Alice Lovejoy
@alicelovejoy.bsky.social
Film, media, & cultural historian, U. Minnesota. Sometime film critic. Books: Tales of Militant Chemistry; Remapping Cold War Media; Army Film and the Avant Garde. Coming in 2027: Film Stock: An Int'l History of a Sensitive Medium. www.alicelovejoy.com
I've just read this. You should, too. Alice is an excellent cultural historian.
Alice Lovejoy@alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt was an honor to write for @thenation.com about Minnesota this winter and Czechoslovakia in 1968. This is a piece about invasions and occupations: how we talk about them, what they look and sound like, the ways time feels within them. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Fantastic episode and the book sounds incredible. Shot up my to the top of my reading list.
Cold War Cinema@coldwarcinema.com · 6mo agoNew episode is live! We invited the film historian Alice Lovejoy (@alicelovejoy.bsky.social) to discuss her new book, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War, and the political economy of film production and its connection to imperialism. coldwarcinema.com/bonus-interv...
My alma mater Brown U caved to the Trump admin's illegal funding threats last year, signing an agreement—without a legal challenge—that has students "terrified," faculty call "a blatant violation of academic freedom," alumni call "reprehensible," and civil rights groups call "profoundly disturbing."
Against Tyranny?
In its first months back in power in 2025, the Trump White House launched an unprecedented attack on U.S. universities. To eliminate what the Department of Education called “nebulous goals such as div...
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For Screen International's "The Future of Cinema" issue, I spoke to programmers at BFI, the Music Box and the American Cinematheque to find out why audiences, especially the young, are flocking to screenings of movies shown on actual film.
Why there is growing enthusiasm from young audiences for watching films on celluloid
Young audiences are excited for authentic experiences - good news for venues projecting film from physical prints.
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A longtime rant became a brainstorm with a friend over lunch and is now A Thing: Papering over the audiovisual archives, joint symposium between @emhis.bsky.social and @fiatifta.bsky.social media studies section, held Nov 19-20 at @beeldengeluid.bsky.social emhis.org/2026/03/27/c...
CfP: Papering Over the Audiovisual Archives
EMHIS are excited to share the call for papers for our joint symposium with the media studies section of FIAT/IFTA: Papering Over the Audiovisual Archives, to be held at the Netherlands Institute f…
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#NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 269 (3/29/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
#NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please ...
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Essential listening
Cold War Cinema@coldwarcinema.com · 6mo agoNew episode is live! We invited the film historian Alice Lovejoy (@alicelovejoy.bsky.social) to discuss her new book, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War, and the political economy of film production and its connection to imperialism. coldwarcinema.com/bonus-interv...
What's good, @aseh.bsky.social, and #ASEH2026 attendees? We're thrilled to be in KC for the annual conference. Please stop by our table and check out our latest books in Environmental Studies and go to our website and find out how to save 40% on them: www.ucpress.edu/book-lists/a...
The latest @coldwarcinema.com podcast is fascinating listening to anyone interested in aspects of materiality and Cold War film history. @alicelovejoy.bsky.social provides upon layer of observations about everything from the extractive industries in the former Congo to evolution of fabric making.
Cold War Cinema@coldwarcinema.com · 6mo agoNew episode is live! We invited the film historian Alice Lovejoy (@alicelovejoy.bsky.social) to discuss her new book, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War, and the political economy of film production and its connection to imperialism. coldwarcinema.com/bonus-interv...
In Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War, @alicelovejoy.bsky.social exposes the chemical connections between movie magic and the materials of war. Over on @coldwarcinema.com, we ‘re chatting with Alice about her book and the dark side of the dream factory:
Cold War Cinema: Bonus: Interview w/ Dr. Alice Lovejoy
In this bonus episode, cohosts Jason Christian and Paul T. Klein interview the film historian about her scholarship and her new book, . The book examines the long and storied histories of the f...
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Thank you to @jasonachristian.bsky.social and @ptklein.com @coldwarcinema.com for a wonderful conversation!
Cold War Cinema@coldwarcinema.com · 6mo agoNew episode is live! We invited the film historian Alice Lovejoy (@alicelovejoy.bsky.social) to discuss her new book, Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War, and the political economy of film production and its connection to imperialism. coldwarcinema.com/bonus-interv...
Film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on the parallels between the current ICE surge in Minneapolis, where she lives, and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Read through the end, deeply observed >>
This Minnesota Winter Is the New Prague Spring
I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary.
