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New Issue on Sabzian: ‘André Bazin, Television Critic’
Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini.
→ sabzian.be/issue/andr%C3%A9-bazin-television-critic
Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini.
→ sabzian.be/issue/andr%C3%A9-bazin-television-critic
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New Issue on Sabzian: ‘André Bazin, Television Critic’
Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini.
→ sabzian.be/issue/andr%C3%A9-bazin-television-critic
Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini.
→ sabzian.be/issue/andr%C3%A9-bazin-television-critic
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So much bad news, but this fall the Metro NY Library Cncl is launching the first iteration of its Cross-Reference Coalition, an experimental interdisciplinary school ft 17 participants from across NYC’s libraries, colleges + municipal depts, plus artists + designers. We’re exploring The Misfit.
August 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So much bad news, but this fall the Metro NY Library Cncl is launching the first iteration of its Cross-Reference Coalition, an experimental interdisciplinary school ft 17 participants from across NYC’s libraries, colleges + municipal depts, plus artists + designers. We’re exploring The Misfit.
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
Night and Fog (1955) with Here and Elsewhere (1974)
July 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Night and Fog (1955) with Here and Elsewhere (1974)
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The @criterionchannl.bsky.social's Frantz Fanon at 100 program is great and it's got me wondering what you could put together for programs on other revolutionary thinkers. How about a Césaire or Baldwin program? Asking yourself what thinker/films you'd put together is a fun activity.
July 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The @criterionchannl.bsky.social's Frantz Fanon at 100 program is great and it's got me wondering what you could put together for programs on other revolutionary thinkers. How about a Césaire or Baldwin program? Asking yourself what thinker/films you'd put together is a fun activity.
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This essay—on Trump, spectacle, collective hallucinations—is worth your time! lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-tr...
A Trumped-Up Spectacle | Los Angeles Review of Books
James Chandler considers what Roland Barthes’s famous essay about wrestling can tell us about reality and shared illusion in Donald Trump’s Washington.
lareviewofbooks.org
July 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This essay—on Trump, spectacle, collective hallucinations—is worth your time! lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-tr...
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📚 Just published: the Summer edition of our seasonal roundup of recently released and upcoming film publications.
New Book Releases / Summer 2025
Sabzian’s seasonal roundup of recently published and forthcoming film publications.
sabzian.be
June 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
📚 Just published: the Summer edition of our seasonal roundup of recently released and upcoming film publications.
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Absolutely. In addition to debunking the myth, Lembke has a lucid explication of the Nixon-Agnew strategy to smash opposition to the war by blaming the media for creating it. Published in 1998--a real contribution to the field of Vietnam War studies (& in its way the mass psychology of fascism).
Jerry Lembke’s THE SPITTING IMAGE, on the myth that Vietnam-war protesters spit on veterans, seems a relevant book for our times.
nyupress.org/978081475147...
nyupress.org/978081475147...
June 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Absolutely. In addition to debunking the myth, Lembke has a lucid explication of the Nixon-Agnew strategy to smash opposition to the war by blaming the media for creating it. Published in 1998--a real contribution to the field of Vietnam War studies (& in its way the mass psychology of fascism).
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John Frankenheimer and Rock Hudson on the set of Seconds (1966) 🎬
May 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
John Frankenheimer and Rock Hudson on the set of Seconds (1966) 🎬
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"Shifting cinema from entertainment to a political tool necessitates a lot of archival work and remembrance. But memory is not enough..."
Navigating the Film Cultural Ecosystem in the Face of Genocide with Members of Palestine Film Institute. Full interview: www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/endurin...
Navigating the Film Cultural Ecosystem in the Face of Genocide with Members of Palestine Film Institute. Full interview: www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/endurin...
May 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
"Shifting cinema from entertainment to a political tool necessitates a lot of archival work and remembrance. But memory is not enough..."
Navigating the Film Cultural Ecosystem in the Face of Genocide with Members of Palestine Film Institute. Full interview: www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/endurin...
Navigating the Film Cultural Ecosystem in the Face of Genocide with Members of Palestine Film Institute. Full interview: www.sensesofcinema.com/2025/endurin...
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"...we hope these texts jolt you in one way or another towards an unbound, liberated relationship with the cinema – and thus with the entire world."
Issue 113 is out now featuring the dossier, Enduring Frames: Cinema, Solidarity, Palestinian Resistance. www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue...
Issue 113 is out now featuring the dossier, Enduring Frames: Cinema, Solidarity, Palestinian Resistance. www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue...
Issue 113 – Senses of Cinema
www.sensesofcinema.com
May 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
"...we hope these texts jolt you in one way or another towards an unbound, liberated relationship with the cinema – and thus with the entire world."
Issue 113 is out now featuring the dossier, Enduring Frames: Cinema, Solidarity, Palestinian Resistance. www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue...
Issue 113 is out now featuring the dossier, Enduring Frames: Cinema, Solidarity, Palestinian Resistance. www.sensesofcinema.com/issues/issue...
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
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«Social structures tolerate difference within their order, but we present a difference to the order. … The ‘crime’ of the scapegoat is not carried out through any act, but simply by existing. Not ‘Be gay. Do crime,’ as the meme says, but ‘Be trans. Be crime.’»
I wrote about how and why we became the scapegoat:
www.frieze.com/article/scap...
www.frieze.com/article/scap...
The Scapegoating of Trans People in Trump’s America
How social media promotes a cycle of admiration and resentment in an influencer-driven world – and why the transgender community is at the centre of its violence
www.frieze.com
March 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
«Social structures tolerate difference within their order, but we present a difference to the order. … The ‘crime’ of the scapegoat is not carried out through any act, but simply by existing. Not ‘Be gay. Do crime,’ as the meme says, but ‘Be trans. Be crime.’»
