com/Social-Media...
Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics
Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics explores this distinct fictional form that merges the genres, structures and affordances of television with those of social media and what it enta...
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Thanks to @ehl.bsky.social for making me think even more about how we need to address the systems showrunners are working within more-and how they very specifically work those systems- and to @memles.bsky.social for agreeing about historicizing early streaming/2010s already
Here's a template that you can copy/paste/customize to contact your reps about Defending Our Libraries re: the Institute of Museum and Library Services Section 9141 ⭐️ #Libraries are some of the last non-commercial public spaces left in our communities—let your reps know that this is not okay!
Defend IMLS’s Section 9141
Script for writing AND calling your legislators—it’s so important that they hear from us: Dear [Senator/Representative NAME], I am writing to you about the President’s executive order calling for th...
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Adding to the remembrances of Linda Williams' invaluable work, listen to her incredible keynote address from the 2013 SCMS conference here (mp3 download link) aca-media.org/s/LindaWilli... She also did an @scmstudies.bsky.social Fieldnotes interview; see here: www.cmstudies.org/general/cust...
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Alyx Vesey@alyxvesey.bsky.social · last yr.If she had just written “Film Bodies,” Linda Williams would have already provided a massive contribution to how film studies thinks about excess and affect as genre’s connective tissue (dig this chart!). But she left behind a such a generative body of work. A legend. Fill your shelves with her work.
Mourning the loss of Linda Williams. It’s hard to think of another scholar whose work helped define such a diverse range of subfields. For me, her 1981 essay “Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions” was a beacon showing how fundamental feminist analysis could be for early cinema. RIP
