Aurore Spiers

Book Launch: Women in Hollywood’s Dream Factory A virtual launch of Women in Hollywood’s Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance edited by Karen McNally.

Delighted to be hosting a book launch for the new edited collection WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD’S DREAM FACTORY: TALES OF INEQUALITY, ABUSE & RESISTANCE. Join us March 18. 📚
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February’s riveting edition of ONLINE WITH SFFP is now streaming!
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not this girl reading Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness" in Mervyn LeRoy's BIG CITY BLUES (1932)

This week for Silent Sundays, a look back at five lost films made by Bluebird Photoplays with a little history lesson about the filmmakers and stars who made them.

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Great piece by @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social on lost silent films, some of which don't leave behind much more of a trace than these eye-catching lobby posters!! 😍🎞️

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To Be an Actress by Yiman Wang - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Congrats to @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social!!
Her book To Be an Actress: Labor & Performance in Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World won Honorable Mention in the Media, Performance & Visual Studies category of the 2026 Assoc for Asian American Studies Book Awards!!
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In “Doing More with Less: Informed Speculation as Method,” Allyson Nadia Field embraces the forms of imaginative, creative, and experimental writing of film/media history while at the same time urging rigorous and responsible scholarship

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This new book by Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social is a gift to film history and cinema and media studies more broadly. Field's work has been and remains an inspiration. Many congratulations for this major achievement, dear Ally! @ucpress.bsky.social

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Please join me online at San Francisco Film Preserve TOMORROW @ 12pm Pacific Time!! Register here: filmpreserve.org/event/online...

Thank you so much, James!!

For people in the Chicago area: Please join Allyson Nadia Field @allyfield.bsky.social and me on March 4 at the Seminary Co-op @seminarycoopbooks.bsky.social for a conversation about my book ARCHIVING THE PAST (University of California Press). www.semcoop.com/event/aurore...

Join us next Friday, February 20 (12–1pm PT) for:
ONLINE WITH SFFP — Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France

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Cover of Melodrama as Provocateur by Linda Williams. The cover is black with three red triangles creating a geometric design. The title is written at an upwards diagonal in a cream all lowercase sans serif font. The author’s name is written in diagonally between two of the triangles in all caps and yellow. The editors are written in a serif font in the bottom red triangle.

"Melodrama as Provocateur," edited by Christine Gledhill, Laura Horak, and Elisabeth R. Anker, showcases the final project of influential film scholar Linda Williams, along with responses by a diverse collection of scholars. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/PkD02nj

Feminist Influences Roundtable

SCMS+ Event: Continuing feminist film theory from Part 1 during the Virtual Symposium, the Gender & Feminisms Caucus will host a roundtable, “Feminist Influences,” on Thu, Feb 12 at 4:00 CST / 5:00 PM EST. Speakers will reflect on key essays or book chapters. Email the SCMS office for Zoom details.

Join us February 20 for the next installment of ONLINE WITH SFFP 🎬

Film archives didn’t just preserve cinema history—they shaped it.
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Recovering Women’s Film History in the Archive How author Aurore Spiers recovered women's hidden labor in the film history archives and their contributions to French cinema.

A short blog post about my research for ARCHIVING THE PAST, now available from University of California Press

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Thanks @dwhdaily.bsky.social for the SHOUT-OUT to B. Geetha's fab review of 'Death by Laughter' in the January books round-up for @criterion.bsky.social ‼️‼️ (lots of irresistible reading recs here... 📚🎞️)

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Please sign the petition! Defend academic freedom at Texas A&M!

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Join us next month for the next installment of ONLINE WITH SFFP

🎬 “Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France”
📅 Friday, February 20 | ⏰ 12–1 pm PST

Film history didn’t preserve itself—and many of the women who built it were written out of the story.
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Online with SFFP — Archiving the Past: Women’s Film History in France - San Francisco Film Preserve The idea that film history was worth preserving received wider acceptance in the 1920s, when some of the first archives entirely dedicated to the cinema emerged around the world. This […]

Very excited to participate in this online event on February 20 with San Francisco Film Preserve @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social

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It's a joy to see ARCHIVING THE PAST out in the world! Thank you Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social for sharing 😘

Thank you for your support!!

A @newyorker.com cartoon for us @criterion.bsky.social nerds!

Order ARCHIVING THE PAST today from @ucpress.bsky.social
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Archiving the Past by Aurore Spiers - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Happy new year! 🥳 Please consider adding ARCHIVING THE PAST to your TBR pile for 2026. The book is out in a few days from University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social. Over the next few months, I'll be doing a few events to celebrate, so stay tuned!

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All I wanted for Xmas is a print copy of @aurspiers.bsky.social's *brilliant* new book, ARCHIVING THE PAST -- which is the #1 must-read film studies monograph of 2026!!!! Congrats Aurore!!! 📚😍🎁 @ucpress.bsky.social

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The Silent London Poll of 2025: vote for your winners now Happy holiday Silent Londoners! They say that if you remember 2025, then you weren’t watching enough silent movies. How much do you recall? For myself I sure watched a lot of silent films, cl…

Time to vote, vote, vote in the annual Silent London Poll of silent film excellence! silentlondon.co.uk/2025/12/21/t...

Thank you, dear Tanya!!

Archiving the Past by Aurore Spiers - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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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