Tanya Goldman
@tanyagoldman.bsky.social
cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her
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Tanya Goldman
@tanyagoldman.bsky.social
· Jun 24
Professional update: This August, I will be beginning new job as Assistant Professor in Department of Communication, Media, Journalism, + Film at Missouri State University. Happy to have landed somewhere permanent with welcoming colleagues, have many to thank for their support over past decade...
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Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
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PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
Because @lollardfish.bsky.social says we should promote our books: utpress.utexas.edu/9781477313138/
Loving Sports When They Don't Love You Back
Triumphant wins, gut-wrenching losses, last-second shots, underdogs, competition, and loyalty—it’s fun to be a fan. But when a football player takes a hi...
utpress.utexas.edu
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
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Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Just Published: For the latest @jcmsjournal.bsky.social issue, Mal Ahern and I co-edited an In Focus dossier on 'Images and (Infra)structures,' which originally emerged from a lively @scmstudies.bsky.social roundtable in 2022. What, we ask, do images and infrastructure have to say to each other?
Hard agree with @pjmaciak.bsky.social on this (plus similar moves later with shows like SCHITT’S CREEK). I mentioned this to my “Netflix Effect” students multiple times last spring.
MAD MEN dropping its back catalog on Netflix while it was still on the air is an underrated event in the history of the streaming boom, I think.
Hey, look! Something is actually being *added* to the HBO Max library. And it's Mad Men finally in 4K!
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hard agree with @pjmaciak.bsky.social on this (plus similar moves later with shows like SCHITT’S CREEK). I mentioned this to my “Netflix Effect” students multiple times last spring.
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AI in higher education is very simple: the neoliberal demands of the marketplace require institutions to do the song and dance, and it is left to professors to try to mitigate the damage as the only actors who care about actual student learning.
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
AI in higher education is very simple: the neoliberal demands of the marketplace require institutions to do the song and dance, and it is left to professors to try to mitigate the damage as the only actors who care about actual student learning.
"Use AI, not too much, mostly to connect with the intelligence of other human beings, not AI.” Well said, @dancohen.org.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
"Use AI, not too much, mostly to connect with the intelligence of other human beings, not AI.” Well said, @dancohen.org.
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Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
Found by a student of my colleague Eli Boonin-Vail’s at SUNY Albany:
New Rochelle, NY: theater taken over by Thanhouser star Fan Bourke in 1916. She says: “I think that a woman is as well qualified, if not better qualified, to run a neighborhood motion picture theatre, than a man."
New Rochelle, NY: theater taken over by Thanhouser star Fan Bourke in 1916. She says: “I think that a woman is as well qualified, if not better qualified, to run a neighborhood motion picture theatre, than a man."
November 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Found by a student of my colleague Eli Boonin-Vail’s at SUNY Albany:
New Rochelle, NY: theater taken over by Thanhouser star Fan Bourke in 1916. She says: “I think that a woman is as well qualified, if not better qualified, to run a neighborhood motion picture theatre, than a man."
New Rochelle, NY: theater taken over by Thanhouser star Fan Bourke in 1916. She says: “I think that a woman is as well qualified, if not better qualified, to run a neighborhood motion picture theatre, than a man."
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This website is entirely new to me. Can’t wait to dive in!
I showed early anime Spring Comes for Ponsuke in class yesterday before our feature screening of Mizoguchi’s Sisters of the Gion. The students loved both & we had a good discussion. Some teaching days are great. animation.filmarchives.jp/en/works/vie...
Spring Comes to Ponsuke | Details of the work | Japanese Animated Film Classics
ポン助の春 (Spring Comes to Ponsuke) Prod. Year : 1934 Dir. : Ikuo Oishi。In the bitter cold winter, Ponsuke is having a hard time searching for food. Ponsuke finds a big bamboo shoot, but it runs away in ...
animation.filmarchives.jp
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
This website is entirely new to me. Can’t wait to dive in!
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What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters #COP30 #climatechange https://therevelator.org/celebrity-catastrophes/
What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters • The Revelator
When catastrophe becomes celebrity, we stop witnessing and start scrolling, turning suffering into spectacle. But we can break that cycle.
therevelator.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:04 PM
What Catastrophes Get Our Attention, and Why It Matters #COP30 #climatechange https://therevelator.org/celebrity-catastrophes/
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A wealth of talent behind the Hitchcock signature: Alma Reville, Joan Harrison, Daphne du Maurier & Patricia Highsmith.
The Gutter's own Carol Borden has some thoughts on the women and genderqueer person who wrote Hitchcock! culturalgutter.com/2025/11/20/f...
From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, th…
culturalgutter.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A wealth of talent behind the Hitchcock signature: Alma Reville, Joan Harrison, Daphne du Maurier & Patricia Highsmith.
