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Alice Lovejoy

@alicelovejoy.bsky.social
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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

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please join @cas-umn.bsky.social in person or online this Thursday, October 8th, for the 42nd Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture, given by Professor Celia Donert (University of Cambridge): Women's Rights in Central Europe: A Twentieth-Century History. Registration details below.
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Nancy Wingfield @nmw1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I've just read this. You should, too. Alice is an excellent cultural historian.
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chris bell @christopherbell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Fantastic episode and the book sounds incredible. Shot up my to the top of my reading list.
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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."
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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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Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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.
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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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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
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...
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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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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#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...
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#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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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Essential listening
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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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...
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Andrew Nette @pulpcurry.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
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.
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 24/03/2026
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:
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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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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Thank you to @jasonachristian.bsky.social and @ptklein.com @coldwarcinema.com for a wonderful conversation!
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Hooper @hoopermn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
@peggyflanagan.bsky.social at the SD66 convention “I am running to avenge Minnesota”
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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 >>
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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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helpthebirds.bsky.social @helpthebirds.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Important historical analogue here
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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...
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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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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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...
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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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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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
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E233 - Film and Cold War Industrial Power w/ Alice Lovejoy
Podcast Episode · American Prestige · 20/01/2026 · 55m
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American Prestige @amprestigepod.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Listen now: americanprestigepod.com/episodes/523...
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American Prestige
“American Prestige” takes a comprehensive look at U.S. foreign policy and int'l affairs, providing listeners with everything they need to know about what's going on in the world.
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Grateful for the chance to talk with @amprestigepod.bsky.social about Tales of Militant Chemistry!
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
It was such a pleasure to talk with @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social last fall!
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Dominique Reill @dominiquereill.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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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Gastprofessur an der University of Alberta
Zur Unterstützung der Forschungstätigkeit des Österreich-Zentrums in Alberta/Edmonton wird für hervorragende Postdocs einer österreichischen Universität eine Gastprofessur ausgeschrieben. Einreichfris...
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Tales of Militant Chemistry is one of @sciencenews.bsky.social’s 10 favorite books of 2025! @ucpress.bsky.social
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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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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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
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Making a free cycling game @dfeldman.org · 10/10/2025
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.
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salad bar ham cubes @flangy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Hell, who wasn't.
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Sophie Hurwitz @hurwitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Did you know Kodak was a military contractor? grist.org/accountabili...
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Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light
A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 09/10/2025
“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
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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
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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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...
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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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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
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Charlotte Abney @abney.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 06/11/2025
Kodak was deeply involved in the Manhattan Project wat
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“The Tennessee Eastman (as in: Kodak) Corp came to operate the Y-12 uranium separation plant, not because the company knew anything about separating uranium, but because it was very good at mass chemical production… It was uranium separated at Y-12 that was used in the bomb dropped in Hiroshima.”
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Gadget works / Red redemption
David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 06/11/2025
TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...
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Gadget works / Red redemption
David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road
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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Tales of Militant Chemistry, a fascinating new book, jets from the forests of East Tennessee, where Kodak-linked chemists worked on the atomic bomb, to the film capitals of Europe and back to the environmental hazards they left. New author Q&A with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social at Flaming Hydra:
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Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Kodak, the company that popularized the “snapshot” and made photography accessible to the world, produced much more than the friendly, once-ubiquitous film rolls sold worldwide in their small, vivid y...
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
So many thanks to @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social for taking the time to talk with me about Tales of Militant Chemistry @flaminghydra.com. @ucpress.bsky.social
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Mamdani!!!
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Chicago friends: this Friday, October 24th (4:00 pm), I'll be at Seminary Co-op bookstore, where I'm looking forward to talking with the brilliant Anne Eakin Moss about Tales of Militant Chemistry. Please join us!
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Alice Lovejoy - "Tales of Militant Chemistry" - Anne Eakin Moss | Seminary Co-op Bookstores
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Tomorrow!
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“Love Letter in Cuneiform is a novel that challenges and exceeds the norms of a multigenerational family saga at every opportunity. […] its unique energy is sustained in translation with Zucker’s careful, and at times creative, attention to the subtleties and playfulness of Zmeškal’s language.”
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it. 
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu 
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Thank you to annademming.bsky.social for this incredibly thoughtful review of Tales of Militant Chemistry!
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Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Just listened to @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on this podcast and her new book sounds brilliant (and very close to my interests) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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Podcast Episode · New Books in Photography · 02/09/2025 · 37m
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James Schamus @jamesschamus.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
RIP the great filmmaker and teacher Jill Godmilow, one of the all-time originals. vimeo.com/jillgodmilow
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The Films of Jill Godmilow
Jill Godmilow, a working independent film and video-maker and Emerita Professor in the Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.
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Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Friends in Providence! Next Thursday, 9/18, I’ll be in town to talk about Tales of Militant Chemistry at the Brown Bookstore, where I’m honored to be in conversation with filmmaker Leslie Thornton. Please join us if you can!
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The Tattooed Historian @tattooedhistorian.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Under 30 minutes until I am live with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on my YouTube channel. Please join us in the live chat!
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Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
film and media studies friends, we are hiring! we are an inclusive + supportive program, one hour from philly and nyc. position starts end of january; review starts october 17. please spread the word and reach out w/ questions. provost.lafayette.edu/2026-27-film...
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2026-27 Film and Media Studies Program, Visiting Assistant Professor · Provost · Lafayette College
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