Matthew Noble-Olson
@mdno.bsky.social
I’m teaching my class on Detroit again this fall and so I am collecting material for my opening lecture on the evolving and varied identity of the city: from the Motor City to the Arsenal of Democracy to Motown to the capital of the twentieth century to the Dirty D to Techno City and more.
June 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’m teaching my class on Detroit again this fall and so I am collecting material for my opening lecture on the evolving and varied identity of the city: from the Motor City to the Arsenal of Democracy to Motown to the capital of the twentieth century to the Dirty D to Techno City and more.
Cocktails for @mauraseale.bsky.social bday
December 13, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Cocktails for @mauraseale.bsky.social bday
This feels like more of a threat than an offer of support.
December 9, 2024 at 8:33 PM
This feels like more of a threat than an offer of support.
Screening today, action cinema finale edition:
December 4, 2024 at 11:19 AM
Screening today, action cinema finale edition:
Screening today, classical film theory edition:
December 2, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Screening today, classical film theory edition:
The beer I ordered (on the right) is called “pure cinema.” And so I’m toasting Germaine Dulac.
November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM
The beer I ordered (on the right) is called “pure cinema.” And so I’m toasting Germaine Dulac.
TFW you are prepping to teach action cinema next week.
November 15, 2024 at 1:20 PM
TFW you are prepping to teach action cinema next week.
Teaching today, Action Cinema edition: "...Bay’s cinema invites us to consider the ideological register of his films and to ask what they might tell us about the excesses of early twenty-first century American cinema, and the globalized cultural and political environment in which it circulates..."
November 14, 2024 at 1:32 PM
Teaching today, Action Cinema edition: "...Bay’s cinema invites us to consider the ideological register of his films and to ask what they might tell us about the excesses of early twenty-first century American cinema, and the globalized cultural and political environment in which it circulates..."
Favorite photo you’ve taken this year.
Here’s mine:
Here’s mine:
November 13, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Favorite photo you’ve taken this year.
Here’s mine:
Here’s mine:
Pre-Symphony cocktails
November 10, 2024 at 1:53 AM
Pre-Symphony cocktails
Prepping for Michael Bay week in my action cinema class.
November 9, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Prepping for Michael Bay week in my action cinema class.
Speaking as someone born in Minneapolis, raised in St. Paul, and residing in MI for the past 6 years, I can say that it is very much a Midwest thing.
Note Eminem’s incorporation of it in Lose Yourself:
Note Eminem’s incorporation of it in Lose Yourself:
October 26, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Speaking as someone born in Minneapolis, raised in St. Paul, and residing in MI for the past 6 years, I can say that it is very much a Midwest thing.
Note Eminem’s incorporation of it in Lose Yourself:
Note Eminem’s incorporation of it in Lose Yourself:
First day of classes teaching/screening today, classical film theory: "It is all moving, all alive, all speeding about. It all moves into the foreground and then disappears somewhere."
August 26, 2024 at 10:23 AM
First day of classes teaching/screening today, classical film theory: "It is all moving, all alive, all speeding about. It all moves into the foreground and then disappears somewhere."
Totality achieved for just over a minute
April 9, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Totality achieved for just over a minute
Post a pic YOU took at sunset. No description.
April 6, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Post a pic YOU took at sunset. No description.
January 4, 2024 at 8:25 PM
December 29, 2023 at 5:41 PM
Screening today, Classical Film Theory finale edition:
December 5, 2023 at 1:04 PM
Screening today, Classical Film Theory finale edition:
I’m a fiend for (passion fruit) mojitos
November 24, 2023 at 1:15 AM
I’m a fiend for (passion fruit) mojitos
Screening today, Visualizing the Motor City edition:
November 15, 2023 at 2:11 PM
Screening today, Visualizing the Motor City edition:
Screening today, Visualizing the Motor City edition:
November 8, 2023 at 2:28 PM
Screening today, Visualizing the Motor City edition:
Screening today, Visualizing the Motor City edition:
November 1, 2023 at 11:32 AM
Screening today, Visualizing the Motor City edition:
Gift from a student
October 25, 2023 at 5:25 PM
Gift from a student