Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa

@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen

Crop circles in Disclosure Day
Spielberg with the T-Rex
Scary T-rex from the film
Hammond stares at his cane
Staring in awe at the manufactured egg.
T-Rex roaring from the film
Image of the raptor as code
Image from Jurassic Park of Jurassic Park merch
Poster for Jurassic Park
Bizarre looking car in the Carrie trailer.
Photo of Samson
Cover for The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
Rivera claims that she was informed in March that she would be needed as a full time professor in the upcoming academic year, which she says clashes with the official explanation provided to her by Seattle U. In a Criminal Justice Department draft semester schedule for the 27-28 academic year reviewed by The Spectator, Rivera is listed teaching a full course load.
Image from https://lightindustry.org/dedicatedtostevenspielberg
Photo of a new monkey species grimacing.
Criterion cover for Welcome II the Terrordome
Photos of the Rashad Al-Shawa Cultural Center, before and after they suffered damage, in the course of the Israel-Hamas war. (Social media)
Children watch a film during an outdoor screening in Gaza City [Screengrab/ Al Jazeera]
Palestinians in Gaza City watch Egypt play Argentina in the World Cup shortly after Mohamed al-Wahidi was killed. Photograph: Mohammed M Skaik/Jna Press/Nexpher/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock
Image from In the Mouth of Madness
Ben's terrible handwritten edits
Porco Rosso
Bebop from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Babe Pig in the City
Muppets "Pigs in Space"
Pigs from Princess Mononoke
Email titled "Workday Playform is Live!"
Image from Aerials (S. A. Zaidi, United Arab Emirates, 2016)
Fraggles
Image from Signs
Michael Showalter in Signs
Mad Max Fury Road
Kid looking very cool.
Poster for Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea
Image from Disclosure Day
Image from The Man Who Fell to Earth
Image from The Day the Earth Stood Still
Image from Contact
Image from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Image from Earth vs the Flying Saucers
Image from Independence Day
Seeking to represent the will of the nearly 700 SCMS members who signed our petition to the board, Professor Laura Marks, a renowned scholar in cinema and media studies and a member of SCMSSP, advanced herself as a candidate for Board Member At-Large through the self-nomination process. Her candidacy was not featured on the ballot. We realize that the SCMS Board has much room to plausibly deny that Professor Marks was not included on the ballot on account of her Palestine solidarity organizing. The process, after all, is entirely non-transparent. Under the new system, the Board no longer has to consider the support that a particular candidate may have garnered in a petition. Board members are required, moreover, to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement barring them from discussing their deliberations.
Image from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Image from The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler (1971).
Image from They Cloned Tyrone
Image from Leviticus
Image from The Vast of Night (2019)
Image from The Vast of Night (2019)
Poster for The Scholars in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine plenary.
Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton
Screengrab from Contact
Image from War of the Worlds (2025)
Image at street level from Cloverfield
Cable news in Contact
the Arecibo satellite in Goldeneye