Martin L. Johnson

CHCCS can’t decide school closures with a facilities scorecard - Triangle Blog Blog A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

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A little less than a month to deadline for our Graduate Student Writing Prize (in collaboration with @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal). Please share widely with students who are working in the ‘nontheatrical’ sphere @scmstudies.bsky.social

I think it’s just that planners used to focus on the public realm. Post-urban renewal (when that generation’s planners facilitated the destruction of cities so cars could run through them), planners are focused on public engagement, largely for individual projects on private space.

Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔

Why we need more day cares in Chapel Hill, and what we can do about it. - Triangle Blog Blog A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

“For many parents, child care costs as much, or more than, their rent—between $1,500 and $2,000 a month per child, and that’s just for day care or preschool.”

Lecturer or Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, School for Studies in Art and Culture (Film Studies) - Office of the Deputy Provost (Academic Operations and Planning) About the Position The School for Studies in Art and Culture invites applications for a one-year appointment at the rank of Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, beginning 1 July 2026, from q...

Want to come work in my Film Studies department in Ottawa, Canada, for a year? Application deadline is March 6. All areas of specialization welcome. Please spread the word! @carleton.ca carleton.ca/deputyprovos... #filmstudies #jobopportunity

New batch of essays on Film Atlas. Latest batch of essays published includes 8mm sound-on-disc system, 16mm nitrate film, Ukrainian optical sound, some of the earliest photographic moving images shown to the public and an inventive amateur widescreen format.
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It’s Groundhog Day in Chapel Hill, and we might finally be able to leave Punxsutawney - Triangle Blog Blog A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.

Published two years ago today, this piece captures what went wrong in Chapel Hill, starting in the mid-1980s. Just a few weeks ago, the Chapel Hill Town Council finally started to undo some of the mistakes made then.
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OH: “Speaking of evil people, I was re-reading old Stephen Miller columns from when he was at Duke, and it turns out he has really bad opinions about parking.”

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Book cover for „Studying Unmade, Unsern, and Unreleased Film and Television - Histories, Theories, Methods“ edited by James Fenwick and Kieran Foster

Title page „Queer Histories of the Unmade“ Sabrina Mittermeier

Table of Contents List of Figures vii Introduction: Unmade, Unseen, and Unreleased Film and 1 Television – an Unresolved Problem James Fenwick and Kieran Foster PART I: THEORIZING THE UNMADE, UNSEEN, AND UNRELEASED 27 1. Creative Failure 31 Peter C. Kunze 2. The Poetics of Phantom Cinema: Waiting for Harry Dickson 49 Philippe C. Met 3. Archival Absences, Silences and Fragments: The Unmade and 64 Film History James Fenwick 4. Batgirl Incorporated: Cancelled Films, Corporate Strategy and 84 Questions of Quality Kieran Foster 5. Posthumous Cinema: Unfinished Films in the Archives 101 Monika Kin Gagnon 6. Phantom Visions of the SnyderVerse: Unproduction and the Fan- Led 116 Battle to Restore Zack Snyder’s DC Extended Universe Films Ryan Greene 7. Queer Histories of the Unmade 131 Sabrina Mittermeier 8. Becoming Unmade 142 Zach Karpinellison Delivered by Intellect to: Sabrina Mittermeier (23322593)

STUDyING UNMADE, UNSEEN, AND UNRELEASED FILM AND TELEVISION PART II: ARCHIVES OF THE UNMADE, UNSEEN, AND UNRELEASED 157 9. Disinterring Johanna ter Steege: Aryan Papers and the Materiality of the Stanley Kubrick Archive Cassie Brummitt and Joy McEntee 10. The Lost Crusade: Lindsay Anderson’s Unmade Sequel to If … (1968) Will Kitchen 11. No Film to Watch: Pare Lorentz and the Atom Bomb Jason Potel 12. Ken Russell’s Unmade Films 1968– 82: A Critical Reflection Matthew Melia 13. The Case of Tizia Jus: An Unmade Film in Post- War Austria Hanja Dämon 14. The Location Outtakes for Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah Sue Vice and Dominic Williams 161 175 189 204 224 238 PART III: CREATIVE PRACTICE AND THE UNMADE, UNSEEN, AND UNRELEASED 253 15. Not Showing at This Cinema: Festivals of the Unmade 257 Tim Brown 16. Containing, Transforming, Transcending the Story: Notes from a 272 Scriptwriter’s Journey Marianne Strand 17. The Unfilmables 279 Colm McAuliffe Notes on Contributors 295 Index 299

The edited collection on „Studying Unmade,
Unseen, and Unreleased Film and Television
Histories, Theories, Methods“ by James Fenwick & Kieran Foster is out now with @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Glad to have contributed a chapter on „Queer Histories of the Unmade“!

