Jennifer Blaylock
@jennblaylock.bsky.social
assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
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10-11 | 2025 Revolutionary Cinemas
Au croisement de l’histoire, de l’anthropologie et des film studies, ce double numéro thématique analyse les généalogies et incarnations multiples des cinémas révolutionnaires africains, du Maghre...
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Check out the new issue of Sources: Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies co-edited by Anita Afonu, Dan Hodgkinson, and I. Excited to see these essays and their accompanying sources finally make it out into the world. @kinolaus.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
Had the pleasure of chatting with my friend Anita Afonu before seeing "The Eyes of Ghana" at Doc NYC yesterday. Not only does she appear in the film championing Ghanaian film preservation, she worked as a producer on the film. You can watch "Eyes of Ghana" online until Nov. 30 here: lnkd.in/egCNfxxP
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Had the pleasure of chatting with my friend Anita Afonu before seeing "The Eyes of Ghana" at Doc NYC yesterday. Not only does she appear in the film championing Ghanaian film preservation, she worked as a producer on the film. You can watch "Eyes of Ghana" online until Nov. 30 here: lnkd.in/egCNfxxP
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New in ‘Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies’, a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas, guest edited by ODID’s Dan Hodgkinson with @jennblaylock.bsky.social and Anita Afonu. journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
10-11 | 2025 Revolutionary Cinemas
Au croisement de l’histoire, de l’anthropologie et des film studies, ce double numéro thématique analyse les généalogies et incarnations multiples des cinémas révolutionnaires africains, du Maghre...
journals.openedition.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
New in ‘Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies’, a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas, guest edited by ODID’s Dan Hodgkinson with @jennblaylock.bsky.social and Anita Afonu. journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
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Now available online!
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Now available online!
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!
Available in print in early 2026.
academic.oup.com/book/61621
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The Gilded Age is an absolutely ridiculous show…and I’ve watched every minute of it.
By far, its most trenchant social analysis is the scene where Ms Thing goes to Brooklyn to perform her little conspicuous condescending charity. I think of those shoes all the time.
By far, its most trenchant social analysis is the scene where Ms Thing goes to Brooklyn to perform her little conspicuous condescending charity. I think of those shoes all the time.
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Gilded Age is an absolutely ridiculous show…and I’ve watched every minute of it.
By far, its most trenchant social analysis is the scene where Ms Thing goes to Brooklyn to perform her little conspicuous condescending charity. I think of those shoes all the time.
By far, its most trenchant social analysis is the scene where Ms Thing goes to Brooklyn to perform her little conspicuous condescending charity. I think of those shoes all the time.
If you are in San Francisco this weekend, please go see "The Eyes of Ghana" on Saturday, Nov. 8 @ 11am at the Vogue Theater! Tickets and more information here: sffilm.org/event/the-ey...
The Eyes of Ghana + In My Day - SFFILM
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November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you are in San Francisco this weekend, please go see "The Eyes of Ghana" on Saturday, Nov. 8 @ 11am at the Vogue Theater! Tickets and more information here: sffilm.org/event/the-ey...
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BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!
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With a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas guest edited by @jennblaylock.bsky.social, Anita Afonu and Dan Hodgkinson, the lastest edition of Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies, is now out! journals.openedition.org/sources/?lan...
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
With a special issue on Revolutionary Cinemas guest edited by @jennblaylock.bsky.social, Anita Afonu and Dan Hodgkinson, the lastest edition of Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies, is now out! journals.openedition.org/sources/?lan...
Check out the new issue of Sources: Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies co-edited by Anita Afonu, Dan Hodgkinson, and I. Excited to see these essays and their accompanying sources finally make it out into the world. @kinolaus.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
10-11 | 2025 Revolutionary Cinemas
Au croisement de l’histoire, de l’anthropologie et des film studies, ce double numéro thématique analyse les généalogies et incarnations multiples des cinémas révolutionnaires africains, du Maghre...
journals.openedition.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Check out the new issue of Sources: Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies co-edited by Anita Afonu, Dan Hodgkinson, and I. Excited to see these essays and their accompanying sources finally make it out into the world. @kinolaus.bsky.social journals.openedition.org/sources/3100
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We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!
(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)
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DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK!
We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!
(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)
#DefendHighEd
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October 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK!
We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!
(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)
#DefendHighEd
⬇️⬇️⬇️
go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k
DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK!
We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share!
(This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!)
#DefendHighEd
⬇️⬇️⬇️
go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k
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⭐️Poetics and Politics returns to UC Santa Cruz! Organized by my wonderful colleagues. CFP below. Join us in the redwoods!⭐️
poeticsandpolitics.ucsc.edu
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Poetics and Politics | A Documentary Research Symposium | May 14-17, 2026
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October 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
⭐️Poetics and Politics returns to UC Santa Cruz! Organized by my wonderful colleagues. CFP below. Join us in the redwoods!⭐️
poeticsandpolitics.ucsc.edu
poeticsandpolitics.ucsc.edu
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Thank you so much to @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social for hosting this virtual book launch!
