Come work with me! Two tenure-track faculty searches in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies @mediaatillinois.bsky.social: Media & Society: tinyurl.com/mreff8av Sports Media: tinyurl.com/2p337e7y

My department at UIUC is hiring! Two TT positions, one in media and society, one in sports media. Come work with me! Links here: Media/Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Sports Media: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

I’m very excited to be a part of the initial “TV Matters” series from Intellect! www.intellectbooks.com/wwe-raw Thanks to Sabrina and all the folks there for their help and support!

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier@smittermeier.bsky.social · last mo.

Since they’re already on the website and we’ll have covers soon: The starting titles for TV Matters are going to be „Seinfeld“ by @schwanebeck.bsky.social, „Supernatural“ by @fangasmspn.bsky.social & Erin Giannini, „WWE Raw“ by @zolides.bsky.social and „Crazy Ex-Girlfriend“ by Rebecca Margolis.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Well this sounds like a fun read! Collin Williamson’s DRAWN TO NATURE: AMERICAN ANIMATION IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE from @uminnpress.bsky.social! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791487...

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless

Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

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JOB POST in FILM STUDIES: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social is hiring Lecturer w specialism(s) in 1 or more of following: 1) Film & Media Practice as Research / Filmmaking; 2) Film Curation +/or Archiving; 3) Non-Fiction Film & Media. Deadline MAR 2nd! Please pass along. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137766-...

Lecturer in Film Studies | King's College London

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Wow.

A timeless classic of French cinema returns to the screen ✨ Enjoy a free screening of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, open to everyone. For more information: www.spurlock.illinois.edu/events/event...

Perfection

Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Did YOU know Spurlock Museum has this much going on? We bet you didn't! Check out our February programming! www.spurlock.illinois.edu/events

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 ☔️💪🖥️

This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Great thread here in on the rhetorical power of the "Fair and Balanced" fallacy that has impaired mainstream US media. Bari Weiss may now directly shape CBS News, but all of the major news outlets have long capitulated to this gambit that devalues truth, reality, and accuracy in reporting.

Joey Fishkin@fishkin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

One of the oddities of right-wing media, especially Fox News, is that for 20+ years now (and intensifying in the Trump era), quite a large percentage of their airtime is spent on media criticism: "Here's a story in the mainstream news that we are here to tell you is false—and biased." A brief 🧵—

On the occasion of today's 130th anniversary of Lumière's Cinématographe debut, I published this. We know the Lathams' Eidoloscope preceded the Dec. 30, 1895 "first" commercial screening by seven months. But does that film, Griffo vs. Barnett (May 1895) survive? Maybe. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

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Many thanks to Daniel Herbert for his generous review of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES in one of my favorite journals, MEDIA INDUSTRIES: tinyurl.com/4rmbk52k For holiday distribution to the media historian in your life! @utexaspress.bsky.social for 40% off w/code UTXGIFTS: tinyurl.com/3yyur9zc

I genuinely hope this gives film students some swagger. Mamdani’s videos are impeccable—just immeasurably better than Cuomo’s AI slop—and the videographer is a genuine film nerd. That shit works!

Selling Zohran | Defector

On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...

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Steamed Hams but it’s a critically acclaimed feature film is the apogee of commitment to the bit m.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-O...

Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film

YouTube video by Tyrone Deise

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It doesn't get more moving than @mrmichaelphillips.bsky.social's farewell letter. If you read nothing else today, at least read this.

Column: The Tribune’s film critic Michael Phillips says so long for now

Goodbye for now, as the Sondheim song from the film “Reds” put it. Thank you for reading.

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*Simpsons Trivia #731* Guy Incognito was voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who was also the voice of father character Homer

Champaign-Urbana: Join us at 7pm for the third annual Media & Cinema Studies student showcase @spurlockmuseum.bsky.social! Come celebrate student filmmaking and our graduating MACS seniors. The Spurlock Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council for this event.

An amazing new resource for film historians and anyone else interested in the history of moving image technologies. www.filmatlas.com

Eric Hoyt wrapped the panel by recording his own love tape, and expressing his feelings about the NEH. In the spirit of Wendy Clarke’s work, he’d like for it to be shared widely and seen by as many people as possible. #SCMS25 #scms2025 #neh

It’s particularly poignant to hear about the WCFTR’s great work on the Wendy Clarke Collection. They lost their NEH funding this week. Visit the site! #scms25 wendyclarke.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu

Love, Links, Archives: The Wendy Clarke Collection at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

Video artist Wendy Clarke's projects such as the Love Tapes, New York Tapes, and Growing Up Gay: The Out Tapes continue to be influential with their elevation of individual voices. Through her process...

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if you'd like to order double crossover, you can do so here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... I'll be posting more about the process and the final product in the weeks leading up to its release in May!

Double Crossover

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The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

New show added! We're thrilled to screen Japanese Paper Films at the Spurlock Museum in Urbana, IL on Fri., March 28 at 7pm. As usual, the amazing Yoko Reikano Kimura (koto) & cellist Hikaru Tamaki will accompany the films with live music. Sponsored by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies.