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PT Klein

@ptklein.com
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Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.

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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 5h
AI, an existential threat to humankind:
A screenshot of Meta’s Muse, “your personal AI agent,” offering to summarize the key takeaways from an Instagram photo of a plate of grilled hot dogs.
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 17h
This is literally how I dress on campus most days lmao
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 17h
New The Brook & The Bluff EP has absolutely immaculate folk pop vibes
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 29/09/2026
I regret to inform you that the wh*l* f**ds spiced cider fizzy water tastes exactly like a delicious cider beverage
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 28/09/2026
a few seconds earlier:
Garfield the cat slurping down the splut, pleased with himself.
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 28/09/2026
The absolute anxiety of being a gay guy and having someone remote into your computer
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 28/09/2026
good morning, it’s foggy today
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 26/09/2026
I’m on @frnclassics.bsky.social this weekend talking about John Frankenheimer’s Cold War thriller Seven Days in May. Join me for a conversation about paranoid anxieties, film history, and the continued relevance of midcentury politics in our current moment.
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Front Row Classics discusses 1962's Seven Days in May
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Colin @csmith03.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
PT stands for Professional Theatre-goer
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 27/09/2026
In my natural habitat (at a movie theater, talking about movies)
PT in a blue polo with microphone in hand introducing a major motion picture at a movie house.
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 26/09/2026
game time
Two shirtless frat bois playing beer pong
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 26/09/2026
I’m on @frnclassics.bsky.social this weekend talking about John Frankenheimer’s Cold War thriller Seven Days in May. Join me for a conversation about paranoid anxieties, film history, and the continued relevance of midcentury politics in our current moment.
nprillinois.org
Front Row Classics discusses 1962's Seven Days in May
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 26/09/2026
Tummy grumbled so loud it woke me up???
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Front Row Classics Podcast @frnclassics.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Front Row Classics is taking a look at one of the most taut political thrillers of the 1960s. Brandon welcomes , film historian, @ptklein.com to discuss 1962's Seven Days in May. LISTEN: linktr.ee/FrontRowClas...
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 25/09/2026
Gosh i just love teaching
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 25/09/2026
Listening to John Adams during leg day and getting caked call that Hallelujah Junktion
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 25/09/2026
Good morning, all you modern Babylonians
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 25/09/2026
influencer turned content creator: “come with meeee”
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bodaciou$ @b0dacious.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@ptklein.com:
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 24/09/2026
Getting up early and lifting 20,000 lbs? 🤪 Getting up early and reading and writing? 🫩
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 24/09/2026
Goddamnit Instagram keeps showing me ads for the cutest sweaters and shirts and then I open the ad and they’re always clothes for TODDLERS 😭
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 24/09/2026
Gizmo coming out of retirement for a legacy sequel:
A close-up of Jedi master Yoda, a puppet, from The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner).
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 24/09/2026
I deserve wine!!!
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 23/09/2026
My contribution to biceptember 🗓️
PT once again flexing his bicep in the gym
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 23/09/2026
Good morning, it’s Celebrate Bisexuality Day 🩷💜💙
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 23/09/2026
There are a lot of ways to be online, but I am convinced that this is the way we should cultivate and cherish. Being earnest and open to positivity is an active practice that enriches all of our lives.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.
A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 22/09/2026
When the reading absolutely sucks <<<
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 22/09/2026
going to the movies later 🤩
PT cheesing at the gym
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 22/09/2026
good morning, it’s fall y’all 🎃🍁👻
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 22/09/2026
Love listening to quiet
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 21/09/2026
To the person at the Nalgene corporation who decided to use a full-wrap sticker with thin paper ok your new bottles instead of a standalone paper wrap or insert, I hope you sleep VERY poorly tonight and every night after.
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 21/09/2026
Made a Sicilian nonna pie last night and now my apartment just smells like pecorino and garlic 🤩
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 21/09/2026
good morning, did you remember?
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 21/09/2026
Which workplace fantasy are you? Jane, Dolly, or Lily?
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 20/09/2026
Attempting to make replicate my husband’s perfect chocolate chip cookies
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 20/09/2026
Watched three movies AND read a few chapters yesterday what a great day
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 19/09/2026
When you finally get home from work and you get to take your pants off and have a lite beer standing there in the kitchen 🤩
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 18/09/2026
I will vote for whoever makes it illegal to sign me up for your emails just because I had to use your point of sale system.
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 18/09/2026
We are talking about sound today in our introduction to film and media course and I am having so, so much fun with it
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 18/09/2026
good morning, you’re not a defective shell
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026
🍿 Ann Arbor and Michiganders! 🍿 Join me tomorrow night at the Michigan Theater at 7:00, where I’ll introduce Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator as part of their anti-fascist film series. It will be an evening of laughter and radical optimism! Tickets here 🎟️ marquee-arts.org/event-page/t...
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026
Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860), an “American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his life‍—‌effects sufficiently profound that friends saw him (for a time at least) as ‘no longer Gage.’”
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026
Can confirm these are insane 😵‍💫
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026
good morning
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 16/09/2026
If you haven’t seen it, seek out Nostalgia for the Light immediately. What an incredible picture. RIP Patricio Guzmán.
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 15/09/2026
Incredibly excited to pick up @gbullard.bsky.social’s new book! Book club anyone? 🤓
The cover of Gabe Bullard’s Against Convenience: Embracing Friction in an Age of Endless Ease
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 15/09/2026
Arm help write more
PT flexing his tricep poorly
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PT Klein @ptklein.com · 15/09/2026
Watch this movie! (Then listen to me and the @coldwarcinema.com crew talk about it!)
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Colin Burnett @colinburnett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#WashU’s Film and Media Studies program pays tribute to Gaylyn Studlar, who passed away on Sept 9. Read on for tributes from 15 peers across the field. RIP, Gaylyn. We will miss you dearly. fms.washu.edu/news/remembe...
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Remembering Gaylyn Studlar (1952-2026): A Career of Leadership & Film Study + Peer Tributes
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