Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
@benjaminschultzfig.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
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Obligatory book promotion post for the new platform. Check out my @ucpress.bsky.social book THE CELLULOID SPECIMEN: MOVING IMAGE RESEARCH INTO ANIMAL LIFE for free here:
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Wisconsin Historical Society has the International Harvester archives.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Wisconsin Historical Society has the International Harvester archives.
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
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I am in the process (the extended and multi month and possibly multi year process) of sorting through my FiL’s papers for [redacted relevant archive] and it’s going to be a goldmine for someone someday
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I am in the process (the extended and multi month and possibly multi year process) of sorting through my FiL’s papers for [redacted relevant archive] and it’s going to be a goldmine for someone someday
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The Danny Casolaro files: ddosecrets.com/article/caso...
December 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Danny Casolaro files: ddosecrets.com/article/caso...
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Communist International Archives: 326 reels of correspondence btw Communist Party and their Kremlin overlords (1919-1943).
Yes Alger Hiss was a spy.
Yes the early Communist Party wanted to destroy the American Socialist Party and take the trade unions out of their grips to help Moscow.
Yes Alger Hiss was a spy.
Yes the early Communist Party wanted to destroy the American Socialist Party and take the trade unions out of their grips to help Moscow.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Communist International Archives: 326 reels of correspondence btw Communist Party and their Kremlin overlords (1919-1943).
Yes Alger Hiss was a spy.
Yes the early Communist Party wanted to destroy the American Socialist Party and take the trade unions out of their grips to help Moscow.
Yes Alger Hiss was a spy.
Yes the early Communist Party wanted to destroy the American Socialist Party and take the trade unions out of their grips to help Moscow.
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Two nominations from me. The Charlie White Americanism collection at Portland State University and the Mark Hatfield Papers (2000 boxes, just opened to the public ~2 years ago) at Willamette University in Salem.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Two nominations from me. The Charlie White Americanism collection at Portland State University and the Mark Hatfield Papers (2000 boxes, just opened to the public ~2 years ago) at Willamette University in Salem.
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
In the spirit of the season, I want to offer my fellow historians and other scholars the gift of an amazing, largely untapped archive.
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
Ladies and gentlemen, the John Doar Papers at Princeton. 🗃️
December 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.
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On the other hand, there is the King in Yellow:
December 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
On the other hand, there is the King in Yellow:
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CFP for special issue of @sttcljournal.bsky.social for work from early career scholars, which will receive particular editorial attention.
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Call for Papers: STTCL Volume 51.1 Special focus on early career scholars | H-Net
The editors of STTCL invite submissions of articles of 6,000-8,000 words in English from early-career scholars (graduate students and recent PhD graduates within three years of completing the PhD) in ...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
CFP for special issue of @sttcljournal.bsky.social for work from early career scholars, which will receive particular editorial attention.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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History of Manawan - Parts 1 & 2 (1972). This 40 minute documentary is Obomsawin at her most formally experimental, pushing the photo-essay structure to its extreme limit. Her refusal to include any movement (other than camera movement) somehow creates both intimacy and alienation at the same time.
December 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
History of Manawan - Parts 1 & 2 (1972). This 40 minute documentary is Obomsawin at her most formally experimental, pushing the photo-essay structure to its extreme limit. Her refusal to include any movement (other than camera movement) somehow creates both intimacy and alienation at the same time.
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If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
On the other hand, there is the King in Yellow:
December 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
On the other hand, there is the King in Yellow:
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What are the best examples of testimonials in a film? I'd love to teach a grad class on just that and do a close read of Leshu Torchin's Creating the Witness. La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante, 2019) is the most striking example I've seen recently.
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
What are the best examples of testimonials in a film? I'd love to teach a grad class on just that and do a close read of Leshu Torchin's Creating the Witness. La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante, 2019) is the most striking example I've seen recently.
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What's interesting is that he seems to have gotten right to the edge of the realizing that cultural concepts structure how we experience reality and then said "nope!" and ran the other way.
December 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
What's interesting is that he seems to have gotten right to the edge of the realizing that cultural concepts structure how we experience reality and then said "nope!" and ran the other way.