Would Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) count?

The council passed these amendments unanimously!

CFP for the @nontheatricalscms.bsky.social SIG's Student Essay Award! Click the link to read the full description. Be sure to send to your colleagues and students!

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In-Chu Co and Missing Middle Housing: Chapel Hill's Missing Middle Housing Battle in 1968 - Triangle Blog Blog This week, we are publishing a five-part series looking back at Chapel Hill in 1968, and the lengthy and contentious battle to build duplexes and small apartments next to a church, and between a neigh...

Local governments in liberal communities also passed anti-discrimination laws, but faced near immediate backlash. triangleblogblog.com/2023/03/06/i...

This is the climate action plan Carrboro and Chapel Hill should be considering. How do we incentivize the redevelopment of land currently used for gas stations?

Popcorn introductions are the worst. In addition to being inefficient and confusing, it establishes power dynamics (who gets called first, etc.) at the beginning of the meeting that cuts against any good that could come out of it.

For the first time in decades, Chapel Hill and #Carrboro are moving toward real zoning reform 🏘️

Their councils are likely to legalize small infill homes, eliminate housing barriers, and break from the old anti-growth playbook 🌱

Read more:
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#ChapelHill #yimby #housing

UNC history professor: My school is withdrawing from the world The proposed closures at UNC threaten programs that brought $28M in external funds, undermining Carolina's global mission and faculty and student opportunities.

Last year, I co-organized a conference titled Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War with support from the Carolina Asia Center, one of the six centers now slated for elimination. These centers make cross-disciplinary, international collaboration possible.
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Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...

If you have any connection to the University of North Carolina system, please consider signing this petition. Making syllabi public records will damage the trust between faculty, students, and the communities they serve. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...

2025 Forum On The Hill: Thursday, Dec. 11's Community Conversations - Chapelboro.com The 2025 Forum On The Hill is hosted by WCHL’s Aaron Keck, Brighton McConnell and Andrew Stuckey. Find the full schedule on Chapelboro, listen to 97.9 FM or stream the discussions live, and find each ...

You don't want to miss Thursday's Forum On The Hill panels!

Today's topics are equity in healthcare, Chapel Hill and Carrboro's housing inventory, and Orange County property value assessments. Check out the schedule and guests here:

It's here! Go and pre-order a copy of ARCHIVING THE PAST for yourself and for your library! The book uncovers the story of women in France who, from the 1920s–1970s, played critical roles in the production of global cinema's history, as archivists, witnesses, and activists. @ucpress.bsky.social

Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...

A piece on Netflix and its discontents that's worth your time. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Donate to Help Dan & Maria Rebuild after Legal and Housing Ordeal, organized by Maria and Dan We are Dan and Maria. The events that lead us to GoFundMe were … Maria and Dan needs your support for Help Dan & Maria Rebuild after Legal and Housing Ordeal

If you know film history, you know @orphanfilm.bsky.social, who has done more to rescue films and uplift filmmakers than almost anyone. For the last six months, he's been caught in a Kafkaesque nightmare that I wouldn't wish on anyone, and needs help recovering. Please donate. gofund.me/6ef186124

Together with Annie van den Oever, I was honored to interview Jane Gaines for NECSUS. Come for the history of Visible Evidence & @wfpproject.bsky.social; stay for the reflections on speculative historiography, Fredric Jameson's legacy & current attacks on higher ed.

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YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Wow! Congratulations. One of many deserving tributes to your book.

Now available online!

A CENTURY IN 16MM: THE REMAKING OF CINEMA (eds. Gregory A. Waller + Haidee Wasson) from @oxfordacademic.bsky.social. Featuring 23 essays on diverse uses and applications of the small gauge format worldwide!

Available in print in early 2026.

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Would love to see ridership numbers since they moved to 15-minute headways!