Alice Lovejoy
@alicelovejoy.bsky.social
Film, media, & cultural historian, U. Minnesota. Sometime film critic.
Books: Tales of Militant Chemistry (https://www.ucpress.edu/books/tales-of-militant-chemistry/hardcover); Remapping Cold War Media; Army Film and the Avant Garde/Experimentální dílna
Books: Tales of Militant Chemistry (https://www.ucpress.edu/books/tales-of-militant-chemistry/hardcover); Remapping Cold War Media; Army Film and the Avant Garde/Experimentální dílna
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Tales of Militant Chemistry is one of @sciencenews.bsky.social’s 10 favorite books of 2025!
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Tales of Militant Chemistry is one of @sciencenews.bsky.social’s 10 favorite books of 2025!
@ucpress.bsky.social
@ucpress.bsky.social
These are Science News’ favorite books of 2025
Books about AI, Mars and infectious disease were among our top reads this year.
www.sciencenews.org
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Tales of Militant Chemistry is one of @sciencenews.bsky.social’s 10 favorite books of 2025!
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@ucpress.bsky.social
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Breaking my November social media hiatus briefly to share a WOW discovery 🤩 at a antiques shop in Missouri.
Hand-painted wooden sign w/ headline “Take Your Films to the Ozark Kodak Shop." Advertises 24-hour service + "a “place that brings good luck to the films.” Dated 1929 by red paint in corner.
Hand-painted wooden sign w/ headline “Take Your Films to the Ozark Kodak Shop." Advertises 24-hour service + "a “place that brings good luck to the films.” Dated 1929 by red paint in corner.
November 16, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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It was an absolute delight to be on the Cultures of Energy podcast. I’m grateful to @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social for reading the book so thoughtfully, and for talking silvichemicals, film flames and fumes, radiation lakes, transformation, and more…. @ucpress.bsky.social
New Cultures of Energy pod on film, plastics, warfare, radiation and more. Plus did you know Rayon is made from wood? That & more marvels revealed in our chat with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social about her brilliant new book tinyurl.com/5fv6mc4f @cymene.bsky.social @4sweb.bsky.social @culanth.bsky.social
Cultures of Energy: 241 - Militant Chemistry (feat. Alice Lovejoy)
Dominic and Cymene talk about AI and other chowhounds to kick off this week’s podcast. Then (12:46) we welcome the wonderful to talk about her new book (U California Press, 2025). We begin with the ...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:23 AM
It was an absolute delight to be on the Cultures of Energy podcast. I’m grateful to @dominicboyer.bsky.social and @cymene.bsky.social for reading the book so thoughtfully, and for talking silvichemicals, film flames and fumes, radiation lakes, transformation, and more…. @ucpress.bsky.social
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In 1956 the US flew hundreds of spy balloons over the USSR. They carried specialized Kodak cameras and film to record everything they flew over. The USSR shot most of them down.
In 1959, the USSR sent Luna 3 to photograph the dark side of the moon - and just used American film from the balloons.
In 1959, the USSR sent Luna 3 to photograph the dark side of the moon - and just used American film from the balloons.
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In 1956 the US flew hundreds of spy balloons over the USSR. They carried specialized Kodak cameras and film to record everything they flew over. The USSR shot most of them down.
In 1959, the USSR sent Luna 3 to photograph the dark side of the moon - and just used American film from the balloons.
In 1959, the USSR sent Luna 3 to photograph the dark side of the moon - and just used American film from the balloons.
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Hell, who wasn't.
October 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hell, who wasn't.
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Did you know Kodak was a military contractor? grist.org/accountabili...
Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light
A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.
grist.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Did you know Kodak was a military contractor? grist.org/accountabili...
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“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist
Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak’s dark environmental past is coming to light.
