Tanya Goldman
@tanyagoldman.bsky.social
cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
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Tanya Goldman
@tanyagoldman.bsky.social
· Jun 24
Professional update: This August, I will be beginning new job as Assistant Professor in Department of Communication, Media, Journalism, + Film at Missouri State University. Happy to have landed somewhere permanent with welcoming colleagues, have many to thank for their support over past decade...
Time for a semi-annual social media break. ✌️
November 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Time for a semi-annual social media break. ✌️
This is my humor.
Just saw a guy dressed as “Sherlock Mahomes” with a trench-coat, Chiefs helmet, pipe. Bravo sir
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is my humor.
Gut punch. THE WAR GAME is my (favorite?) horror movie.
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Gut punch. THE WAR GAME is my (favorite?) horror movie.
Feeling dorky so let’s add some media studies hashtags #timeshifting #VCR #lineartelevision #rerunnation #videotape
What did I miss?
What did I miss?
This #Halloween 🎃 costume is dedicated to my mom who taped re-run episodes of Scooby-Doo off television for me for months literally every time we needed to miss the daily 📺 showing in the early 1990s. Love you June! 📼
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Feeling dorky so let’s add some media studies hashtags #timeshifting #VCR #lineartelevision #rerunnation #videotape
What did I miss?
What did I miss?
This #Halloween 🎃 costume is dedicated to my mom who taped re-run episodes of Scooby-Doo off television for me for months literally every time we needed to miss the daily 📺 showing in the early 1990s. Love you June! 📼
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This #Halloween 🎃 costume is dedicated to my mom who taped re-run episodes of Scooby-Doo off television for me for months literally every time we needed to miss the daily 📺 showing in the early 1990s. Love you June! 📼
You know you’ve found “your people” when you can send a photo of an undated 20th century trade paper page (that you’re blanking on) to a pal and they can instantly tell you what publication it is based on layout and typeface. Anyway, love you @labuzamovies.com!
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
You know you’ve found “your people” when you can send a photo of an undated 20th century trade paper page (that you’re blanking on) to a pal and they can instantly tell you what publication it is based on layout and typeface. Anyway, love you @labuzamovies.com!
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it's not even hyperbolic at this point to say that the Internet Archive is more or less the only thing standing between us and the burning of a hundred Alexandrias
Did you know that, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible?
When Online Content Disappears
A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.
f.mtr.cool
October 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
it's not even hyperbolic at this point to say that the Internet Archive is more or less the only thing standing between us and the burning of a hundred Alexandrias
Seeing this prompts my regular demand—more mid-20th century Latin American films need home movie releases with Eng subtitles! VICTIMS OF SIN was a victory. Plenty are already restored, Janus has rights on this, ENAMORADA, etc.
To its credit, Flicker Alley has been rolling out some noir gems...
To its credit, Flicker Alley has been rolling out some noir gems...
I don’t live in NYC anymore but if I did I would RUN to @lightindustry.bsky.social on November 4 for their screening of Alberto Gout’s AVENTURERA. Ninón Sevilla slays. See also SENSUALIDAD (1952) and VICTIMS OF SIN (avail on home video via Criterion).
www.lightindustry.org/aventurera
www.lightindustry.org/aventurera
October 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Seeing this prompts my regular demand—more mid-20th century Latin American films need home movie releases with Eng subtitles! VICTIMS OF SIN was a victory. Plenty are already restored, Janus has rights on this, ENAMORADA, etc.
To its credit, Flicker Alley has been rolling out some noir gems...
To its credit, Flicker Alley has been rolling out some noir gems...
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In the mood for some weird horror-y cartoon viewings for Halloween? Check out my new post highlighting 20 animated shorts from Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
Halloween Animation: Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
Greetings, all. It’s that season again. It’s funny, as someone who regularly spends time watching horror movies, and reading horror books and comics year-round just as one of my default…
strawberrypenguin.ca
October 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
In the mood for some weird horror-y cartoon viewings for Halloween? Check out my new post highlighting 20 animated shorts from Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks.
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In the mood for even more creepy cartoon viewings for Halloween? Here's my rundown on 24 animated shorts from the Fleischer studio. I have an immense love for the cartoons of Betty Boop, Bimbo and Koko, and ramble on for nearly 5000 words about it here.
