@petecant.bsky.social
Assistant Professor · Communication · Tulane University Look, I made a hat: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/staging-a-comeback/9781978827813/
It's a kidney stone.
08.10.2025 16:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Critical Approaches to Black Media Culture conference has a website!
Join us in New Orleans this February!
blackmedia.tulane.edu
Thanks, friend!
20.09.2025 19:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Golden Girls turned 40 this past Sunday, so I wrote about its creator, Susan Harris, and her feminist contribution to US television comedy for Time's Made by History website.
time.com/7316328/susa...
Check out this fabulous @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with the editors of the new essay collection THE GOLDEN GIRLS:
16.09.2025 17:56 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Now available: @alfredmartin.bsky.social and Taylor Cole Miller discussing The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-golden-g...
I had a great conversation with Katherine Fusco (@fuscowrites.bsky.social) about her wonderful new book, Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Studio System.
You can check it out here:
newbooksnetwork.com/hollywoods-o...
I interviewed Justin Wyatt about his new book, Creating the Viewer, on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
It's a great book, especially for those interested in media industry studies and audience studies.
newbooksnetwork.com/creating-the...
🎙️ Check out my conversation with @petecant.bsky.social about the #MediaTravels collection!
We discuss the need for all media studies to be global media studies, the barriers to achieving this, and the value of embracing partial and fragmentary knowledges.
newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels
Really enjoyed discussing Kartemquin Films: Documentaries on the Frontlines of Democracy with Patricia Aufderheide @paufder.bsky.social for the New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
Please check it out:
newbooksnetwork.com/kartemquin-f...
Has your toddler demonstrated a growing interest in prosody or postcritique? Have we got the doll for you...
29.08.2025 18:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We're coming back! CFP below.
29.08.2025 15:06 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Open access copy of Media Travels: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
22.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on his new collection, Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media.
Check it out. And check out the book -- it's open access! -- in the first comment below.
newbooksnetwork.com/media-travels
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!
01.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Similarly, Powell and Astaire doing "Begin the Beguine" starts with in long take, but eventually cuts.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKWW...
Eleanor Powell in Lady Be Good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=veNX...
24.07.2025 17:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Another Day of Sun" perhaps most obviously. I think Hooper uses quite a few in Les Miserables and Cats... ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CVf...
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
22.07.2025 16:18 — 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 2Want 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!!
23.06.2025 16:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you, Dave -- I hope so!
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New article on "woke Disney" in Popular Communication.
Grateful to Ross Garner for his editorial guidance.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Monthly check-in at BlueSky to see if anyone is actually using it...
18.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0You'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.
Her book is available open access here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254806...
16.05.2025 17:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Jennifer 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
Listen to me talk about David Lynch’s American Dreamscape with @petecant.bsky.social on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...
