Alex Svensson
@alsven.bsky.social
Emerson College Affiliated Faculty / Film & Media Studies PhD / Researching: Horror, Found Footage, Experimental Film & Video, Promotional Paratexts, Moral Panics
Recent at New Review of Film & TV: https://nrftsjournal.org/flash-fright
Recent at New Review of Film & TV: https://nrftsjournal.org/flash-fright
Leaving Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Harvard Film Archive - just attended an excellent talk by Neta Alexander (Yale) on multimodal AI, labor, and disability (to put it far too simply); walking away with spinning thoughts and a big reading list…
November 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Leaving Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Harvard Film Archive - just attended an excellent talk by Neta Alexander (Yale) on multimodal AI, labor, and disability (to put it far too simply); walking away with spinning thoughts and a big reading list…
Also, PTA’s interest in exploring (and interrogating) fathers / father figures now has me thinking of this quote from Terminator 2
![Quote from T2 - Sarah Connor: [voiceover] Watching John with the machine, it was suddenly so clear. The terminator would never stop. It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him. It would always be there. And it would die to protect him. Of all the would-be fathers who came and went over the years, this thing, this machine, was the only one who measured up. In an insane world, it was the sanest choice.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dcjuse6ioeitzrbk5esaayhc/bafkreigvc4vcdq7e5fqp5eyq2naznyvqo7vcv5kr6dzgqnagbn4o4h7zqi@jpeg)
September 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Also, PTA’s interest in exploring (and interrogating) fathers / father figures now has me thinking of this quote from Terminator 2
Currently rewatching Terminator 2 for the millionth time (never a bad time to do so) after reading @brofromanother.bsky.social sharp, insightful review of One Battle After Another.
September 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Currently rewatching Terminator 2 for the millionth time (never a bad time to do so) after reading @brofromanother.bsky.social sharp, insightful review of One Battle After Another.
Yesterday’s cinema experience; seen in glorious VistaVision at @thecoolidge.bsky.social (one of only 4 locations selected to screen the film this way!) - the print/projection looked stunning, and the film was one I immediately wanted to revisit.
September 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Yesterday’s cinema experience; seen in glorious VistaVision at @thecoolidge.bsky.social (one of only 4 locations selected to screen the film this way!) - the print/projection looked stunning, and the film was one I immediately wanted to revisit.
Everyone is hungry to hear his take on the male loneliness discourse in-between AI-generated ads for hallucinated meal kits and email services
September 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Everyone is hungry to hear his take on the male loneliness discourse in-between AI-generated ads for hallucinated meal kits and email services
I feel this has the same vibe / graphics as, like, a DTV American Pie sequel or similar comedy franchise bargain bin spinoff (though there is indeed something more “cursed” about this ad…)
September 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I feel this has the same vibe / graphics as, like, a DTV American Pie sequel or similar comedy franchise bargain bin spinoff (though there is indeed something more “cursed” about this ad…)
Site that seduces you into the Druid cult supposedly responsible for The Shape’s drive to kill on the night of Samhain? You mean Thornhub.
August 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Site that seduces you into the Druid cult supposedly responsible for The Shape’s drive to kill on the night of Samhain? You mean Thornhub.
Seen driving around Allston; surely this has to be a trap…🔪
August 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Seen driving around Allston; surely this has to be a trap…🔪
“Rather than conceiving of cinema as a discrete medium defined by films with tidy borders, then, my book regards film as essentially protean and generative— easily "unbound" and remixed by the media involved in circulation” (Klinger, 2022) - something not new to AI or The Sphere
August 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
“Rather than conceiving of cinema as a discrete medium defined by films with tidy borders, then, my book regards film as essentially protean and generative— easily "unbound" and remixed by the media involved in circulation” (Klinger, 2022) - something not new to AI or The Sphere
“I conceive of cinema's endurance as a medium and a body of films as arising not despite but because of the appearance of new media and the forms of exhibition they represent” (Klinger, 2022)
August 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
“I conceive of cinema's endurance as a medium and a body of films as arising not despite but because of the appearance of new media and the forms of exhibition they represent” (Klinger, 2022)
“As fixtures of the cinematic lexicon for decades, such texts [like Wizard of Oz] provide the opportunity to investigate a film's afterlife and the intricacies of textual longevity” (Klinger, 2022)
August 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“As fixtures of the cinematic lexicon for decades, such texts [like Wizard of Oz] provide the opportunity to investigate a film's afterlife and the intricacies of textual longevity” (Klinger, 2022)
Barbara Klinger’s excellent 2022 book IMMORTAL FILMS is a great resource for thinking about this re-working of Wizard of Oz (as garish, foolish, or even “dangerous” as we might critique it for being”. Read the intro here: content.ucpress.edu/title/978052...
August 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Barbara Klinger’s excellent 2022 book IMMORTAL FILMS is a great resource for thinking about this re-working of Wizard of Oz (as garish, foolish, or even “dangerous” as we might critique it for being”. Read the intro here: content.ucpress.edu/title/978052...
Apple Music’s 10th Anniversary content lets you know
July 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Apple Music’s 10th Anniversary content lets you know
Saturday morning sounds
May 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Saturday morning sounds
I’m very much looking forward to seeing folks soon at #SCMS25 in Chicago! Safe travels, all.
If you happen to be there on Thursday (tomorrow), perhaps consider attending our panel at 4:15pm - it’s bound to be a monstrously good time!
If you happen to be there on Thursday (tomorrow), perhaps consider attending our panel at 4:15pm - it’s bound to be a monstrously good time!
April 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I’m very much looking forward to seeing folks soon at #SCMS25 in Chicago! Safe travels, all.
If you happen to be there on Thursday (tomorrow), perhaps consider attending our panel at 4:15pm - it’s bound to be a monstrously good time!
If you happen to be there on Thursday (tomorrow), perhaps consider attending our panel at 4:15pm - it’s bound to be a monstrously good time!
Sunday morning cinema: Finally seeing this at The Coolidge Corner Theatre (in 70mm)
February 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Sunday morning cinema: Finally seeing this at The Coolidge Corner Theatre (in 70mm)
“Charles Atlas: About Time” at ICA Boston
January 30, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“Charles Atlas: About Time” at ICA Boston
The Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman of the Art Cinema-tic Universe?
January 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman of the Art Cinema-tic Universe?
