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Steve E. Tricks @refreshingtime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

happy bi visibility day from the nobody believes you hand sofa

bisexual visibility couch with many disturbing hands reading "when you change or to and nobody believes you"

Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

such a pleasure to see Prem Kapoor's BADNAM BASTI / बदनाम बस्ती (1971) at the Eye Filmmuseum today. a wonderfully experimental gem of parallel cinema with a dastardly bisexual bandit at its centre. fragmented form mirrors fragmented desires in a world of relentless cruelty & fleeting tenderness

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Working on a list of insects in silent films if people have recs. boxd.it/WH2sK

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Silent Film Insects

A collection of early silent films featuring insects

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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

the death of Jason Arday was an entirely forseeable and avoidable outcome of all this, all debates about university recruitment processes are rendered trivial in its wake because what has happened is some racists sensed a cultural victory and pursued it relentlessly to the point that a man is dead

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

v grateful to have been interviewed by Arnoud Arps at Popular Culture Review for their inaugural Book Forum on CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION! Check it out here: doi.org/10.1002/pcr4... (and DM me if you don't have access)

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

you can now get 40% off my book CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION with @dukepress.bsky.social's spring sale! just use the code SPRING26. the links to order depending on where you are: 🇺🇸 www.dukeupress.edu/cinemas-of-b... 🇨🇦 utpdistribution.com/978147803298... 🇪🇺/🇬🇧 mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803298...

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

the lovely people at @autostraddle.bsky.social have reviewed my book alongside @laurah.bsky.social's TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS. i'm grateful for the attentive write-up and for being in such esteemed company! www.autostraddle.com/trans-film-a...

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Two New Books in LGBTQ+ Film Studies Remake the Field

Trans Cinema: Remaking Communities, Identities, and Worlds by Laura Horak and Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression by Jacob Engelberg center trans and bisexual films and figures in their analysis to expa...

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Gavin Mueller @gavinmueller.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Q for media studies academics: Do you have an internet/digital media-specific track or major for BA students? And if so, what is it called? And if you like, how's it going in terms of popularity/satisfaction?

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

i fear this was the level of insufferable i was as an MA student

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Interregnum @intrrgnm.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Interregnum interviews @jacobengelberg.bsky.social on his new book, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. The book argues that the way we look at queer film centres the gay/straight binary and considers what happens when bisexuality breaks the rules. interregnum.ghost.io/the-dangerou... #bisexual

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

this is me when anyone starts with media effects bullshit

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

the 8k digitisations for the Eye's Mutoscope & Bioscope restoration project THE BRILLIANT BIOGRAPH are breathtaking. this is from the 1898 actuality RECREATION IN SCHEVENINGEN.

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Paul Devlin @paul-bimltd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

2/2 And I enjoyed the “real life” context of bisexuality that @jacobengelberg.bsky.social brings throughout his writing that brings a fresh (for me) lens to familiar recent history. So proud of what you have achieved here, Jacob!

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

🥹🥹 it wouldn't exist without you and Rosalind 💜💜💜

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

there's still time to get 30% off CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION at @dukepress.bsky.social & @mngupbooks.bsky.social. Link in bio.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Save 30% on #NewBook "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression" by @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, which calls for a bisexual reimagining of queer film studies. buff.ly/IALTfpW

Cover of Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression by Jacob Engelberg. The cover features a photograph of a man in a black tank top and a woman in a velvet dress mid-embrace, a second woman in a sequined gown partially obscured by their figures. The photograph is rotated and superimposed upon itself twice across the cover. The title appears in a single line of white text across the center of the image, and the author's name in white text rotated ninety degrees along the bottom right-hand corner.

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claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

hearing jacob's talk about bisexual cinema at sqiff several years ago was sooo influential to my thinking and rly opened my eyes to the limits and possibilities of bisexual representation in art–i'm excited to get his book and you should get it too!!

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Pub day! 📚💙 Get your copy of CINEAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION today to celebrate.

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

it's the official publication date for my first book CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION. don't forget you can get 30% off at @dukepress.bsky.social (dukeupress.edu/cinemas-of-b...) & @mngupbooks.bsky.social (mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803298...)

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

We have a great slate of #NewBooks coming out this month, including "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," by Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social. See them all on our blog: buff.ly/alCform

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION is available to order with 30% discounts at @dukepress.bsky.social (dukeupress.edu/cinemas-of-b...) & @mngupbooks.bsky.social (mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803298...)

