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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 2h

So excited for this!! Bravo to the editors and contributors and thank you! 😍👏

Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 2h

Excited to be co-organizing this for the SCMS @scmstudies.bsky.social Silent Cinema SIG on November 13. With filmmaker Valerio Ciriaci and scholar Jacqueline Reich. Open to SCMS + SIG members. #elviranotari #womensfilmhistory #smcs

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Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Our Fall 2026 issue, "Women of IMAX," guest edited by Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney, is now live! Starting with Autumn Durald Arkapaw's Oscar win, it traces women's technical and artistic roles in IMAX history. Intro free NOW: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My NYU pal Leticia Berrizbeitia Añez is doing important historiographic work on women in Latin American Cinema, inc. the late great Margot Benacerraf. To say I'm excited to read her "feminist obituary" of Benacerraf in @femmediahist.bsky.social is an understatement doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

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Author: LETICIA BERRIZBEITIA AÑEZ

Title: "100 Years of Margot Benacerraf: A Feminist Obituary"

Citation: Feminist Media Histories, Vol. 12, Number 4, pps. 114–134.

ABSTRACT: This article proposes the feminist obituary as a practice of historiographic inquiry through a reading of Venezuelan filmmaker Margot Benacerraf’s life and work. Taking the public remembrance prompted by her death and centenary as its point of departure, the article examines how the discourse surrounding her repeatedly returns to the refrain that she made “only two films.” I argue that this trope, even when celebratory, reproduces gendered measures of artistic value that privilege productivity, auteurist continuity, and completed works over interruption, institutional labor, and collective cultural work. Centering Benacerraf’s quehacer—a term that binds life, work, and desire—the essay reads Reverón (1952) and Araya (1959) alongside unfinished projects, archival traces, and decades of institution building. In doing so, it shows how changing the questions that frame a life can convert commemoration into inquiry and open feminist film history to less conclusive, more generative forms of remembrance.

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Merci to Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social for her incredibly thoughtful review of my book ARCHIVING THE PAST on H-France. Read the review! h-france.net/h-france-rev... h-france.net/vol26reviews... Buy the book! www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...

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Archiving the Past by Aurore Spiers - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Tristan Ettleman @ettletodd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

1915 E4 of The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever is live! Professor Daisuke Miyao wrote the book on Sessue Hayakawa and his ultimate selection certainly ties into that, but the rest of his selections also represent an array of nations and genres. Links 👇

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bravo to editors extraordinaires Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social and Masha Shpolberg 🌼 Thank you for including in this edited dossier on DAISIES.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

With William Greaves's eagerly anticipated *Once Upon a Time in Harlem,* coming this Fall, now is the perfect time to pick up a copy of WILLIAM GREAVES: FILMMAKING AS MISSION, edited by Scott MacDonald and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart! tinyurl.com/8crh87zf @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm quite excited to have a chapter on Alice Guy Blaché's THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEMINISM in this upcoming volume. I'm even more excited to have the entire volume available soon for teaching! It looks SO GOOD. www.routledge.com/Screening-Wo...

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Screening Women Filmmakers

Screening Women Filmmakers is an essential collection of 58 essays, each focusing on a single film directed by a woman-identified filmmaker, inclusively defined, from the earliest days of filmmaking (...

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thank you! I'd love to read YOUR piece when it comes out!

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Congrats to @tanyagoldman.bsky.social and Masha Shpolberg for organizing such a wonderful celebration of DAISIES on its 60th anniversary! Please check out the special JCMS @jcmsjournal.bsky.social dossier they're co-editing when it comes out. It will include a short piece by yours truly! 🌼

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Leana Hirschfeld-Kroen, and a virtual @hennefem.bsky.social! Plus a brand new film, GUSTATORY GRATITUDES, by the very talented animator Kelly Gallagher made for the occasion. Night concluded w/ rooftop party (@aurspiers.bsky.social couldn't make it but is another brilliant author in our dossier!)

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

For the first Silent Sundays of Pride Month, some queer silent films for your viewing pleasure. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/five-queer...

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Our new special issue on Mass Media and the Performance of War is now out. You can read the introduction from guest editors Annelies Andries and Klaas de Zwaan here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A hero triumphant in THE RACE FOR THE SAUSAGE (1907)

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Please consider adding ARCHIVING THE PAST to your Summer reading list! @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Rewatched Věra Chytilová’s DAISIES (1966) for the umteenth time this week and am shocked I didn’t recall this particular 15 seconds of amazingness?!

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Could be The Human Condition Part I by Kobayashi. Screening was at MoMI with Tatsuya Nakadai sitting just a few rows ahead.

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

THE CINEMA OF ALICE GUY BLACHE, co-edited by Clara Auclair @clarasilentfilms.bsky.social and me, is now officially under contract with University of Illinois Press! 🥳 Thank you to our amazing contributors! #aliceguyblache #aliceguy #womensfilmhistory #feministfilmhistoriography #wfpp

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy May Day!!! Vive la grève!!!!! 🔥

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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

✨ Before the movie started… what were audiences actually looking at? Projected glass “lantern” slides — and they were *stunning*. From the very beginning of cinema, these glowing images blazed across screens: 1/5

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Exciting news!!! @wfhinetwork.bsky.social www.wfhi.org

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Folks, don’t miss Dorothy Arzner’s WORKING GIRLS next month on @criterionchannl.bsky.social! An incisive feminist critique of the sexual double standard and sexual harassment in the workplace — all in a snappy pre-Code frame.

