Michael Allan
comparative literature, film and visual culture, middle east studies / literary, cinematic, philosophical, and bibliographic voyeurism / cats, donkeys, dogs, bunny rabbits, fuzzy creatures
@wearehighered.bsky.social
We are a collective of academics who believe that higher education is vital to a functioning democracy--and we will fight for it. https://www.wearehighered.org
@elenavogman.bsky.social
film, media, feminist and materialist ecologies, critical psychiatry, theories of the social, praxis and resistance; co-editor of Psychotherapy and Materialism; author of Dance of Values: Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Project
@altnps.bsky.social
The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
@katzish.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Ex @PostOpinions @CNN @BostonGlobe @BloomsburyUSA. Sometime poet & translator. Good eater. Parent.
@profgalloway.com
Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, serial entrepreneur, and host of the Prof G and Pivot Podcasts.
@christmoody.bsky.social
@lewisbeerblog.bsky.social
Relentlessly blogging about a single film - currently Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
@julienkristjansson.bsky.social
queer as in free Palestine 🇵🇸 granita redlove / pebble dyers (available on all streaming platforms)
@rhallas.bsky.social
@daliadavoudi.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of literature, queer theory, media studies, 19th century things; writer in Brooklyn; Iranian Jew.
@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)
@artandtrash.bsky.social
Art and Trash, a source for video essays on underground, avant-garde, psychotronic and outsider media. We are searching for surreal encounters in the dusty, subversive and marginal corners of cinema. Hosted by Stephen Broomer.
@middento.bsky.social
"Sometimes, when I look deep in your eyes, I swear I can see your soul." (James) "What would it be like, he asked himself, a world where everything was foreign?" (Fouad Laroui)
@theessaylibrary.com
📼 Video essay collective making weird and fun collaborative projects: youtube.com/@theessaylibrary 📱 Discord server with 700+ members dedicated to the craft of video essays: theessaylibrary.com
@maifeminism.bsky.social
MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
@jbinotto.bsky.social
Professional hat wearer, amateur video tinkerer, wild analyst www.transferences.org
@arielavissar.bsky.social
Media scholar, video maker and PhD student at Tel Aviv University. TV studies, popular culture and videographic criticism. https://www.arielavissar.work/ https://vimeo.com/arielavissar
@filmscalpel.bsky.social
Audiovisual thoughts about audiovisual arts. Filmscalpel creates, collects and curates video essays at www.filmscalpel.com
@intransition.bsky.social
[in]Transition, the first peer-reviewed journal of videographic criticism. https://intransition.openlibhums.org/
@jmittell.bsky.social
Media studies professor at Middlebury College; video essayist & author of videographic book on Breaking Bad; author of written books on TV, narrative theory, etc.; journal manager of @intransition.bsky.social . [he/him] https://linktr.ee/jmittell
@eshcetera.bsky.social
Queer artist in the East Bay (California). Available for commissions. DM me or hit me up via my art website: www.eshcetera.com There’s no LGB without the T. Also, come draw with me @qmfd.bsky.social #QMFD #QueerMaleFigureDraw in Oakland, CA
@malahern.bsky.social
Collector of errors, glitches, and misprints. Researching 🤖 🎨 🏭 🎞️ 📽️ 📰 📺 and more. Professing at UW (Seattle)
@lnakamura.bsky.social
Researcher and prof. Writing about race, gender and internet stuff since 1995. New book on women of color and the internet in the pipe. Lisanakamura.net for articles if you want.
@skimmel.bsky.social
Associate Professor of early modern cultural studies in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. Living in Seville for the 2024-25 academic year.
@barbarazecchi.bsky.social
Film Studies professor at the University of Massachusetts. Cat lady with dogs. Videoessayist trained at Middlebury College. Author of books on women filmmakers. Co-editor of [in]Transition. Member of the Film Academy of Spain. From Venice.
@mahmudelsayed.bsky.social
Writer | SFF | Arabfuturist | BSFA | Codex | Debut THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY out in 2026 with Gollancz
@caperry.bsky.social
Educator-scholar at the intersection of World History, Jewish Studies, and Islamic Civilizations Studies. New book in 2026: https://bit.ly/PerrySlavery. Co-editor: The Cambridge World History of Slavery vol. 2: https://bit.ly/CWHS2
@drkemalbozkaya.bsky.social
Istanbul University/History of Philosophy / Political Science- PhD | Philosopher | Historian | 🇹🇷🇹🇷 Intellectual history | political thought, French Philosophy: Michel Foucault & Deleuze & Guattari https://kemalbozkaya.academia.edu
@ericcalderwood.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Illinois. Interested in al-Andalus, Morocco, Spain, comparative literature, multilingualism, cats, hip hop, and movies.
@nastysilents.bsky.social
Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick mayhem, and suggestive gender play. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/ https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-fi
@archivesonscreen.org
Archives On Screen is an organization dedicated to bringing rare, unseen archival films from around the globe to movie screens in the Twin Cities. Our programming emphasizes films from the silent era and often forgotten political cinemas.
@hichouman.bsky.social
5 Ar novels: ma rawahu alnawm, napolitana (2010), Limbo Beirut (2012 - EN Trans. Sep 2016), Kana Ghadan (2016), Hozn Fee Qalby (2022). I always share ETAs.
@drkeegan.bsky.social
Professor of Arabic Lit, reader of riddles, lecturer of the ostensibly old and obscure. Formerly in the bad place: Lit_as_Adab https://ias.academia.edu/MatthewKeegan
@historyonfilm.bsky.social
The History on Film Podcast is an award-winning series that looks at the intersections of history, film and media studies, and more. Our goal is to make the educational parts entertaining and the entertaining parts educational. New episodes Mondays!
@mckenziewark.bsky.social
Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things. https://linktr.ee/mckenziewark
@commapress.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements. Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
@merry-wanderer.bsky.social
Poet. Fairmont 🌈 Families. They/them. https://www.lauren-levin-poet.com/
@erolkor.bsky.social
@ronihenig.bsky.social
Assistant professor of modern Hebrew literature, nyu | Author, On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death (UPenn Press, 2024) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512826609/on-revival/