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Authors @naylandblake.bsky.social, @jacobengelberg.bsky.social, and @margaretprice.bsky.social all have events in January. Perhaps you can make it to one! buff.ly/KKvMEsd

Covers of P FKN R, My Studio Is a Dungeon Is the Studio, Unruly Comparison, Crip Spacetime, and Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression, arranged in a 2x3 grid. The words Author Events in January appear in the right corner.

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Susanna Paasonen @susannapaasonen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

CFP: Porn Studies journal special issue “Online sexual media beyond Anglocentrism”, edited by @carolparreiras.bsky.social & moi

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It’s really hard getting book ms internationally these days. Folks in Europe, here’s your chance to get Jacob’s book fast and with a discount. Don’t miss out!

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

enjoy a 30% discount off my forthcoming book CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, using the discount code: E26ENGLB on the @dukepress.bsky.social website. www.dukeupress.edu/cinemas-of-b...

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

check out the bisexuality-related films discussed in my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION, here on Letterboxd: boxd.it/LLSt0

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Farrah Freibert @ffreibert.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My book has a cover, and it comes out at the end of this month as part of @edinburghup.bsky.social's@screeningsex.bsky.social book series! Please ask your library to purchase it if you can. 30% discount code from the press: NEW30. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nothing...

Book cover of "Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained." The top portion of the background is solid black, the bottom portion is a grainy black and white photograph of the Cinema Theatre and an Adult Movies theater.

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Gary Needham (they/them) @garyneedham.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Join us on Sunday 23rd for "Imagining Trans Futures" with Mijke van der Drift (co-author of Trans Femme Futures) and Deity Evans (trans activist-socialist) - location: Liverpool, Blue Coat gallery. For more info, to book a place, and please, see eventbrite link www.eventbrite.com/e/imagining-...

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IMAGINING TRANS FUTURES

Relaxed live conversation on trans academia and politics, including facilitated networking for project sharing (Homotopia 2025: Uprising!)

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SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus @scmsqtc.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The Board of the SCMS Queer and Trans Caucus is seeking submissions for the 2025 Chris Holmlund Graduate Student Writing Prize! Nov 15, 2025 - All Submissions Due Dec 15, 2025 - Winner Selected Mar 15, 2026 - Winner Article Revised for Publication MORE INFO: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZICp...

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Jaap Kooijman @jaapkooijman.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Ready for the Keynote of Eliza Steinbock with host @jacobengelberg.bsky.social. World Picture Conference. @uvahumanities.bsky.social

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

the preface & introduction of my forthcoming book is now freely available to read! & you can also pre-order it at 50% off buff.ly/ehSkevd

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

In "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression," @jacobengelberg.bsky.social reimagines queer film studies, using transgressive cinematic figures to challenge binary notions of sexuality. #QueerStudies #FilmStudies Read the intro now and preorder at 50% off during our fall sale! buff.ly/ehSkevd

The cover features a photograph of a man in a black tank top and a woman in a velvet dress mid-embrace, a second woman in a sequined gown partially obscured by their figures. The photograph is rotated and superimposed upon itself twice across the cover. The title appears in a single line of white text across the center of the image, and the author's name in white text rotated ninety degrees along the bottom right-hand corner.

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

if you or someone you know is an MA or PhD working on modern & contemporary pornographic media, encourage them to submit an article for the New Directions Graduate Essay Prize. the winning essay will be published in @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social. more info: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpr...

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New Directions Graduate Essay Prize in association with the BAFTSS Screening Sex Special Interest Group

Explore the article collection: New Directions Graduate Essay Prize in association with the BAFTSS Screening Sex Special Interest Group. Published in Porn Studies.

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

i have a blurb! dukeupress.edu/cinemas-of-b...

On the left-hand side of the image is the cover to the book Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression by Jacob Engelberg, which depicts an image from Basic Instinct, featuring Sharon Stone looking at the camera beside two other figures who are turned away. Below the book cover it reads: "January 2026. 352 pages. Film/Queer theory. Rights: World." To the right of this is the following text: "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression
JACOB ENGELBERG
In Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression, Jacob Engelberg makes the case for radically recalibrating queer film studies, taking as a starting point those cinematic figures who resist categorization within the gay-straight binary. Engelberg's engagement with bisexual transgression on film illuminates the mutability and instability of sexuality, and of sociocultural structures more broadly by resisting the censure of images as politically harmful as well as the celebration of transgression as inherently subversive. Instead, Engelberg understands bisexual transgression as a process whereby sociocultural rules are made knowable by being contested. From 1970s vampire films to 1990s erotic thrillers, from lesbian imaginings of female bisexuality to European art cinema's reckonings with HIV/AIDS, bisexual figures on film embody anxieties around the precarity of binary sexuality while revealing the contingencies of sexuality's cinematic signification.
Revivifying the underexploited contributions of bisexual theory, Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression proposes a new mode of film theorization and analysis that examines the rich space between and beyond dominant categories of sexual organization, where sexual unpredictability, the allure of the forbidden, and the precarity of sexual signification are illuminated.
Jacob Engelberg is Assistant Professor of Film, Media, and Culture at the University of Amsterdam."

