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Derek Long

@dereklong08.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Media and Cinema Studies @UIUC; Author of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES: HOW FILM DISTRIBUTION MADE THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM (University of Texas Press, 2024)

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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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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I’m very excited to be a part of the initial “TV Matters” series from Intellect! www.intellectbooks.com/wwe-raw Thanks to Sabrina and all the folks there for their help and support!
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WWE Raw
WWE Raw; A study of WWE Raw as one of television's longest-running and most influential programmes, exploring how its evolution from cable broadcasting to global streaming reveals changing technologie...
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Well this sounds like a fun read! Collin Williamson’s DRAWN TO NATURE: AMERICAN ANIMATION IN THE AGE OF SCIENCE from @uminnpress.bsky.social! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791487...
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.
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Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless
Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's
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elena gorfinkel @cinemiasma.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
JOB POST in FILM STUDIES: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social is hiring Lecturer w specialism(s) in 1 or more of following: 1) Film & Media Practice as Research / Filmmaking; 2) Film Curation +/or Archiving; 3) Non-Fiction Film & Media. Deadline MAR 2nd! Please pass along. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/137766-...
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Lecturer in Film Studies | King's College London
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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Spurlock Museum of World Cultures @ UIUC @spurlockmuseum.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A timeless classic of French cinema returns to the screen ✨ Enjoy a free screening of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, open to everyone. For more information: www.spurlock.illinois.edu/events/event...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Perfection
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Spurlock Museum of World Cultures @ UIUC @spurlockmuseum.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Did YOU know Spurlock Museum has this much going on? We bet you didn't! Check out our February programming! www.spurlock.illinois.edu/events
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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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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇
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Jonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.
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Chris Becker @chrisbecker.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Great thread here in on the rhetorical power of the "Fair and Balanced" fallacy that has impaired mainstream US media. Bari Weiss may now directly shape CBS News, but all of the major news outlets have long capitulated to this gambit that devalues truth, reality, and accuracy in reporting.
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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
On the occasion of today's 130th anniversary of Lumière's Cinématographe debut, I published this. We know the Lathams' Eidoloscope preceded the Dec. 30, 1895 "first" commercial screening by seven months. But does that film, Griffo vs. Barnett (May 1895) survive? Maybe. wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...
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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Many thanks to Daniel Herbert for his generous review of PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES in one of my favorite journals, MEDIA INDUSTRIES: tinyurl.com/4rmbk52k For holiday distribution to the media historian in your life! @utexaspress.bsky.social for 40% off w/code UTXGIFTS: tinyurl.com/3yyur9zc
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<!-- x-tinymce/html --> Book Review: <em>Playing the Percentages: How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System</em>, by Derek Long. Austin: University of Texas Press.
This review of Playing the Percentages (UT Press, 2024) offers a description and assessment of this new book about film distribution in the early 20th century.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 05/11/2025
I genuinely hope this gives film students some swagger. Mamdani’s videos are impeccable—just immeasurably better than Cuomo’s AI slop—and the videographer is a genuine film nerd. That shit works!
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Selling Zohran | Defector
On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2025
Steamed Hams but it’s a critically acclaimed feature film is the apogee of commitment to the bit m.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-O...
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Steamed Hams but it's a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film
YouTube video by Tyrone Deise
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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 20/08/2025
It doesn't get more moving than @mrmichaelphillips.bsky.social's farewell letter. If you read nothing else today, at least read this.
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Column: The Tribune’s film critic Michael Phillips says so long for now
Goodbye for now, as the Sondheim song from the film “Reds” put it. Thank you for reading.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
*Simpsons Trivia #731* Guy Incognito was voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who was also the voice of father character Homer
Guy Incognito with a mustache and top hat
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Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Champaign-Urbana: Join us at 7pm for the third annual Media & Cinema Studies student showcase @spurlockmuseum.bsky.social! Come celebrate student filmmaking and our graduating MACS seniors. The Spurlock Museum acknowledges support from the Illinois Arts Council for this event.
