Just like Hollywood, we successfully launched something new, so we're making a sequel! Very excited for #HollywoodConference2027. Let us know if you have questions!

J.D. Connor@jdconnor.bsky.social · 2d ago

And we're live with the CFP for next year's Hollywood Conference. lmk if you have questions; hope to see you at USC! www.thehollywoodconference.com

Just saw page proofs for my short piece on Cleo Madison’s ELEANOR’S CATCH, coming soon in the SILENT FILM COMPANION edited by @lizclarke100.bsky.social and @martinlj.bsky.social. Did I compare Madison and DWG? Find out early next year!

I think about this a lot with scientific films. There's so much out there we don't know about. It's like a vast ocean that's mostly been explored by three people in a row boat.

Peter Labuza@labuzamovies.com · 4w ago

Stealing from @orphanfilm.bsky.social but it's sometimes crazy how there's still so much Film History, just from a "what movies were made" POV, we do not know whatsoever:

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...

You can pre-order a print copy here and, on publication day, there will be a link to the Open Access edition as well:

Copy/Rights and Early Cinema

Histories of early cinema often focus on technological, social, and aesthetic developments in the medium. But cinema also posed legal challenges throughout the world and continues to do so in the era ...

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I'm not sure if I've said this here before, but starting later this year @leverpress.bsky.social has will be publishing the edited collections that spin out of the Domitor conferences on early cinema. Here's a look at the cover of the first volume we're doing on copyright and early cinema:

The full program of the 2026 Domitor conference is now online! Starting next week in Niteroi, Brazil. 🎞️🎊😍 domitor.org/conference/2...

There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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WFHI is pleased to announce the inaugural Women and Film History International Student Project Award. Sponsored by @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social. Visit our website for more info: www.wfhi.org/student-proj... Apply by September 15, 2026

In memory and honor of the sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin, who, in 1960, published the essay in which he coined the term cinéma-vérité and co-directed, with Jean Rouch, the film—Chronicle of a Summer—that showed what he had in mind. He passed away yesterday, at age 104.

Got copyedits for my chapter on The Hands of Orlac & two scores for it & how they represent disability & Otherness. It'll be out in 2027 in The Silent Film Companion: A Recovered and Expanded History. Pre-order here (or ask your library to pre-order!): www.ubcpress.ca/the-silent-f...

We hear the latest issue of THE MOVING IMAGE— @amianet.bsky.social's peer review journal—just dropped! A special issue on Government Film edited by Brian Real. Nine new peer-reviewed articles spanning 1920s to ‘80s (if the TOC is any indication). 1/

Chicago folks May 19th-22nd I'll be in town presenting some special films: 5/20: Robina Rose's NIGHTSHIFT (1981) at Doc Films/ 5/21: rare 16mm Kodachrome print of WANDA (1970) at Northwestern's Block Museum Cinema / 5/22: Barbara Loden & Joan Micklin Silver's educational 16mm shorts, Block. Links ⬇️

Rotten Tomatoes (for plays) in 1935. From the Brooklyn Eagle.

Rotten Tomatoes (for plays) in 1935. From the Brooklyn Eagle.

You can protect buildings, people, or the environment. Pick two.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 4mo ago

Manhattan's West Village is the poster child for how historically preserving the buildings in high-demand neighborhoods eventually displaces all but the richest people. Case in point: a mansion created from two adjacent Bank Street townhomes will sell for more than SEVENTY MILLION DOLLARS.

ICYMI the @orphanfilm.bsky.social blog has been rolling out loads of essays about films featured in their upcoming symposium. Here’s one from a past SIG co-chair @martinlj.bsky.social about a 1960s work made by the North Carolina Film Board #Orphans2026 wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Jürgen Habermas, the leading figure of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, has died at the age of 96. www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Jürgen Habermas im Alter von 96 Jahren gestorben

Jürgen Habermas ist in Starnberg gestorben. Das teilte der Suhrkamp Verlag mit.

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Sen. Graig Meyer resigns, ensuring his successor will be chosen by party insiders, not voters. substack.com/@martinjohns...

Sen. Graig Meyer is resigning. Party insiders, not voters, will decide his successor.

Sen. Graig Meyer is resigning on March 31. It is unfortunate that the timing of his departure means that party insiders, not voters, will choose his successor.

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🎉 Film Diplomacy is READY FOR ORDER! Cold War classrooms. Cultural politics. Educational cinema as global strategy. So excited to finally share this with you all 💫 #NewBook #FilmDiplomacy #AcademicSky Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%. cup.columbia.edu/book/film-di...

Film Diplomacy | Columbia University Press

What if the most consequential alliance between the United States and Turkey was not signed—but screened? Beginning in 1930 and crystallizing during the Co... | CUP

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A little less than a month to deadline for our Graduate Student Writing Prize (in collaboration with @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal). Please share widely with students who are working in the ‘nontheatrical’ sphere @scmstudies.bsky.social

Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS@nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We’re proud to announce the CFP for our annual "Nontheatrical Student Essay Award 2026” in collaboration with @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE. Submissions due March 15. Please share widely! Link to PDF of CPF with details. amianet.org/wp-content/u...

Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔

“For many parents, child care costs as much, or more than, their rent—between $1,500 and $2,000 a month per child, and that’s just for day care or preschool.”

Why we need more day cares in Chapel Hill, and what we can do about it. - Triangle Blog Blog

A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

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Want to come work in my Film Studies department in Ottawa, Canada, for a year? Application deadline is March 6. All areas of specialization welcome. Please spread the word! @carleton.ca carleton.ca/deputyprovos... #filmstudies #jobopportunity

Lecturer or Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, School for Studies in Art and Culture (Film Studies) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning)

About the Position The School for Studies in Art and Culture invites applications for a one-year appointment at the rank of Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, beginning 1 July 2026, from q...

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New batch of essays on Film Atlas. Latest batch of essays published includes 8mm sound-on-disc system, 16mm nitrate film, Ukrainian optical sound, some of the earliest photographic moving images shown to the public and an inventive amateur widescreen format. www.filmatlas.com

Published two years ago today, this piece captures what went wrong in Chapel Hill, starting in the mid-1980s. Just a few weeks ago, the Chapel Hill Town Council finally started to undo some of the mistakes made then. triangleblogblog.com/2023/02/02/i...

It’s Groundhog Day in Chapel Hill, and we might finally be able to leave Punxsutawney - Triangle Blog Blog

A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

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OH: “Speaking of evil people, I was re-reading old Stephen Miller columns from when he was at Duke, and it turns out he has really bad opinions about parking.”

The edited collection on „Studying Unmade, Unseen, and Unreleased Film and Television Histories, Theories, Methods“ by James Fenwick & Kieran Foster is out now with @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Glad to have contributed a chapter on „Queer Histories of the Unmade“!

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...

This is the climate action plan Carrboro and Chapel Hill should be considering. How do we incentivize the redevelopment of land currently used for gas stations?

Daniel Trubman@danieltrubman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The death of gasoline & diesel powered automobiles over the coming decades is going to free up so many parcels for redevelopment in our cities which have been used for fuel stations for generations and generations. 895 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn ~1940➡️2026