Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social Write stuff, mostly movies and food. Podcasting - FilmDrunk, the Frotcast, Pod Yourself A Gun/The Wire. Love 2 have fun. vincemancini.substack.com
Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app 3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | Host of B*tch, Listen podcast | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America🏳️🌈
⭐︎ Kay Hanley ⭐︎ @kayhanley.bsky.social 🔡 excellent speller
✎ mind blowing penmanship
🎤 letters to cleo
⚾️ boston red sox
📺 songs for cartoons
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Ashaya 🌈 @ashaya.historyofwesteros.com Video editor, podcaster, lover of media. #asoiaf #houseofthedragon #tvsky
@historyofwesteros.com
https://ashayatara.carrd.co/
em unfaithful (faithful version) @revengeem.bsky.social Your mother’s favorite bsky account. 🔞
Just a girl
Fix your heart or die. 41, she/her. Grit City, WA
Kate Aurthur @kateaurthur.bsky.social Editor-At-Large, Variety. Past: BuzzFeed News, The Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, survived cancer (so far!).
Nora Princiotti @noraprinciotti.bsky.social host of every single album, writer for the ringer
also posting here: instagram.com/noraprinciotti
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@rmikesell.bsky.social @rmikesell.bsky.social
Bryan Cogman @bryancogman.bsky.social Writer/Producer/Once and Future Actor (Game of Thrones S1-8, LOTR: RoP S1, Red Water, a couple upcoming things I can’t discuss)
Clay Keller @claykeller.bsky.social Screen Drafts host / producer
AFF Finalist
NYTVF Finalist
Humanitas Fellow
Minnesotan in Los Angeles
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Sarah Dollard @sardoll.bsky.social Screenwriter (DOCTOR WHO, BRIDGERTON, BEING HUMAN) • they/them
Blacknerdette @blacknerdette.bsky.social Social media started as a fandom thing during the pandemic (diverse friendships/romances in comic, sci-fi and fantasy settings with a sprinkle of reality tv), but I find myself posting about politics these days. 🤷🏾♀️ She/her.
Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social Film critic of the LA Times and host of the podcast Unspooled.
Say hello with your favorite movie and why -- or a picture of a standard poodle.
IG/Letterboxd: @theamynicholson
Ringer-Verse @ringerverse.bsky.social
Amanda Dobbins @akdobbins.bsky.social
Damon Lindelof @damonlindelof.bsky.social Writer. Producer. Frustrator.
Diana Helmuth @definitelynotlost.bsky.social Award winning author: “How to Suffer Outside” and “The Witching Year.” Words @SlackjawHumor @Pajiba @LongReads @OutdoorLife. Producer @Da7eandNeil. New here. Louder on TikTok.
John Dellaporta @johndellaporta.bsky.social Actor, nerd, played Brent Musburger on HBO’s “Winning Time”!
Bryan Curtis @bryancurtis.bsky.social Editor-at-large of The Ringer
Host of the Press Box podcast
Mailing list: http://eepurl.com/Yxm9H
Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social Let’s count the rings around my eyes
Paul Alvarado-Dykstra @robogeek.bsky.social Producer/Writer/Consultant; Co-Founder, Fantastic Fest; co-host, Multiplex Overthruster @mpotpod.bsky.social; Chair, Vacation® Leisure Council; former asst., GdT; 🇨🇱🇳🇱🤖
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/multiplex-overthruster/id1747835458
Matt Patches @misterpatches.bsky.social EIC of Polygon; forever podcasting at FITWR.
Cslmn @rapsacnomlas.bsky.social Writer, beauty queen, haver of takes. "A tiny man" - John Cleese
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
• https://linktr.ee/jsearles
April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social Bette Davis eyes. Make movies. Comb cats. Michigandery. WGA.
Book: BURY ME IN VEGAN LEATHER (Soho Press) May 2027
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
Mitchell Beaupre @mitchellbeaupre.bsky.social Head of Editorial at @letterboxd.social. Please be nice to me.
Scarecrow Video @scarecrowvideo.bsky.social This page is currently inactive. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok!
The Largest Archive of VHS, DVD, Blu-ray & more in the Entire World. 155,000+ titles for rent and counting. Proudly Non-Profit since 2014. Viva Physical Media!
The Film Stage @thefilmstage.com Your spotlight on cinema since 2008.
