For this week’s Silent Sundays post, I have continued working on an investigation that began on Twitter a decade ago.

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Laura Horak, a white woman with wavy brown hair to her jaw and glasses, holds up two books: TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR.

My new books - TRANS CINEMA and MELODRAMA AS PROVOCATEUR - are both out today!

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Amazing, Julie!! Congrats!! 🎉

Also the expansion of public TK has moved kids out of daycare earlier. It's a massive shift of labor and resources that were not planned for enough.

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! 😍🎞️🎶

Oh I'd love that too!!

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.

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I was waiting for it! So excited Andy got that opportunity. Also, well deserved win.

Barbara was such a gem. She took an interest in my research too and I was just a lowly grad student. Without her, I never could have finished my dissertation and I was so excited to get to edit her research and writing in Hollywood Unions. She adored Andy.

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.

So great! I just knew he would if he did. She was so proud of him.

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. 🥹

Unfortunately, my ideas are all LA specific, taking advantage of unique resources like the WB Archives for my American cinema class and visiting Billy Wilder landmarks around the city. I have found luck asking them to talk about personal experience, annotate readings, and writing in class.

Lecturer in Film Studies | King's College London

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-...

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...

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

I was the committee chair, and we were so thrilled to honor this project!

In Memoriam: Marsha Kinder 1940-2025

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.

Disagree on the antipathy for the film but totally agree Stewart would have been so good in it. Cooper has a harder time playing smart.

Yup. The whole country, from sports to media orgs to the stock market, is a casino. As befits president Biff.

Maybe not all but Nvidia alone is a massive amount of it and so many companies that don’t seem related are touting their A.I. integration to stay in the game. It’s a problem when stocks are soaring and it has nothing to do with actual revenue.

AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.

It’s A.I. speculation. A fairly evident bubble economy. Almost all gains in the last four years have been A.I. associated stocks. www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

How’d that work out for the Fleischer Brothers?

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

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.

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Congrats, Maggie!!!

Every great Billy Wilder movie is roughly 110 minutes. Just saying.

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!

The Hollywood Conference was great! Congratulations to @lucimarz.bsky.social and all the organizers. #HWC2025

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

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

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...