That edited collection you're thinking about doing? Don't.

Man Shaking Head Nope Reaction

ALT: Man Shaking Head Nope Reaction

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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

Where was the lie?

Now available on the New Books Network: Hector Amaya on The Economy of Anonymity: Power in the Age of Identification. newbooksnetwork.com/the-economy-...

Now available on the New Books Network: @aswinp.bsky.social, @adrishaw.bsky.social, and Jonathan Gray on Planet Digital: A Global Media Cultures Reader. newbooksnetwork.com/planet-digital

With all love and sincere happiness for the Knicks, this was my NBA Finals this weekend.

Now available on the New Books Network: Robin Means Coleman and Novotny Lawrence on their recent edited collection, The Oxford Handbook of Black Horror Film. newbooksnetwork.com/the-oxford-h...

Now available on the New Books Network: Isabel Molina-­Guzmán and Angharad N. Valdivia discussing their recent edited collection, Rebooting Inequality: Critical Takes on Film and Television Remakes. newbooksnetwork.com/rebooting-in...

Now available on the New Books Network: Aymar Jèan Escoffery discussing his recent monograph, Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture. newbooksnetwork.com/reparative-m...

Literature/Film Association is meeting in North Carolina at Elon University this October. While the focus is traditionally on adaptation, all film and media studies work is welcome. It's the perfect small conference for folks who bring textual analysis into their work. litfilm.org/conference/

Now available on the New Books Network: Jonathan Gray and Daphne Gershon on their recent edited collection, Reading Media: How to Do Textual Analysis (New York University Press, 2026). newbooksnetwork.com/reading-media

.@rutgersupress.bsky.social is doing a spring sale with lots of books under $10 -- and free shipping! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/spring-sale?...

Now available: Sarah Murray on the New Books in Media podcast, discussing her new book, Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI. newbooksnetwork.com/powered-by-s...

Now available on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Miranda Banks and @kfortmueller.bsky.social discussing Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers. newbooksnetwork.com/boom-to-bust

Barbara Hall shout-out at the Oscars! Very cool -- and well-deserved!!

Happy Sunday to the guy who showed up at the Congressional hearing over the Netflix-Warner Bros. deal dressed as Mr. Monopoly.

Some dummies say being an English major is a useless major, but I just corrected my wife's pronunciation of "Adrienne Rich," so... joke's on them.

Legendary. 💔

Very cool archival news. www.hrc.utexas.edu/press/releas...

Sound familiar, media historians? 😉 variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the ‘Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue’ Because Viewers are on ‘Their Phones While They’re Watching’

Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

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Much love to the bee girl. 🐝👩❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVP...

Blind Melon - No Rain

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7mo ago

MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, what's your favorite music video?

The best moment in the new Netflix doc on Hollywood in '75 is when a young film critic very sincerely says it was the one time that film really showed us ourselves -- and then it cuts to a scene from The Bad News Bears where one kid kicks another kid in the crotch. Genius editing. 10/10, no notes.

Boston University's Creative Writing Program is searching for a senior fiction writer to fill a chaired position, the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities. See the job listing here:

the joy of completing IRB training modules as a humanities scholar and being repeatedly told your work isn't research

a man wearing a hat that says hds is standing in front of a glass door .

ALT: a man wearing a hat that says hds is standing in front of a glass door .

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New podcast interview with @markdeuze.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about his excellent new book, Well-Being and Creative Careers: What Makes You Happy Can Also Make You Sick. Well worth a read! newbooksnetwork.com/well-being-a...

Really enjoyed talking with @anjirbaguette.bsky.social about Appropriated Tales: Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast. A must-read (and -listen) for scholars of Disney, animation, and adaptation! newbooksnetwork.com/appropriated...

Hey academic humans, if you have a new book in film and media studies and want to do a podcast interview for the New Books Network about it, DM me. Or if you want someone in your discipline to interview you, fill out this form: newbooksnetwork.com/authors

There is a certain humbling comfort that comes with rereading an essay I first studied 19 years ago as a first-semester M.A. student and still -- two PhDs later -- having no idea what the !@#$ the author is talking about.

Film and media studies edition: do a shot when you accurately guess the voiceover actor. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...

Paul Giamatti Can’t Leave John Adams Alone: Who Plays Who in Ken Burns’ ‘The American Revolution’

Laura Linney is among the huge A-list cast, but she’s not playing Giamatti’s wife Abigal Adams this time — Claire Danes is.

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Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Ken Burns Revolution documentary drinking game where you take a shot every time you recognize the author of a primary source before the narrator tells you.