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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's alive! The Preservation Lab is now open! The Library Media Preservation Lab provides you with access to the tools and education needed to preserve digital and analog materials (like VHS and 8mm film) in a large variety of formats. uwf.edu/library/plac...

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Library Media Preservation Lab (Reservable) | University of West Florida

The Library Media Preservation Lab provides UWF students, faculty, and staff with access to the tools and education needed to preserve digital and analog materials in a large variety of formats.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New book of note — "Useful Cinema in State Socialist Europe." Out now on Routledge. Edited By Lucie Česálková, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, and Ana Szel. Congrats to the editors and all of the contributors! 📕 www.routledge.com/Useful-Cinem...

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Our SIG social media manager @tanyagoldman.bsky.social just started a non-definitive list of nontheatrical "greatest hits." Reply here with your favorites so she can add! #nontheatricalfilm #16mm #usefulmedia #filmhistory

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Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ten years in the making, my new book traces how corporations successfully infiltrated the movies in the early 20th Century in spite of scandal and massive audience resistance. Out in December, but you can order it (with a discount!) now. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

A picture of the cover of Commercial Cinema: The History of the Advertising Film in the United States and the text "The development of a pervasive but little-known genre from 1910 through the 1940s." You can get a 30 percent discount on the book by using the promo code F26UIP.

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Uncommon Ephemera @uncommonephemera.org · 04/09/2026

Uncommon Ephemera is featured as one of a handful of archivists worldwide preserving #filmstrips in the @nytimes today. Read the full article for free with this link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/movies/f…

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wowza! What a goldmine!!

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Big news! The Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive has digitized + made available 450 film catalogs from Professor Gregory A. Waller's collection. Catalogues represent 16mm film sector, mostly between 1940s to '70s. Explore them here! digitalcollections.iu.edu/collections/...

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Dr. Gregory A. Waller film catalog collection, 1915-1992, bulk 1940-1971 // Digital Collections

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Our new graduate reps are starting a Graduate Writing Group. First meeting is THIS Friday from 3:00pm to 4:00pm ET. If you're a paid SCMS member, check your messages; if you aren't that's ok! Message us here and we'll share the Zoom link. Please spread the word, especially @scmsgso.bsky.social!

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Apropos of we love home movies, here's a sizzle reel of Hollywood actress Esther Ralston's home movies from the Academy Archives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZF...

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Home Movies of Silent Film Star Esther Ralston (1928) | Lost Film 'Half A Bride' Behind The Scenes

YouTube video by The Academy

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Election results are in! We are delighted to announce Jülide Etem @julideetem.bsky.social will serve as our new co-chair alongside Florian Hoof. Dr. Etem is assuming the role from outgoing co-chair Sophia Gräfe who has served tirelessly on our board since 2019. Welcome Jülide; thank you Sophia! 🎉

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UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

POV: It’s 1966 and you’re hanging outside Canter’s Deli in L.A. 🎥 (clip from the student film “Kinky”) On our blog, UCLA MLIS graduate Jackie Forsyte continues to dive into the rich history of student filmmaking at UCLA, this time focusing on the mid- to late 1960s: cinema.ucla.edu/blog/viewing...

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🎉 New book of interest! 🎉 GOVERNING GENEALOGIES OF INTERNATIONAL FILM EDUCATION, edited by Hadi Gharabaghi and Terri Ginsberg with contributions from the authors and Zoë Druick, Wissam Mouawad, Bindu Menon, and Kaveh Askari. From Temple University Press. tupress.temple.edu/books/govern...

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Governing Genealogies of International Film Education
Edited by Hadi Gharabaghi and Terri Ginsberg

Introduction / Hadi Gharabaghi and Terri Ginsberg 1

1 The Problematization of Media Education at UNESCO
/ Zoë Druick 13

2 From an “American-to-Be” to a “Typical Settled Immigrant”:
How Margaret Mead Designed an “Ideal” Cold War Subject
in a Social Scientific Documentary Bible for the Department
of State in 1951 / Hadi Gharabaghi 65

3 Orientalism and Film Education in France: Doctoral
Dissertations on Arab Cinema in French Universities
/ Wissam Mouawad 121

4 Spectacular Oil, Capitalocene, Anti-Arab Racism: The
Imperial (and) Institutional Foundations of Academic
Cinema Studies / Terri Ginsberg 149

5 Between Two States: U.S. Philanthropic Foundations and
Documentary Imagination in India (1920–1960)
/ Bindu Menon 221

6 Instructional Media, International Programs, and Campus
Life: Brokering Expertise with the National Iranian Radio
and Television Corporation and Michigan State University
during the 1970s / Kaveh Askari 245

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We are pleased to share CFP for our annual Nontheatrical Student Essay Award. Due Feb 15 2027. Winner’s essay will appear in THE MOVING IMAGE journal. Please share widely! amianet.org/wp-content/u... @scmstudies.bsky.social @necsusjournal.bsky.social @orphanfilm.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Nontheatrical Student Essay Award 2027

In collaboration with AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) and its journal, The Moving Image, the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG is delighted to announce its fifth annual Nontheatrical Student Essay Award. Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research,
this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.

