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ABC TV 1990 and 1991. David Lynch and Mark Frost. Mystery, surrealism, coffee, endless cinema homages, and doppelgängers.
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@joshshepperd.bsky.social
@johndevore.bsky.social
This is a Phantom of the Opera fan account My debut memoir, 'Theatre Kids,' is on sale now
@drs.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Teaching; Art, Justice, and Digital Media & Principal Faculty in Creative Technologies @ UCSC | Research in Voice Recognition, Assistive Technologies, Emergency Infrastructures | Co-founder of 5️⃣ & 9️⃣
@a-woo.bsky.social
Attorney & Chief Program Officer (Legal, Policy, Organizing) at @ACLU of Virginia. Poet—NECK OF THE WOODS, Alice James Books. Teaching Law & Lit—UVA Law. Legal aid alum. Former bartender. she/her. Words here = mine alone.
@lacanmunist.bsky.social
Assistant professor of rhetoric at the University of Kansas, author of Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life https://sunypress.edu/Books/W/Works-like-a-Charm
@melisser3.bsky.social
film AND media studies?! in this economy?! // childfree catlady // climber of Inside Rocks // reader of Novels // bassist // knitter // shitpost appreciator
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
@dantlux.bsky.social
Writer belonging nowhere / rainbow black metal enthusiast / multilangue à Montréal-Tiohtià:ke / miscommunications officer
@shannonvallor.bsky.social
Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, co-Director @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own.
@emilyceleste.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UCDavis | border & migration studies | environmental humanities | c20/21 Mexican, Central American & Latinx lit. | chihuahuense + tapatía.
@sierramatute.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses.
@jessicazeller.bsky.social
Professor of Dance, PhD, MFA Posts on: pedagogies, ballet, ungrading, higher ed, other sundries. Views my own. New book: Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies (Routledge) Book: Shapes of American Ballet (Oxford) https://linktr.ee/jessicazeller
@monicacmiller.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of English at Middle Georgia State University. I write about the intersections of region, gender, & sometimes music The Tacky South; Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion; Dear Regina: Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa
@drrobertbobby.bsky.social
Lecturer in Television and Creative Industries, University of Manchester
@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. Director, Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies, UIUC.
@andytown.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Murray State University. Loves Schnauzers, Kesha, and 1930s actresses. Eighteenth Century scholar (more or less). Writing a book about sighs. Would like to spend quality time with a walrus.
@professeurmartell.bsky.social
French Literature professor. He, his, him. (If you google me I’m going to find out through academiadotedu) https://lyon.academia.edu/JamesMartell
@msousaoliveira.bsky.social
PhD candidate | lit | ethics | utopia | environment he/they https://up-pt.academia.edu/ManuelSOUSAOLIVEIRA
@jamesholroyd.bsky.social
He/him. Was applying philosophy of causation to population health at the University of Nottingham but now taking a break due to post covid syndrome.
@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
@annkpowers.bsky.social
I write about music things and things music at NPR and elsewhere. Latest book: TRAVELING: ON THE PATH OF JONI MITCHELL.
@joshuamoss.bsky.social
Film professor. Author. Screenwriter. Muse. Vonnegut Lover. Nice Jewish Boy. Ph.D. in Critical Studies. Associate Professor and Chair of the Media Arts, Design, and Technology department at Cal State, Chico.
@frebodar.bsky.social
Public history and public lands professional. I am passionate for understanding the past and imagining the future. Views expressed are mine alone.
@thunderrhoda.bsky.social
Editorial Director and Senior Acquiring Editor for music, theater, performance studies, and dance at University of Michigan Press (@uofmpress.bsky.social). Mother, baker, cat person, slow lap swimmer.
@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.
@simsjames.bsky.social
AVP for Communications, Wesleyan University | Prior: Center Theatre Group, Lincoln Center, AMNH, Broadway World | Columbia Journalism Alum | Air Force Veteran 🇺🇸✈️ | Arts & Theatre Geek 🎭 Film/TV, Media, HigherEd & Democracy ✡️ http://simsscoop.com
@lostcadence.bsky.social
I write about TV for fun. PhD neuroethics. SciCom, media disability studies, FASD, stigma, feminist bioethics, public libraries, open scholarship. Antifascist. Pro-choice. He/him. https://seriallyengaged.substack.com/
@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.
@dan-occ-light.bsky.social
I write things and make pictures. Reformed 20th c. theorist splicing the 21st. Comp. Lit. / film history / translation. Pre-mill post-punk. Occasional Light (Fine Art Photo +): https://danielmfreed.photodeck.com
@sconce.bsky.social
University Content Provider Insufferable Popular Aesthete Rodent Enthusiast
@mdno.bsky.social
scholar of art/cinema/media https://lsa.umich.edu/ftvm/people/faculty/matthew-noble-olson.html
@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.
@mikemiley.bsky.social
Books: DAVID LYNCH'S AMERICAN DREAMSCAPE (2025) | TRUTH & CONSEQUENCES: GAME SHOWS IN FICTION & FILM (2019), CONVERSATIONS WITH STEVE ERICKSON (2021) www.mikemiley.com
@dorothybendel.bsky.social
Writer. Essays in The Believer, Threepenny Review, Lithub, Catapult, NYTimes, Bright Wall / Dark Room, and more. dorothybendel.com
@pinkcowduffy.bsky.social
Cinephile. Jazz-Head. Dad. 1/2 of This Cinematic Life. Board Member of @thefridacinema.org. Now with the power to post! blog: https://cinemanerds.blogspot.com/ letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/cduffy/
@coreyryung.bsky.social
Prof at KU Law. Writes about sexual violence, criminal law, courts, judges, and empirical legal studies. He/Him/His.
@andrewhinton.bsky.social
“Lacks self control” - Mrs Duncan (2nd grade) Product Design + IA + UX etc etc Love your neighbor as you want to be loved. Everyone is your neighbor. Web: andrewhinton.com Book: contextbook.com Mastodon: https://jawns.club/@andrewhinton #ND #ADHD
@cabernet.bsky.social
Wine... Cognitive Science... Photography... tech stuff... former Aslin Lab (Master's) and Eppler Lab (with Jackie Gibson emeritus) so I'm a weird mix of Gibsonian affordances, visual statistical learning and anticipatory eye movements. Sometimes academic.
@micahcorah.bsky.social
Assistant Prof, CS@Mines Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception Enjoys: 🧗♂️🚴♂️🎸🎶🤘 Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible. He/him pronouns 💖💜💙 Opinions my own. https://www.micahcorah.com/
@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
@sarahwhelmed.bsky.social
Progressive politics and human rights. Disabled by chronic illness. Lifelong Mainer. Books, poetry, show me your dog.
@deepwatermike.bsky.social
Historian with 89% name recognition in my household. That sizzle you hear could be a hot take. Or bacon. Most likely 🥓 Politely encouraging crypto bros and AI scrapers to fuck off.
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Author, filmmaker, book dealer. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. New York Magazine writer.
@kevincmurphy.com
Speechwriter, historian, cinephile, old-school blogger. Formerly academia, Congress, politics, preservation. Nowadays in Philly. He/him/his. http://kevincmurphy.com/biography.html
@joshshepperd.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, University of Colorado; Director, Library of Congress RPTF; Editor, Resonance Journal; Faculty Advisor, KVCU Radio