Martin L. Johnson

My dog’s name is Bela!

Letter | Bucknell University Press to Close This should alarm university presses nationwide, writes Aníbal González-Pérez.

very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors.

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Can public media survive? The U.S. Congress cut federal funding for public media, shuttering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. What does that mean for the future of local news across the country?

Delighted to have interviewed with WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti "On Point." First half discusses the historical intricacies of the US public media ecosystem. Second half I tried to detail how the GOP rescission bill was designed to attack democratic media.

Chapel Hill Has Densified from the Outside In: Why That’s a Concern - Triangle Blog Blog A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

Chapel Hill is getting denser, as anyone who has driven around the town can attest to. That is a good thing, given our need for more housing and the constraints imposed by a nearly built-out town and the rural buffer.

Good news, my #SilentFilm friends!!! Bonn Stummfilmtage is globally streaming daily screenings with original music! Today's selection is FORGOTTEN FACES (1928) -- w/ accompaniment by the always brilliant @megmorley.bsky.social 🎶😍🎞️

stummfilmtage.culturebase.org#video-anchor

Check out this list of 2025 National Film Preservation Fund grant recipients! Home movies, amateur films, travelogues, 'useful' media, and more. A treasure trove of #nontheatricalmedia! 🤩

@orphanfilm.bsky.social @amianet.bsky.social

As a Durham, NC native, Yonah is familiar with the success of Chapel Hill Transit's fare free bus system (which is a really a pre-paid system, with UNC-CH and local gov'ts supporting the system). What role should large employers play in subsidizing transit, and what form should it take?

Now catch the GoTriangle 400/405 every 15 minutes on weekdays between Chapel Hill and Durham, the latest #transit service improvements to be supported by funds from the voter-approved half-cent sales tax transit and the Orange County and Durham County Transit Plans. 🙌🏻

The Wizard of Oz – Museum of the Moving Image The yellow brick road has lost none of its allegorical power—or visual splendor—nearly ninety years later. The Wizard of Oz is particularly overwhelming as a big-screen experience, its fantasy world t...

Do you know any more about the story behind this "Dolby Atmos" screening of The Wizard Of Oz? Seems odd that these two "new" (?) versions are appearing at the same time. movingimage.org/event/the-wi...

My department @utexasrtf.bsky.social is hiring a TT faculty member in media studies. We are looking for faculty who conduct broad-based research in the following areas: media history and industries associated with film, television, and/or digital media.

More here: apply.interfolio.com/171261

Fast and Frequent Bus Service Comes to Chapel Hill and Durham - Triangle Blog Blog A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

This is great news! triangleblogblog.com/2025/08/04/f...
Now #gotriangle needs to work on the Chapel Hill-Raleigh connection as well: the CRX is so much more poorly served than the DRX as to be a joke. Improve the service, and the riders will follow.

Fast and Frequent Bus Service Comes to Chapel Hill and Durham - Triangle Blog Blog A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

Blog bloggers love the 405. Many of us have ridden it into Durham for events as it rolls right out of central Carrboro. Now it and the 400 are getting even better! 🚍

Fixed!

Will be amazing. Suspect the authors never imagined that it would have an end date.

Just a heads up if you're scheduling months in advance:

My book on post-war Hollywood, McCarthyism, and Christmas movies comes out this November and I would love to come on your podcast or write for your publication about all things American Christmas, political subversion, and Hollywood this fall!

gotriangle.org/news/gotrian...

A brown-skinned trans woman in an astronaut's helmet and white tunic floats in front of a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. Text: "Trans Cinema" Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds. Laura Horak"

Lookee here! My book has a cover!

Coming from @ucpress.bsky.social in April 2026. Many thanks to Tourmaline for allowing us to use her photograph "Summer Azure"!

Long-lost Inuit animation films restored and released after 50 years Dozens of animated films made by Inuit artists in the 1970s and shelved for more than 50 years are being made available to the public after a major restoration effort by the National Film Board of Can...

Long-lost Inuit animation films restored and released after 50 years!

nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

Vamos a Rio. Nitrata en Niterói.

A copy of Shane Denson's Bride of Frankenstein book standing atop another copy.

I can't capture in a photo how awesome the books in our film|minutes series at @leverpress.bsky.social look in print! Compact, beautifully designed volumes that take every minute of a film as a unit of analysis. Here's the first in the series by @shanedenson.bsky.social on Bride or Frankenstein.

Film scholar Ian Christie at his retirement party, with a lifetime achievement award

Wow. It’s certainly Maurice Blaché, would love to see the film.

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.

mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Image of a bridge announcing submission portals are now open for 2026 SCMS conference.

Conference proposal and award submission portals are now open! Questions? Be sure to check the General Conference Guidelines and Procedures on our website.

#SCMS26

Read more here: conta.cc/40ac5rj

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...

A picture of the Ecusta Trail in Hendersonville, NC.

A six-mile section of the Ecusta Trail is opening soon in Hendersonville. In 2009, when the Bolin Creek Trail was first approved by the Carrboro Town Council, the Ecusta Trail was still a privately owned rail line. 16 years later, it’s a greenway for all to enjoy.

Copies of a book nestled in a cardboard box. Description of the book cover: The title of the book (The Documentary Audit) appears in bold black text against a deep crimson background that fades to pink toward the bottom right. The book's subtitle (Listening and the Limits of Accountability) and the author's name (Pooja Rangan) appear in smaller pink letters.

It's here!! Just in time to share with folks at Goethe Universität, Frankfurt during my Mercator Fellowship! For anyone interested in how documentary forms ask audiences to listen in order to hold power to account -- order at cup.columbia.edu/.../the.../9... (use code CUP20 for 20% discount)

The official CFP for the 2026 Orphan Film Symposium (theme: "Crisis & Community") is LIVE! Consider submitting if this is up your alley. Among my favorite semiannual academic/archive gatherings! @orphanfilm.bsky.social **PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!** See you in Ohio!

wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/2...

Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

The long list of scientists and public servants who feel afraid to even disclose their names is chilling.
www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...