The opposition makes no sense because the terms are mismatched and outmoded.
March 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The opposition makes no sense because the terms are mismatched and outmoded.
This is a great start. And it's also fundamental to read the writings of activists who are also political theorists. Angela Davis, Huey Newton, George Jackson, Carmichael/Ture, Brown/al-Amin, Shakur, and, of course, Fanon are all essential. Obv but always worth restating.
Jeanelle K. Hope and Bill Mullen, The Black Antifascist Tradition
Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe & Freedom Dreams
Bloom and Martin, Black Against Empire: The History and the Politics of the Black Panther Party
Peterson, Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa
Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe & Freedom Dreams
Bloom and Martin, Black Against Empire: The History and the Politics of the Black Panther Party
Peterson, Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa
March 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is a great start. And it's also fundamental to read the writings of activists who are also political theorists. Angela Davis, Huey Newton, George Jackson, Carmichael/Ture, Brown/al-Amin, Shakur, and, of course, Fanon are all essential. Obv but always worth restating.
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“A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease + the loss of $80K in grant $ promised by the city after refusing to cancel screenings of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (about 🇮🇱’s displacement of 🇵🇸) following rptd intimidation attempts by the mayor.”
Miami Beach Cinema Targeted by Mayor Speaks Out: “We Don’t Want To Leave”
The city is threatening to close O Cinema after it refused to cancel screenings of No Other Land, the Oscar-winning film about Israel’s displacement of Palestinians.
hyperallergic.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“A small arthouse cinema on Miami Beach faces the possible cancellation of its lease + the loss of $80K in grant $ promised by the city after refusing to cancel screenings of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (about 🇮🇱’s displacement of 🇵🇸) following rptd intimidation attempts by the mayor.”
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Mourning the loss of Linda Williams. It’s hard to think of another scholar whose work helped define such a diverse range of subfields. For me, her 1981 essay “Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions” was a beacon showing how fundamental feminist analysis could be for early cinema. RIP
March 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Mourning the loss of Linda Williams. It’s hard to think of another scholar whose work helped define such a diverse range of subfields. For me, her 1981 essay “Film Body: An Implantation of Perversions” was a beacon showing how fundamental feminist analysis could be for early cinema. RIP
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March 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Isabella Rossellini in a BLUE VELVET dress. We see you. #DavidLynch #Oscars
March 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Isabella Rossellini in a BLUE VELVET dress. We see you. #DavidLynch #Oscars
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So transphobia, imo, is structurally very similar to antisemitism -- both get much of their force from the fear of a SECRET Other, an Other who can pass -- and it's because of that, i think, that transphobia and antisemitism are uniquely DERANGING to bigots.
Sorry for making you look at him but yet again, as with Peterson, Musk, Montgomerie and so many others, the turn to the hard/far right begins with obsessive transphobia. It might be the primary driver of rightwing radicalisation over the last decade. They always bring it up.
Konstantin Kisin: anti-woke libertarian who reluctantly calls himself ‘right wing’
February 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
So transphobia, imo, is structurally very similar to antisemitism -- both get much of their force from the fear of a SECRET Other, an Other who can pass -- and it's because of that, i think, that transphobia and antisemitism are uniquely DERANGING to bigots.
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For Reverse Shot, I spoke with Zeinabu irene Davis about the rejuvenation of her incredible classic COMPENSATION — a film I think is one of the great films about Chicago, deafness and Black life.
Zeinabu irene Davis (Compensation)
when I initially designed the sound, I wanted there to be a full expression of it for deaf and hard of hearing audiences to actually feel the sound design. Deaf people can experience sound. But they d...
reverseshot.org
February 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
For Reverse Shot, I spoke with Zeinabu irene Davis about the rejuvenation of her incredible classic COMPENSATION — a film I think is one of the great films about Chicago, deafness and Black life.
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if youre in need for a thing to look forward to… charles burnett’s unreleased masterpiece “annihilation of fish” is coming to cinemas. ❤️🔥
Charles Burnett’s Lost Comedy ‘The Annihilation of Fish’ Lands 4K Theatrical Release — Watch the Trailer
Charles Burnett's lost comedy 'The Annihilation of Fish' has a 4K release.
www.indiewire.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
if youre in need for a thing to look forward to… charles burnett’s unreleased masterpiece “annihilation of fish” is coming to cinemas. ❤️🔥
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Huge online movie archive of the Communist Party of France by @cine-archives.bsky.social.
With movies about Lenin, the Spanish war, mobilizations against the Indochina war and the Algerian war, demonstrations for Angela Davis, Ben Chavis, Mandela…
www.cinearchives.org
#SocialistSunday #Communism
With movies about Lenin, the Spanish war, mobilizations against the Indochina war and the Algerian war, demonstrations for Angela Davis, Ben Chavis, Mandela…
www.cinearchives.org
#SocialistSunday #Communism
February 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Huge online movie archive of the Communist Party of France by @cine-archives.bsky.social.
With movies about Lenin, the Spanish war, mobilizations against the Indochina war and the Algerian war, demonstrations for Angela Davis, Ben Chavis, Mandela…
www.cinearchives.org
#SocialistSunday #Communism
With movies about Lenin, the Spanish war, mobilizations against the Indochina war and the Algerian war, demonstrations for Angela Davis, Ben Chavis, Mandela…
www.cinearchives.org
#SocialistSunday #Communism