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Jennifer Blaylock
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assistant professor of radio, television & film at rowan university | feminist & postcolonial african media histories | nyu miap | she/her
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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
Anita Afonu sitting at a table in a black T-shirt that says "Chalé, Let's talk about archives." Her red and white Doc NYC badge is on the table in front of her and it says "Filmmaker."
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Film at Indiana University’s Auxiliary Library Facilities (ALF).
June 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Ousmane Sembène’s pipe collection @ the Lilly Library.
Several smoking pipes (10 to be exact) and one pair of black sunglasses in a conservation box.
June 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Today’s research vibes at the Black Film Center/Archives.
Archives box on table with film posters in the background.
May 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Thrilled to be workshopping at Indiana University.
Poster for the Sembene and Vieyra Workshop at Indiana University Bloomington. Picture on poster is of Vieyra and Sembene.
May 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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This #SCMS25 I'm thrilled to be in conversation with so many excellent scholars at a roundtable on "Useful Television." I'll be talking about UNESCO sponsored educational television in West Africa. Come join us for a lively discussion on Thursday, April 3 @ 6:15–8:00pm.
A black and white picture of Senegalese television crew broadcasting the program Le ver qui fait mal [The Worm that Hurts]. A black woman sits in a chair with a light shining on her and the camera facing her. In the right hand bottom corner of the picture a black man in a vertical striped shirt stands behind the camera as he puts headphones over his head. In the left side of the picture two members of the crew stand in front of another camera. One black man wears a black sweater with a collared white shirt and holds up a clapboard. The black man next to him is looking down and is dressed in a black sweater and white collared long-sleeved shirt. On the far left hand side of the image is a arm holding something up. In the bottom left of the image is a black man leaning over looking in the viewfinder of a motion picture film camera. He wears a black and grey vertical lined shirtsleeve shirt. The picture was taken in Dakar, Senegal in 1965. E11 — ROUNDTABLE Useful Television: Expanding Understanding of the Medium through Alternative Histories Fairmont CHAIR Kit Hughes, Colorado State University Jennifer Blaylock, Rowan University “UNESCO Educational Television in 1960s West Africa” Kit Hughes, Colorado State University “The Chamber of Commerce and the Failure of BizNet” Hannah Spaulding, University of Liverpool “The Parental Gaze—Television Surveillance at Home” Annie Sullivan, Oakland University “Useful for Whom? Racial Politics and Community TV” Stacy Takacs, Oklahoma State University “TV as U.S. Military Orientation” Sponsored by Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group; Television and Radio History Scholarly Interest Group; Television Studies Scholarly Interest Group
April 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Session R - Sunday, April 6 - 4:15pm to 6:00pm
R17 Global Identities in Cinema Local Cultures, Bodies, and Spaces CHAIR Diana Willis, State University of New York at Oneonta Swissotel Ori Yakobovich, Tel Aviv University, “Wakaliwood—from a Ugandan Village to the Global Village” Eunyoung Won, School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences “Is Everything Extreme in Korean Cinema? The Construction of South Korean Film Identity in the Global Film Space” Akhil Goswami, University of California, Santa Barbara, “New Bodies, New Nation: Muscularity, Masculinity and Football in Contemporary India” Justo Planas, Le Moyne College, “‘I love love so much’: Sex and Tourism in Caribbean Cinema” Sponsored by Sports Media Scholarly Interest Group