Can’t read because paywall but I appreciate the sentiment. Hands off my em dash AI!
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Can’t read because paywall but I appreciate the sentiment. Hands off my em dash AI!
Caught new documentary MISTRESS DISPELLER today at my local arthouse. Quite liked it!
November 23, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Caught new documentary MISTRESS DISPELLER today at my local arthouse. Quite liked it!
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Need a briefing on current genAI copyright landscape, with some historical perspective? Pam Samuelson and Silicon Flatirons are here to help: siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/u... (there is video too!)
siliconflatirons.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Need a briefing on current genAI copyright landscape, with some historical perspective? Pam Samuelson and Silicon Flatirons are here to help: siliconflatirons.org/wp-content/u... (there is video too!)
#NoirvemberChallenge — anyone here seen Norwegian noir DEATH IS A CARESS by Edith Carlmar? I’ve always longed to see it and turns out it is on YouTube with English subtitles. So…now you know what I’ll be doing this weekend!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmv...
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
#NoirvemberChallenge — anyone here seen Norwegian noir DEATH IS A CARESS by Edith Carlmar? I’ve always longed to see it and turns out it is on YouTube with English subtitles. So…now you know what I’ll be doing this weekend!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcmv...
Done with professorial things for 1.5 weeks and not traveling for Thanksgiving! So in between finishing up some writing projects, I’ve decided to spend my spare time reading Karen Hao’s EMPIRE OF AI and being angry 🙃
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Done with professorial things for 1.5 weeks and not traveling for Thanksgiving! So in between finishing up some writing projects, I’ve decided to spend my spare time reading Karen Hao’s EMPIRE OF AI and being angry 🙃
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Amen.
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Amen.
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It took some time, but now my essay «Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‹Photographic›» is finally out in open access, as part of the latest issue of «Photography & Culture» www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Images from Images Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‘Photographic’
AI image generators such as Midjourney, Dall-E or Stable Diffusion are able to perfectly simulate the appearance of photographic images, but they are no longer part of the history of optical media....
www.tandfonline.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
It took some time, but now my essay «Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‹Photographic›» is finally out in open access, as part of the latest issue of «Photography & Culture» www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Just stumbled upon this special issue from Transnational Screens — "Transnational Encounters With/In Colonial Archives: Agency, Artistry and Ethics.” Looks like a banger; time to fire up my university's interlibrary loan apparatus. 🔥
Volume 16, Issue 2 (2025)
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrc21/1...
Volume 16, Issue 2 (2025)
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrc21/1...
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Just stumbled upon this special issue from Transnational Screens — "Transnational Encounters With/In Colonial Archives: Agency, Artistry and Ethics.” Looks like a banger; time to fire up my university's interlibrary loan apparatus. 🔥
Volume 16, Issue 2 (2025)
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrc21/1...
Volume 16, Issue 2 (2025)
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtrc21/1...
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
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There are many mid-20th century short documentaries about the arts including THE ART OF LOTTE REINIGER from 1970. Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJ...
There’s also a great edited volume on the subject: ART IN THE CINEMA: THE MID-CENTURY ART DOCUMENTARY
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-in-th...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJ...
There’s also a great edited volume on the subject: ART IN THE CINEMA: THE MID-CENTURY ART DOCUMENTARY
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-in-th...
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
There are many mid-20th century short documentaries about the arts including THE ART OF LOTTE REINIGER from 1970. Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJ...
There’s also a great edited volume on the subject: ART IN THE CINEMA: THE MID-CENTURY ART DOCUMENTARY
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-in-th...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TJ...
There’s also a great edited volume on the subject: ART IN THE CINEMA: THE MID-CENTURY ART DOCUMENTARY
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/art-in-th...
Yesterday I introduced two Missouri State University undergrad art majors to animator Lotte Reiniger! They marveled at how much labor had gone into every silhouette. Also picked up on influence of Asian shadow play.
Anyway…fighting the good fight one student at a time! 📽️
Anyway…fighting the good fight one student at a time! 📽️
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Yesterday I introduced two Missouri State University undergrad art majors to animator Lotte Reiniger! They marveled at how much labor had gone into every silhouette. Also picked up on influence of Asian shadow play.
Anyway…fighting the good fight one student at a time! 📽️
Anyway…fighting the good fight one student at a time! 📽️
If I still lived in New York absolutely I would @gothamist.com! (I lived in NYC from 2011 to summer 2025 and always prayed Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON would play on a screen here. Of course it does so within months of me moving 🤣)
gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
November 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
If I still lived in New York absolutely I would @gothamist.com! (I lived in NYC from 2011 to summer 2025 and always prayed Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON would play on a screen here. Of course it does so within months of me moving 🤣)
gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
