Joanne Bernardi
@jobi33.bsky.social
Silent, early, pre-cinema; travel, ephemera, anime, Japan, sometimes other stuff. Digital humanist. 日本文化学映画史. Directs "Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th C. Visual & Material Culture"
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🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
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#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...
#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
Saw Mamoru Oshii's "Angel's Egg" Thurs night at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social - our 98-yr-old Little Cinema Movement survivor. Full house. 4K restoration happily displaces bootleg video experience. Worth seeing, see Ebert.com #Angel'sEgg #MamoruOshii #80sanime
Angel’s Egg movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert
A captivating experiment, a vision of the future that ties itself to the themes of faith and identity that have dominated fiction since the start of the written word.
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November 21, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Saw Mamoru Oshii's "Angel's Egg" Thurs night at @thelittletheatre.bsky.social - our 98-yr-old Little Cinema Movement survivor. Full house. 4K restoration happily displaces bootleg video experience. Worth seeing, see Ebert.com #Angel'sEgg #MamoruOshii #80sanime
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Librarians, help us celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #InternetArchive! 🌐
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
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#Wayback1T #Libraries
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
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#Wayback1T #Libraries
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Librarians, help us celebrate 1 trillion web pages preserved by the #InternetArchive! 🌐
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/
🧵
#Wayback1T #Libraries
Use our resource guide, complete with templates, visuals & event ideas, to connect your community to the web’s history.
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/10/07/
🧵
#Wayback1T #Libraries
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We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
August 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.
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“Our shared identity is not born of common ancestry or tribal origin. It is built instead on self-governing principles — expansive, open-ended, and intentionally universal. The point of America is that it stands only for these principles.”
July 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
“Our shared identity is not born of common ancestry or tribal origin. It is built instead on self-governing principles — expansive, open-ended, and intentionally universal. The point of America is that it stands only for these principles.”
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Happy Ishirō Honda's birthday!
May 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Happy Ishirō Honda's birthday!
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Can you learn about Japan’s history and culture from pamphlets? Sheet music? Postcards? 🏣 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Joanne Bernardi (University of Rochester) to discover some of the fascinating modern Japanese ephemera her Re-Envisioning Japan project explores! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
April 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Can you learn about Japan’s history and culture from pamphlets? Sheet music? Postcards? 🏣 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Joanne Bernardi (University of Rochester) to discover some of the fascinating modern Japanese ephemera her Re-Envisioning Japan project explores! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
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“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:18 AM
“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥
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The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders | The United States Army
U.S. Army Heritage Asian American & Pacific Islander Microsite | The United States Army
web.archive.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The Army just deleted without explanation its page about the 442nd “GO FOR BROKE” infantry regiment—the Japanese American WW2 unit that is the most decorated in US military history.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Archive is here:
web.archive.org/web/20250304...
Page was here:
www.army.mil/asianpacific...
Disgusting.
Ishinomaki, Japan, reborn.
In memory of 3.11.11
In memory of 3.11.11
March 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Ishinomaki, Japan, reborn.
In memory of 3.11.11
In memory of 3.11.11
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I have to wonder about the American strategy of spending three decades defunding and mocking the humanities, forcing kids into STEM fields whether they like it or not, and then rug-pulling the entire US science & medical sector because you got mad at women online.
February 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I have to wonder about the American strategy of spending three decades defunding and mocking the humanities, forcing kids into STEM fields whether they like it or not, and then rug-pulling the entire US science & medical sector because you got mad at women online.
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To my dear friends in Japan,
I am delighted to announce the successful crowdfunding of the Japanese edition of "MY LOST FREEDOM." The children's picture book will be released in the fall of 2025. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to my friends in Japan for their generous support.
Arigatou gozaimasu!
I am delighted to announce the successful crowdfunding of the Japanese edition of "MY LOST FREEDOM." The children's picture book will be released in the fall of 2025. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to my friends in Japan for their generous support.
Arigatou gozaimasu!
プロジェクト成立しました！お得なクラファンは2/5（水）23時59分まで！
こんにちは、サウザンブックスです。 絵本『MY LOST FREEDOM』翻訳出版クラウドファ
greenfunding.jp
February 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
To my dear friends in Japan,
I am delighted to announce the successful crowdfunding of the Japanese edition of "MY LOST FREEDOM." The children's picture book will be released in the fall of 2025. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to my friends in Japan for their generous support.
Arigatou gozaimasu!
I am delighted to announce the successful crowdfunding of the Japanese edition of "MY LOST FREEDOM." The children's picture book will be released in the fall of 2025. My heartfelt gratitude goes out to my friends in Japan for their generous support.
Arigatou gozaimasu!
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No words. If you go to the original post and follow the comments, you'll see the other websites that have suddenly disappeared. As if deleting websites erases history.
No words. If you go to the original post and follow the comments, you'll see the other websites that have suddenly disappeared. As if deleting websites erases history.
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
January 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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No words. If you go to the original post and follow the comments, you'll see the other websites that have suddenly disappeared. As if deleting websites erases history.
No words. If you go to the original post and follow the comments, you'll see the other websites that have suddenly disappeared. As if deleting websites erases history.
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December 14, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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Help subsidize the Toy Film Museum's move to and renovation of its new Nishijin, Kyoto location! camp-fire.jp/projects/811...
「おもちゃ映画ミュージアム」の引越し、移転先の改修、原状回復費用にご支援下さい
映像は人類の文化遺産。おもちゃ映画ミュージアムは映画・映像の発掘、関連資料や機材も含む保存と活用に取り組み10年。来年3月で賃貸契約が満期終了のため、4月から京都の西陣で再出発します。現状物件の原状回復、新拠点の改装、収蔵品搬出搬入に想像以上の費用がかかることが分かり、その支援をお願いいたします。
camp-fire.jp
December 30, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Help subsidize the Toy Film Museum's move to and renovation of its new Nishijin, Kyoto location! camp-fire.jp/projects/811...
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Make America White Men Again.
Seems to be working.
Seems to be working.
The official portraits of the 17 House Republicans elected to chair committees in the 119th Congress:
December 12, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Make America White Men Again.
Seems to be working.
Seems to be working.
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Every academic right now
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Every academic right now
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Since they seem really set on using that promo shot, let's review, and pass along to any newbies:
- do not watch Grave w/your kids (teens, ok your call)
- do not watch Grave w/strong drink
- do not watch Grave alone
- DO NOT watch Grave in MH crisis, or even mild upset
- do not watch Grave w/your kids (teens, ok your call)
- do not watch Grave w/strong drink
- do not watch Grave alone
- DO NOT watch Grave in MH crisis, or even mild upset
Studio Ghibli's haunting masterpiece Grave Of The Fireflies will stream on Netflix in September, and here's a new trailer....
https://buff.ly/3STIbUr
https://buff.ly/3STIbUr
August 27, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Since they seem really set on using that promo shot, let's review, and pass along to any newbies:
- do not watch Grave w/your kids (teens, ok your call)
- do not watch Grave w/strong drink
- do not watch Grave alone
- DO NOT watch Grave in MH crisis, or even mild upset
- do not watch Grave w/your kids (teens, ok your call)
- do not watch Grave w/strong drink
- do not watch Grave alone
- DO NOT watch Grave in MH crisis, or even mild upset
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Finally a VP who’s had to design a syllabus!
August 6, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Finally a VP who’s had to design a syllabus!
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If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.
anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...
anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...
July 4, 2024 at 7:57 PM
If you’ve never seen Dorothea Lange’s photographs of the World War II internment camps and the Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned there, today is a good day to see them and to commit to making sure this never happens again.
anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...
anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothe...