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Luci Marzola

@lucimarz.bsky.social
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Hollywood historian. Technology, media industries, labor, craft. Program Coordinator of Cinema and Media Studies@ USC. Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), Engineering Hollywood (Oxford, 2021)

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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just like Hollywood, we successfully launched something new, so we're making a sequel! Very excited for #HollywoodConference2027. Let us know if you have questions!
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Just like Hollywood, we successfully launched something new, so we're making a sequel! Very excited for #HollywoodConference2027. Let us know if you have questions!
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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
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Dr. Molly Schneider @moschneids.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Did an interview for the podcast "The Callback with Lauren Allen," which takes a historical look at works that have won Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tonys. It was a fun time talking about this early anthology episode that won the very first Emmy. Check it out! youtu.be/uvQqmaEPT3U?...
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The Callback with Lauren Allen - Your Show Time (1949) - With Dr. Molly Schneider- Emmys
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🚨 A MUST READ. “The Costs of Consolidation: Arguments + Evidence for Blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger,” comprehensive report authored by leading media industry scholars for UC-San Diego’s MACRO Lab. Accessible language, loads of data on multi biz sectors 🚨 quote.ucsd.edu/macrolab/par...
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Categories are:

Introduction
The Impact of this Merger on U.S. Consumers
Market Shares
Foreign Ownership & the FCC
Labor
Political Discourse
Sports
Tax Incentives
News
Libraries, Research, and Public Access
Video Games
Animation
Movie Theaters
Diversity
Distribution & Media Antitrust
Conclusion

Website:

https://quote.ucsd.edu/macrolab/2026/06/26/paramount-merger-introduction/
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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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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My 3-year-old spotted my old Iron Giant poster and asked to watch the movie. It's not readily available on any of the streaming services we have. So in case you're wondering if a 20+-year-old DVD works in a PS5, it does! #physicalmediarules
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I always ask my students in my Billy Wilder class for their top five films at the end of the semester. No surprises at the top: easy winner Sunset Blvd, and a three-way tie for second between Double Indemnity, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment.
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Andrew deWaard @adewaard.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I have a new feature essay at MUBI Notebook on the Paramount-WB merger. It goes long on our billionaire-dominated media monopoly, the Ellison empire, the effects of the merger, and most importantly, HOW it can be blocked and how we can take back our cultural system. mubi.com/en/notebook/...
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Consolidation Crisis: What Paramount Skydance's Purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery Means, and How to Stop it
A new dark age of Hollywood is coming. What can we do about it?
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Everything is f***ed but at least we have three brand new metro stations opening in LA today ✨ #ridetheD
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
How often does an academic book get a full article in Variety?! So awesome for @kfortmueller.bsky.social and @mirandabanks.bsky.social and their fabulous book!
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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
For this week’s Silent Sundays post, I have continued working on an investigation that began on Twitter a decade ago. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/was-fw-mur...
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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
My new books - TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR - are both out today! www.ucpress.edu/books/trans-... (30% off UCPSAVE30) www.dukeupress.edu/melodrama-as... (30% of E26MELOD) @transmediaportl.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @carletonfass.bsky.social @carleton.ca
Laura Horak, a white woman with wavy brown hair to her jaw and glasses, holds up two books: TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR.
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Congratulations to Prof. @shelleystamp.bsky.social, recipient of the David Shepard Career Achievement Award!!!!! 🎊👏 Pictured here rocking the house with her brilliant intro of Lois Weber's SHOES (1916) at the Denver Silent Film Fest! 😍🎞️🎶
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Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We will be exhibiting at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Chicago (March 26-29) so stop by our booth. Take advantage of our 30% conference discount (with free U.S. shipping). Use code RSCMS26. www.rutgersuniversit... #SCMS26
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A personal note: I was very touched to hear Best Editing winner Andy Jurgensen thank his aunt Barbara Hall. As an Academy archivist, she took an interest in my research and, miraculously, found me George Stevens's pocket diary. A miracle. Five Came Back would not have been what it was without her.
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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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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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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Want to come work in my Film Studies department in Ottawa, Canada, for a year? Application deadline is March 6. All areas of specialization welcome. Please spread the word! @carleton.ca carleton.ca/deputyprovos... #filmstudies #jobopportunity
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Lecturer or Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, School for Studies in Art and Culture (Film Studies) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning)
About the Position The School for Studies in Art and Culture invites applications for a one-year appointment at the rank of Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, beginning 1 July 2026, from q...
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In Memoriam: Marsha Kinder 1940-2025 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Marsha Kinder, Emerita University Professor at the University of Southern California and a pioneering figure in film, television, and digital media studies.
In Memoriam: Marsha Kinder 1940-2025
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...
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Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC
Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC
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Megan Macmanus @meganmacmanus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
With the horrifying capitulation by Columbia, and as someone that has worked in the college admissions space for 20+ years, I would want more like to rail against the right's ABSOLUTE OBSESSION w/GPA and test scores as being the only thing that should matter for admissions. It is an asinine metric!
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jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The Hollywood Conference was great! Congratulations to @lucimarz.bsky.social and all the organizers. #HWC2025
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The Hollywood Conference at USC was perfect: highly-quality scholarship on a focused topic, great mix of scholars at all ranks, and lots of time for conviviality and community. Thanks @lucimarz.bsky.social! You’re an ace. #HWC2025
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mesk @meesk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The Hollywood Conference affirmed my love of small, thematic conferences. I saw so many inspiring talks, and there was enough downtime to have actual conversations with people I have known for a long time and with people I just met here. I hope there will be a second iteration. #HWC2025
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
On the occasion of #HWC2025 our colleague Eric Hoyt (of Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research) has written this wonderful blog post. Includes links to resources from Media History Digital Library. wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu/index.php/20...
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Looks like Los Angeles is going to show off its A+ weather for the Hollywood Conference this week. Bring your sunglasses for the LA sunshine and light sweaters for our breezy evenings (and overzealous air conditioning in the School of Cinematic Arts). #HWC2025
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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦🧶 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This 1st—of hopefully many—Hollywood Conference is going to be so 🔥 and I’m extremely jealous of the lucky folks who get to attend! Enjoy & post everything @lucimarz.bsky.social @jdconnor.bsky.social @nitingovil.bsky.social And what a time to be in LA 😍
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The Hollywood Conference is just over a week away and we have our full schedule up on our website. It's going to be so much fun (for an academic conference)! #HWC25 thehollywoodconference.com
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Despite these weird times, I’m looking forward to participating in the inaugural Hollywood Conference at University of Southern California in a few weeks. Bravo @lucimarz.bsky.social @jdconnor.bsky.social @nitingovil.bsky.social + team for planning an amazing 4 days! www.thehollywoodconference.com
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Gutted by the loss of my friend and colleague Barbara. I never could have written EH without her guidance and help in penetrating the hidden archives of the Herrick. Her chapter on the Art Directors Guild in Hollywood Unions was a vivid example of the care and thought she put into everything.
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Barbara Hall, film historian, Archivist for the Art Directors Guild, former Archivist at the Margaret Herrick Library (AMPAS), and co-author of Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Moviemaking (2019), passed away on May 24, 2025, surrounded by her loving family.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 21/05/2025
They're terminating OPT. Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US. 6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com
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Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating "Optional Practical Training" in the US
The White House has taken numerous steps to sharply reduce the number of immigrant workers, with or without legal status, in the US economy. These policies, so far, typically target immigrants with le...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 02/05/2025
The lovely @natlhumanities.bsky.social is hiring a Scholarly Programs Research Manager! nationalhumanitiescenter.org/careers/
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Careers at the National Humanities Center | National Humanities Center
The National Humanities Center is looking for amazing and talented humanists. Join our team!
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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Had a fantastic final class in my seminar on #HollywoodUnions today. So exciting to see student engage with the work. They presented on women editors, equity and the roster system, WGA arbitration, reality TV writers and performers, HUAC, TikTok drama production, controlling data in negotiations…
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Noah Isenberg @noahisenberg.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...
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Linda Williams, Who Introduced Pornography to Academia, Dies at 78
One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Crisscrossing the Hollywood-Documentary Divide” with Joshua Glick, Michael Renov, and Dave Fresko at USC’s Hollywood Conference #HWC25. Glad Glick corralled us 🤣
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Decisions for the Hollywood Conference are out and registration is open! We're so excited to see you all in Los Angeles this summer. #HWC25 www.thehollywoodconference.com/register
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a man in a tuxedo is applauding while sitting in a crowd of people .
Alt: Cary Grant excited to see some groundbreaking scholarship and thought-provoking roundtables at the Hollywood Conference.
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Colin Burnett @colinburnett.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
USC's Hollywood conference--here we come! #HWC25
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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I spy @lucimarz.bsky.social and @kfortmueller.bsky.social’s edited volume HOLLYWOOD UNIONS prominently on display at the Margaret Herrick Library!
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 14/03/2025
Senator Schumer on the Galactic Empire: we will allow them to blow up planets for now in the event this makes them unpopular and then maybe we can get some of their support to stop blowing up planets
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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Check out the latest episode of New Books in Film on Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola's wonderful new collection, Hollywood Unions!
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Kate Fortmueller @kfortmueller.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
@lucimarz.bsky.social and I had a great time chatting about Hollywood Unions on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Thanks, @petecant.bsky.social for asking thoughtful questions! newbooksnetwork.com/hollywood-un...
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Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola, "Hollywood Unions" (Rutgers UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
We have two job openings in the Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Non tenure-track, of interest for those who work in cultural studies or critical media, don't mind a full-time lecture schedule, and enjoy working with grad TAs. It's a three-year renewable post. Please circulate!
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Media Studies
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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It is publication day for THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS (@columbiaup.bsky.social), a book about the materials that make movies possible and how to read between the raw materials and the screen worlds they create.
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Amazing opportunity at the Academy Museum! Film critic writing workshop for high school & college students with foundational Black women critics. Apps are due Feb 14. www.academymuseum.org/en/programs/...
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Shaping Critique: A Film Critic Writing Workshop
A film critic writing workshop for high school and college writers hosted by Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and UCLA’s School of Theater Film and Television
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Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It’s the final hours to get your proposals in! Though I promise we won’t close up the portal right at midnight, so the stragglers can get theirs in. 😁
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