March 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Session Q - Sunday, April 6 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Q03 — Genealogies of African Diasporic Feminist Worldbuilding CHAIR Ifeanyi Awachie, New York University Fairmont Ifeanyi Awachie, New York University “From the Postcolony to the Club: Movement on Screen and in Space in Nigerian Women’s Video Installations” Zama Dube, University of California, Los Angeles “Visualizing the Wake: Framing uGogo as a Cinematic Griot and a Living Archive in Black Diasporic Films” Olaocha Nwabara, State University of New York at Geneseo “Representing African Women’s Notions of Leadership in Community in Diasporic Women’s Film” Tama Hamilton-Wray, Michigan State University “Home-Making in the Cinema of African Diaspora Female Filmmakers” Sponsored by Black Caucus
March 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Session M - Saturday, April 5 - 3:15pm to 5:00pm
M11 — Intertwining Social Histories and Media Archaeologies CHAIR Mark J.P. Wolf, Concordia University Wisconsin Fairmont Mark J.P. Wolf, Concordia University Wisconsin “Scanimate’s Forgotten Ubiquity: Remembering the Greatest Analog Computer Graphics System” Samar Abdel-Rahman, University of Liverpool “Repairing the Audiovisual Archive: Hussein Shariffe” Diego Cavallotti, University of Cagliari “Radical Networks in Italy in the 1990s: The Case of Pratello TV” Yoonbin Cho, University of Pennsylvania “Film Narration in Transition: From Byeonsa Performances to Contemporary Korean Television and YouTube” M18 — Identities in Motion Gender, Genre, Race CHAIR Ting Ting Chan, Asia Eastern University of Science and Technology Swissotel Leslie Abramson, American Bar Foundation, “Foreign Matter: Advocacy and the Immigrant in Silent American Cinema” Ting Ting Chan, Asia Eastern University of Science and Technology “Mothering the Space: Michelle Yeoh and Racialized Sci-Fi Motherhood in Sunshine and Star Trek: Discovery” Marwa Abdalla, University of California, San Diego “The Limits of Inclusion: Interrogating Representations of Muslimness in Ramy, We Are Lady Parts, and Mo” Devin Thomas, Independent Scholar “Trembling in the Abyss: Occult Futurism in Mati Diop’s Atlantics”
March 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Session L - Saturday, April 5 - 11:00am to 12:45pm
L07 — Emotional Circuits Melodrama’s Global and Temporal Flows CHAIR Koel Banerjee, Georgia Institute of Technology RESPONDENT Carla Marcantonio, Loyola Marymount University Fairmont Koel Banerjee, Georgia Institute of Technology “From India with Love: The Internationalist Aesthetics of the Bombay Social Film” Despina Kakoudaki, American University “It’s Already Here: History, Tragedy, and Layered Melodrama in Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers” Rachel Schaff, Mercer University “‘Deeply Moving Film!’: The Shop on Main Street in the United States” Yahya Laayouni, Bloomsburg University “Being for Others: Migrants Facing Death in Garrone’s film Io Capitano (2023)”
March 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Session K - Saturday, April 5 - 9:00am to 10:45am @vvnsag.bsky.social
K18 — Transnational Solidarity and Tricontinental Film Networks in the Long Sixties CHAIR Lorenz Hegel, Singapore University of Technology and Design CO-CHAIR Sanghita Sen, Northumbria University Swissotel Viviane Saglier, University of St. Andrews “‘Algeria is Palestine, Palestine is Algeria’: The Paradoxes of Cinematic Infrastructures of Solidarity” José Miguel Palacios, California State University, Long Beach “Transnational Cinema Solidarity: Exile, Tricontinentalism, and World Cinema Otherwise” Sanghita Sen, Northumbria University “Bengali Cinema in the Long 1960s: Cultural Encounters, Transnational Solidarity and Anticolonial Linkages” Lorenz Hegel, Singapore University of Technology and Design “Filming the People’s War in Vietnam: Challenges of Solidarity Cinema” Sponsored by Activist and Revolutionary Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group; Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group
March 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Session J - Friday, April 4 - 6:15pm to 8:00pm @cnwilson.bsky.social
