Jennifer (JB) Bean
@jmbean.bsky.social
assoc prof @ UW CMS, editor Feminist Media Histories, lover of tea, pickleball addict, collector of (filmic) junk
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We did it!! New issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social is LIVE. Pleasure working w/ my co-editor @benspky.bsky.social, FMH team @jmbean.bsky.social and @cainmiller.bsky.social, and our brilliant contributors to make special issue on "Nontheatrical Medias" happen. See Ben's thread for issue content! 🥂
The new issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social—edited by @tanyagoldman.bsky.social and myself; and published by @ucpress.bsky.social—is out now! The topic of the issue is nontheatrical media. Many thanks to @jmbean.bsky.social and @cainmiller.bsky.social for all their help shepherding this to completion
Volume 11 Issue 2 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press
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April 28, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We did it!! New issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social is LIVE. Pleasure working w/ my co-editor @benspky.bsky.social, FMH team @jmbean.bsky.social and @cainmiller.bsky.social, and our brilliant contributors to make special issue on "Nontheatrical Medias" happen. See Ben's thread for issue content! 🥂
FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO TURN ANGER INTO ACTION
Here’s advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. I’m retyping from Allison McGuffie’s post, which she cut and pasted from a friend.
There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’ve by far the most important things.
Here’s advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. I’m retyping from Allison McGuffie’s post, which she cut and pasted from a friend.
There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’ve by far the most important things.
February 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO TURN ANGER INTO ACTION
Here’s advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. I’m retyping from Allison McGuffie’s post, which she cut and pasted from a friend.
There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’ve by far the most important things.
Here’s advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. I’m retyping from Allison McGuffie’s post, which she cut and pasted from a friend.
There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’ve by far the most important things.
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And in celebration of Black History Month, this issue will stream freely on the UC Press website through the end of February!
We will continue to share and promote the issue's contents throughout the week!
We will continue to share and promote the issue's contents throughout the week!
We are pleased to announce that our brand new issue, “Camille Billops and James V. Hatch: A Certain Defiance", guest edited by Terri Francis and Miriam Petty, is now live!
You can read the editors' introduction here:
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
You can read the editors' introduction here:
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
Editors’ Introduction: A Certain Defiance: The Filmic Art, Archives, and Activism of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch
You have to have a certain sense of defiance in you so you don’t self-destruct. They can’t stop the creative thing in you.1—Camille Billops
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January 22, 2025 at 11:35 PM
And in celebration of Black History Month, this issue will stream freely on the UC Press website through the end of February!
We will continue to share and promote the issue's contents throughout the week!
We will continue to share and promote the issue's contents throughout the week!
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Reminder: Our 11.1 issue is free to read throughout Black History Month 🙂
Here is one of the essays included in the issue:
Here is one of the essays included in the issue:
In this piece from our 11.1 issue, Joshua Chambers-Letson tracks the centering of performance and theatricality in Camille Billops and James V. Hatch's interrogation of race and racism in The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks (1994).
Read the full essay here:
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
Read the full essay here:
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...
As It Turns Out, What Was Being Staged Was: Racist Theatricality, Racial Reality, and The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks
Camille Billops and James Hatch’s documentary The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks is an allegorical descent through the hell of US American racism, making use of Dante Alighieri’s classic poem from t...
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January 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reminder: Our 11.1 issue is free to read throughout Black History Month 🙂
Here is one of the essays included in the issue:
Here is one of the essays included in the issue:
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Coming up at the Sundance Festival: the world premiere of KHARTOUM, produced by the Sudan Film Factory with archive research contributed by our King’s College London project SUDAN MEMORY. Watch this space for the European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
Sundance 2025: Poster and First Clips for World Cinema Documentary Contender “Khartoum”
The documentary, created by a collective of filmmakers, centers on five people who reenact their stories of survival after fleeing Sudan’s capital following the outbreak of war.
film-fest-report.com
January 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Coming up at the Sundance Festival: the world premiere of KHARTOUM, produced by the Sudan Film Factory with archive research contributed by our King’s College London project SUDAN MEMORY. Watch this space for the European premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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This by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on the terrible California fires is very good. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/whats-go...
What’s gone can never be replaced: thoughts on Los Angeles, disasters, and the present moment | MZS | Roger Ebert
A few thoughts on the LA wildfires, and what it is doing to American entertainment, culture, and our collective psyches.
www.rogerebert.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This by @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social on the terrible California fires is very good. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/whats-go...
