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Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Come work with me! Two tenure-track faculty searches in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies @mediaatillinois.bsky.social: Media & Society: tinyurl.com/mreff8av Sports Media: tinyurl.com/2p337e7y

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Media and Society

The Department of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applicants for a full-time (...

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My department at UIUC is hiring! Two TT positions, one in media and society, one in sports media. Come work with me! Links here: Media/Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Sports Media: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Media and Society

The Department of Media and Cinema Studies in the College of Media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign invites applicants for a full-time (...

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Media and Society

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Might've been a somewhat bad idea to put literally all teaching, learning, and assessment tools and identifying information for university members on one universal hub. 🤷‍♀️

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Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

In Canvas We (Should Not) Trust.

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SCMS Digital Humanities & Videographic Criticism SIG @videoessays.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

SCMS attendees, please check out these videographic-affiliated panels and DHVC SIG events listed below! 🧵 with panels/events by day below:

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kev, it is what it is @kevinlferguson.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

[in]Transition 13.1 is live! intransition.openlibhums.org/issue/1729/i... mediation in video games, philosophy and AI, data centers and the environment, Catalan documentarian Joaquim Jordà, Coen Bros folk music, and fish tanks. Plus our inaugural SCMS SIG Grad Student winner on THE RED SHOES!

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I’ve finalized my list of films students can work with for our video essay exercises this semester. Purple Rain is joining the ranks this term for some Minnesota solidarity. Stay safe and strong, friends ☔️💪🖥️

Collage image of film screenshots from a variety of traditions, centered around Purple Rain (1984)

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

So well deserved, can’t wait for this piece to be out in the world! Congrats to Veronika!!

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In case anyone is looking for things to stream for their toddlers today, three cheers for PBS Kids TV, which has an amazing range of fun, entertaining, educational, thoughtful shows. We’ve been esp loving Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum!

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Join the Professional Development Committee’s “How to Prepare for the Job Market” virtual workshop this Friday, June 6 at 1PM EDT. Guidance on preparing materials, cover letters, and research/teaching statements. Sign up to receive the Zoom link: forms.gle/GENr6MkLGzi1.... @swapnilrai.bsky.social‬

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/04/2025

If you’ve ever sat on an NEH review panel (as many of us have), you know how difficult it is to win a grant. It’s an incredibly exacting process, with way too many excellent projects competing for funding. Awardees are scrutinized from every direction, with more rigor than DOGE can even imagine.

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

@humanitiesall.bsky.social statement on the potential decimation of the Nat’l Endowment for the Humanities: “The NEH connects Americans in every state with our nation’s rich history and culture.” NEH $$ was essential in my quest to chronicle Lois Weber’s career. nhalliance.org/nha-statemen...

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NHA Statement on Threats to the NEH – National Humanities Alliance

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

President Trump's executive order to eliminate the Institute of Museum & Library Services would have disastrous effects for communities nationwide. We call on all Americans who value reading & learning to reach out to their elected leaders. Read ALA's full response: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...

ALA response to White House assault on IMLS
To dismiss the mission of an agency that advances opportunity and learning is to dismiss the aspirations and everyday needs of millions of Americans. And those who will feel that loss most keenly live in rural communities. 
As seedbeds of literacy and innovation, our nation’s 125,000 public, school, academic and special libraries deserve more, not less support. Libraries translate 0.003% of the federal budget into programs and services used by more than 1.2 billion people every year. Show Up for Our Libraries, ALA American Library Association, #ForOurLibraries

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Filmmakers! Musicians! Actors! Illustrators! Artists of all kinds! Please take 5 minutes and make your voice heard

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is what a cap on “indirect costs” through NIH grants will do. Going from >50% of grant total to 15% will change how your local university healthcare systems function everyday.

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Miklós Kiss @mikloskiss.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

!!!The best video essays of 2024!!! Honoured to be 1 among the 47 contributors from 17 countries who together submitted a total of 256 votes, which amount to 183 unique entries. @sightsoundmag.bsky.social | BFI www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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The best video essays of 2024

From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.

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Queline (kikikrazed) @queline.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I co-edited the Sight and Sound poll for the best video essays of 2024! Thank you to everyone who contributed a list. We've highlighted a few notable essays, but it’s worth diving into the full list (183 unique vids!) Thanks for having me @sightsoundmag.bsky.social 🎉 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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The best video essays of 2024

From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The Sight and Sound video essay poll for 2024 is out! My first time voting which was a real honour (thanks to the organisers for inviting me). Something for everyone in here. Enjoy! www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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The best video essays of 2024

From film festivals to TikTok, our annual poll showcases 183 unique video essays nominated by 47 international voters.

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

So honored to be mentioned by Oswald Iten in this year’s Best Video Essays of 2024 poll from Sight and Sound, and bursting with pride that my former student Nancy Jia also made the list!!! 🥰 www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Screenshot from the video essay “Seeing Movement in Cinema” where Cyd Charisse’s movement is annotated with language from Laban Movement Analysis.

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

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Scholarship in Sound & Image

Workshop on Videographic Criticism

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Cormac Donnelly @cormacrestrike.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Loved being able to share this amazing video essay with my students today. youtu.be/jz7nOzBv7eE?...

