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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 12h

Excited to celebrate "100 Years of Labor Films" at Yale conference later this week. As I'm (too slowly) completing my book on labor activist-turned-film distributor Tom Brandon, it's nice to return to early chapter of his career in Film & Photo League. Plus I'm intro'ing MILLIONS OF US (1935)!

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 10h

I reallllyyy wish I lived in Minneapolis for this! But on a positive note my local arthouse (Moxie Cinema in Springfield, MO) is doing a screening of HÄXAN (1922) with live score next month! 🎹

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Silent Movie Day! Need recs? Look no further than @ettletodd.bsky.social's "The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever" podcast. He's compiled a list (currently through 1914) based on guests and listeners' picks. ⬇️ www.the5bestfilmsofeveryyearever.com/list

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The List — The 5 Best Films of Every Year Ever

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 13h

I hear it's Silent Film Day, so here's a thread of my silent film posts and threads if you're looking for inspiration:

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 13h

Op-ed author: "It will take courage to demand that students demonstrate active, participatory mastery of ideas." Revision: "It will take MORE INVESTMENT IN HUMAN LABOR (i.e., MORE INSTRUCTORS WITH PERMANENT POSITIONS) to demand that students demonstrate active, participatory master of idea."

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amianet.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Archivist Daylon Orr was visiting a bookseller friend in Virginia this summer when, in the back corner of his friend’s warehouse, he noticed a giant stack of boxes. loom.ly/8Mnuwoc

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A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home.

The collection of documents comes from a subway obsessive.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today in “Women Filmmakers” was in-class screening of Varda’s LE BONHEUR (my 1st time teaching it!). For attendance, students did quick 5-minute post-screening written reflections. We’ll have more thorough discussion of film + readings on Wednesday. Unsurprisingly, my students have BIG oPiNiOnS 🔥😉

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Makes me smile that a handful of my “Film History” students are opting to submit physical handwritten journals rather than typed entries! 📝 Vive la résistance!

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Apropos of nothing, my spouse just told me, via Wikipedia, that the father of an early Pink Floyd manager was in Flaherty’s MAN OF ARAN

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Aurore Spiers @aurspiers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm quite excited to have a chapter on Alice Guy Blaché's THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEMINISM in this upcoming volume. I'm even more excited to have the entire volume available soon for teaching! It looks SO GOOD. www.routledge.com/Screening-Wo...

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Screening Women Filmmakers

Screening Women Filmmakers is an essential collection of 58 essays, each focusing on a single film directed by a woman-identified filmmaker, inclusively defined, from the earliest days of filmmaking (...

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Since I'm teaching Pre-Code Hollywood soon, let's have your favorite Pre-Code moments! Obviously BABY FACE is full of bangers. I'm also partial to JEWEL ROBBERY when gentleman thief William Powell uses marijuana to incapacitate jewelry store employees to get the loot. What's your favorite?

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm proud to announce....that I resisted applying to a cool professional service opportunity because I need to buckle down and finish my book already! (Plus the R&R and three other half-written essays that I need out of my brain)

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Brian Schmid @schmanthonyp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

REINIGER 4 LIFE

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My spouse and I watched the prerelease version and the theatrical release side-by-side earlier tonight (i.e., I played the closed-caption theatrical silently on my laptop in my lap as we watched prerelease on our TV). An extremely enjoyable exercise at micro-level!

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Since my Film History students were interested in censorship at an unprecedented level last fall (I wonder why?!), I reoriented this year's 1930s Hollywood lecture entirely around distinctions in state/municipal censors board vs. Hollywood Production Code. Feature: the pre-code classic BABY FACE.

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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reminder: The deadline is one month away (October 21)!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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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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SCMS Fan and Audience Studies SIG @scmsfaas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Velvet Light Trap has extended the deadline on this issue to Oct. 11! Not too late to submit!

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Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We are once again searching for a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in Visual Culture, focus on visual culture and the environment - deadline November 15 - details and application here: applications.caltech.edu/jobs/vcpd

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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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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT is reporting that influencers are shaping political opinions, sometimes they're not telling you the truth, and they are getting paid. I wrote a book about this two years ago. 🙃 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

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An Army of Paid Creators Is Carpeting the Web With Political Content

Unlike celebrity influencers with large followings, these creators produce a blizzard of videos for a fraction of the cost of traditional online campaigns and, in the process, shift public conversatio...