J07 — Rebellious Intimacies in Black and Brown Global Cinema CHAIR Candice Wilson, University of North Georgia Fairmont Usha Iyer, Stanford University “Intimate Pedagogies through Film and Social Media: Black and Brown Romance in Bazodee and The BlindianProject” Dineo Maine, Stanford University “Aesthetics of Liberation: Carceral Intimacies in Sarah Maldoror’s Sambizanga (1972)” Priyadarshini Shanker, University of North Carolina Wilmington “Contemporary Configurations of Black and Brown Motherhood: Disrupting the Maternal Melodrama” Candice Wilson, University of North Georgia “Black Eco-Horror: Black Love and Amniotic Hauntings in Atlantique and Nanny” Sponsored by Black Caucus; Transnational Cinemas Scholarly Interest Group J17 — Transnational Identities in Historical Perspective CHAIR Tanite Chahwan, University of Michigan Swissotel Man Fung Yip, University of Oklahoma “Doomed Loves and Female Pathos: Melodramatic War Films in Saigon Cinema of the Early 1970s” Anthony Mora, University of Michigan “‘Descended from the Great and Noble Diego Vega’: Zorro’s Uncertain Latinidad in the 1930s and 1940s” Mats Bjorkin, University of Gothenburg “In Secure Financial Transactions We Trust: How the 1923 German Hyperinflation Shaped European Film Distribution Cultures” Tanite Chahwan, University of Michigan “Tarab and Hypermasculinity in 1950s Egypt: The Cases of Abdel Halim Hafez and Ahmed Ramzy”
March 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Session I - Friday, April 4 - 4:15pm to 6:00pm @ocosentino.bsky.social
I17 — Popular Cinemas of the Global South CHAIR Olivia Cosentino, University of South Florida CO-CHAIR Syeda Momina Masood, University of Pittsburgh Swissotel Victoria Ruétalo, University of Alberta “A Global South Space, the Spanish-Language Theatres in 1960s and 1970s New York” Syeda Momina Masood, University of Pittsburgh “Lollywood Dreams and Desires, Or, Popular Pakistani Cinema at a Time of Crisis” Olivia Cosentino, University of South Florida “Global South Blockbusters: Rom-Coms and (the Middle) Class in Mexico & Nollywood” Sponsored by Latinx/a/o Caucus I21 — Rethinking Mainstream Media CHAIR Courtney White, University of Southern California Swissotel Edward Troy, Western Washington University “Mati Diop’s Atlantique (2019) and Necropolitical Cinema” Courtney White, University of Southern California “‘Don’t Look Him in the Eye’: Animality and Image-Making Technology in Jordan Peele’s Nope (2022)” Emily Moeck, University of Tennessee “The Fallout Frame: Attempts to Decenter the Atomic Hero in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023) and Labatut’s The Maniac (2023)” Zoe L. Johnson, Boston University “‘Just You and Me, Nobody Else’: Affirmations of Monogamy in Sex and the City and And Just Like That‘s Threesome Scenes” I13 — ROUNDTABLE Streaming Across Borders Redefining Global in Media Industries CHAIR Jennifer Kang, Queensland University of Technology CO-CHAIR Ishita Tiwary, Concordia University Fairmont Jennifer Kang, Queensland University of Technology “Korean Streamers and Global IP After Squid Game” Ishita Tiwary, Concordia University “OTT becomes TV: Indian Streaming Post Pandemic” Zeynep Sertbulut, Haverford College “Mediating Gender in Turkey’s Streaming Industry” Godwin Simon, University of Toronto “Streaming Diversity in ‘New Wave’ Nollywood” Petr Szczepanik, Charles University “Deep Localism in the Streaming Economy: SVOD Voyo” Timothy Havens, University of Iowa “Expanding Contemporary Media Industry Studies” Sponsored by Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group
March 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Session H - Friday, April 4 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
H16 — On and Against Digital Ephemerality and Materiality Memory, Activism, and Sustainability CHAIR Jessica Scarlata, George Mason University Swissotel Annemarie Iddins, Fairfield University “Ephemeral Infrastructures: The challenges of archiving Mamfakinch in Morocco” Jessica Scarlata, George Mason University “Untimely Troubles: Archival Footage and the Inheritance of Dissent in Northern Ireland” Sulafa Zidani, Northwestern University “Memetic Timing and the Power of Ephemerality in Digital Culture” Cristina Formenti, University of Udine “Polluting in the Name of Believability: The Environmental Footprint of Luxo Worlds”
March 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Session G - Friday, April 4 - 11:00am to 12:45pm
G25 — Rethinking Film Histories CHAIR Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University Swissotel Daryl Meador, New York University “Cinema and Settler Colonial Melancholy in The Last Picture Show” Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University “Looking Past Godard: Jacques Rozier’s Adieu Phillipine, Algeria, and an Alternative Vision of the French New Wave” Chi-Tsung Chang, University of Pittsburgh “A City of Sadness: Hearing the Counter-History”