Halloween Animation: Fleischer
Animators, filmmakers, inventors, producers, brothers Max and Dave Fleischer are best known for the animated works produced by the studio bearing their family name, but Fleischer Studios didn’…
strawberrypenguin.ca
October 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In the mood for even more creepy cartoon viewings for Halloween? Here's my rundown on 24 animated shorts from the Fleischer studio. I have an immense love for the cartoons of Betty Boop, Bimbo and Koko, and ramble on for nearly 5000 words about it here.
I don’t live in NYC anymore but if I did I would RUN to @lightindustry.bsky.social on November 4 for their screening of Alberto Gout’s AVENTURERA. Ninón Sevilla slays. See also SENSUALIDAD (1952) and VICTIMS OF SIN (avail on home video via Criterion).
www.lightindustry.org/aventurera
www.lightindustry.org/aventurera
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I don’t live in NYC anymore but if I did I would RUN to @lightindustry.bsky.social on November 4 for their screening of Alberto Gout’s AVENTURERA. Ninón Sevilla slays. See also SENSUALIDAD (1952) and VICTIMS OF SIN (avail on home video via Criterion).
www.lightindustry.org/aventurera
www.lightindustry.org/aventurera
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“Drop Dead” is generally considered one of the two most memorable headlines of the last half-century, along with The New York Post’s 1983 gem, “Headless Body in Topless Bar.”
(Gift article)
#journalism
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
(Gift article)
#journalism
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline That Refuses to Die
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“Drop Dead” is generally considered one of the two most memorable headlines of the last half-century, along with The New York Post’s 1983 gem, “Headless Body in Topless Bar.”
(Gift article)
#journalism
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
(Gift article)
#journalism
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
Film hive: best writing on Jacques Tati?
October 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Film hive: best writing on Jacques Tati?
Still time to apply!
Reminder: One week left to apply to the 2026 Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference!
Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture Conference | Tulane University
blackmedia.tulane.edu
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Still time to apply!
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I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
Volume 11 Issue 4 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
online.ucpress.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4
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Preparing to teach I Live in Fear tomorrow by watching this 1956 documentary about the hibakusha (survivors of the bomb). I highly recommend it. It's beautiful and disturbing. Wish I could watch The World is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ashes of Death” (1957) too, but unfortunately I can't find it
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Preparing to teach I Live in Fear tomorrow by watching this 1956 documentary about the hibakusha (survivors of the bomb). I highly recommend it. It's beautiful and disturbing. Wish I could watch The World is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ashes of Death” (1957) too, but unfortunately I can't find it
Inspired by conference talk by my colleague Joshua Glick, I’ve designed a new assignment for my “Documentary Storytelling” students. They’ll select a recent(ish) political documentary and produce a written report and presentation about the film and its impact guide to their peers. 1/
![Assignment for undergraduate “Documentary Storytelling” course. Text reads on image reads:
DOCUMENTARY IMPACT ASSIGNMENT
Assignment Components + Due Dates
• Written Report (Worksheet) due Sunday, November 16 by 8pm. Upload to Brightspace (5% of grade)
• Oral Presentation with Slide Deck delivered in-class on Monday, November 17 and Wednesday, November 19. (10% of grade)
Assignment Prompt
The past three decades have seen structural changes within the documentary ecosystem that have institutionalized an “impact” model for politically minded filmmaking. In this system, investors and incubator funds are increasingly asking documentarians to articulate metrics and concrete outcomes through which they will measure their film’s success. In the words of Meg McLagan, this system functions on “the expectation [that documentaries] should not just represent political conditions but actually change them.”
You will explore this recent trend independently via a case study of your choice (selected from Impact Guide website or other approved source). After watching your chosen film and reading its impact guide, you will produce a written report (modeled on worksheet below) and then deliver an 8–10-minute oral presentation with supporting visual slide deck to your peers.
