Film Studies & History
This is a starter pack for film historians and scholars, broadly construed. I am a Hollywood historian, focussing primarily on the post-war US and Christmas films. If I have missed you, please drop me a comment and I'll add you in!
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@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
@justcode.bsky.social
Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE
@britishfilmstardom.bsky.social
AHRC funded PhD at QMUL and BFI National Archive researching British film stars 1920 - 1970. Case studies: Jessie Matthews, Valerie Hobson, Moira Shearer, Julie Christie ✨
@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
@simongandrew.bsky.social
Historian of media, pop culture, the Middle East. Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
@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/
@willwriteandtalk.bsky.social
Writer, lecturer, documentary-maker. I like comedies and cocktails. I hate genocide. My films: https://youtube.com/@willwriteandtalk5006?feature=shared My blog: https://willwriteandtalk.wordpress.com/
@elinareitere.bsky.social
2nd-editor-in-chief of Latvian film magazine Kino Raksti • researcher at University of Latvia • Golden Globes voter • Eastern European cinema • production studies • theory of film criticism • contemporary film aesthetics • Riga/ Leipzig
@abkeating.bsky.social
Film lecturer @ucc, writer, maker. Co-founder of Alphaville Journal. Researching women in film & protest media. Runs on music. abbkeating.wordpress.com
@amyherzog.bsky.social
Film & Media Professor @ Queens College & the Grad Center, CUNY. She/her.
@drsmorgan.com
Settler De/colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS). Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country. Programming: londonaustfilm.com Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
@beckab.bsky.social
Moving incrementally in many directions at once. She/her. BSc, BFA, MEd. Cinema/Media Studies PhD in progress. Soccer mom, artist, neurodivergent, queer. letterboxd: https://boxd.it/6EDup instagram: @beckajb
@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/
@gendler.bsky.social
PhD in film and television. Link to my popular writing (recaps, reviews, criticism): http://jasongendler.blogspot.com
@mikloskiss.bsky.social
Associate Professor of AV Arts & Cognition @rug.nl, author of this http://bit.ly/2SJM29Q, this http://bit.ly/2a4zvaw and this http://bit.ly/3A0KrPG. ORCID: 0000-0002-9136-8200
@martincleary.bsky.social
Books and films. Coffee and cake. Previously wrote/ran the site ‘New Korean Cinema’, contributor to ‘Directory of World Cinema: South Korea’ and various websites and magazines…
@clemmie.bsky.social
lights, camera - and me without a stitch of makeup on! film studies phd @ university of leeds (uk) | makeover movies, horror, feminism, and beauty culture | culture + screenwriting | schemingthirdwife.substack.com
@prithu.bsky.social
Doctoral candidate | World Cinema & Indian Cinema (beyond Bollywood)| Magical Realism, Avant Garde, Critical Irrealism| Posts on Art/ Cinema/Literature
@timlinfilm.bsky.social
Lecturer in Film Studies @ University of Portsmouth / Freier Autor für Der Freitag, epd Film etc. Aus Dortmund. My monograph "New Rural Cinema - Landscape, Community and Poverty in Recent US Indie Films" is available now @ DeGruyter https://boxd.it/1oWaL
@filmsnobbery.com
Film Critic / Author / Screenwriter (he/they) Behind the Scenes of Indie Film Marketing OUT NOW! Cinematic Worldbuilding (in progress) https://FilmSnobbery.com
@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
@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/
@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
@gavia.bsky.social
Film and TV critic. Co-host of the Overinvested movie podcast, co-editor of the Rec Center newsletter. Bylines: TV Guide, Inverse, Vulture, Atlas Obscura, Daily Dot, etc. she/her
@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
@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
@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.
@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.
@quickdarshan.bsky.social
Detroit-based filmmaker. Screenwriting Lecturer at UofM. Curator of SOUTH ASIAN FILM SERIES. Author of the forthcoming WRITING THE ENSEMBLE FILM for UofM Press.
@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
@goblemark.bsky.social
Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan. Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
@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
@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_.
@tlawson.bsky.social
I come to this place for magic. Educator. Writer. Critic. Cinéaste. Plus actor. Co-host Tomb of Ideas, a Marvel Horror Podcast | he/him
@thesociologists.bsky.social
The Sociologist's Dojo is a blog and podcast focusing on the social analysis of film and popular culture using the Sociological Perspective. Blog http://thesociologistsdojo.blogspot.com Podcast https://thesociologistsdojo.libsyn.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
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths. British, American, comparative and global politics and culture. Dad; Londoner; Cypriot. Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com Academic publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dion-Georgiou
@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/
@finleyfreibert.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies. They/Them.