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
Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic. 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind), and 2025 International Fellow, British Academy
Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social Once inspired the NYT Science Times to "try harder.” Now I post about my cats from my perch in the Witch District of Minneapolis. she/her
Stop an ICE-inflicted eviction: https://givebutter.com/corcoran-neighbor-fund-2026
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social Associate Lecturer of world histories and cultures • PhD in American Studies • Creator of https://blackwhiteandread.com/ • Author of Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy (2025) • Wife of My Favorite Person • she/her
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com Tired person, fighter. Labor, data, DH, obsolete software, database history, etc. Seeing Like a Supply Chain out Oct 2026: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300251449/seeing-like-a-supply-chain/. Speaking for myself, not my employer.
Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social Humanities Editor at the University of Minnesota Press. Avid reader. Disabled. She/her/hers.
Victoria Sturtevant @vsturtevant.bsky.social Media Studies Faculty. Author of It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy. Always up to talk comedy, gender, popular media, and reproductive politics.
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330449/
Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social Writer, professor, author of “Marx for Cats,” (2023) and "Fake Work" (2025); pre-apocalypse, post-pet; NY-based Marxist humorist.
J.D. Schnepf @jdschnepf.bsky.social Assistant Professor of American Studies. Contemporary lit and culture, US imperialism, gender, technology, digital media
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social film & 20th C lit scholar, CUNY prof, culture writer, sometimes editor, higher ed unionist, author of Elaine May (U of Illinois Press, 2025) and Making Conversation in Modernist Fiction (Ohio UP, 2019).
Katie Bird @arthousedirectr.bsky.social Video Essayist, Independent Film Scholar, Lapsed Academic. Hollywood Film Labor and Film History.
Girish Shambu @girishshambu.bsky.social I live in Buffalo and write about film culture. Book: “The New Cinephilia”.
Alix Beeston @alixbeeston.bsky.social Writer and academic | Author of *In and Out of Sight* (Oxford UP) and coeditor of *Incomplete* (U Cali P) | Coming in 2027: *Image Encounters* (Penn State UP) and *Women, Sisters and Friends: Selected Plays and Screenplays of Kathleen Collins* (U Cali P)
Liz Ellcessor @trilliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Virginia.
Co-editor at JCMS:Journal of Cinema and Media Studies.
Emergency systems, disability, and media access.
Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social Sharing links, since 2008, to #OpenAccess film/AV media scholarship and online resources, and news/free events of note; Honorary Professor at Aarhus University; Senior Visiting Fellow at University of Reading; she/their. https://linktr.ee/filmstudiesff
Katherine Groo @katherinegroo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Film and Media Studies. Author of Bad Film Histories. Writing a book about reference. Views my own. Most get deleted.
jenniferpete @jenniferpete.bsky.social Professor, cinephile, treehugger 🌱🪵🪲🦬
Claire Vaughan @pixieglas.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📽️ 'A puffed-up orb of a woman with a gaping mouth'.
Enthusiast. She / her / hi.
Shift Cardiff // Reframed Film // Chapter Cinema Cardiff.
Views personal are mine alone. No SWERFs or TERFs or Tories os gwelwch yn dda.
James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social Neither Dog nor Master. Author of Zoological Surrealism. Co-editor with Luca Caminati of Cinema of Exploration: Essays in an Adventurous Film Practice.
Kristina Köhler @anitsirkk.bsky.social Kunst- und Mediengeschichte @UniCologne | mit einem großen 💜 für frühe Film- und Kinogeschichte | Mode, Stoffe, Texturen, Luftschlangen, Konfetti, Diskokugel in Filmen und im Leben | mother of 2
Luci Marzola @lucimarz.bsky.social Hollywood historian. Technology, media industries, labor, craft. Program Coordinator of Cinema and Media Studies@ USC. Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), Engineering Hollywood (Oxford, 2021)
Kate Saccone @katesac.bsky.social Silent cinema, curating, and feminist practice and theory at the University of Amsterdam; project manager/editor, @WFPProject.
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)
Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social Fangirl, Associate Professor of media studies at UT Austin, author of "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry" (NYU Press, 2019) and a bunch of other stuff. Posts aren't endorsements, mind your own cartwheels, etc. etc.