Eligibility: Applicants must be enrolled in a recognized graduate program at the time of entry.

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Submissions will be due 15 February 2027 and can be sent to nontheatricalessayaward@gmail.com. The award winner will be contacted in March 2027, and announced at the 2027 SCMS Annual Conference.

The Moving Image is the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). It explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar. The Moving Image deals with crucial issues
surrounding the preservation, archiving, and restoration of film, video, and digital moving images. It features detailed profiles of moving image collections; interpretive and historical essays about archival materials; articles on archival description, appraisal, and access; behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve, restore, and digitize moving images; and theoretical articles on the future of the field.

The Nontheatrical Film & Media scholarly interest group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) provides a setting for scholars working in this area to collaborate, share research tips, and debate methodological issues. Moreover, this SIG acts as another connection between the academic and archival worlds, and between other SIGs and committees within SCMS, such as the Media Archives Committee. The mission of the Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group is to facilitate discussion, consolidation, outreach, and inclusion.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our latest Nontheatrical Newsletter dropped a few hours ago. Check your emails! If you aren’t currently subscribed, you can join by emailing nontheatricalnews@listserv.dfn.de. Anyone, anywhere, inside/outside academia can join—no SCMS membership needed!

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

CFP alert! "Filmstrips, slides and beyond: Entangled histories of projected images in Europe, 1945–2000” for TMG: Journal of Media History. Abstract deadline 1 October 2026. tmgonline.nl/announcement...

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Want periodic updates on new publications and other important announcements and going-sons in our community? Subscribe to Nontheatrical News by emailing nontheatricalnews@listserv.dfn.de Open to all enthusiasts! No SCMS membership required.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I love that @filmforumnyc.bsky.social has a screening devoted to films from the New York City Transit Museum Archives in its NY Transit series later this summer!!! #nontheatricalfilm babbbyyy!

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UAW Archivist @uawarchivist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Did you know the @uaw.org used to have a Film Division? The office lent our educational films to union locals, and even made some movies for its library. These short films covered everything from legislative issues, to equality, to how the UAW operates. Photos from the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social.

Display on UAW film lending library program.

UAW film library at international headquarters.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Lovely post about Jeffrey Bickel, recently retired from @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social. Scholars have benefitted immensely from his preservation work including access to the Hearst Metrophone News Collection. More than 5 million (!!) feet of footage are freely viewable at newsreels.net newsreels.net

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Hearst Metrotone News Collection

Hearst Metrotone News Collection Packard Humanities Institute UCLA

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

🚨 New #nontheatricalfilm scholarship alert! 🚨 Hahkyung Darline Kim’s "Psychological Operations of Documentary (P)reenactment in USIS-Korea Films” @jcmsjournal.bsky.social vol. 65, no. 3 (Spring 2026): 33-53. doi.org/10.1353/cj.2...

Article title: Psychological Operations of Documentary (P)reenactment in USIS-Korea Films

Author: Hahkyung Darline Kim

Abstract:
Scholarship on Cold War US film diplomacy and the institutional history of US information agencies has largely focused on government documents and archivally preserved films. This article instead applies critical discourse analysis to the production contexts of both extant and nonextant state-sponsored films. It examines how US information operations in post-liberation and postwar Korea used the documentary format to project a free world imaginary. I argue that the simultaneously backward-casting and forward-projecting performance of (p)reenactment in films by the United States Information Service in Korea (USIS-Korea) and its predecessors was central to shaping new norms of South Korean citizenship.

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Jülide Etem @julideetem.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

🎉 Film Diplomacy is READY FOR ORDER! Cold War classrooms. Cultural politics. Educational cinema as global strategy. So excited to finally share this with you all 💫 #NewBook #FilmDiplomacy #AcademicSky Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%. cup.columbia.edu/book/film-di...

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Film Diplomacy | Columbia University Press

What if the most consequential alliance between the United States and Turkey was not signed—but screened? Beginning in 1930 and crystallizing during the Co... | CUP

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Conference proposal and award submission portals are now open! Questions? Be sure to check the General Conference Guidelines and Procedures on our website. #SCMS27

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just for fun! Favorite celebrity appearance in an example of useful media or nontheatrical film?

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

In 1964, Buster Keaton came to Canada to make his final silent film. It was The Railrodder, a 25-minute comedic travelogue of Canada produced by the National Film Board. It became a classic beloved to this day. This is the story. 📸 NFB 🧵 1/10

Buster Keaton rides a small yellow CN rail inspection car along a railway track through open countryside. He is dressed formally in a black suit, bow tie and bowler hat, holding one hand up as the track stretches into the distance behind him under a blue sky.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

ATTN active @scmstudies.bsky.social members of the Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group. Elections for our new co-chair are now underway. Polls upon through 30 June. We are lucky to have three stellar candidates. Check your email for candidate statements and voting link! 🗳️

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

@iamhist.bsky.social is looking for book reviewers for the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (HJFRT) and have several new nontheatrical and useful cinema books on their list. Give it a look and consider contacting them if you’re available!