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Irani Bag / کیف ایرانی by Maryam Tafakory

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Hi everyone! For those new to my feed, I work a lot on film history and craft, the intersections between film and dance industries/cultures, style/aesthetics, video essays, and musicals. I wrote a book about all that, Storytelling in Motion (OUP, 2024). Happy to chat more about it!

Cover of the book Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical.

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Join us on the Zoom Events platform for the SCMS 2024 Virtual Symposium. We’re keeping things simple and accessible with the same Zoom interface, you know. Access invitations and a helpful user guide will be sent on December 4. All session times are in U.S. Central. www.cmstudies.org/page/VSsched...

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Working on primary school apps and when I asked my toddler which words he thought best described him he helpfully offered “doody, boody, and foody” 🤣 #nothelpful

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Dr. Lisa Duffy @lisawithans.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Lots of new followers over here, so hello! I research classical Hollywood musicals, fantasy spaces in media, and stars like John Travolta & Barbra Streisand. I’m a recovered Disney Cast Member & am currently hyperfixated on Dropout. But mostly, I wax poetic about Gene Kelly’s thighs.

Gene Kelly strikes a menacing squat in The Pirate, wearing tiny little cut-off booty shorts to accentuate his tanned, tree trunk thighs.

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Jason Mittell @jmittell.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

There wasn't a good list of accounts related to video essays - so I made this starter pack! Who did I miss? Who do you know who should join Bluesky to share & talk about video essays? go.bsky.app/PtthhCc

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 10/11/2024

Reposting because the film/media history starter pack is quite popular. Feel free to make suggestions! Happy that we've been building a community so quickly over here. go.bsky.app/12Wo3y5 #mediahistory #filmhistory #books #history #media

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Kate Fortmueller @kfortmueller.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

For all the feminist media scholars who just joined Bluesky...consider submitting a proposal to Console-ing Passions 2025! We're hosting it at Georgia State University and we're looking forward to lively conversations! fmt.gsu.edu/console-ing-...

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Mary @knoxdiver.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Just a reminder to support your local public libraries! Write letters of support. Use the library often & in many different ways. Show up to meetings. Library staff have been begging for help, advocacy, and action for years. Please show up for libraries.

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Ariel Avissar @arielavissar.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Very excited to be included in this amazing, two-part special issue of Academic Quarter on "Academic Filmmaking in the New Humanities", edited by Libertad Gills, @filmstudiesff.bsky.social and Alan O'Leary. Read/watch both parts: journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak... journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak...

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

This unit on form fundamentals in my new film analysis class is going to be intense and FUN 🤩 #StreetOfShame #Gilda #HisGirlFriday #MonOncle

Screenshots from Street of Shame, Gilda, His Girl Friday, and Mon Oncle

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

The introduction to my book Storytelling in Motion is free to read online for the next month! ( if you miss the window, just message me 😊 ) academic.oup.com/book/57631/c... If you want a physical copy, get 30% off by ordering through OUP's website with code AAFLYG6

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Introduction | Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical | Oxford Academic

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all @routledgebooks data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

Excited to share my new article, “Crafting Genre Performance.” American Delsartism, Florence Lawrence, analysis of early cinema acting, dance’s influence on cinema, primary document research, and digital tools FTW 😊 www.fulcrum.org/epubs/794081...

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Ebook of Crafts, Trades, and Techniques of Early Cinema

These proceedings of the 16th conference of the international society for the study of early cinema Domitor includes 26 studies and numerous rarely seen figures dealing with the often overlooked histo...

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

So excited to have my first film festival acceptance be for a video essay from my first book, and to be in such great videographic company! 🥰 marienbadfilmfestival.com

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International Film Festival in Marienbad

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

I'm excited to share my third, final, and favorite video essay from my forthcoming book, Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical, out in a few weeks!! vimeo.com/cinemajok/en...

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Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

Author copies are here! Many thanks to everyone @utexaspress.bsky.social and to Ross Melnick and Rob King for their generous blurbs. Order here using the code UTXM25 for 25% off and free shipping: tinyurl.com/37re8z3k

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

I'm delighted to be able to share a second videographic chapter from my forthcoming book, Storytelling in Motion! Lots of sonic loops and thoughts about genre in this one. vimeo.com/cinemajok/di...

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Diegetic Flutters: Views from the bridge

An exploration of diegetic instability, by Jenny Oyallon-Koloski This video essay is part of chapter 7 from the book Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography…

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

I'm excited to announce that the first (and most explanatory) of three video essays that I created for my book is now public! I'll continue to share these videographic chapters as the book release date approaches. Chapter abstract and book link in video description. vimeo.com/cinemajok/se...

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

My book has a cover, this is starting to feel real!! 😱 Out in spring 2024!

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Jenny Oyallon-Koloski @cinemajok.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Several great film events happening later this week for those in the Champaign-Urbana area! media.illinois.edu/ebertlecture... media.illinois.edu/ebertlecture...

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Ebert Center Screening: Iranian Cinema | College of Media

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