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I’m gathering a list of #OpenAccess or #freelyaccessible #Film, #Television, #ScreenStudies, #audiovisualmediastudies Publications, Editors and Advocates People at Bluesky. Please let me know if you’d like me to add you. go.bsky.app/NBipNnW
November 11, 2024 at 9:05 AM
I’m gathering a list of #OpenAccess or #freelyaccessible #Film, #Television, #ScreenStudies, #audiovisualmediastudies Publications, Editors and Advocates People at Bluesky. Please let me know if you’d like me to add you. go.bsky.app/NBipNnW
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ICYMI: Last month @rewirenewsgroup.com published a comprehensive guide to protecting your reproductive health during the next Trump administration, including how to stock up on birth control and abortion pills, and how to protect your digital privacy rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/12/16/h...
How to Protect Your Reproductive Health During Trump’s Second Presidency
Our comprehensive guide for protecting your access to birth control, medication abortion, and emergency contraception before Donald Trump takes office.
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January 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ICYMI: Last month @rewirenewsgroup.com published a comprehensive guide to protecting your reproductive health during the next Trump administration, including how to stock up on birth control and abortion pills, and how to protect your digital privacy rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/12/16/h...
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For those of you who want to help, here are some local Altadena organizations who were impacted.
These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do.
Thread. #EatonFire
These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do.
Thread. #EatonFire
January 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
For those of you who want to help, here are some local Altadena organizations who were impacted.
These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do.
Thread. #EatonFire
These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do.
Thread. #EatonFire
New CFP!
Happy Holidays! ⛄️
We have a new CFP! Special Issue on Reproductive Politics & Media Histories, guest edited by Shelley Stamp. Proposals are due April 1, 2025: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
We have a new CFP! Special Issue on Reproductive Politics & Media Histories, guest edited by Shelley Stamp. Proposals are due April 1, 2025: online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
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December 30, 2024 at 7:01 AM
New CFP!
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Post-doctoral #opportunities working in an archive - Women's Screen work. #WomenInFilm. 👇
britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
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Jobs: postdoctoral posts Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible / closes 20 January 2025
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum is recruitng for two postdoctoral posts to support the work of Professor Helen M Hanson (Project Lead), and the project team on the Arts and Humanities Research Council-...
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December 16, 2024 at 7:36 AM
Post-doctoral #opportunities working in an archive - Women's Screen work. #WomenInFilm. 👇
britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...
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It's here!!! I'm extremely excited to share “Unaccountably Queer,” the special issue of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies that I edited in honor of Judith Butler’s groundbreaking “Giving an Account of Oneself." read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Volume 35 Issue 3 | differences | Duke University Press
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December 12, 2024 at 2:13 PM
It's here!!! I'm extremely excited to share “Unaccountably Queer,” the special issue of Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies that I edited in honor of Judith Butler’s groundbreaking “Giving an Account of Oneself." read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
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If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives:
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
December 7, 2024 at 12:33 PM
If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives:
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
My amazing colleague @goldenowens.bsky.social rocked this conversation with Boots Riley. I’m a huge fan (of both)! Check it out…
Check out my Interview of Director/Activist/Rapper Boots Riley! This interview was done at the University of Washington as an Office of Public Lectures event in collaboration with my home department of Cinema and Media Studies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kD7...
An Evening with Raymond "Boots" Riley
YouTube video by UW Office of Public Lectures
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December 7, 2024 at 12:57 AM
My amazing colleague @goldenowens.bsky.social rocked this conversation with Boots Riley. I’m a huge fan (of both)! Check it out…
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via Decolonial Film Festival: un extrait du film Beyrouth, ma ville (1982) de Jocelyne Saab. En tandem avec le dramaturge libanais Roger Assaf, elle décide de parcourir sa ville assiégée par les Israéliens et de rendre compte de la situation à Beyrouth. #arabcinema #lebanon #palestine
December 2, 2024 at 3:17 PM
via Decolonial Film Festival: un extrait du film Beyrouth, ma ville (1982) de Jocelyne Saab. En tandem avec le dramaturge libanais Roger Assaf, elle décide de parcourir sa ville assiégée par les Israéliens et de rendre compte de la situation à Beyrouth. #arabcinema #lebanon #palestine
Sweet! Borzage rocks….