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Attention active SCMS and SIG members! We are excited to announce that three candidates are running for the Co-Chair position (2026–2029). Check your emails for voting directions and candidate statements. Polls open through 30 June.

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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Precarious scholar? Grad student? Are you thinking of submitting to #SCMS27 but have no institutional support for membership? Apply for a 2026-27 SCMS membership fee waiver from the PLO! Deadline: July 27! buff.ly/RCFLdff

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

For students working on women and film history! Please share this @wfhinetwork.bsky.social CFP widely. Submissions due by September 15. www.wfhi.org/student-proj...

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Student Project Award — Women and Film History International

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The Cinematheque Libanaise was founded in 1999 by then-Minister of Culture Mohammed Youssef Baydoun. It was part of a series of cultural initiatives launched after UNESCO named Beirut the Arab Cultural Capital for 1999. loom.ly/HANrBjI

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Despite war, Lebanon reopens film archive celebrating cinematic history

The reopening marks a major effort to preserve Lebanon’s rich cinematic history.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

CFP alert! The Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, posters, and workshops for the AMIA Annual Conference to be held December 2-4 in Pittsburgh, PA. Proposal deadline is June 8. Link for details: amiaconference.net/amia-2026-ca...

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AMIA 2026 | Call for Proposals

The AMIA Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, posters, and workshops for the AMIA Annual Conference to be held December 2-4 in Pittsburgh, PA. The Conference Committee wo…

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Jülide Etem @julideetem.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Excited to share that first podcast interview with New Books Network is now live. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social I spoke with host Ailin Zhou about my new book Film Diplomacy ( @columbiaup.bsky.social) Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/film-diplomacy #FilmDiplomacy #newbook #history

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Ayşehan Jülide Etem, "Film Diplomacy: A Media History of Turkey-US Relations" (Columbia UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television has issued a call for an Editorial Assistant. Great opportunity for a PhD Candidate! Interested candidates should contact the journal co-editors at hjfrt.1981[at]gmail[dot]com before 25 May. See visuals (with alt text) for more details!

Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television — CALL FOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television is one of the leading academic journals concerned with all aspects of media history from circa 1900 to the present. It is international and interdisciplinary in scope, and explores the institutional and ideological contexts of film, radio and television; analyses the evidence produced by the mass media for historians and social scientists; and considers the impact of mass communications on political, social and cultural history. It is the official journal of the International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST), co-published by IAMHIST and Taylor & Francis. All articles published in the journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editorial screening and the opinion of at least two anonymous referees.

ABOUT THE ROLE
The Editorial Assistant will be expected to assume the following responsibilities:
- Providing administrative assistance to the journal’s editorial team, including preparing and circulating the team meeting agenda and taking minutes at the monthly editorial meetings.
- Assisting the editorial team with managing manuscript peer review within a reasonable timeframe, using an online submission system (training will be provided)
- Checking whether submitted manuscripts meet the stylistic requirements of the journal
- Answering author queries and communicating with authors and reviewers
- Preparing, in collaboration with the co-editors, semi-annual reports on the journal for the IAMHIST council – including, among other aspects – metrics on journal performance, impact factors, activities of the editorial team, themed issues, marketing activities and future directions).
- Promoting the reputation, success and prosperity of the journal together with the editorial team and IAMHIST.

The ideal candidate will be expected to satisfy the following criteria:
- Be a PhD candidate, in a discipline concerned with media history and archival research
- Proficiency in English with very good writing skills
- Exceptional organizational skills and collaborative team-oriented approach
- Basic understanding of the peer-review procedure

WHAT WE OFFER
The benefits of the role include:
- Full training and support in the online submission and peer review system
- Free access to the journal
- Inclusion of your name in every issue of the journal and on its website
- Early access to cutting-edge research
- A chance to expand your professional network in media history
- An annual honorarium from IAMHIST
- Invitation to IAMHIST conferences and gatherings

The successful candidate is expected to serve in the role for at least one year. This role will require 2-3 hours of work per week.

Expressions of interest, including a short bio can be sent to the journal co-editors (hjfrt.1981@gmail.com) before 25th May 2026.

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We hear the latest issue of THE MOVING IMAGE— @amianet.bsky.social's peer review journal—just dropped! A special issue on Government Film edited by Brian Real. Nine new peer-reviewed articles spanning 1920s to ‘80s (if the TOC is any indication). 1/

Cover of THE MOVING IMAGE journal, Spring/Fall 2024. Orange cover with image of global map.

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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

For the unaware. From the director of CARNIVAL OF SOULS!

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Shake Hands With Danger (1980)

YouTube video by A/V Geeks 16mm Films

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Nate Patrin 🎧 @natepatrin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

between that and this, from the director of 'Wanda', there's a wealth of cult cinema greatness attached to these short industrial/educational films

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Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The results are in! We are pleased to announce the election results for our new @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social grad rep! Ben Lazar (Wisconsin-Milwaukee) + Joshua Baldelomar (UC-Santa Barbara) will be serving as grad rep co-chairs. 👏

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