Film/Media History Starter Pack
A starter set of film and media history folks who’ve made the move to where the grass is green and the sky is blue.
Created by
@chrisyogerst.com
@theworstnun.bsky.social
Hard at work in the Tubi mines. 🦂 Film critic, editor, genre film fanatic 🦂 bi lady about town 🦂 living in Vancouver / K'emk'emeláy̓ ✉️ meg.shields.freelance@gmail.com 🎬 https://letterboxd.com/MegShields/
@savrodgers.bsky.social
Filmmaker! Also: a boy from Kansas who loves RPGs, physical media, and his mischievous pugs. 🎬 CHASING CHASING AMY, PANCAKE SKANK 🎭 Founder, Transgender Film Center 🏆 TED Talker, Forbes 30 Under 30 🏳️⚧️ he/him savrodgers.com
@lobbyintros.bsky.social
🎬 Classic film host on Mometu app 🕚 Classic film/Old Hollywood historian on TikTok @lobbyintros 🔗 More at linktr.ee/hcmarks
@tvbookstvbooks.bsky.social
Professor of TV. Brewer of cold. Boston University. Texan in Connecticut. Author of The Television Code. Writing about death and TV. Co-editing The Cocktail Lover’s Guide to TV History. Will eat any sugary treat you give me.
@rchains.bsky.social
Media studies, feminism, children’s culture, and more. Books: Growing Up With Girl Power The Princess Problem Princess Cultures Cultural Studies of LEGO The Marketing of Children’s Toys Communication in Our Lives Supernatural Youth in Media—just released!
@michelemeek.bsky.social
Professor, Filmmaker, Journalist, Author of “Consent Culture and Teen Films” (IUPress) & “Independent Female Filmmakers” (Routledge),TEDx Speaker & Writer at Ms. Magazine and others https://michelemeek.com
@jesmyth.co.uk
Writer, critic, historian |📕Mary C. McCall Jr.|📘Nobody’s Girl Friday | ed.📗I Lost My Girlish Laughter | 📚Fred Zinnemann | Mum to Z & Z, 7 🐕, + Mortimer🐰 | Ban AI
@christyputnam.bsky.social
Writer-Thelma Ritter: Hollywood’s Favorite New Yorker, @upmississippi.bsky.social, 2025…Film Festival Presenter…#TCMFF…#TCMParty…#FilmSky…Native Houstonian….Romper Room Alumni. Blue dot in a red state. 💙
@nenieb.bsky.social
Australian academic (media production & journalism), historian of gendered labour & technology in media industries, factual content producer. Lover of radio & GLAM. She/her. Dharawal country, Wollongong & Awabakal country, Newcastle, Australia.
@rowena3.bsky.social
Literature. Film Study. Scholar. Mood on film, books, photography, music, NY sports teams, tennis.
@helenexeter.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, Uni of Exeter, UK. Research: #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines. #FilmSky https://bit.ly/3AVLwgf
@anthonyb1939.bsky.social
Film, religion, politics. The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War (University Press of Kansas).
@danieleagan.bsky.social
Writing about film for Filmmaker Magazine, South China Morning Post, Nikkei, American Cinematographer, and whoever else will let me. Author America's Film Legacy for Bloomsbury. Additional pieces at Film Legacy: https://www.filmlegacy.net/
@johnnyrico.bsky.social
I love the idea of shutting up but it’s just not for me / profesional movie theater ghost; prof on movies, movie theaters, gender, and labor. Director + programmer of @iucinema. Author THE CINEMA OF STEPHANIE ROTHMAN. www.aliciakozma.com | views my own
@marthashearer.bsky.social
asst prof in film studies, university college dublin. film/tv + real estate since 2008 • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/ https://people.ucd.ie/martha.shearer/
@laurabondia.bsky.social
Film scholar, journalist, comic-liebhaber https://encadenados.org/
@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.
@tepperman.bsky.social
Film. Politics. Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium. Director of amateurcinema.org
@dbbarrymore.bsky.social
John Barrymore family researcher/collector who loves to watch old b/w and silent films. Also something of a sailor. My happy place is on the Galapagos Islands. Trying to make my way to Alaska and chase a story that goes way back in 1931!
@drsmorgan.com
Settler De/colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS). Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country. Programming: londonaustfilm.com Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
@kylebarnett.bsky.social
Media studies professor. Participant observer. Itinerant Hoosier. Author, Record Cultures (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2020). Faculty adviser/occasional DJ, Bellarmine Radio. https://www.kylesbarnett.org/
@imericpitz.bsky.social
UCLA cinema and media studies PhD student • animation and comedy film historian • dissertation about the Fleischer Studios • I like movies and trivia • he/him In Los Angeles, from Minneapolis Website: https://www.ericpitz.com/
@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
@jayneu.bsky.social
Retired prof living it up in NYC. History/Film/Digital/ Current book: Eisenstein & Nature. Strong opinions about tennis. Gimme some acoustic blues. She/her. ☮️ Ceasefire Now.