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Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
An amazing new resource for film historians and anyone else interested in the history of moving image technologies. www.filmatlas.com
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FILM ATLAS
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) brings together institutions dedicated to rescuing of films both as art and as historical documents
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Ben Pettis @bpettis.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Eric Hoyt wrapped the panel by recording his own love tape, and expressing his feelings about the NEH. In the spirit of Wendy Clarke’s work, he’d like for it to be shared widely and seen by as many people as possible. #SCMS25 #scms2025 #neh
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Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
It’s particularly poignant to hear about the WCFTR’s great work on the Wendy Clarke Collection. They lost their NEH funding this week. Visit the site! #scms25 wendyclarke.wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu
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Love, Links, Archives: The Wendy Clarke Collection at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Video artist Wendy Clarke's projects such as the Love Tapes, New York Tapes, and Growing Up Gay: The Out Tapes continue to be influential with their elevation of individual voices. Through her process...
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courtney m. cox @courtmcox.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
if you'd like to order double crossover, you can do so here: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... I'll be posting more about the process and the final product in the weeks leading up to its release in May!
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Double Crossover
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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The real Best Picture winner in our hearts...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/02/2025
The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.
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The Japanese Paper Film Project @kamifirumu.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
New show added! We're thrilled to screen Japanese Paper Films at the Spurlock Museum in Urbana, IL on Fri., March 28 at 7pm. As usual, the amazing Yoko Reikano Kimura (koto) & cellist Hikaru Tamaki will accompany the films with live music. Sponsored by the Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies.
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Benjamin Ahr Harrison @benjaminahr.mobi · 13/02/2025
Gul Dukat to receive party line approval by the Senate as Secretary of Bajoran Worker Safety.
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Mollie Mol @mollierodriguez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Public health PSA frens as botulism can paralyze and kill you: Tuna Recall Hits Costco, Trader Joe's, and More Over Botulism Risk www.eatthis.com/tuna-recall-...
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Tuna Recall Hits Costco, Trader Joe’s, and More Over Botulism Risk
Canned tuna from Genova, Van Camp’s, H-E-B, and Trader Joe’s has been recalled due to a contamination risk. Find out if your products are affected.
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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Post two media history monographs that you love that you feel didn't get nearly enough attention when they came out No explanation, just post. Luci Marzola's ENGINEERING HOLLYWOOD Phil Sewell's TELEVISION IN THE RADIO AGE
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Anybody Canyon @anybodycanyon.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
A beardless Riker walks up to a vast canyon and for some reason yells “Anybody?!”
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Variety @variety.com · 16/01/2025
David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78
Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
a short thread of Nicolas Cage resembling various philosophers 1. Spinoza
left: Nicolas Cage with long black hair and a moustache in a black top
right: Spinoza with long black hair and a moustache in a black top
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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Teen Vogue is now the paper of record, and the NYT is a fashion magazine. The transfer is complete.
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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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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Early Christmas gift? Thanksgiving miracle? Take your pick, it's wonderful news.
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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!
sites.middlebury.edu
Scholarship in Sound & Image
Workshop on Videographic Criticism
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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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Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hello, new followers! I have a new book about how we fundamentally misunderstand "Method" acting/actors. If you want to know more about what we're really talking about when we talk about folks "going Method," this is the book for you! You can buy it here: bit.ly/43QVOa4 for 40% off w/code UTXGIFTS.
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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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Kate Fortmueller @kfortmueller.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Just a bit more self-promotion here, but if you use the code RUP30 you will get 30% off on the Rutgers website!
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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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Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Greetings, new Bluesky arrivals! Seems like a good time to mention my book on early Hollywood film distribution from @utexaspress.bsky.social , PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES. 40% off with code UTXGIFTS: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328941/
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Playing the Percentages
A history of film distribution in the United States from the 1910s to the 1930s, concentrating on booking, circuiting, and packaging marketing practices. Tol...
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Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Tenure bookplate ceremony today - a lovely Illinois tradition. I chose THE CLASSICAL HOLLYWOOD CINEMA in honor of David Bordwell.
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Derek Long @dereklong08.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
Official publication day for PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES! In this book, I trace practices in US feature film distribution from their 19th century origins to the transition to sound. Thanks to everyone @utexaspress.bsky.social! Code UTXM25 for 25% off and free shipping: tinyurl.com/anamkvnp
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