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Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social · 16h

tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studi... Please share! NYU Cinema Studies invites applications to a tenure-track assistant professor position in global media industries. Apply by October 23. (Soon!) @scmstudies.bsky.social @jcmsjournal.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 23h

when people here are trying to pinpoint which part of the city you live in, the landmark they ask for is your nearest pub

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

we've gotten to the point in the manuscript-drafting process where the notes to self have six "??????" in them

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday roast at the vegan pub and getting called “my darling” by a staff made up of the hardest punks you’ve ever seen

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Is this the first sainthood-by-television?

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Now that the CFP is out, putting it out there that I'm planning to go to Console-ing Passions next year if anyone wants to put a panel together! Horror, domesticity, TV, postwar US, new media technologies...see my bio for more [please share!]

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

one month in England: I have started drinking tea and thinking "It's nice out" any time it's not actively raining

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🩷💜💙🎉🎊🍾🩷💜💙🎉🎊🍾

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

academia may seem glamorous but some days my job is painstakingly attempting to transcribe poorly preserved recordings of eighty-five-year-old commercials for laxatives

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

stopped in the student union to get lunch, and there's a bar, prayer rooms, and a full-on daytime drag show going on in the hallway central Pennsylvania could never

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m literally an expert in visual culture but cannot for the life of me decode the symbols on European washing machines

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TIL that the title Prince of Wales, traditionally bestowed upon the sovereign’s eldest son, is basically a “fuck you” implemented after the country was conquered and its existing prince was killed and his head put on a pike

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

London is cool and all, but why are there so many Americans

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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Reupping this list of labor films today

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I missed the one weekend where Obsession played in our small-town theater, and it’s still playing here but has moved to the late-night circuit, so I’m currently psyching myself up to *not* fall asleep in a scary movie

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

hey north America…fresh peas are delicious. why do we only eat that canned or frozen garbage?

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

if an American didn't know better, they'd think every service industry worker in the north of England was hitting on them

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

First film ever screened at an international festival! Once again, horror is at the center of film and media history.

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’ve been at this coffee shop for three hours and the staff have broken three glasses, so I think that’s my cue to leave

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it is very funny that they’re doing this with Dickens, of all authors. may I suggest for the protagonist of your next revisionist antihero drama Lord Hate-Good from Pilgrim’s Progress?

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

spending my first English bank holiday at, as they say here, the cinema

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

love to move to a place (Canada, the American south, the north of England) and immediately adopt its underdog regional identity as my own

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

oh right, it’s a real pain in the ass to live in a country where you have no credit history

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Rosemary’s husband finds a way to revive his faltering acting career.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Greetings, non-Jews in academia! As we start another semester, here's your regularly scheduled reminder that the Jewish High Holy Days are coming up. If you wouldn't schedule an important meeting or exam on Christmas or Easter, don't schedule one on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur.

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

off to England for the year…fingers crossed that my job, department, college, university, and country are all there when I get back

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Kayti Lausch @kaytilausch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Hey y'all, it's SCMS planning time! Olivia Stowell and I are putting together a panel on the present and future of reality TV for SCMS 2027 and we are looking for one more panelist! We're thinking about the genre in this weird conglomeration moment.

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Spending the last week before I leave for a year frantically digitizing hundreds of TV episodes to continue my research, and I keep encountering mistakes, typos, and other signs of humanity behind the DVD mastering process

DVD icon with two Chinese characters as a title

Google translate showing the translation of these characters as "New project"

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One side effect of spending your wild youth in NYC is the listserv emails imploring you to support the creative projects of all your former situationships

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

so uh...........how exactly does one write a book

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

genius elevates the everyday to true art

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

what’s that expression for when they put a woman in charge of a company just as it’s coming apart so she can take the fall…because, watching The Crown, I realize that’s what they did with the British empire

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Fellowships especially for graduate students!

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Sir Ian @sir-ian.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Today is August 4, 2026,” said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California.” Happy “There Will Come Soft Rains” day, all.

Comic-book-style illustration of the scene in Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” describing the imprinted silhouette left by the abandoned house’s evaporated owners at the moment of the incineration by, presumably, a nuclear blast. The silhouettes show the parents gardening and the children playing with a ball suspended in silhouette above their imprints. The wreckage of the neighbourhood is visible beyond the remains of the house.

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

most of the time when I review an academic article my main contribution seems to be: if you’re talking about a television program, you need to talk about it *as television*

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

turns out it’s difficult to get work done while simultaneously preparing to move abroad for nearly a year

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Friends! Do you know a lot of PhD-holding nerds?? I'm surveying people who came from abroad to complete a PhD in the US, after the Trump admin announced student visas will only cover 4 years and folks must then seek uncertain renewal from USCIS. Please share! www.porchpartynews.com/p/trump-rule...

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Were you an international student who got an American PhD? Take our survey!

A new Trump rule forces foreign doctoral candidates to apply mid-degree for an uncertain visa extension. What will that mean for academia and society—and people’s lives?

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

mid-Americans rewatch, my narrative expectations when Stan showed up at the door to Oleg’s hotel room tell me I’ve been watching too much Heated Rivalry

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

just got served a podcast ad for my university touting its location as “in the middle of everything,” which is one way to describe being close to nothing

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Josie @jotorresbarth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

has the past decade been especially apocalyptic or is it just me

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

CFP 📢📢📢 *New Approaches to Teaching the Gothic*, co-edited by myself & @factorygothic.bsky.social Critical practice; pedaogical reflections; case studies; particularly in a relation to these times/spaces of crisis. VERY broad cfp. Qus welcome 👇👇👇 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/07/...

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cfp | call for papers

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more tacos, please @tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Media scholars from around the country (myself included) have worked with MACRO Lab on an extensive new report: "The Costs of Consolidation: Arguments and Evidence for Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger.” macrolab.ucsd.edu/paramount-warner-merger

The Costs of Consolidation:
Arguments and Evidence for Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger
Decades of mergers and acquisitions have reduced the number of major U.S. media companies to a handful of transnational conglomerates that dominate the production and circulation of news, film, television, sports, games, and other forms of media and culture. If Paramount Skydance acquires Warner Bros. Discovery, not only will this newly-formed conglomerate be burdened with $79 billion of debt, it will struggle to respect competitive safeguards, serve consumer needs, cultivate the media industry's long term health, and act in the broader interest of the public.
A team of more than 20 media experts from universities across the U.S. and Canada have collaborated on this research to encourage the courts, government regulators, non-governmental organizations, legislators, and citizens to challenge this deal. While this study addresses some of the quantitative impacts of this potential merger, our scope is far wider. The fourteen sections of this study define consumer welfare, public interest, and healthy competition more broadly, and consider democratic objectives like fair media access for non-profit and public-serving organizations, the preservation of community cultural spaces like theaters and of community social events like sports, and the support of a diverse range of stories and storytellers. Having spent decades researching the many (often non-quantifiable) ways that media and culture shape our lives as citizens and individuals, we enumerate here what kinds of impacts we can expect from this deal, and why policymakers and the public should be so concerned.
Download the report as a pdf (2.8 MB) or read each section below

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The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hey, I’m making the outline for season 3 (it’s gonna be great!) but I would love to pencil in some more class notes episodes. If you’re teaching a cool history or media studies class and want to talk about it, please reach out!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Gotta try to bring this energy

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