@rosaliekicks.com
Dabbler extraordinaire and Bela Lugosi enthusiast. EIC & Old Sport @moviejawn.com Batzina Belfry/Draculelvis @cinematiccrypt.bsky.social she/her https://linktr.ee/rosaliekicks
@tlknoell.bsky.social
Professional nerd. Occasional time traveler. Co-host of Silent Film Fridays on Twitch. Dept. of Popular Culture, School of Cultural and Critical Studies, Bowling Green State University. On sabbatical '24-'25 academic year. Views are my own.
@rafiews.com
Big on cats and movies. Film writer and programmer often seen on Variety, Little White Lies, Letterboxd and more. Views mine, for better or for worse. 📧 For work: rafiews@gmail.com 👋 Also @rafiews everywhere else. www.rafiews.com
@illuminations.bsky.social
Media producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art Images: Man w the Flower, ‘30 / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
@dattag.bsky.social
PhD candidate and SYLFF fellow in Film Studies @jadavpuruniversity | Charles Wallace Fellow | Studying cinema, crisis, film discourse, public sphere etc.
@jacobgaboury.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Film & Media, UC Berkeley (he/him) Media History | STS | Queer Theory | Digital Visual Culture Book: Image Objects: An Archaeology of Computer Graphics (2021) Now: Screenshot Histories & Queer Computing https://jacobgaboury.com
@pollyhember.bsky.social
Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching poetry, modernist lit and film at Royal Holloway. She/her.
@chrisco96.bsky.social
Games, Movies, Music and Books 🍅-approved, coffee and whisky-driven culture wordsmith. Words in IGN, NME, Radio Times, DIY, Clash, Metro, Yahoo and others. Member of the UK Film Critics Association.
@cinemajok.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | film, dance, musicals, Jacques Demy, genre, videographic criticism | she/her | toddler maman | author of Storytelling in Motion: Cinematic Choreography and the Film Musical (Oxford UP, 2024)
@tyburr.bsky.social
Writer/film critic at tyburrswatchlist.com, WaPo. Ex-Boston Globe, EW. Pulitzer Finalist, 2017. Books at https://tinyurl.com/ytpycuh3. “He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news” — Brecht. KanMu.74
@andyowens85.bsky.social
Instructional Associate Professor, University of Iowa. Researching/teaching global film & TV history, genre studies/horror, and queer/critical race theory. Author of DESIRE AFTER DARK (Indiana UP, 2021). Views and likes are my own.
@tompiper.bsky.social
Theatre/exhibition/ installation designer #ApexPredator @ HampsteadTheatre #Purists @KilnTheatre #NeverLetMeGo @ BristolOldVic #Traviata @OperaGlassworks #QueenOfSpades @GarsingtonOpera #SmallActsOfLove @CitizensTheatre
@shannagilkeson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Digital Media, Cinema and Journalism at Eastern Michigan University. Fan studies scholar. Chair of Star Trek Studies and Fan Studies subject areas at MPCA. Post may be fannish, scholarly, or full of cats. Opinions are my own.
@jlalibs.com
Film archivist, programmer, writer, collector etc Director of Operations at OCN Distribution, Curator of Cinématographe, Producer at Vinegar Syndrome Words at Screen Slate and Letterboxd, mostly https://letterboxd.com/jlalibs/
@jmbean.bsky.social
assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
@merrillschleier.bsky.social
I am a professor of Art and Architectural History and Film Studies. I write on the intersection of gender, race, and class in cinema. I am a feminist, anti-racist, green resister who votes Blue. I love films, books, museums, hiking, and nature.
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Grimdark media, theory of the present, and critical tech, including AI. Better times: letterpress printing and tabletop gaming. Distinguished University Prof., U. of Maryland; speaking only for myself here though. Default content: cats. Pests: blocked.
@chrisbecker.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Film, Television, and Theatre and the Sport, Media, & Culture Minor at University of Notre Dame. Working on a local TV history project: https://sites.nd.edu/boc-project/
@mdno.bsky.social
scholar of art/cinema/media https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
@laurah.bsky.social
Film Studies prof curious about all things cinematic, trans, queer, feminist. Director of @transmediaportl.bsky.social. Author: Girls Will Be Boys (2016). she/her (white cis queer)
@nickdavie.bsky.social
Film/Television PhD Researcher @ UoN: arthouse, authorship, formalism in Twin Peaks: The Return. Here for the Garmonbozia. @ whalefromtv on Twitter/X, words for various. Nickdavie.wordpress.com
@alfredmartin.bsky.social
Detroit native. Associate Professor and Chair of Cinematic Arts at U of Miami. Author of The Generic Closet, Fandom for Us, by Us, and editor of Rolling.