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Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair (2021). Records Senator Sinclair's speech after receiving the WFM-Canada World Peace Award for his work as Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools. Includes many raw stories of atrocities told by survivors. It is doc as testimony.
December 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair (2021). Records Senator Sinclair's speech after receiving the WFM-Canada World Peace Award for his work as Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on residential schools. Includes many raw stories of atrocities told by survivors. It is doc as testimony.
One of the biggest drawbacks of being married to someone who loves Christmas is that I can't spend my day doing this. It's all I want today!
and to my Jewish friends, a happy go to the movies and eat Chinese food day
December 25, 2025 at 9:04 PM
One of the biggest drawbacks of being married to someone who loves Christmas is that I can't spend my day doing this. It's all I want today!
What's interesting is that he seems to have gotten right to the edge of the realizing that cultural concepts structure how we experience reality and then said "nope!" and ran the other way.
December 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
What's interesting is that he seems to have gotten right to the edge of the realizing that cultural concepts structure how we experience reality and then said "nope!" and ran the other way.
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reverseshot.org/interviews/e...
Very granular interview conducted by Jordan Crank when I was in LA in late September.
Very granular interview conducted by Jordan Crank when I was in LA in late September.
Text of Light: An Interview with J. Hoberman
Taking stock of what�s new and notable in the ever-evolving ecosystem of experimental cinema.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Very granular interview conducted by Jordan Crank when I was in LA in late September.
Very granular interview conducted by Jordan Crank when I was in LA in late September.
What are the best examples of testimonials in a film? I'd love to teach a grad class on just that and do a close read of Leshu Torchin's Creating the Witness. La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante, 2019) is the most striking example I've seen recently.
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
What are the best examples of testimonials in a film? I'd love to teach a grad class on just that and do a close read of Leshu Torchin's Creating the Witness. La Llorona (Jayro Bustamante, 2019) is the most striking example I've seen recently.
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Military history is interesting and good. Just not the history they're thinking of.
www.ucpress.edu/books/cinema...
www.ucpress.edu/books/cinema...
December 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Military history is interesting and good. Just not the history they're thinking of.
www.ucpress.edu/books/cinema...
www.ucpress.edu/books/cinema...
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A list of all the new horror books I read in 2025. What'd I miss?
1. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
2. The Lamb by Lucy Rose
3. Come Knocking by Mike Bockoven
4. The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt
5. Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
1. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
2. The Lamb by Lucy Rose
3. Come Knocking by Mike Bockoven
4. The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt
5. Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
December 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A list of all the new horror books I read in 2025. What'd I miss?
1. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
2. The Lamb by Lucy Rose
3. Come Knocking by Mike Bockoven
4. The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt
5. Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
1. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
2. The Lamb by Lucy Rose
3. Come Knocking by Mike Bockoven
4. The October Film Haunt by Michael Wehunt
5. Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
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Add blue books to classes without a website and assigning a book a week to the list of things that were standard when I was an undergrad that are considered beyond the pale now.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
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December 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Add blue books to classes without a website and assigning a book a week to the list of things that were standard when I was an undergrad that are considered beyond the pale now.
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My 8yo daughter watching The Nutcracker: "That's one nutty cracker!"
December 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My 8yo daughter watching The Nutcracker: "That's one nutty cracker!"
Military history is interesting and good. Just not the history they're thinking of.
www.ucpress.edu/books/cinema...
www.ucpress.edu/books/cinema...
December 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Military history is interesting and good. Just not the history they're thinking of.
www.ucpress.edu/books/cinema...
www.ucpress.edu/books/cinema...
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Rocks at Whiskey Trench (2000). A companion piece to Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance that's equally powerful. It records a white riot that occurred in 1990, when elders, women, and children fled Kahnawake because of the Canadian Armed Forces' threat to invade. This group was attacked by...
December 24, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Rocks at Whiskey Trench (2000). A companion piece to Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance that's equally powerful. It records a white riot that occurred in 1990, when elders, women, and children fled Kahnawake because of the Canadian Armed Forces' threat to invade. This group was attacked by...