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Jordon J @onecardleft.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate - Media, Cinema, Digital Studies - UW-Milwaukee - Ghosts, Horror Videogames, Go M’s
Dr. Molly Schneider @moschneids.bsky.social TV Historian. she/her
Out now from University of Texas Press:
Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama & Midcentury American Culture
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329276/
Andy Uhrich @andy-uhrich.bsky.social Assistant professor of moving image archiving at University of Colorado Boulder working on non-institutional approaches to media preservation.
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
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Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
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Jessica Hoover @jawsgirly.bsky.social Doctoral candidate UW-Milwaukee: Feminist media studies, television history, gender history, cultural history. Wife, cat mom, cross-stitcher, romance reader.
David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
Film Quarterly @filmquarterly.bsky.social For Readers with a Passion for Screens: Film, TV, and moving images across platforms since 1959. Editor-in-Chief, J. M. Tyree. https://online.ucpress.edu/fq
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot.
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Katherine Fusco @fuscowrites.bsky.social English Professor and Writer. Struggling department chair and mom. New book: Hollywood's Other's: Love and Limitation in the Star System (Columbia UP). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hollywoods-others/9780231220927/ Future book: Anita Loos bio.
Trylon Cinema @trylon.org The Twin Cities' only year-round full-time revival cinema.
Georgie Carr @georgiecarr.bsky.social PhD in Film Studies at University of Sussex. Media historian researching policing, cinema & urbanism. Writer and film critic, the TLS and Another Gaze.
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Matt Belloni @mattbelloni.bsky.social Founding partner @pucknews, host @ringer The Town, @kcrw; Ex-editor @HollywoodReporter, entertainment lawyer. Get my email: https://puck.news/author/matthew-belloni/
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parker stenseth @pjstenny.bsky.social uchicago CMS | that’s how it was in the dream;
i was nothing but seeing
Briand (Brinni) Gentry @brinnigentry.bsky.social she/her. UMich PhD candidate in FTVM | film history & visual cultures, colonial image regimes, touristic fantasy, experience as mediated by built space & moving image
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This Guy Sucked @thisguysucked.com A weekly history podcast hosted by @ceaubin.com and a rotating cast of expert scholarly guests - because it's never too late to have haters.
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olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher
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phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
Courtney Brannon Donoghue @cbrannondonoghue.bsky.social Associate Professor, Media Industries. University of North Texas. Author of The Value Gap: Female-Driven Films from Pitch to Premiere (UT Press) & Localising Hollywood (BFI Press).
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
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The Streaming Movie Project @vodmovies.bsky.social An academic project dedicated to studying the impact of SVOD platforms (e.g. Netflix, Prime Video, etc.) on the global film industry. AKA Chris Meir, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social TV Critic @ The New Republic //
DAD: A POP HISTORY (Plume 2027) //
teaching @ Wash U in STL //
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Flow @flowtv.bsky.social Coordinated by Radio-TV-Film graduate students at UT Austin, Flow Journal's mission is to provide a critical forum on the changing landscape of contemporary television and media.
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Justin Rawlins @justinrawlins.bsky.social Prof Media/Film | Author: Imagining the Method http://bit.ly/43QVOa4 | Research: acting, celebrity, screen histories, Arctic media | he/him
Tupur Chatterjee @tupur.bsky.social Asst Prof | Dept of Communication | Tulane University. Media Industries/Feminist Media Studies/Architecture + Design/Material Cultures. Book Review Editor, JCMS. Author: Projecting Desire https://tinyurl.com/mrx58k https://www.tupurchatterjee.com/
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social "I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com A reader-supported online film journal, offering a different lens on movies.
issues/essays: brightwalldarkroom.com
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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social Media theorist | Stanford Art & Art History | Modern Thought & Literature | shanedenson.com | Author: Postnaturalism (https://tinyurl.com/3pxpatav); Discorrelated Images (https://tinyurl.com/44mp6kxy); & Post-Cinematic Bodies (https://tinyurl.com/mr2u5spk)
Matthew Noble-Olson @mdno.bsky.social scholar of art/cinema/media
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Scott Mendelson @scottmendelson.bsky.social A box office columnist for Puck News, but also head over to The Outside Scoop at Substack for everything else worth reading (box office, reviews, analysis, think pieces, etc.)
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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social For over 30 years, the Music Box Theatre has been the premiere venue in Chicago for independent, foreign and classic films.
Bree McEwan @mcewan.bsky.social Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
Ella Kemp @ellakemp.bsky.social Can't spell verklempt without Kemp. Editorial Lead (UK & Europe) @letterboxd.social | Photographer & broadcaster everywhere else | She/her
Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social Founded in 1974, Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
Danielle Koepke, PhD @daniellekoepke13.bsky.social Asst Prof of rhetoric @Marquette | feminist killjoys | digital + cultural rhetorics | rhm + reproductive justice | she/her | ✊🏳️🌈
Marsha Gordon @marshagordon.bsky.social Film historian, professor, writer, doc filmmaker, lover of nature, travel, and good food. Latest book, "Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life & Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott." Next book: a bio of Dorothy Arzner. https://www.marshagordon.org
Ryan Pumroy @ryanpumroy.bsky.social
Matt Hipps @meh2185.bsky.social film studies smfa @ tufts | cinema exhibition history and tech, queer cinema/fandom.
The Criterion Collection @criterion.bsky.social Since 1984, we’ve dedicated ourselves to gathering and publishing the greatest films from around the world. criterion.com
David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
Alice Lovejoy @alicelovejoy.bsky.social Film, media, & cultural historian, U. Minnesota. Sometime film critic.