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just going to casually have this image from the Lucas Museum projected when my students walk into “Women Filmmakers” class tomorrow and see what happens

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In Search of the Last Great Video Store is back + now features: -An ever-evolving global video store directory -Every NEW video store piece I've created since 2k18 -An updated Music Rights Hell list from @meheuck.bsky.social Send me more video stores, tysm ✨📼✨ blcklst.substack.com/p/in-search-...

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In Search of the Last Great Video Store Redux

Revisit the viral piece, then go visit a video store!

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I reference this artifact regularly when I explain pre-streaming life to my students. "I was an 11 year film history weirdo, had always read about this movie, the local video stores didn't have it, so I begged my family to get the DVD for me as a holiday present."

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Feast your eyes on this vintage @criterion.bsky.social logo and landing page for Fritz Lang's M DVD. Spine #30, 1998 release, I think.

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Women and Film History International @wfhinetwork.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Deadline extended to 9/25! Students, there's still time to share your work!!

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To foreground my students' opinions as humans and get them talking, I've been taking attendance during screenings via QR code + asking them to share an adjective to describe what they just watched and explain the rationale. Here is this year's snap judgements on Dreyer's PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is an evergreen image of me doing all forms of research, writing, and teaching.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Inspired by colleagues, a few years ago I started compiling Letterboxd lists. My lists are primarily centered on films I regularly teach in certain classes plus a few others that I often share with students who ask for general history recs. letterboxd.com/professortan...

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Martin L. Johnson @martinlj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you're a fan of conspiracy theories,corporate subterfuge, unorthodox uses of dynamite, Hollywood scandals, or the United States Bureau of Mines, this is the book for you!

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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Battle of Chile director Patricio Guzmán dies aged 85. Passionate documentary maker won international acclaim for unsparing but poetic films exploring the impact of the Pinochet regime in Chile. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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Battle of Chile director Patricio Guzmán dies aged 85

Passionate documentary maker won international acclaim for unsparing but poetic films exploring the impact of the Pinochet regime in Chile

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Searching through Media History Digital Library for teaching (as one does) and came across this rather groan-inducing tagline for exhibitors keen to promote Ida Lupino's THE HITCH-HIKER. Appears in several trade papers including Motion Picture Daily, April 7, 1953. archive.org/details/moti...

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 As someone who has amassed their own collection of 16m catalogs and considers them integral to my research and writing, this is very cool news.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A whirlwind start of the semester so I haven't been posting about teaching much but I do wish to share that Irene Lusztig's documentary YOURS IN SISTERHOOD (2018) remains one of my favorite films to teach. I screen in women filmmakers and nonfiction courses and it elicits such great discussion!

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Looks like I’ll be the director of an academic conference as part of University of Colorado’s new partnership with the Sundance Film Festival, coming to Boulder in January. It’ll be baby steps this year, but there will be a lot to plan for January 2028.

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2027 Sundance Film Festival

CU Boulder is excited to welcome the Sundance Film Festival and Festival-goers to Boulder, Colo. in 2027!

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

. @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social is starting a graduate writing group. 📣 Please share widely w/ film and media students who have an interest in useful media and nontheatrical film! SCMS membership not required. Open to anyone in an MA or PhD program! TY to SIG grad reps Ben + Josh for launching! 📣

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I *hate* this "digital divide" framing for AI; even libraries marshal it to justify their "AI literacy classes," ensuring all have "access" for self-actualization and economic opportunity. Maybe instead some folks are sufficiently literate, and they're instead choosing *principled refusal*.

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

After reading about Ida Lupino in Therese Grisham & Julie Grossman's IDA LUPINO, DIRECTOR: HER ART & RESILIENCE, several of my students excitedly mentioned how Ida's stance on stardom made them think of Taylor Swift's "Clara Bow." I love when students make these types of connections!

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Join @scmspedagogy.bsky.social on September 18 @ 1pm ET for our "Pedagogies of Care" virtual roundtable! Sign up via original post. ❤️

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