Kyle Stevens
@cinementalist.bsky.social
Another film queer. Professor. Book on Mike Nichols. Ed. of The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. Tons of essays. Boston.
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Kyle Stevens
@cinementalist.bsky.social
· May 12
Sneering at, or with, “The White Lotus” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Kyle Stevens examines the farce at the heart of the third season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.”
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I wrote about The White Lotus! I start with Parker Posey’s sneer and end up talking about why we need more farces. (Hint: Class anger.) lareviewofbooks.org/article/snee...
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“I’ve often said this and I don’t think I’m exaggerating too much: America may be the only country that hates art. Money is the only thing that’s considered a healthy habit. Art is considered neurotic, or it just shows that you have problems, whereas having money is somehow seen as totally healthy.”
In Dreams: An Interview With Jonathan Rosenbaum
Frank Falisi talks with film writer Jonathan Rosenbaum about putting our selves in criticism and reclaiming art and pleasure for all people.
www.brightwalldarkroom.com
December 29, 2025 at 8:47 AM
“I’ve often said this and I don’t think I’m exaggerating too much: America may be the only country that hates art. Money is the only thing that’s considered a healthy habit. Art is considered neurotic, or it just shows that you have problems, whereas having money is somehow seen as totally healthy.”
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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
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Me: trying to educate, agitate, encourage to organize
Every gd university:
Every gd university:
December 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Me: trying to educate, agitate, encourage to organize
Every gd university:
Every gd university:
Whatever ideas you might have about Sophie Kinsella's books, I found them charming and witty, and found an often-needed perspective. Rest in peace.
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Whatever ideas you might have about Sophie Kinsella's books, I found them charming and witty, and found an often-needed perspective. Rest in peace.
Hamnet sure had a lot of acting! Jessie Buckley is really great: the physicality, the dynamics she found in simply written scenes, etc. But the overall film can’t help but undermine any faith in fiction, in metaphor. It makes everything literal, and so, feel empty.
December 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hamnet sure had a lot of acting! Jessie Buckley is really great: the physicality, the dynamics she found in simply written scenes, etc. But the overall film can’t help but undermine any faith in fiction, in metaphor. It makes everything literal, and so, feel empty.
Rewatching The Killers and, um, let this be your reminder to, too.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Rewatching The Killers and, um, let this be your reminder to, too.
Waded into All’s Fair out of anthropological interest. Ryan Murphy remains the ultimate Karen. What’s surprising(ish) is that Glenn Close is worse than Kim Kardashian.
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Waded into All’s Fair out of anthropological interest. Ryan Murphy remains the ultimate Karen. What’s surprising(ish) is that Glenn Close is worse than Kim Kardashian.
Watched the first episode of Wong Kar-wai’s Shanghai Blossoms. Incredible. All his sumptuous style and historicizing + flashes of pulpy mystery fun. Already crave more.
November 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Watched the first episode of Wong Kar-wai’s Shanghai Blossoms. Incredible. All his sumptuous style and historicizing + flashes of pulpy mystery fun. Already crave more.
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The Thanksgiving parade is the highest form of American art. Driven by capitalism but entirely earnest, bizarre in ways you can never expect, absolutely packed with Broadway stars freezing their asses off. There is really nothing we do better than
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has always been a surreal journey through its own twisted reality.
Exhibit A:
Exhibit A:
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The Thanksgiving parade is the highest form of American art. Driven by capitalism but entirely earnest, bizarre in ways you can never expect, absolutely packed with Broadway stars freezing their asses off. There is really nothing we do better than
Finally taking my turn with After the Hunt. Horrible, obviously, in its contempt for academia and weird assumptions about intellectual rewards. But honestly the score is the most offensive part. Just absolutely awful.
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Finally taking my turn with After the Hunt. Horrible, obviously, in its contempt for academia and weird assumptions about intellectual rewards. But honestly the score is the most offensive part. Just absolutely awful.
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FREE weekly read from @dukepress.bsky.social
intro to new special issue FILMING CAPITAL
Pietro Bianchi+Joshua Harold Wiebe, "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image"
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
also includes "Falling Heists, Rising Grift: Filming Capital in the Already Long Twenty-First Century"
intro to new special issue FILMING CAPITAL
Pietro Bianchi+Joshua Harold Wiebe, "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image"
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
also includes "Falling Heists, Rising Grift: Filming Capital in the Already Long Twenty-First Century"
Lexicon for a Capitalist Image | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
FREE weekly read from @dukepress.bsky.social
intro to new special issue FILMING CAPITAL
Pietro Bianchi+Joshua Harold Wiebe, "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image"
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
also includes "Falling Heists, Rising Grift: Filming Capital in the Already Long Twenty-First Century"
intro to new special issue FILMING CAPITAL
Pietro Bianchi+Joshua Harold Wiebe, "Lexicon for a Capitalist Image"
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
also includes "Falling Heists, Rising Grift: Filming Capital in the Already Long Twenty-First Century"
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Mamdani visiting Trump like a cat visits someone in a nursing home
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Mamdani visiting Trump like a cat visits someone in a nursing home
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Please live
happy transgender day of remembrance
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly
please live 💜
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Please live
Cloudflare sounds like the name of a hippie in a 70s ABC Movie of the Week (sponsored by Texaco).
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Cloudflare sounds like the name of a hippie in a 70s ABC Movie of the Week (sponsored by Texaco).
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
Sorry, Baby was so highly recommended. But, oy. I haven’t been so incensed by a movie since The Whale. She’s who Lena Dunham mocks. (Also, zero research into how academia works. Just zero.)
November 13, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Sorry, Baby was so highly recommended. But, oy. I haven’t been so incensed by a movie since The Whale. She’s who Lena Dunham mocks. (Also, zero research into how academia works. Just zero.)
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In the wake of "chastened" debates on film theory, what would a reinvigorated theory of film look like? Marc Furstenau reviews the Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, edited by Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social. Link in bio!
Find more from Furstenau: carleton.ca/filmstudies/...
Find more from Furstenau: carleton.ca/filmstudies/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
In the wake of "chastened" debates on film theory, what would a reinvigorated theory of film look like? Marc Furstenau reviews the Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, edited by Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social. Link in bio!
Find more from Furstenau: carleton.ca/filmstudies/...
Find more from Furstenau: carleton.ca/filmstudies/...
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Oscar Isaac says he is open to returning to STAR WARS but is doubtful about Disney after they suspended Jimmy Kimmel.
“I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great”
“I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great”
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Oscar Isaac says he is open to returning to STAR WARS but is doubtful about Disney after they suspended Jimmy Kimmel.
“I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great”
“I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great”
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now trump gets to be like “we don’t know what the shutdown was about, democrats just held the country hostage for 2 months for no reason” and he would be sort of correct
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
now trump gets to be like “we don’t know what the shutdown was about, democrats just held the country hostage for 2 months for no reason” and he would be sort of correct
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Separate Tables (1959), for moral maturity.
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Separate Tables (1959), for moral maturity.
Traitors UK talking about Alan (a gay who, like me, came up during predominant AIDS era) as “having gone undetected” is so tone deaf.
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Traitors UK talking about Alan (a gay who, like me, came up during predominant AIDS era) as “having gone undetected” is so tone deaf.
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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Been wrong before but demolishing part of the White House while prices rise, the government is shut down, and health premiums are about to go through the roof? Might break through
October 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Been wrong before but demolishing part of the White House while prices rise, the government is shut down, and health premiums are about to go through the roof? Might break through