A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Environment #Nature #Photography #Military
A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Environment #Nature #Photography #Military
Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light
A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.
grist.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist
I’m thrilled to see Tales of Militant Chemistry discussed in @grist.org; thank you to @hurwitz.bsky.social for talking with me about Kodak-branded streetwear, the circular economy, and the chemical currents that make film’s military histories environmental histories. @ucpress.bsky.social
Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak’s dark environmental past is coming to light.
A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Environment #Nature #Photography #Military
A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Environment #Nature #Photography #Military
Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light
A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.
grist.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I’m thrilled to see Tales of Militant Chemistry discussed in @grist.org; thank you to @hurwitz.bsky.social for talking with me about Kodak-branded streetwear, the circular economy, and the chemical currents that make film’s military histories environmental histories. @ucpress.bsky.social
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CFP for upcoming special issue of @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal! Topic: "Videotape in the Archive,” guest editors: @danerdman.bsky.social, Adam Charles Hart, Helena Shaskevich. Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026.
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The Association of Moving Image Archivists - The Moving Image: Special IssueThe Moving Image: Special Issue – The Association of Moving Image Archivists
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November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
CFP for upcoming special issue of @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal! Topic: "Videotape in the Archive,” guest editors: @danerdman.bsky.social, Adam Charles Hart, Helena Shaskevich. Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026.
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It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍
Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
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Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!
contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
2024 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
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We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
For those with a scholarly interest in Franklin, Watson, and other pioneering researchers in molecular biology, @sciencehistory.org has just opened our new landmark collection of their papers, and applications for research fellowships are currently open:
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
www.sciencehistory.org/hmbc
History of Molecular Biology Collection
This unparalleled collection includes Rosalind Franklin's historic 'Photo 51,' which revealed the double-helix structure of DNA.
www.sciencehistory.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection!
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits:
www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...
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Kodak was deeply involved in the Manhattan Project wat
TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...
Gadget works / Red redemption
David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road
flaminghydra.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Kodak was deeply involved in the Manhattan Project wat
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“The Tennessee Eastman (as in: Kodak) Corp came to operate the Y-12 uranium separation plant, not because the company knew anything about separating uranium, but because it was very good at mass chemical production… It was uranium separated at Y-12 that was used in the bomb dropped in Hiroshima.”
Gadget works / Red redemption
David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road
flaminghydra.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“The Tennessee Eastman (as in: Kodak) Corp came to operate the Y-12 uranium separation plant, not because the company knew anything about separating uranium, but because it was very good at mass chemical production… It was uranium separated at Y-12 that was used in the bomb dropped in Hiroshima.”
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TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...
Gadget works / Red redemption
David Moore talks Kodak (and war machines) with author Alice Lovejoy; Jack and Ace hit the road
flaminghydra.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
TODAY: @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social in conversation with Alice Lovejoy, on Kodak's strange and largely unknown foray into the war machine. "This is one of the bigger ironies in the book, a question about safety—whose safety matters?" flaminghydra.com/gadget-works...
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Tales of Militant Chemistry, a fascinating new book, jets from the forests of East Tennessee, where Kodak-linked chemists worked on the atomic bomb, to the film capitals of Europe and back to the environmental hazards they left. New author Q&A with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social at Flaming Hydra:
Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Kodak, the company that popularized the “snapshot” and made photography accessible to the world, produced much more than the friendly, once-ubiquitous film rolls sold worldwide in their small, vivid y...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Tales of Militant Chemistry, a fascinating new book, jets from the forests of East Tennessee, where Kodak-linked chemists worked on the atomic bomb, to the film capitals of Europe and back to the environmental hazards they left. New author Q&A with @alicelovejoy.bsky.social at Flaming Hydra:
So many thanks to @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social for taking the time to talk with me about Tales of Militant Chemistry @flaminghydra.com.
@ucpress.bsky.social
@ucpress.bsky.social
Today at Flaming Hydra, I interviewed film and media historian @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on her deeply-researched new book uncovering the role played by Kodak—the household brand that popularized the snapshot—and other film manufacturers in industrial warfare.
