Historically, things haven't gone well for these states when they've joined together to oppose a union

Sorcerer (William Friedkin 1977)

Watching Shogun and it is very funny that Cosmo Jarvis's answer to the question of what a 17th-century ship pilot sounded like is Richard Burton

The Rising Tide Film Festival — formerly the Black Warrior Film Festival — has existed since 2013 as a student-run event showcasing the work of students with moviemaking ambitions. This year’s festival will take place April 6 from 9:30 a.m. to 7:15 p.m.
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My first day of my first archival research trip was at USC, and Ned made available more materials than I even thought to ask for. His enthusiasm made for the perfect start of a long journey. I can’t imagine how many books, articles, dissertations, etc. bear his fingerprints.

Awful, tragic news that very much could have been prevented

We lost a string on a birthday balloon and now it looks like the ending of The Curse

Congratulations Landon Palmer for winning this year's MISIG Outstanding Journal Article Award!

For those who haven't read it, it's available open access on Media Industries (which also publishes our Grad Award winning essays)!

In the land of steady habits, all my lovely and amazing friends with money are walking to vote for Holofcener and talking about it. Please give her your vote or you'll hurt my feelings. Enough said.

Welp, it happened here.

'The law bans any program that 'advocates for a divisive concept.' It also would prohibit higher education institutions from allowing individuals to use a restroom that is different from their sex as assigned at birth.'
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I have a short piece here where I use Harry Styles's film career to ponder how star images continue to matter to movies even as stars are less central to the business of today's Hollywood (a kind-of alt-conclusion to my book)

Thx Luis Rivera-Figueroa Laura Brown for the invitation!

In one hour!

Happy #scms24 eve! Here are the eight exciting panels sponsored by the Sound & Music Studies SIG this year 🧵

I went open call for #scms24 and ended up on this killer panel. Looking forward to presenting alongside these folks Saturday afternoon.