March 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Session F - Friday, April 4 - 9:00am to 10:45am
F07 — Black Hauntings Race, Audiences, and Screen Adaptations CHAIR Cynthia Baron, Bowling Green State University Fairmont Charlene Regester, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “‘Southern Trees Bear White Fruit’: Lynching in The Ox-Bow Incident and Storm Warning—Films Haunted with Blackness” Mikal Gaines, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences “To Tortures Unimagined: The Africanist Presence in Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle” Mark Cunningham, Austin Community College “A Story to Pass On: The Beauty and Burden of Magic Realism in the Adaptations of Beloved and The Underground Railroad” Cynthia Baron, Bowling Green State University “Multivalent Satire: Erasure (2001), American Fiction (2023), and ‘Black Experiences’” Sponsored by Black Caucus
March 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Session E - Thursday, April 3 - 6:15pm to 8:00pm
E11 — ROUNDTABLE Useful Television: Expanding Understanding of the Medium through Alternative Histories Fairmont CHAIR Kit Hughes, Colorado State University Jennifer Blaylock, Rowan University “UNESCO Educational Television in 1960s West Africa” Kit Hughes, Colorado State University “The Chamber of Commerce and the Failure of BizNet” Hannah Spaulding, University of Liverpool “The Parental Gaze—Television Surveillance at Home” Annie Sullivan, Oakland University “Useful for Whom? Racial Politics and Community TV” Stacy Takacs, Oklahoma State University “TV as U.S. Military Orientation” Sponsored by Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group; Television and Radio History Scholarly Interest Group; Television Studies Scholarly Interest Group E14 — Transience and the Global South CHAIR Julie Le Hegarat, University of British Columbia CO-CHAIR Sabine Haenni, Cornell University Swissotel Sabine Haenni, Cornell University “Reframing Migration: The Imaginative Choreography of Spaces of Transit in the Films of Leïla Kilani” Leigh Anne Duck, University of Mississippi “Garrett Bradley and the Rhythms of Precarity” Danielle Rae Childs, Warwick University “Transient Architecture, Permanent Residence: The American Motel as Diasporic Dwelling in Mira Nair’s Mississippi Masala” Julie Le Hegarat, University of British Columbia “Performing the Archives: Thierno Souleymane Diallo’s Cemetery of Cinema (2023)” Sponsored by Urbanism/Geography/Architecture Scholarly Interest Group
March 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Session D - Thursday, April 3 - 4:15pm to 6:00pm
D03 — Viral Sounds Podcasting and Emergent Algorithmic Audio-Visual Cultures CHAIR John Sullivan, Muhlenberg College John Sullivan, Muhlenberg College “AI, Programmatic Advertising, and the Datafication of Podcast Audiences” Andrew Bottomley, State University of New York at Oneonta, “Watch This Podcast: Toward a Theory of Podcasts as a Visual Medium” Reginold Royston, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Deep Listening: Examining Resonance Among African Podcast Audiences” Xiaofan Yang, University of Iowa “Rethinking the Chinese Podcast Landscape: A Fresh Look at Podcast Evolution in China” Sponsored by Radio, Audio Media, and Podcasting Scholarly Interest Group; Fan and Audience Studies Scholarly Interest Group D20 — African Cinemas, Then and Now CHAIR Dareen Hussein, Ohio State University Kam Copeland, Ohio State University “Islam and Revolutionary Nationalism in New Afrikan Resistance Cinema” Dareen Hussein, Ohio State University “Le Cinéma, une arme: The Golden Era of the Algerian Cinematheque and the Circulation of Third Cinema, 1965–1980” John Bennett, University of Wisconsin-Madison “The Postcolonial Film Magazine: Algerian Transnationalism and Revolutionary Cinephilia in Les 2 Ecrans” Karim Elhaies, New York University “From Streets to Screen: The Tramp’s Journey in Egyptian Cinema” Sponsored by French/Francophone Scholarly Interest Group; Middle East Caucus
March 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Session C - Thursday, April 3 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm @benmen.bsky.social
