A pleasant surprise in today's mail!!! 🎊 Grateful to the Consulta Universitaria del Cinema for sending it all the way from Italy! ❤️ @columbiaup.bsky.social

Unwatchable With over 50 original essays by leading critics and scholars, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content ...

Undoubtedly, this would be an important text for the class:

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Our series, RUBBLE NOIR, begins May 3 with Carol Reed’s masterful THE THIRD MAN. After the war, these carcasses of great cities bred desperation and crime of all kinds. The films noir made in these environs are some of the best ever made.Tickets at Trylon.org

𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣’𝙨 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙚𝙣𝙙...𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙨:
FemEx is launching a dictionary of women experts’ lives and their contribution to feminist knowledge production.
More: https://womenexperts.eu

Please listen to my conversation about ARCHIVING THE PAST @ucpress.bsky.social with @alixbeeston.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! 🥳🥰

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Clemson University Press is proud announce that we are sponsoring the new Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Essay Prize for Contingent and Independent Scholars! You can read more below on our blog and on the Modernist Studies website:

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

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

Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/was-fw-mur...

Caribbean Activist Cinema Born from a period of intense political upheaval, these radical Caribbean films spotlight vital stories of workers' movements, decolonial struggle, and liberation from economic exploitation and violent oppression. Including on-the-ground accounts of revolutionary movements, portraits of women on the frontlines of resistance, and a one-of-a-kind diasporic musical revue, they blend agitprop and grassroots pedagogy with living folk traditions to forge a collective counter-cinema built around the fight for freedom.

Caribbean Activist Cinema! ✨
Coming to criterion channel in May

After QR Code Fiasco, Walker Cuts Ties With Daniel del Prado's Cardamom - Racket Plus Boundary Waters mining ban overturned, Georgia Fort speaks out after arrest, and national accolades for Le Burger in today's Flyover news roundup.

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restaurant workers fired and replaced by QR codes at daniel del prado’s cardamom chant “hey hey ho ho, QR codes have got to go outside the walker art center in minneapolis

Live footage from inside the Bluesky server closet

Ballroom blitz… Our Dancing Daughters (1928)

More from the Kennington Bioscope with last week's screening of Joan Crawford's break-out success and a fabulous film about Jack Hylton's cabaret at the Piccadilly Hotel back in the British Jazz Age!

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The Denver Silent Film Festival is a wrap!!! 🎊🎶🎞️📽️🍾

Thanks SO MUCH to everyone who participated -- the musicians, archives/distributors, honoree @shelleystamp.bsky.social, and all the folks who spent a weekend marathoning silent movies with us!! We'll be back next April 2027....

Pamela Hutchinson on The Curse of Queen Kelly Podcast Episode · Writers on Film · 15 April · 52min

I'm on the Writers on Film podcast with @www.johnbleasdale.com – talking about the sordid saga of QUEEN KELLY and why I wrote a book about it. podcasts.apple.com/it/podcast/p...

Spring Silence... Kennington Bioscope 9th Annual Silent Weekend Day Two This is Part Three of the Cinema Museum Silent Spring long weekend, I’m putting my hot takes out in reverse order because… why not!? A b...

Day Two of the 9th Kennington Bioscope Silent Film Weekend.

From the Great War to high couture via cod fishing and shoe-shop slapstick, another high content day down Lambeth way.

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What's the opposite of Lars von Trier? Just ask Jonathan Rosenbaum!!! 📀🎞️

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Sex and drugs and poisoned champagne: 90 years on, we can finally see Joan Crawford’s wildest film A legal dispute led to Letty Lynton, the golden age superstar’s controversial drama, being sealed away. Only now can audiences see what all the fuss was about

It is always a good day when there is Joan Crawford news to share. LETTY LYNTON is back: www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

Satyajit Ray's hand-drawn poster for his rarely screened film, DAYS AND NIGHTS IN THE FOREST.

*Screening for ONE NIGHT ONLY at the @trylon.org, Thursday, April 30.
Introduced by Prof. Keya Ganguly (Cultural Studies & Comp Lit, UMN). Don't miss it!
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Thrilled to welcome Prof. @mdno.bsky.social to UMN for his talk: "Presenting Absence: Aesthetic Contestations of Racial Capitalism in Contemporary Detroit," w/ response by Charlie Kronengold. This Friday (4/17) at 3:30 pm. Join us!!!

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UCLA Festival of Preservation
May 29–31, 2026

The Archive presents 11 feature films, 4 TV programs and 30 short works, newly preserved and restored. Silent films, Hollywood classics, Argentine noir, mid-century TV rarities, 1990s independent productions & more. Free! cinema.ucla.edu/series/2026-...

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Hot off the press!!! The new issue of the Journal of Film Preservation includes data & analysis from our Cinema's First Nasty Women demographic survey!! Designed, conducted, and lead-authored by Russell Zych. 🎞️📽️

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Who's ready to smash the patriarchy?!?!? 🎞️🎶🔥 @nastysilents.bsky.social @physicaltv.bsky.social

If you missed it in Atlanta, BREAKING PLATES & SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY is coming to the Denver Silent Film Festival *tomorrow*: Sun April 12 at 12:45 pm!!!! Rounding out a #nastysilents double-feature w/ PHIL FOR SHORT (1919) & MENAGE DRANEM (1912) 🎞️🎶‼️

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Sheer delight to see Anna May Wong in PAVEMENT BUTTERFLY at the Denver Silent FF. Showed SHANGHAI EXPRESS in class last wk & the contrast couldn’t be more striking. What she could do when freed from Hollywood’s racist caricature!! 💜

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! 😍🎞️🎶

Weekend off to a good start!! #DenverSilentFilm Festival 🎞️🎶

Join me tomorrow at the Denver Silent Film Festival for Lois Weber’s heart-wrenching SHOES.

www.denverfilm.org/program

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