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Matthew Noble-Olson

@mdno.bsky.social
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scholar of art/cinema/media lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/m…

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Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
😍😍👇👇 @mdno.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/P/Pete...
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Peter Wollen
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
He’s such a Chicago Pope that he’s even channeling Michael Mann cinema energy
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
“You’re having that encounter with the object itself that’s exciting.” Long live celluloid! 🎞️
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Possibly the best thing in Moma's current Duchamp show is this 1913 newspaper cartoon poking fun at his "Nude Descending a Staircase"
Cartoon with a "gnu descending a staircase"
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Very excited to return to UMN for this event.
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I’ve seen many movies six times or more but this and the one in the quoted post are certainly among the ones I have seen the most. Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
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a man in a dirty shirt is sitting in a dark room with his mouth open
ALT: a man in a dirty shirt is sitting in a dark room with his mouth open
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
die hard schmie hard for the real ones EYES WIDE SHUT is a christmas movie
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...
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Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I’m teaching my class on Detroit again this fall and so I am collecting material for my opening lecture on the evolving and varied identity of the city: from the Motor City to the Arsenal of Democracy to Motown to the capital of the twentieth century to the Dirty D to Techno City and more.
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Define cinema with gif.
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a blurry photo of a person standing in the dark
ALT: a blurry photo of a person standing in the dark
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
A film that takes place where you’re from
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Fargo GIF
ALT: Fargo GIF
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
RIP
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Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Knock knock Who’s there La promesse du bonheur La promesse du bonheur who [no answer]
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Teaching today, experimental and expanded cinema edition: "What was Dada in regard to cinema was not a specific film, but the performance, not a specific set of techniques or textual organization, but the spectacle."
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Tony is much the better director of the Scott brothers and Eyes Wide Shut is far superior to A Clockwork Orange.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A blue-haired woman says "Silencio"
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
RIP
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Cocktails for @mauraseale.bsky.social bday
Pretty cocktailsMore pretty cocktails
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
This feels like more of a threat than an offer of support.
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Maura Seale @mauraseale.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Please consider submitting a proposal and share widely! I'm co-editing with @lydiazv.bsky.social and Sam (who I don't think is on here). Deadline for proposals is 1/17, more details in the link below. Happy to answer questions, too. #critlib 📚📜
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Screening today, action cinema finale edition:
Image from Mad Max: Fury Road
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Teaching today, classical film theory finale edition: "All of this is at the expense of speculation; of abstract thought, which risks inconclusiveness: or in economic terms, the possibility of no return."
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article Humanity now welcomes Kong as an honorary ape among men, a benevolent defender against the violent threat of nature; he will not survive us krisis.eu/article/view...
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The Eyes of the Ape | Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Screening today, classical film theory edition:
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Teaching today, classical film theory edition: “The twentieth century was unquestionably the century of cinema, but is cinema’s time now over.”
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The beer I ordered (on the right) is called “pure cinema.” And so I’m toasting Germaine Dulac.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The Washington Post reports that Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka had a falling out over who should receive credit for writing Trump's speeches. This is incorrect. In this thread, I will tell you the real reason why Anton dislikes Gorka. 🧵
Tweet says: Last year, Anton wrote about his strained relationship with Gorka, which in Anton’s account stemmed from Gorka irritating senior White House staff by exaggerating his own role in writing a speech Trump delivered in his first term. Anton said he was charged with clarifying to the media that Gorka did not draft the speech, an act that culminated in Gorka calling Anton a “coward” and scolding him in a Fox News green room, according to his account.

Anton did not immediately respond to a request for comment, while Gorka told The Post: “I don’t comment to the fake failing news."

Anton expected to be in contention for other administration jobs
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Almost 11:47 on a Saturday night. That is the hand we have been dealt.
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Screening today, action cinema edition #boatcinema:
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a man with a beard and long hair is standing in front of palm trees .
ALT: a man with a beard and long hair is standing in front of palm trees .
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Teaching today, action cinema edition:
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a close up of a man wearing sunglasses and a suit and tie
ALT: a close up of a man wearing sunglasses and a suit and tie
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ten thoughts on a rewatch of COLLATERAL (Mann, 2004):
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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a man talking on a cell phone with the words okay man let 's do this
ALT: a man talking on a cell phone with the words okay man let 's do this
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
TFW you are prepping to teach action cinema next week.
Colin Farrell and Gong Li in a go fast boat.
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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a woman is talking on a phone while sitting on a leopard
ALT: a woman is talking on a phone while sitting on a leopard
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Teaching today, Action Cinema edition: "...Bay’s cinema invites us to consider the ideological register of his films and to ask what they might tell us about the excesses of early twenty-first century American cinema, and the globalized cultural and political environment in which it circulates..."
Detective Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) engaged in shootout in Michael Bay's Bad Boys II (2003).
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Favorite photo you’ve taken this year. Here’s mine:
A view of Pudong from the Bund, Shanghai.
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Teaching today, classical film theory edition: “what is the good of film experience?”
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Teaching today, action cinema edition: "Michael Bay's world lives up to Marinetti's vision in its unconditional endorsement of speed, technology, and progress as much as its celebration of danger, violence, and the primordial power of courage, audacity, masculinity, and visceral interactivity."
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Teaching today, classical film theory edition: “If film is an art at all, it certainly should not be confused with the established art.”
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Pre-Symphony cocktails
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I'm going to talk myself into teaching a Michael Bay/Michael Mann course in the near future.
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Prepping for Michael Bay week in my action cinema class.
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Post a scene from a film you’ve seen more than ten times. (I’ve seen a lot of movies more than ten times but this is certainly one that I have seen many more than ten times and I also happen to be teaching it this week)
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a man is standing in front of a machine that looks like a robot with wings .
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
The music video for Crockett's Theme (aka best song ever written) youtu.be/eF8fGFfJl_I?...
youtu.be
Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme [HD]
YouTube video by Miami Vice
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
First day of classes teaching/screening today, classical film theory: "It is all moving, all alive, all speeding about. It all moves into the foreground and then disappears somewhere."
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
Totality achieved for just over a minute
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Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social · 06/04/2024
Post a pic YOU took at sunset. No description.
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David K Goodin @davidkgoodin.bsky.social · 30/03/2024
Happy Easter
Alien Easter eggs attack Easter Bunny
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