@thekonk.bsky.social
Pretty into cats, classical Hollywood, DVDs, and the beach. Author of _Some Kind of Mirror: Creating Marilyn Monroe_. Co-editor of _Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_.
@amandaannklein.bsky.social
media studies professor writing historical 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
@amandajanestern.com
Perfectly Good Moment now on VOD┃#SAGAFTRA Actor┃Writer┃True Crime Prod┃Repped by Citizen Skull & Exclusive Artists┃Don't Be Crazy Podcast┃She/Her 🩷💜💙 linktr.ee/ajstern Watch Perfectly Good Moment: https://tubitv.com/movies/100026616/pe
@ambersparks.bsky.social
Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE in October; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
@rmwhittaker.bsky.social
Award-winning reporter and film critic. Veep, Austin Film Critics Association. Bylines at Austin Chronicle. The Times, Birth.Movies.Death. Heard on One of Us, Overhated, Certified Forgotten. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/richard-whittaker/movies
@hankg.bsky.social
phd from stanford in media theory. academic+industry researcher of digital technologies. ex robot operator. they/them. https://hankgerba.com
@johnhudgens.bsky.social
Award-winning filmmaker (AMERICAN SCARY, BACKYARD BLOCKBUSTERS), lots of work on other properties (BABYLON 5, STAR WARS, CRIMSON SKIES) - I try to stay busy...
@rosasparks.bsky.social
Shuri's mom. Publisher of Fabulize; a pop culture feminist mag for BIPOC nerds. Cannabis lover. Neurospicy creative. Emerging comic book writer and novelist. 🏳️🌈Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme
@martinlj.bsky.social
Film historian and urbanist. Co-president of Domitor, the international society for the study of early cinema. Coming attractions include A Teaching Companion to Silent Cinema (Rutgers) and a history of advertising film. Assoc. Prof. at UNC-Chapel Hill
@joanneknowlesuk.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication @LJMU. Research interests in culture, media & literary studies #C19 to now. My views, RT ≠ endorsement.
@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/
@momoshaty.bsky.social
Genre Lecturer, Writer, Journo & Prod, EIC of @nighttidemag.bsky.social: Diverse Horror Perspectives, Host of From Inside the House Pod, Member of Nyx Horror, 13 Minutes of Horror for SHUDDER NY-er in London https://nighttidemag.com/ http://momoshaty.com
@mangiotto.bsky.social
@natsocfilmcrix. @nytimes, @laweekly, @decider, @vulture, @criterion, @theplaylist, @wapo, @pchh, @netflix's VOIR, @ebertvoices, @flmfrkcentral. http://walterchaw.com
@benlitherland.bsky.social
Popular culture and politics. Sometimes academic who writes about those things. Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
@vitaphonezone.bsky.social
Writer and film history researcher focusing especially on the silent/pre-Code eras (and the overlooked faces within). I talk a lot about Jean Harlow. linktr.ee/vitaphonezone
@elizabethalsop.bsky.social
CUNY prof, culture writer, author of ELAINE MAY (2025): https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088582
@mwilljones.bsky.social
Historian of cinemas and their audiences. Escape room champion, optimistic hiker, book writer, board game player, cat tickler, very lucky husband🏳️🌈
@rushkoff.com
I write and think about media, technology, and society. Survival of the Richest, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, and Team Human - which is also a podcast. https://rushkoff.com
@rustyhatchell.bsky.social
Visiting Lecturer @ Texas A&M PhD in Media Studies from UT Austin Research: TV shared universes, superhero storytelling on TV, multiversal storytelling Teaching: film history, superhero media, contemporary Hollywood he/him | 🏳️🌈🇰🇷🇺🇸 | views my own
@scenicrailway.bsky.social
https://thefanthropologist.com/ newsletter✨ Film & TV studies MFA ✨ Jamie scholar ✨ I believe soup was invented in 1867 by Shrek ✨hutch baby please call me I'm very normal 🪴🦓3️⃣ linktr.ee/lenabarkin
@llamasjr.bsky.social
global media professor at @asc.upenn.edu associate directing at @annenbergcargc.bsky.social author of Border Tunnels https://tinyurl.com/tnnls and Y Tu Mamá También https://tinyurl.com/ytmt01 español incluído.
