Shelley Stamp
@shelleystamp.bsky.social
Film historian, author MOVIE-STRUCK GIRLS & LOIS WEBER IN EARLY HYWD, curator PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FMKRS, editor Feminist Media Histories book series. Quoted NPR, NY Times, LA Times, Guardian & more.
Very curious to see this!
NEON has finally announced a theatrical release date for ALPHA, the genre-bending third feature from Julia Ducournau.
Julia Ducournau’s ALPHA Finally Has A Release Date
NEON has finally announced a theatrical release date for ALPHA, the genre-bending third feature from Julia Ducournau.
dlvr.it
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Very curious to see this!
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You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social
Behind the Scenes: How UC Faculty Beat Back Trump's Attacks
YouTube video by UC Faculty
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social
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Breaking Louise Brooks news! From Flicker Alley and @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social and @thomasgladysz.bsky.social and me!
Focus on Louise Brooks: a Lulu of a Blu-ray from Flicker Alley and San Francisco Film Preserve
Call me Hedda Hopper*, because I have been keeping this one under my hat for quite some time. Coming on 13 January and available to pre-order now, Focus on Louise Brooks (Flicker Alley) is the perf…
silentlondon.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Breaking Louise Brooks news! From Flicker Alley and @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social and @thomasgladysz.bsky.social and me!
Screened Isabel Sandoval’s LINGUA FRANCA as the last film in my Female Filmmakers class today. Though made in 2019, it could not have been more resonant.
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Screened Isabel Sandoval’s LINGUA FRANCA as the last film in my Female Filmmakers class today. Though made in 2019, it could not have been more resonant.
This is terrific!
This was the first video essay I made, when I still didn't quite have a handle on editing software -- not that I'm much better now -- but I still like it, and will probably show it to students later today.
vimeo.com/426581272
vimeo.com/426581272
Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross: a noir hero, desiring
In Criss Cross Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home to LA after 8 months of wondering around working odd jobs and trying to forget his ex — Ana (Yvonne…
vimeo.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
This is terrific!
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Legend. Arguably did more to shape “New American Cinema” than anyone else.
BOTD Dede Allen!!! Arthur Penn's go-to cutter (incl Bonnie & Clyde, Night Moves); also Odds Against Tomorrow, The Hustler, Serpico, Dog Day, Reds, Wonder Boys
Um, Wow
More
@splicedpersonality.bsky.social: www.wbur.org/news/2023/07...
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.salon.com/2010/04/20/d...
Um, Wow
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@splicedpersonality.bsky.social: www.wbur.org/news/2023/07...
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: www.salon.com/2010/04/20/d...
Dede Allen: The woman who turned film violence into poetry - Salon.com
The late Dede Allen edited
www.salon.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Legend. Arguably did more to shape “New American Cinema” than anyone else.
Can I brag about my students a bit? For my Female Filmmakers class 60 students chose a filmmaker & either created a new Wikipedia page or expanded an existing page. They knocked it out of the park! Lots of great new info! Lots of non-English sources translated! Great insights abt filmmaking! 😊
December 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Can I brag about my students a bit? For my Female Filmmakers class 60 students chose a filmmaker & either created a new Wikipedia page or expanded an existing page. They knocked it out of the park! Lots of great new info! Lots of non-English sources translated! Great insights abt filmmaking! 😊
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An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.
Just fucking pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president.
Just fucking pathetic.
Just fucking pathetic.
John Giorno “appears to fight sleep.”
December 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
John Giorno “appears to fight sleep.”
Has anyone written a comparison of Eva Victor’s SORRY, BABY and Luca Guadagnino’s AFTER THE HUNT? Victor’s is the stronger work by far, IMO. But Andrew Garfield is masterful as a particular kind of shit familiar to many women in academe. The scene of him eating at the Indian restaurant is 👌🏻.
December 2, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Has anyone written a comparison of Eva Victor’s SORRY, BABY and Luca Guadagnino’s AFTER THE HUNT? Victor’s is the stronger work by far, IMO. But Andrew Garfield is masterful as a particular kind of shit familiar to many women in academe. The scene of him eating at the Indian restaurant is 👌🏻.
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whatever else you're doing right now, this is more important!!! @criterionchannl.bsky.social 🎞️😍 www.criterionchannel.com/black-debuta...
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
whatever else you're doing right now, this is more important!!! @criterionchannl.bsky.social 🎞️😍 www.criterionchannel.com/black-debuta...
Day 30 #NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite Noir Ending
No question.
Thanks @ladykdesigns.bsky.social for the fun challenge.
Favorite Noir Ending
No question.
Thanks @ladykdesigns.bsky.social for the fun challenge.
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Day 30 #NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite Noir Ending
No question.
Thanks @ladykdesigns.bsky.social for the fun challenge.
Favorite Noir Ending
No question.
