James Leo Cahill
@jamesleocahill.bsky.social
Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
Hello / Bonjour! CIN105Y1 - Introduction to Film Study is the starting point for Cinema Studies at the University of Toronto. Class begins on September 8, 2026. Find out more at www.cinema.utoronto.ca/undergraduate. Course trailer by PhD candidate, Ganga Rudraiah.
Rumours circulating that Carney is drafting a tweet renaming the White House effective immediately...
"L’image cinématographique est hantée par ce qui ne s’y trouve pas" - Pascal Bonitzer, "Hors-champ," Cahiers du Cinéma, 234-35 (dec-feb 1971-72), 16.
Working on a novel about an autofiction novelist who cannot imagine the interiority of others. Working title: The Life of R.
What the average US citizen doesn't realize is they are about to endure a 50% tariff on Angine de Poitrine. It didn't have to be like this.
JOB: TT Assistant Professor, Global Anglophone Literature, University of Toronto specialization in South Asian, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, and/or Black Diasporic Literature and postcolonial theory universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
Read, Real, And, Land, Lad, Dale, Leer, Here, Herd, Head, Heal, Heel, Moist, Mist, Fist, Red… oh wait…
Gumby Screens@gumbyscreens.bsky.social · 2w ago
Rural Ontario grocery store. A brother and sister aged 8-10, one on the other’s shoulders getting cake frosting from a top shelf. Once these two get an overcoat they will be unstoppable.
Crying in front of 350 students. « Effective teaching is affective teaching. »
We all could be reading Michel de Montaigne's "Des pouces" (Thumbs) a lot more often. I hererby determine to read or reread an essay by Montaigne every week starting now.
This is a fantastic book. Excuse the tautology of the clip they chose to open our conversation (fault mine) as well as my brutal cold! Ivan does a brilliant job speaking about post 45 French cinema and the historical stakes of the French school of montage. share.transistor.fm/s/c61ddcf8
Montage and French cinematic history | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 145
Amid the tumult of change that swept through French society in the wake of World War II, a trio of visionary filmmakers sought to make meaning of the chaos by revitalizing a common method: montage. Re...
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Having watched The Odyssey, I must now return to Cabin Boy.
A tenure-track job in French for a specialist in African and/or Caribbean Francophone Literature at the University of Toronto. If this is your field and rank, please apply! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - African and/or Caribbean Francophone Literature
Assistant Professor - African and/or Caribbean Francophone Literature
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Teenagers all getting fake-ids with names like Jen Eh Aye.
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller Aug 02,1962
"Any user who generates AI images (at least images having no clearly defined practical purpose) is an unwitting pyropictomaniac" -Pierre Cassou-Noguès and Gwenola Wagon, Les Images Pyromanes: Théorie-fiction des IA génératives, 94.
kids are shaving their heads in widow’s peaks, eating grapefruit & cottage cheese for every meal, calling up NFL coaches to suggest defensive schemes, greeting spouses by saying “nice to see you.”, they call it Nixonmaxxing, sick shit
The episode in which Gumba, having finally found love and artistic fulfillment in a Neil Diamond tribute act, is moments away from being hit by a runaway car.
Gumby Screens@gumbyscreens.bsky.social · last mo.