C06 — Environmental Documentaries within a Global Context CHAIR Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi, Old Dominion University Salma Monani, Gettysburg College “Indicting Colonial True Crime: The D-ecocinema Ethics of Indigenous Documentarians Shane Belcourt and Lisa Jackson” Ben Mendelsohn, Portland State University “Documenting ‘Lagoon Lifeworlds’ in Lagos, Nigeria: On Dele Adeyemo’s A Dance of the Mangroves (2023)” Wakae Nakane, University of Southern California “Fukushima Aftershocks: Women’s Post-Disaster Documentaries” Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi, Old Dominion University “Gender and Environmental Activism in Iranian Women’s Biographical Documentaries” Sponsored by Documentary Studies Scholarly Interest Group C14 — Remapping 20th Century Cinema Histories CHAIR Livia Perez, University of California, Santa Cruz / University of Oregon Sean Batton, University of Chicago “Reconstructing the 20th Century: Chris Marker and the Legacy of the Popular Education Movement” Félix Veilleux, University of Toronto “Marie-Anne Colson-Malleville’s Colonial Cinema: Techno-logy of French Mid-Century International Socialist Filmmaking” Jose Capino, University of Illinois “From Manila’s Movie Factories ‘To All The Freedom-Loving Peoples of Vietnam’: US-Sponsored Anticommunist Melodrama” Livia Perez, University of California, Santa Cruz / University of Oregon “Findings in the Closet: The Case of Les Antillais/The West Indies directed by Norma Bahia Pontes (1966/1967)” Sponsored by French/Francophone Scholarly Interest Group
March 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Session B - Thursday, April 3 - 11:00am to 12:45pm
B21 — Theorizing Nations, Sounds, and Images CHAIR Navid Darvishzadeh, Georgia State University Navid Darvishzadeh, Georgia State University “Hand-woven Chronotope of Imaginal Cinema: Deleuzian Dream-Image in Iranian Modern Cinema” Gayas Eape, Coastal Carolina University “Treble Cultures in Times of Bass: Encounters from North Indian Streets” Osarugue Otebele, University of California, Berkeley “Cinema and the Limtations of Order: Nollywood Video Films and the Aesthetics of a Nation’s Un-Becoming” Dong Yang, Grinnell College “The Surface of Blandness: Late Deleuze, Ink-Wash Animation, and the (Im)Perceptible Planes” Sponsored by CinemArts Scholarly Interest Group
March 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Session A - Thursday, April 3 - 9:00am to 10:45am
A09 — Centering Blackness Onscreen CHAIR Subha Xavier, Emory University Subha Xavier, Emory University “‘Le Noir dans le noir’: Blackness and Lighting in African Film” Ryan Friedman, Ohio State University “A Picture of Modern Black Life: The Musical Specialty in Sound-Era Race Films” Aaron Hunter, Trinity College Dublin “Centering Blackness on Film and on Screen: Haskell Wexler, Sidney Poitier and In the Heat of the Night” Todd Jurgess, University of South Florida “Once Expropriated . . . : Black Visual Intonation and Digital Motion in Contemporary Cinema” A16 — Solidarity Filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s CHAIR Masha Shpolberg, Bard College CO-CHAIR David Fresko, Rutgers University Sponsored by Caucus on Class Ling Zhang, Purchase College “Labor on Screen: Narrating Chinese Workers From the Cultural Revolution to the Economic Reforms” Masha Shpolberg, Bard College “‘Solidarity’ Films: Bridging the Worker- Intellectual Divide in 1970s Polish Cinema” David Fresko, Rutgers University “Black Revolution / White Solidarity: Notes on Three Newsreel Films” Matthew Croombs, University of Calgary “French Anti-Colonial Documentary, Historical Disorientation, and the Limits of Solidarity”
March 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Camera obscura: Frankfurt edition
January 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Me too! #SCMS25 #SCMS2025 Will be there to talk about UNESCO TV in mid-century West Africa on a stellar useful TV roundtable.
November 25, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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On 22 November the @scmspedagogy.bsky.social + SCMS Professional Development Committee are hosting a virtual roundtable on evaluating effective teaching. Participants will discuss job market teaching demos, peer evals, student learning outcomes assessment, and more! Registration link in comments.
November 1, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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New coffee set up for the office. ☕️☕️☕️☕️😁
September 23, 2024 at 7:31 PM