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San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

This Earth Day, go beyond celebration—explore the films that helped spark a movement. 🌎 Online with SFFP: “The Sierra Club Presents: Three Films that Shaped Wilderness Conservation” 📅 Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | 🕛 12–1 pm PST 1/4

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I received two fantastic new books in the mail this week! Bravo to Pam Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social for THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY @stickingplacebk.bsky.social and to Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social for TRANS CINEMA @ucpress.bsky.social 👏🥳 My Summer Reading List is looking GREAT! 💜

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

What an honor to have presented Anna May Wong's film The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927) with Yiman Wang @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social at Orphans 2026! Many thanks to Dan Streible @orphanfilm.bsky.social for organizing such a beautiful symposium at the OSU's Wexner Center for the Arts @osuwexmed.bsky.social

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Yesterday @orphanfilm.bsky.social @wfhinetwork.bsky.social member @aurspiers.bsky.social + Yiman Wang (author of “To Be An Actress” on Anna May Wong) shared very special rediscovery — a 9.5mm Pathè baby print of 1927 comedy short The Honorable Mr. Buggs featuring Wong as a jewel thief! #orphans2026

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

PSA: *last day* to watch the Mervyn LeRoy pre-Code films on @criterionchannl.bsky.social !!! Of the rarer/less available titles, I highly recommend THREE ON A MATCH, HEAT LIGHTNING, & BIG CITY BLUES. 🎞️🍸‼️ www.criterionchannel.com/mervyn-leroy...

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Last day to order your copy of ARCHIVING THE PAST at #SCMS26 @ucpress.bsky.social 👏👏

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If you're attending #SCMS26, don't forget to check out the University of California Press table @ucpress.bsky.social where you'll find my book, ARCHIVING THE PAST, in excellent company with new fantastic titles by Allyson Field @allyfield.bsky.social, Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social, and more 😍

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

UC Press authors @alicelovejoy.bsky.social (TALES OF MILITANT CHEMISTRY), @laurah.bsky.social (TRANS CINEMA), and @allyfield.bsky.social (ACTS OF LOVE) threw a lovely and packed book party Friday night for #SCMS26, with a special appearance from EVERYDAY MOVIES author Haidee Wasson! #SCMS2026 🎞️

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

It's here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍👑🎊 www.magersandquinn.com/product/CURS... Would be impossible to overstate my excitement to read @pamhutch.bsky.social's sizzling new film book!

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Thank you so much to Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social for the shoutout to my book ARCHIVING THE PAST (University of California Press) @ucpress.bsky.social in her latest piece for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social 😘

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

For all those who want to kick off their weekend by celebrating the *extremely awesome* work of feminist film curating collectives!!!! 🎞️🎊😍 lareviewofbooks.org/article/femi...

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The Weirdness of the Archive, the Possibilities of the Present | Los Angeles Review of Books

On the global resurgence of feminist film curating collectives.

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

😍👑😍👑😍👑

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Thank you Andy Jurgensen for dedicating your Oscar to your late aunt Barbara Hall, archivist extraordinaire, beloved by film historians like me. So sad she isn’t here to see you win. 🥹

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

legends.

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Incredibly honored to be receiving the David Shepard Career Achievement Award at the Denver Silent Film Festival next month. (And guess which film I’ll be introducing! 😉)

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Tristan Ettleman @ettletodd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Here is an excerpt from my conversation with Kathy Feeley about CUPID AND THE COMET for The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever: 1911. Links in quoted post!

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Last week was very fun! Many thanks to Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social for joining me to discuss my book ARCHIVING THE PAST at @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social in Chicago! I attended many talks there as a UChicago PhD student, so it was a dream to be back!

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

www.ucpress.edu/books/trans-... silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/05/b... www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847... cup.columbia.edu/book/death-b... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shirley... www.ucpress.edu/books/lois-w... www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv... iupress.org/978025322192...

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Cinema's First Nasty Women @nastysilents.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Happy International Nasty Women's Day!!!! No better way to celebrate than by nabbing your copy of these **feminist film books**--extant & forthcoming--by our curators and sisters! 😍🎞️📚 Links in the comments below... What feminist films books are lighting up your life right now? ⁉️

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

On Thursday, March 5, I'll have the pleasure to moderate a discussion (in English) with French journalist Véronique Le Bris about her book on Alice Guy at the Alliance française de Chicago! Join us if you're in the area! www.af-chicago.org/events/autho...

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Author Talk: Véronique Le Bris—Alice Guy, la plus audacieuse des pionniers du cinéma

As part of Festival de la Francophonie 2026 and in partnership with Villa Albertine, the Alliance is honored to welcome French journalist Véronique Le Bris for a presentation of her book Alice Guy, l...

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