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Important historical analogue here
Alice Lovejoy@alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt was an honor to write for @thenation.com about Minnesota this winter and Czechoslovakia in 1968. This is a piece about invasions and occupations: how we talk about them, what they look and sound like, the ways time feels within them. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
It was an honor to write for @thenation.com about Minnesota this winter and Czechoslovakia in 1968. This is a piece about invasions and occupations: how we talk about them, what they look and sound like, the ways time feels within them. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
This Minnesota Winter Is the New Prague Spring
I’ve studied Czechoslovakia in 1968. I live in Minneapolis. The similarities between the historic invasion and the current ICE “surge” are scary.
thenation.com
I'm looking forward to discussing Tales of Militant Chemistry on Monday at the NYU Center for the Humanities, with dream interlocutors @orphanfilm.bsky.social & Cristina Vatulescu. New York friends, please join us! 3/2, 12 pm, 20 Cooper Sq. Registration below: www.eventbrite.com/e/tales-of-m...
Tales of Militant Chemistry: The Film Factory in a Century of War
Book Talk & Discussion with author Alice Lovejoy, Dan Streible and Cristina Vatulescu
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By tracing Kodak's evolution from film pioneer to supplier of military materials, this conversation reveals how film production intersected with forced labor in Nazi Germany, nuclear fallout, and U.S. Cold War imperialism. W/ @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on @amprestigepod.bsky.social
E233 - Film and Cold War Industrial Power w/ Alice Lovejoy
Podcast Episode · American Prestige · 20/01/2026 · 55m
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Grateful for the chance to talk with @amprestigepod.bsky.social about Tales of Militant Chemistry!
American Prestige@amprestigepod.bsky.social · 8mo agoE243 - Film and Cold War Industrial Power w/ Alice Lovejoy Alice Lovejoy joins the podcast to talk about the history of film technology's relationship to the military and the Cold War. Link in the replies 🫡
It was such a pleasure to talk with @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social last fall!
The Tattooed Historian@tattooedhistorian.bsky.social · 8mo agoI went back and reread @alicelovejoy.bsky.social's book, Militant Chemistry, and made even more notes in it. Here's a part of our conversation late last year about the connection between the Manhattan Project and the Belgian Congo. This chat is on my YouTube channel.
Austrian professors in the Humanities + Social Sciences: Want to come to the @wirthinstitute.bsky.social + @ualberta.bsky.social a as a Visiting Professor? Apply! Here's more information: oead.at/en/news/arti... Application materials here: grants.at/en/ Please share!
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Tales of Militant Chemistry is one of @sciencenews.bsky.social’s 10 favorite books of 2025! @ucpress.bsky.social
These are Science News’ favorite books of 2025
Books about AI, Mars and infectious disease were among our top reads this year.
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It was an absolute delight to be on the Cultures of Energy podcast. I’m grateful to @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social for reading the book so thoughtfully, and for talking silvichemicals, film flames and fumes, radiation lakes, transformation, and more…. @ucpress.bsky.social
Dominic Boyer@dominicboyer.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
In 1956 the US flew hundreds of spy balloons over the USSR. They carried specialized Kodak cameras and film to record everything they flew over. The USSR shot most of them down. In 1959, the USSR sent Luna 3 to photograph the dark side of the moon - and just used American film from the balloons.
Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 11mo agoDid you know Kodak was a military contractor? grist.org/accountabili...
“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist
Grist@grist.org · 11mo agoBuoyed by a retro revival, Kodak’s dark environmental past is coming to light. A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of. grist.org/accountabili... #Environment #Nature #Photography #Military
I’m thrilled to see Tales of Militant Chemistry discussed in @grist.org; thank you to @hurwitz.bsky.social for talking with me about Kodak-branded streetwear, the circular economy, and the chemical currents that make film’s military histories environmental histories. @ucpress.bsky.social
Grist@grist.org · 11mo agoBuoyed by a retro revival, Kodak’s dark environmental past is coming to light. A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of. grist.org/accountabili... #Environment #Nature #Photography #Military
CFP for upcoming special issue of @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal! Topic: "Videotape in the Archive,” guest editors: @danerdman.bsky.social, Adam Charles Hart, Helena Shaskevich. Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026. amianet.org/resources/mo...
The Association of Moving Image Archivists - The Moving Image: Special IssueThe Moving Image: Special Issue – The Association of Moving Image Archivists
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