@jenmhessler.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California Media History|Media Industries|Television|Audiences|Technology and Society Views my own
@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/
@calvinkemph.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of The Twin Geeks, Seattle Film Critics Society member. thetwingeeks.com
@danhf.bsky.social
All-purpose movie guy and media studies scholar @ Utrecht University. Intransigent curmudgeon. Forthcoming: books on the political economy of the Fast & Furious franchise and a minute-by-minute analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demonology • Wife of My Favourite Person
@tommykrasker.bsky.social
Husband to @philipchaffin.bsky.social. 🌈 Daddy to Gregory. 🐶 I run the record label PS Classics, and post 1/3 pop culture, 1/3 politics and 1/3 puppy pics. #FilmSky 📽️ http://thatsallsiknow.blogspot.com
@ericdienstfrey.bsky.social
Film/Media/Comm/Sound Studies @ UC & UA. Author of MAKING STEREO FIT https://www.ucpress.edu/books/making-stereo-fit/ Lover of Kiarostami, Rivette, Stephen King, and Taylor Swift. "The cinema has not yet been invented!" - Spinoza
@filmsnobbery.com
Film Critic / Author / Screenwriter (he/they) Behind the Scenes of Indie Film Marketing OUT NOW! Cinematic Worldbuilding (in progress) https://FilmSnobbery.com
@benspky.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
@chellestrat.bsky.social
High School History teacher - Model UN - GSTA 🏳️🌈 - 2021 Maine History Teacher of the Year - she/her - all opinions are my own
@abradschwartz.bsky.social
Historian of Media, Fake News, and Propaganda. Author/Co-Author of ELIOT NESS AND THE MAD BUTCHER; SCARFACE AND THE UNTOUCHABLE; BROADCAST HYSTERIA. History PhD Candidate at Princeton.
@riderjon.bsky.social
Academic in German + Cultural Studies, Royal Holloway Uni. of London, researching film, lit, history, sport. Books on Joseph Roth, Max Schmeling. Latest book: PEOPLE ON SUNDAY, out now with Bloomsbury/BFI Film Classics. Cyclist, cat person, European.
@ptklein.com
Film historian and cultural critic. Radically optimistic. Writing about why we watch movies at www.howtoreadmovies.com. He/Him/His.
@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. Forthcoming book SOFIA COPPOLA from Greenfinch/Quercus Nov 2025.
@awolverton.bsky.social
Librarian, reader, writer, film lover. Author of MEN DON'T READ. https://andywolverton.substack.com https://www.youtube.com/@journeysindarknessandlight5775/videos
@loulumenick.bsky.social
Everything you wanted to know about the twisted history of theatrical movies on TV between (mostly) 1939-1984 and so much more. Happy to answer your questions!
@michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Communication & Journalism, University of Maine. 2019 Fulbright Scholar, University of Canberra. https://cmj.umaine.edu/faculty-staff/michael-j-socolow/
@kfortmueller.bsky.social
Media industries, labor, and unions. Author of Below the Stars & Hollywood Shutdown (both UTX, 2021), Co-editor of Hollywood Unions (Rutgers, 2025), co-writing with @mirandabanks.bsky.social, co-organizing CP25 Assoc. Prof @GSU
@chutry.bsky.social
Media studies professor and political activist splitting time between Raleigh, NC, and Quincy, MA. Author of three books. Chihuahua wrangler.
@sayanniething.bsky.social
culture writer, editor @ LARB, mother in the DC suburbs // here for the nuanced takes, the good faith arguments, and the jokes
@kpierce624.bsky.social
Film Critic @geekgirlauthority.bsky.social . Film History, MA. Co-Chair @denverfilmcritics.bsky.social. Member @oaffc.bsky.social. Storyteller and film fan. She/Her Host- Piercing Pop Culture (Everywhere You Get Podcasts!)
@aliciamayer.bsky.social
Mayer family historian. Great-grandniece of Louis B. Mayer. 100 years of MGM! Left social media in 2018. Newly back. Let’s see what happens. (TM attorney in 🇦🇺 so forgive occasional British spelling.) HollywoodEssays.com
@kayteesal.bsky.social
Author of ✨NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL✨ a new biography of Anna May Wong, first Asian American movie star, available wherever books are sold. Words in NYT, Vanity Fair, The Believer & elsewhere. linktr.ee/kayteesal
@ejrolland.bsky.social
@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
@home2hollywood.bsky.social
Classic cinema-loving redhead entranced by the Golden Age of Hollywood and Art Deco. TCM Writer. Author. June Preisser biographer. #TCMParty goer #LetsMovie
@tscherne.org
Historian/Librarian, teaching history at SNHU and UArizona, podcast host of New Books in Film, born in Cleveland, but now livin' the life in Appalachia!
@frnclassics.bsky.social
A Golden Age Film Podcast Join us in celebration of all things Classic Hollywood NPR Illinois Community Voices LISTEN: https://linktr.ee/FrontRowClassics