Books: Tales of Militant Chemistry; Remapping Cold War Media; Army Film and the Avant Garde. Coming in 2027: Film Stock: An Int'l History of a Sensitive Medium.
www.alicelovejoy.com
Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social https://www.bodegacats.nyc
Allison Whitney @movieprofessor.bsky.social
Betsy Walters @betsywal.bsky.social VAP of Film and Media at Emory, PhD in American Studies from BU. Researching the film/TV industry in/re awards & film fests. Board @hamlischawards.bsky.social. She/her.
Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Feminist Media Histories @femmediahist.bsky.social Feminist Media Histories examines the role gender has played in media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Published quarterly by UC Press.
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Laura Horak @laurah.bsky.social Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: TRANS CINEMA: MAKING COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES, AND WORLDS (2026). she/her (white cis queer)
Kristi McKim @kmckim.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Film at Georgia Tech. Writes/reads about ecocrit, joy, cinephilia, time, kids, trees, justice, music(als). Clumsy but earnest yogi, pianist, gardener. “My heart is moved by all I cannot save" (Adrienne Rich) www.kristimckim.com (she/her)
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social 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
Susan Kerns (She/Her) @ssk8.bsky.social MKE Film & Mke Film Festival. Professor, writer, filmmaker. Refocus: The Films of Susan Seidelman out now from Edinburgh UP.
Dr. Andy Owens @andyowens85.bsky.social Instructional Associate Professor, University of Iowa. Researching/teaching film & TV history, genre studies/horror, and LGBTQ+/critical race theory. Author of DESIRE AFTER DARK (Indiana UP, 2021).
Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social The Cinema of Extractions (2025), Media Climates (2022), In the Studio (2020), Studios Before the System (2015)
Writing about Art, Media, Energy, Environment. Next book: oil, gas, and media culture in France+empire
Caltech Professor of Visual Culture
Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social Assistant Professor · Communication · Tulane University
Look, I made a hat: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/staging-a-comeback/9781978827813/
Aymar (AJ) @thehost.theinvite.us professor @ Northwestern
affiliate @ Harvard Berkman Klein
jury @ Peabody Awards
co-founder @weareotv
BOOKS:
Reparative Media, MIT Press Fall 2025
Media Reparations, coming soon on Polity
The Cookout, out now ⬇️
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Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social Film Editor at @avclub.com
Video Game Movie Expert
Southerner in Chicago
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
therealchriswei @therealchriswei.bsky.social phd student @ iowa; author; editor; teacher; musician; artist; post-mormon; socialist. my books, articles, podcasts, albums, & videos are @ http://chriswei.com
Hannah Zeavin @hzeavin.bsky.social historian of mind & media I book: The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy I Founding Editor of @parapraxismag.bsky.social
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Edgar Wright @edgarwright.bsky.social Spaced / Shaun Of The Dead / Hot Fuzz / Scott Pilgrim Vs The World / The World’s End / Baby Driver / The Sparks Brothers / Last Night In Soho / The Running Man
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social ~old hollywood, crime films, boxing, italian cinema, glamour & beauty ~
Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone.
'SOFIA COPPOLA: AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE'Greenfinch/Quercus 2025.
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social Senior editor @ LARB, freelance culture writer, mom in the DC burbs. Here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
Paul S Moore @psmoore.bsky.social Media Historian. Toronto Metropolitan Univ. CoAuthor: The Sunday Paper @UIllinoisPress. Hollywood Publicity | Canadian movie-going & cinemas (he/him)
Andrew deWaard @adewaard.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
"Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024)
andrewdewaard.com | ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media | cultcap.org | macrolab.ucsd.edu
Lindsey Bahr @ldbahr.bsky.social AP Film Writer
Julie Turnock @julieturnock.bsky.social Professor of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana. Film Scholar, s/vfx. Author of Plastic Reality and The Empire of Effects. Inaugural Director, Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, UIUC.
Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com Union Researcher. Historian/Scholar of media industries law. Maker of delicious foods, baseball enjoyer (Twins Daily / DiamonCentric / Baseball Prospectus contributor) plabuza @ gmail.
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Kate Fortmueller @kfortmueller.bsky.social Media industries, labor, and unions.
Author of Below the Stars & Hollywood Shutdown (both 2021), Co-editor, Hollywood Unions (2025), Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers w/ @mirandabanks.bsky.social (2026).
Assoc. Prof @GSU
Selena A. Dickey @selenapino.bsky.social Media studies prof @ Furman. Into: broadcasting histories, technologies, geographies, and policies; pina coladas; getting caught in the rain.
Paul Booth @pbooth81.bsky.social Teacher, writer, dog-lover, reader, board gamer, tv watcher, Doctor Who enabler; annoyingly optimistic.
New Doctor Who Big Finish author: check out my Short Trips "Ahead of Time" coming out April 2025
Cory Barker 🆗 @corybarker.bsky.social Media studies researcher, Penn State professor, past and future television blogger.
SCMS Critical Media Pedagogies SIG @scmspedagogy.bsky.social Official page for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Critical Media Pedagogies Scholarly Interest Group
SCMS Media, Science, and Technology SIG @scmsmst.bsky.social
Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is an international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works.
Elana Levine @ehl.bsky.social media studies professor, TV lover, feminist, mom
Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social Film professor & Léontine enthusiast! Author of DEATH BY LAUGHTER: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of CINEMA'S FIRST NASTY WOMEN (Kino Lorber, 2022). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/death-by-laughter/9780231559812
Caetlin Benson-Allott @caetlin.bsky.social Professor of English and Film & Media Studies, marathon runner, shih tzu fanatic. If you're looking for more info, check me out at www.benson-allott.com