Link references is impactguide.org](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ej2smo7keinbepae43fxwxmb/bafkreibqhdrtofic6croaygkaigndgcjgno7r5dxghh3igqkyujwzyjhcy@jpeg)
October 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Inspired by conference talk by my colleague Joshua Glick, I’ve designed a new assignment for my “Documentary Storytelling” students. They’ll select a recent(ish) political documentary and produce a written report and presentation about the film and its impact guide to their peers. 1/
I really agree here! For higher ed, we’re all trained researchers in our respective subfields and we need to bring the same level of rigor and originality to our assignments. I also think with AI it is necessary to develop more inventive and creative assignments.
standardized coursework is intellectually lazy
October 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I really agree here! For higher ed, we’re all trained researchers in our respective subfields and we need to bring the same level of rigor and originality to our assignments. I also think with AI it is necessary to develop more inventive and creative assignments.
The Academic Film Archive of North America is a wonderful resource and its founder Geoff Alexander is a tireless champion for preserving legacy of educational film. Glad to see his collection has found at home at Johns Hopkins!
afana.org
afana.org
For nearly four decades, millions of students in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere watched such 10- to 30-minute academic films to learn about wide-ranging topics like volcanoes, Charles Dickens, and U.S. anti-discrimination laws. https://loom.ly/MZuHOIs
Academic Film Archive of North America finds a home at Johns Hopkins
The eclectic collection of more than 7,600 vintage 16 mm classroom films represents an unsung genre that offered engaging new ways to teach the tales of humankind
hub.jhu.edu
October 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Academic Film Archive of North America is a wonderful resource and its founder Geoff Alexander is a tireless champion for preserving legacy of educational film. Glad to see his collection has found at home at Johns Hopkins!
afana.org
afana.org
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Celebration of
1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome.
over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world.
@archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:
1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome.
over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world.
@archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:
October 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Celebration of
1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome.
over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world.
@archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:
1 Trillion Webpages! People are awesome.
over 1 billion people over the last 30 years have wanted to share what they know with the world.
@archive.org show video with tabs to jump around:
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Thanks to #MHDL and @archive.org's digitized Business Screen magazine, I can see that Harwald also made an Inspect-O-Film station and that the Natl Education TV & Radio Center in Ann Arbor got the "Mark IV" version in 1961. It used Protect-O-Film liquid to coat their prints.
October 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Thanks to #MHDL and @archive.org's digitized Business Screen magazine, I can see that Harwald also made an Inspect-O-Film station and that the Natl Education TV & Radio Center in Ann Arbor got the "Mark IV" version in 1961. It used Protect-O-Film liquid to coat their prints.
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A vital part of archiving history is creating descriptive metadata so that it remains discoverable. On our blog, UCLA student Marley Saldivar-Lozano discusses “Reflecciones” (1972–4) and her work with the Archive to create accurate, ethical metadata for the series, which is online 📺 ucla.in/3JuET8G
October 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A vital part of archiving history is creating descriptive metadata so that it remains discoverable. On our blog, UCLA student Marley Saldivar-Lozano discusses “Reflecciones” (1972–4) and her work with the Archive to create accurate, ethical metadata for the series, which is online 📺 ucla.in/3JuET8G
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Alpha School, which promises to educate kids using an "AI tutor" in two hours a day, is a budding national empire and a darling of the Trump administration.
According to some parents who spoke to @wired.com for this investigation, it's had nightmarish effects on their kids.
According to some parents who spoke to @wired.com for this investigation, it's had nightmarish effects on their kids.
Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Alpha School, which promises to educate kids using an "AI tutor" in two hours a day, is a budding national empire and a darling of the Trump administration.
According to some parents who spoke to @wired.com for this investigation, it's had nightmarish effects on their kids.
According to some parents who spoke to @wired.com for this investigation, it's had nightmarish effects on their kids.
Saw this circulating on other social so sharing here. From the CBS News Archive: 1962 televised tour of White Hour by Jackie Kennedy. Includes footage of East Wing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjlu...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjlu...
From the archives: Jacqueline Kennedy's televised tour of the White House in 1962
YouTube video by CBS News
m.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Saw this circulating on other social so sharing here. From the CBS News Archive: 1962 televised tour of White Hour by Jackie Kennedy. Includes footage of East Wing.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjlu...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=pjlu...