this is so very not the point of your post, but, having once had to buy an emergency swimsuit while studying abroad, I know "Princesse Tam-Tam" as a French high street store that sells lingerie and sleepwear...I wonder if it's named after the film?
if the significant number of students who chose The Tingler or William Castle for their archival research projects is any indication, this screening did the job
A Powerpoint slide with a list of malapropisms made by former Vice President Dan Quayle
teaching Murphy Brown in my Gender in Film and Media class today, which means introducing students to Dan Quayle
hey if you're feeling mentally all over the place it's nice to read a book
sounds like a great panel!
sometimes I can’t believe newscasters say those headlines with a straight face
see I was wondering how doctors (and now, film crew) would be home enough to have dogs
five minutes after I posted this there was one in the inbox
what if my book acknowledgments are a list of the fellowships that didn’t fund me
keeping this in mind for this week’s round of rejections
every day is a new opportunity to get rejected from something you applied for
they still had phone booths on the street! artsy indie video rental stores! people legitimately commuted by rollerblade!
I moved to Montreal in 2012 to do my PhD and we used to joke that we were living the dream of the 90s
those are much skinnier pants than I would have expected
thanks!
hey @historyonfilm.bsky.social @landonpalmer.bsky.social --just wanted to say I enjoyed the episode on the 1970s Hollywood class. It helped me think through a future class on TV and film of the 1950s. and then you recommended the work of @dereknystrom.bsky.social, one of my grad school mentors!
saving this to show students why LLMs are terrible study tools
is this not kind of Hacks
late nite Veselka is the best Veselka
April always feels like someone sped up the conveyor belt
we’ll see what they say tomorrow, but mine have liked it in the past! they seem to get how it’s targeted at their demographic—young, educated, well-off…and yes, male.
they really didn’t like Bonnie and Clyde, the film I did for New Hollywood in the past
rewatching The Graduate for tomorrow’s Film and Media History class, which again causes me to question whether it’s a cruel thing to assign to liberal arts majors in their final college semester
it’s been a hell of a decade
this sounds fun
me!