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

i'm very happy to share these endorsements for my forthcoming book, CINEMAS OF BISEXUAL TRANSGRESSION. it means the world to have such generous words from scholars i respect so deeply.

Half the background is a purply sheen. The other half features someone standing with another person's arm around their waist and an unclothed limb at the bottom. In the foreground of the lefthand side is the following text: "Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression revitalizes bisexuality screen scholarship by bringing critically deft, contextually rich, politically attuned evidence of its enduring indispensability and expanding urgency for queer media studies...Engelberg deepens our understandings of bisexuality's disruptive power and imaginative potential, while simultaneously staking out innovative theoretical-philosophical pathways and invaluable alliances with feminist, trans, and critical race studies."
- Maria San Filippo, author of The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television

The righthand side of the background is a purply sheen. The lefthand side is the face of Sharon Stone playing Catherine in the film Basic Instinct. To her left is the back of a blonde woman wearing a hooped earring. There is text on the righthand side of the image that reads: "Jacob Engelberg addresses an under-researched area in queer cinema studies with an impressive theoretical sophistication.
His keen knowledge of film history and generous interventions in queer theory, film theory, and the bisexual film canon make this book the most comprehensive, considered, and thoughtful analysis of bisexuality in visual culture I have encountered. I'm frankly delighted by it."
— Maria Pramaggiore, co-editor of Film: A Critical
Introduction, 4th edition

Towards the righthand side of the background is a person in a tank top manipulating something in their hands. In front of them is someone with their back turned. The lefthand side of the frame is a purply sheen. The text above it reads: "Jacob Engelberg lets the sexual body breathe.... Delivering new insights into the erotic life of mass culture, this book also reconceives bisexuality...as a tenacious sign of the
unknowability of the bodies we crave and those we inhabit, on screen and off. This is a richly textured, subtle, and erudite engagement with the mass cultural archive, and a promising debut from an emerging critical voice, that resounds with a particular clarity and a rangy ambition."
— Grace E. Lavery, author of Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

my chapter on one of the first instalments of the 80s bi video boom: BI-COASTAL (1985) is now available! featured in the wonderful SCREENING ADULT FILM, edited by ‪‪@ffreibert.bsky.social‬, Peter Alilunas, & Desirae Embree. ask your library to buy it! www.routledge.com/Screening-Ad...

a screen grab of a title image, presenting the title "Bi-Coastal" with an outline of the mainland US in an illustration behind it. this floats above a blurry cityscape

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a screenshot of the first page of a chapter. It reads: 18. BI-COASTAL (1985). Jacob Engelberg. DOI: 10.4324/9781003276302-18.
There is a fleeting moment in Linda Williams's influential article "Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess" in which she references a rapidly proliferating pornographic subgenre. "There is a new category of video called bisexual," Williams announces, before detailing its definitional conventions: "Men do it with women, women do it with men, men do it with men and then all do it with one another, in the process breaking down a fundamental taboo against male-to-male sex." First published in 1991, Williams's article arrived six years after the explosion of a subgenre calling itself bisexual video. Whereas depictions of female bisexuality have been present in straight pornographic films since the earliest days of stag (and continue to this day), depictions of male bisexuality have been fewer. "Bisexual" would thus come to name an industrial category whose sine qua non was the depiction of men having sex with both women and men. This chapter considers one of the formative releases of the early bisexual video boom: Tom DeSimone's Bi-Coastal (1985). The video follows Jill (Cara Lott), who has traveled, bicoastally, from Chicago to Los Angeles to meet her boyfriend Nick (Tico Patterson).

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Jacob Engelberg @jacobengelberg.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

if you can get to Manchester, don't miss the opportunity to see this landmark of Parallel Cinema featuring a bisexual bandit whose place among cinema's messiest bisexual transgressors is well-deserved

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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Lookee here! My book has a cover! Coming from @ucpress.bsky.social in April 2026. Many thanks to Tourmaline for allowing us to use her photograph "Summer Azure"!

A brown-skinned trans woman in an astronaut's helmet and white tunic floats in front of a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Text: "Trans Cinema" Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds. Laura Horak"

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Nicholas Baer @nwbaer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.

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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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