Kodak, for the Wartimes of Your Life
Kodak, the company that popularized the “snapshot” and made photography accessible to the world, produced much more than the friendly, once-ubiquitous film rolls sold worldwide in their small, vivid y...
flaminghydra.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
So many thanks to @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social for taking the time to talk with me about Tales of Militant Chemistry @flaminghydra.com.
@ucpress.bsky.social
@ucpress.bsky.social
Chicago friends: this Friday, October 24th (4:00 pm), I'll be at Seminary Co-op bookstore, where I'm looking forward to talking with the brilliant Anne Eakin Moss about Tales of Militant Chemistry. Please join us!
Alice Lovejoy - "Tales of Militant Chemistry" - Anne Eakin Moss | Seminary Co-op Bookstores
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October 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Chicago friends: this Friday, October 24th (4:00 pm), I'll be at Seminary Co-op bookstore, where I'm looking forward to talking with the brilliant Anne Eakin Moss about Tales of Militant Chemistry. Please join us!
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Please join us and the Center for Premodern Studies to welcome Professor Helmut Reimitz for the upcoming Robert A. Kann Memorial Lecture at noon on Oct. 17th (10/7).
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Please RSVP using the QR code or link!
October 17, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Tomorrow!
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“Love Letter in Cuneiform is a novel that challenges and exceeds the norms of a multigenerational family saga at every opportunity. […] its unique energy is sustained in translation with Zucker’s careful, and at times creative, attention to the subtleties and playfulness of Zmeškal’s language.”
If all happy families are alike, each strange family is strange in its own way: Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal, translated by Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
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If all happy families are alike, each strange family is strange in its own way: Love Letter in Cuneiform by Tomáš Zmeškal
The novel begins with a wedding. Alice and Maximilian exchanged rings and kisses, and signed a document confirming that the state of matrimony was primarily a contractual arrangement, which at the …
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October 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
“Love Letter in Cuneiform is a novel that challenges and exceeds the norms of a multigenerational family saga at every opportunity. […] its unique energy is sustained in translation with Zucker’s careful, and at times creative, attention to the subtleties and playfulness of Zmeškal’s language.”
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🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
October 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
Thank you to annademming.bsky.social for this incredibly thoughtful review of Tales of Militant Chemistry!
How do you make a page turner out of industrial chemistry? One way is to mine the rich seam linking movies with weapons of mass destruction as @alicelovejoy.bsky.social demonstrates so successfully in Tales of Militant Chemistry.
www.sciencenews.org/article/tale... @sciencenews.bsky.social
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A new book explores the link between film giant Kodak and the atomic bomb
In Tales of Militant Chemistry, Alice Lovejoy traces how film giants Kodak and Agfa helped produce weapons of war during the 20th century.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Thank you to annademming.bsky.social for this incredibly thoughtful review of Tales of Militant Chemistry!
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Just listened to @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on this podcast and her new book sounds brilliant (and very close to my interests) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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Podcast Episode · New Books in Photography · 02/09/2025 · 37m
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September 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Just listened to @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on this podcast and her new book sounds brilliant (and very close to my interests) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...
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RIP the great filmmaker and teacher Jill Godmilow, one of the all-time originals. vimeo.com/jillgodmilow
The Films of Jill Godmilow
Jill Godmilow, a working independent film and video-maker and Emerita Professor in the Dept. of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
RIP the great filmmaker and teacher Jill Godmilow, one of the all-time originals. vimeo.com/jillgodmilow
Friends in Providence! Next Thursday, 9/18, I’ll be in town to talk about Tales of Militant Chemistry at the Brown Bookstore, where I’m honored to be in conversation with filmmaker Leslie Thornton. Please join us if you can!
September 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Friends in Providence! Next Thursday, 9/18, I’ll be in town to talk about Tales of Militant Chemistry at the Brown Bookstore, where I’m honored to be in conversation with filmmaker Leslie Thornton. Please join us if you can!