@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.
@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
@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
@deanleetal.bsky.social
Phd hopeful, fandom, X-Men, Taskmaster, Staged, SPN, non binary, trans, fat, polyam, neurodivergent, queer, aroace, ceasefire now
@myntaford.bsky.social
Doctoral candidate in cinema studies at the university of Toronto - studying authorship and ordinary language philosophy. https://myntmarsellus.wordpress.com
@heidi-colthup.bsky.social
When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her #WIASN #WalkingSimulators
@meanlouise.bsky.social
Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo Also @excavatinghorror.bsky.social Not weird at all
@jenbegakis.bsky.social
Begakis is fun to say - Historian of American Capitalism & Disney Ph.D. (abd) Cornell University
@disnet.bsky.social
International network for scholars & students examining Disney in culture and society 🏰 tag us to share your Disney Studies research/events/posts! #DisNet https://dis-net.org/
@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.
@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
@jennblaylock.bsky.social
assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
@kregabshire.bsky.social
American Studies--film, music, literature, and class. Was way out front on the nontraditional jobs for Ph.D.s trend--by choice of others like, you know, the market. Student once told me that he liked my "self-defecating sense of humor."
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
@smittermeier.bsky.social
Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. “Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Very bisexual. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
@lmharnisch.bsky.social
L.A. history, movies; out of journalism after 34 years, 27 at the L.A. Times. Fleeing Angry Bitcoin Toddler. WIP: The Black Dahlia. Link to my blog, the L.A. Daily Mirror. https://ladailymirror.com/
@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
@alsven.bsky.social
Emerson College Visual & Media Arts Affiliated Faculty / Film & Media Studies PhD / Researching: Horror, Found Footage, Experimental Film & Video, Promotional Paratexts, Moral Panics Recent at New Review of Film & TV: https://nrftsjournal.org/flash-fright
@myrnamoretti.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | Instructor @ OCAD | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
@newsfromnihon.bsky.social
Japanese cinema (especially horror), Japanese popular culture. Book: Circulating Fear. Film reviews at eigafile.com, CV at lindsaynelson.jp. she/her
@landonpalmer.bsky.social
historian of film, media, popular music | assistant prof | wrote a book about rock stars in movies | he/him
@chrisyogerst.com
Writer, professor, media historian. Columns at The Hollywood Reporter, Time, Washington Post, LARB Author: Hollywood Hates Hitler; The Warner Brothers. www.chrisyogerst.com chrisyogerst.substack.com
@helenemeyers.bsky.social
writer, educator, lover & critic of Jewish literature & film. Career coach for English majors & other humanities types. Latest book: MOVIE-MADE JEWS: AN AMERICAN TRADITION https://helenemeyers.com/
@drdarrengray.bsky.social
Researcher in Literature, Film and Cultural Studies | The Gothic, Horror, Technology, Disability | Currently writing ‘Horror and Disability’ for the University of Wales Press Horror Studies series. Proudly neurodivergent (ADHD)
@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.
@christinegrandy.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); forthcoming book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of data usage and online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
@tanyagoldman.bsky.social
cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
@herberthistory.bsky.social
Dad | Kentuckian in Colorado | History Dragon| Creator of Historians At The Movies #HATM | Historians At The Movies Podcast| Reckoning with Jason Herbert| Cuban coffee connoisseur| I aim to misbehave https://linktr.ee/jasonherbert
@lizwfab.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Teacher Books: The Computer’s Voice (U Minn Press, 2020) Robot Suicide (Lexington, 2023) Under the Mistletoe (McFarland, 2024) LizWFaber.com
@aca-media.bsky.social
A podcast offering an academic perspective on media, from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies https://aca-media.org/
@drrobynmuir.bsky.social
Lecturer in Media & Communication at University of Surrey researching Disney Princess Phenomenon and Influencer Culture 👑 Founder @DisNet 🏰 Founder @IJDisneyStudies Views own 🌻
@sheribiesen.bsky.social
Cinema Professor. Film History. Jazz. Books: Through a Noir Lens: Adapting Film Noir Visual Style. Blackout: World War II & Origins of Film Noir. Film Censorship. Music in the Shadows📚 https://noirbooks.blogspot.com https://SheriChinenBiesen.blogspot.com
@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!)
@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social
UCL PhD in Christmas Film History • MA in Comic Books • MPhil in Demonology • Wife of My Favourite Person