Dr. Kristen Warner is on sabbatical @kristenwarner.bsky.social Professor, Researcher, Irascible teapot. Expertise in film/media studies as it relates to black folk, employment/labor, representation and RESONANCE. Yes the plastic representation. Yes the sonic visibility.
I still don’t watch sitcoms. Except shrinking.
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
Jennifer (JB) Bean @jmbean.bsky.social assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
Lakshmi Padmanabhan @shmi.bsky.social Close reader, slow writer | Kannodu kaanbadhan ellam thalaiva, kanngalikku sondham illai
kate j russell @serialmummy.bsky.social PhD in Cinema Studies, cult cinema, gross out comedy, horror
Club Des Femmes @clubdesfemmes.bsky.social We are a queer feminist collective who curate film screenings & events. Happenings & new writing 👉 www.clubdesfemmes.com
Dr. Molly Harrabin @mharrabin.bsky.social All things gender and sexuality in Weimar Cinema! Currently a Postdoc at IAS (Warwick) & German Screen Studies Network (St. Andrews)
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.
Anne-Katrin Weber @akweber.bsky.social media histories and television archaeology
beginner mycologist
currently @universität Basel, starting february 24 @université de Lausanne
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).
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
Malini Guha @malini.bsky.social Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University. Member of editorial board for Screen. She/her. https://carleton.ca/filmstudies/people/malini-guha/
Sarah Keller @skkeller.bsky.social Prof of cinema studies and art at UMass Boston, arts enthusiast, apparently resistant to self description
Anne Nesbet @annenesbet.bsky.social My favorite films are silent. My favorite places are far away. I write books!
madeline lane-mckinley 🍉🍉🍉 @lalouverouge.bsky.social writer, adjunct, mom, anti-work feminist, tubi junkie based in portland
books: The Return of the ‘90s (Pluto Press)
Solidarity with Children (Haymarket Press)
Comedy Against Work (Common Notions)
Fag/Hag (Rosa Press)
Aviva Dove-Viebahn @avivadv.bsky.social feminist scholar & screenwriter | 🏳️🌈 she/her | opinions are my own | assistant professor at Arizona State | writer at Ms. Magazine | rotten tomatoes approved critic
Amanda, Est. 1976 @amandaannklein.bsky.social media studies professor writing supernatural historical crime fiction. bylines: New Yorker, Salon, Atlantic, KERA, Vice, E!
Views expressed are my own
Millennials Killed the Video Star: https://www.dukeupress.edu/millennials-killed-the-video-star
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
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
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social Feminist music geek
Website | https://sites.ua.edu/avesey/
Substack | https://substack.com/@alyxvesey
PMBIP | https://www.youtube.com/@ericweisbard8091
Extending Play | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/extending-play-9780190085643
Dan Streible 💃🏻🌲🔔 @orphanfilm.bsky.social NYU.edu/orphanfilm
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. Americanist. „Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
Brandy MP @brandymp.bsky.social Associate Professor of Communication + Media Studies @ Fordham U; Scholar of Black popular media, contemporary television and film, digital culture, and celebrity
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies @jcmsjournal.bsky.social Media studies for all. Print & online open access content. We value accessibility, transparency, diversity, & community. Published through SCMS
Online at: https://jcmsjournal.org
Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
Cinematógrafo 🎬 @cinematografo.com.br Comentários e críticas de filmes, eventos, festivais, cursos, curiosidades e história do cinema. Bacharel em cinema. Pesquiso sobre cinema silencioso/arte. Em SP😎📽🎞🎟
Por @bibi.org
Society for Cinema and Media Studies @scmstudies.bsky.social The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
https://www.cmstudies.org/
Questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch with the SCMS office via the Contact Us page, and we’ll be happy to respond.
Dr. Giulia Evolvi @giuliaevolvi.bsky.social When I'm not busy cooking or being sarcastic, I work on digital religion & gender.
If you meet me in person, I'm probably the one wearing purple.
Website: https://giuliaevolvi.com/
Dr. Srivi Ramasubramanian (PhD), she/her @drsrivi.bsky.social SU Newhouse Prof & Endowed Chair 🍊; Editor, Comm Monographs. Director: CODE^SHIFT (Collab for Data Equity, Social Healing, Incl. Futures, & Transformation).
Media Literacy, Community Engaged Research, Global Media, Youth. Views my own. See: drsrivi.com