Thanks @ladykdesigns.bsky.social for the fun challenge.
Day 29 #NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite RKO Noir
Lots to choose from, but I’m going with THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE. A combo of DETOUR and THE HITCHHIKER, but someone even more perverse and propulsive than either of them. Knocked my socks off when I saw it a few years ago.
Favorite RKO Noir
Lots to choose from, but I’m going with THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE. A combo of DETOUR and THE HITCHHIKER, but someone even more perverse and propulsive than either of them. Knocked my socks off when I saw it a few years ago.
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Day 29 #NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite RKO Noir
Lots to choose from, but I’m going with THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE. A combo of DETOUR and THE HITCHHIKER, but someone even more perverse and propulsive than either of them. Knocked my socks off when I saw it a few years ago.
Favorite RKO Noir
Lots to choose from, but I’m going with THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE. A combo of DETOUR and THE HITCHHIKER, but someone even more perverse and propulsive than either of them. Knocked my socks off when I saw it a few years ago.
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Who’s gonna tell ‘em
November 29, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Who’s gonna tell ‘em
So simple…. and yet seemingly impossible.
If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
So simple…. and yet seemingly impossible.
Saw WAKE UP DEAD MAN tonight (great fun!), but was utterly dispirited by the trailers beforehand: 2 remakes, a film based on a video game, a film based on a TV show, and a sequel. Felt like my profession evaporating before my eyes. 🫠
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Saw WAKE UP DEAD MAN tonight (great fun!), but was utterly dispirited by the trailers beforehand: 2 remakes, a film based on a video game, a film based on a TV show, and a sequel. Felt like my profession evaporating before my eyes. 🫠
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So if all the people from “third world countries” should be banned from migrating to America because of a deadly shooting, what are we going to do about all the armed and alienated young white men?
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
So if all the people from “third world countries” should be banned from migrating to America because of a deadly shooting, what are we going to do about all the armed and alienated young white men?
Day 28 #NoirvemberChallenge
Noir you watch over and over
OUT OF THE PAST
Partly cuz I teach it, partly cuz I love it, and partly to swoon over Mitchum
Noir you watch over and over
OUT OF THE PAST
Partly cuz I teach it, partly cuz I love it, and partly to swoon over Mitchum
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Day 28 #NoirvemberChallenge
Noir you watch over and over
OUT OF THE PAST
Partly cuz I teach it, partly cuz I love it, and partly to swoon over Mitchum
Noir you watch over and over
OUT OF THE PAST
Partly cuz I teach it, partly cuz I love it, and partly to swoon over Mitchum
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People will listen to neuroscience podcasts 18 hours a day and never shut up about optimizing themselves and still willfully forget that the point of making art is not for a computer to generate an image as quickly as possible it is to activate different parts of that brain you supposedly care about
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
People will listen to neuroscience podcasts 18 hours a day and never shut up about optimizing themselves and still willfully forget that the point of making art is not for a computer to generate an image as quickly as possible it is to activate different parts of that brain you supposedly care about
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Always ask whose crimes are seen as incriminating a whole population and whose aren't. "During 2018–2021, a total of 3,991 female victims of intimate partner homicide were reported to NVDRS...." www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Killing is bad, and to that end I'd like to call attention to the dozens killed in small boats in the southern Caribbean by the Trump Administration and the estimated 600,000 who've died of preventable disease and starvation thanks to the administration's destruction of USAID.
November 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Always ask whose crimes are seen as incriminating a whole population and whose aren't. "During 2018–2021, a total of 3,991 female victims of intimate partner homicide were reported to NVDRS...." www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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we have to go back. to warn them.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
we have to go back. to warn them.
Day 27 #NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite noir featuring food
THE KILLERS
“Everything we want's on the dinner. That's the way you work it, huh?”
Favorite noir featuring food
THE KILLERS
“Everything we want's on the dinner. That's the way you work it, huh?”
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Day 27 #NoirvemberChallenge
Favorite noir featuring food
THE KILLERS
“Everything we want's on the dinner. That's the way you work it, huh?”
Favorite noir featuring food
THE KILLERS
“Everything we want's on the dinner. That's the way you work it, huh?”
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GOAT— HORSES 50th Anniversary
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 AM
GOAT— HORSES 50th Anniversary
“The story of women’s liberation isn’t a straight line; the state of women’s rights is blurry and contradictory. Things are moving backward and forward at the same time. There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress.”
Wrote about the backlash to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash there are no waves we are swimming through circular currents and why we’re not on the Faludi style backlash of the right (& center and left’s) dreams: www.thecut.com/article/why-...
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
www.thecut.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
“The story of women’s liberation isn’t a straight line; the state of women’s rights is blurry and contradictory. Things are moving backward and forward at the same time. There are no clean demarcations between feminism and its backlash and the backlash to the backlash, between progress and regress.”