They aren't promoting it for some reason, but that is indeed the newly restored, substantially different pre-censorship version of Frank Borzage's 1933 MAN'S CASTLE on the Criterion Channel -- a masterpiece now even masterpiecier. @criterionchannl www.criterionchannel.com/pre-code-col...
Man’s Castle - Season 1 - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Frank Borzage • 1933 • United States
Starring Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau
Finding her homeless and half-starved, happy-go-lucky wanderer Bill (Spencer Tracy) takes in T...
www.criterionchannel.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Sweet! Borzage rocks….
This whole thread is good— what *is* the humanities anyways? @miriamposner.com never disappoints
Many scientists appear to believe that “the humanities” refers to anything that involves human welfare, rather than a very specific set of methods and conversations. I did not realize this belief was so widespread.
December 3, 2024 at 6:18 AM
This whole thread is good— what *is* the humanities anyways? @miriamposner.com never disappoints
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Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons.
www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...
www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...
National Film Board of Canada
Discover our collection of films by Indigenous filmmakers, from Alanis Obomsawin to Gil Cardinal.
www.nfb.ca
November 28, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Hey! Did you all know that you can watch tons of indigenous cinema here on the National Film Board of Canada's website? Well, you can, and I thought I'd share just a few of my favorites today for... reasons.
www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...
www.nfb.ca/indigenous-c...
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Greetings, Bluesky!
What better use of a first post than to announce our new CFP!
Special Issue on Craftwork with the Digital, guest edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. Proposals are due February 15, 2025:
online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
What better use of a first post than to announce our new CFP!
Special Issue on Craftwork with the Digital, guest edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. Proposals are due February 15, 2025:
online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
online.ucpress.edu
November 13, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Greetings, Bluesky!
What better use of a first post than to announce our new CFP!
Special Issue on Craftwork with the Digital, guest edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. Proposals are due February 15, 2025:
online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
What better use of a first post than to announce our new CFP!
Special Issue on Craftwork with the Digital, guest edited by Christina Corfield and Whitney Trettien. Proposals are due February 15, 2025:
online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibr...
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Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!
Scholarship in Sound & Image
Workshop on Videographic Criticism
sites.middlebury.edu
November 18, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!
This may be my favorite video essay ever. I feel seen. And (my rage) revered.
November 24, 2024 at 7:29 AM
This may be my favorite video essay ever. I feel seen. And (my rage) revered.
Spread the word— safe spaces/states for reproductive health in the US
November 22, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Spread the word— safe spaces/states for reproductive health in the US
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Next week, the 1st in my 3 book series will go on sale from Greasy Grass Press. Centering around an Indigenous plant geneticist, in a world where corporations have taken the vestiges of power from elected governments, as she goes from submission to rebellion. greasygrasspress.vip/products/the...
The Root and the Seed
Indigenous Futurism Award Winner, Weyodi OldBear uses her skills as an RPG game developer, her skills at building new worlds, and her skills in solution seeking gained by being an Indigenous woman in ...
greasygrasspress.vip
November 22, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Next week, the 1st in my 3 book series will go on sale from Greasy Grass Press. Centering around an Indigenous plant geneticist, in a world where corporations have taken the vestiges of power from elected governments, as she goes from submission to rebellion. greasygrasspress.vip/products/the...
The “book hunt” assignment. Love this idea. Am gonna adopt/translate for 19th and early 20th c. film/media/archeology
I’ve had success with something similar as an extra credit opportunity (complete with taking shelfies in the library) and it’s fun. This is much better thought out and gives great directions! 📚
Feeling stuck coming up with good assignments that can't be completed with AI but don't require in-class work?
I present: the book hunt. A simple but very useful exercise that went over well with my intro class this semester.
cassandragoodhistorian.com/2024/11/12/t...
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I present: the book hunt. A simple but very useful exercise that went over well with my intro class this semester.
cassandragoodhistorian.com/2024/11/12/t...
🗃️
November 21, 2024 at 10:15 PM
The “book hunt” assignment. Love this idea. Am gonna adopt/translate for 19th and early 20th c. film/media/archeology
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Transphobia isn’t a distraction. It’s an attack on one of the most vulnerable populations and a reinforcement of biological essentialism, a pillar of patriarchal control that trans identity rightfully threatens
November 21, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Transphobia isn’t a distraction. It’s an attack on one of the most vulnerable populations and a reinforcement of biological essentialism, a pillar of patriarchal control that trans identity rightfully threatens