Book Launch: Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media. Thurs 30th Oct 2025. All Welcome!
Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford).
colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Presenters: Lida Zeitlin-Wu (Notre Dame), Carolyn L. Kane (Toronto Met), Amber Sweat (Amherst) & Aileen Robinson (Stanford).
colourandfilm.com/cfps/
October 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Thank you so much to @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social for hosting this virtual book launch!
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New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.
Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford.
Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.
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Committee for the First Amendment in 1947 looking good
October 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Committee for the First Amendment in 1947 looking good
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Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.
Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj
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The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website!
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference | Tulane University
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September 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website!
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
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"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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The Head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Explains Why It’s No Longer Recommending the Use of Seat Belts
“In the seven months since he was sworn in, Mr. Kennedy has delivered a lukewarm endorsement of the measles vaccine; dismantled a panel of experts ...
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September 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"It is my view and the view of this administration that parents should be free to decide whether they want their children oppressively strapped into a two-ton vehicle or liberated head-first through the windshield."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
Thrilled the documentary 'The Eyes of Ghana' opened the Toronto Film Festival last week. It features the work of Chris Hesse and Anita Afonu to preserve Ghana's film heritage. After collaborating with them for years, I'm excited to see them celebrated on the big screen. deadline.com/video/the-ey...
Oscar Winner Ben Proudfoot Brings Hidden Historic Film Archive To Light Through ‘The Eyes Of Ghana,’ With Assist From Obamas – Toronto Studio
'The Eyes of Ghana,' directed by Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot and produced by the Obamas' High Ground, reveals a long-hidden historic film archive.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Thrilled the documentary 'The Eyes of Ghana' opened the Toronto Film Festival last week. It features the work of Chris Hesse and Anita Afonu to preserve Ghana's film heritage. After collaborating with them for years, I'm excited to see them celebrated on the big screen. deadline.com/video/the-ey...
I agree. Great doc.
If you find yourself needing a little pick-me-up this week, you should know that there's a Devo documentary on Netflix.
September 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I agree. Great doc.
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Has someone made a short, approachable video about the ills of AI? There's lots of great written resources I could assign students, but I think showing them something in class might be more effective.
September 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Has someone made a short, approachable video about the ills of AI? There's lots of great written resources I could assign students, but I think showing them something in class might be more effective.
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Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.
www.weherepress.org
www.weherepress.org
August 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.
www.weherepress.org
www.weherepress.org
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A few more hours to apply for membership fee waiver! @scmstudies.bsky.social
*** Colleagues: PLEASE SHARE WIDELY! ***
Co-chair of the Precarious Labor Organization of
@scmstudies.bsky.social here! DEADLINE for membership fee waivers is rapidly approaching — Friday, 1 August by 5pm CT.
Details re: eligibility + lottery entry here:
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Co-chair of the Precarious Labor Organization of
@scmstudies.bsky.social here! DEADLINE for membership fee waivers is rapidly approaching — Friday, 1 August by 5pm CT.
Details re: eligibility + lottery entry here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A few more hours to apply for membership fee waiver! @scmstudies.bsky.social
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I worked on a digitisation project around a decade ago. Earlier this year, I found that host organisation subsequently lost the digital files, but the physical archive (which was also restored in the project) is still there.
Occasionally we remind people that paper is the most stable long-term storage medium* and it's always a surprise.
*Unless you're into carving your own stele, in which case you might have some significant long-term storage SPACE problems.
*Unless you're into carving your own stele, in which case you might have some significant long-term storage SPACE problems.
Removable media that I still have from the 90s/00s and its survival rate at bringing data from then into the 2020s.
3.5" Floppy Disks: 30%
5.25" Floppy Disks: 70%
CDR/RWs: 5%
DVDR/RWs: 10%
Syquests: 0%
CF/SDs: 20%
Zip Disks: 96%
3.5" Floppy Disks: 30%
5.25" Floppy Disks: 70%
CDR/RWs: 5%
DVDR/RWs: 10%
Syquests: 0%
CF/SDs: 20%
Zip Disks: 96%
July 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I worked on a digitisation project around a decade ago. Earlier this year, I found that host organisation subsequently lost the digital files, but the physical archive (which was also restored in the project) is still there.
I will never forget watching Bushman (1971) this evening in Lagos. Watching a film about a Nigerian living in 1968 San Francisco, with images of the Bay that brought me back to a region that will forever be my home, I felt like I was crisscrossing through time and space with the film’s circulations.
July 29, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I will never forget watching Bushman (1971) this evening in Lagos. Watching a film about a Nigerian living in 1968 San Francisco, with images of the Bay that brought me back to a region that will forever be my home, I felt like I was crisscrossing through time and space with the film’s circulations.
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