Pete Kunze

No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

(I'm guessing we're doing psychoanalysis rather than CBT. Neato.)

Thanks for your kind words, friend. Your own scholarship was (of course!) crucial to this piece!

YouTube video by CaptainSandyHook Begin the Beguine - Broadway Melody of 1940

Similarly, Powell and Astaire doing "Begin the Beguine" starts with in long take, but eventually cuts.

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YouTube video by Ms2doggies "Fascinatin' Rhythm" - Eleanor Powell from "Lady Be Good" (1941)

Eleanor Powell in Lady Be Good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNX...

YouTube video by Movieclips La La Land (2016) - Another Day of Sun Scene (1/11) | Movieclips

"Another Day of Sun" perhaps most obviously. I think Hooper uses quite a few in Les Miserables and Cats... ;)

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Book cover for "Newsies! Newsies -- Read All About It!: Essays on the Film and Broadway Productions." Edited by Emily Hamilton-Honey; foreword by Vincent DiGirolamo. The cover has a central yellow block with black text, and blurred newsprint pages around the edges. On the left side, a newsboy is in a dance post, holding a newspaper above his head.

The world is terrible in so many ways right now, and I am trying to stay focused on what I can control and what brings me joy. While I have promoted the #Newsies book on here, it occurs to me that I haven't really talked about why I love this film and show, and there are so many reasons! 🧵 1/16

Want to learn about how Texas media industry professionals are active in a range of distribution and exhibition activities across film, television, streaming, and podcasting?

Check out the latest installment in our podcast series! cc @utexasrtf.bsky.social @texasmoody.bsky.social

They're so lucky to have you as a professor! Enjoy!!

Thank you, Dave -- I hope so!

The precarious promotion of progress: diversity work, extraprofessional labor, and “woke Disney” Diversity work calls upon media conglomerates to redress systemic inequities to create more diverse workforces, inclusive work environments, and, by extension, diverse and inclusive media narrative...

New article on "woke Disney" in Popular Communication.

Grateful to Ross Garner for his editorial guidance.

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Monthly check-in at BlueSky to see if anyone is actually using it...

You're too kind to say this. And you & Jenny should be in any mention of Disney theme parks!

I guess the issue is so many disciplines converging around Disney?

That said, I think we need a Disney reading group. I'm reading a lot of stuff, and I have too many thoughts and no one to foist them upon.

Cloud Policy Cloud Policy is a policy history that chronicles how the past century of regulating media infrastructure in the United States has eroded global civil liberti...

Her book is available open access here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254806...

Jennifer Holt and I discuss her new book, Cloud Policy, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. A must-read for scholars of policy, platforms, data, infrastructures, and media industries.

newbooksnetwork.com/cloud-policy

Mike Miley, Podcast Episode · New Books Network · 05/11/2025 · 59m

Listen to me talk about David Lynch’s American Dreamscape with @petecant.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.

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Just posted: @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast interview with Courtney M. Cox (University of Oregon) on Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball.

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This was my comedy studies Super Bowl: Brittney Michelle Edmonds, @dfmorgan.bsky.social, Bambi Haggins, and J Finley discussing critical Black humor studies last week at Pomona College.

New podcast on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: Amanda D. Lotz on After Mass Media: Storytelling for Microaudiences in the Twenty-First Century.

Check it out!

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SCMS members, come volunteer!

I'm chairing the Distinguished Pedagogy Award again this year, and our committee has a fairly light workload *and* you get to learn all about the fabulous things our colleagues are doing in their classrooms and communities!

Book Publishing Workshop Please fill out this form to receive the Zoom link for the MI SIG Book Publishing Workshop on Friday, May 2.

On May 2, at 1 PM Eastern, the Media Industries SIG will host a Zoom roundtable event on book publishing with authors and series editors. To attend, please fill out the form here: forms.gle/o6NVUNaVGNvs....

The Zoom link will be provided Thursday afternoon.

Check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with @alfredmartin.bsky.social to discuss his powerful new book, Fandom for Us, by Us.

He might've left me speechless a few times... 😆

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Producing Children - Rutgers University Press Producing Children imagines the possibility, indeed the inevitability, of a creative relation between children as producers and consumers by revising the lon...

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Out this week: Victoria Ford Smith and I edited a collection on children making culture as writers, artists, actors, activists, and content creators.

Check it out, and please ask your libraries to buy it.

New interview on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social with Henry Jenkins on Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America.

It's a great book for folks in children's media studies, childhood studies, and popular culture studies.

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Always an exciting day when one of our writing group gets their book out into the world... 😍

Congratulations, @alfredmartin.bsky.social! It's gorgeous! 🥂

Check out the latest episode of New Books in Film on Kate Fortmueller and Luci Marzola's wonderful new collection, Hollywood Unions!

😔😔

And the existentialist dread persists to this day...

Timothée Chalamet, ‘Conclave’ Shake Up Oscars Race At 2025 SAG Awards - Complete Winners List Timothée Chalamet and "Conclave" upend the Oscars race at 2025 SAG Awards, while "Shogun" dominates the television category. See the complete winners list.

The Oscar race is experiencing a "shake up" because it's actually a pretty lackluster year. The industry falls all over itself about Conclave and Anora and The Brutalist while The Nickel Boys is right there, being wondrous.

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thank you!