Jacob Engelberg

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"!

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...

Like so many others, I was dismayed by the recent news that the profit-driven Taylor & Francis acquired multiple book series (including our open-access "The Key Debates") as part of a transaction with Amsterdam University Press. I proudly signed this collective resignation letter.

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...

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

28 editors resign after takeover at AUP publishing house

28 international editors have announced their resignation from commercial publisher Taylor & Francis, which recently acquired their book series from Amsterdam University Press (AUP). The editors made this known today in a signed letter to the publisher. www.folia.nl/en/actueel/1...

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...

28 editors have resigned from Amsterdam University Press following its unprecedented takeover by Taylor & Francis and firing of commissioning editors. read the letter here: mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

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This book looks good!

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I am *so* looking forward to this book!!!

What a gorgeous cover! 🤩

Congratulations @jacobengelberg.bsky.social ✨
💙📚 #Booksky

👇excited to now be able to share my partner @jacobengelberg.bsky.social forthcoming book (January 2026) with @dukepress.bsky.social A much needed intervention that really does change how we think, theorise, and conceptualise cinema and bisexuality!

Oh that looks good as fuck

thank you, Natalia!

delighted that i can now share the cover of my forthcoming monograph 𝘊𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘹𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. released 6 Jan 2026 with @dukepress.bsky.social in the Camera Obscura series.

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR AUTHORS AND SERIES EDITORS ON THE FILM/MEDIA LIST: Do not respond to the letter or accept the new contracts proposed by Taylor & Francis at htis point (unles, of course, you want to). A response is being coordinated. Additional conversations scheduled for the NECS conference.

SUPERB! The Film Atlas is a collaboration between the International Federation of Film Archives and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is - or aims to be - an interactive global map of the history of film technology. The site has just gone live and it is free to use for all.
www.filmatlas.com

Queer and trans film and media scholars, SCMS QTC members, please help me retire as the senior co-chair of @scmsqtc.bsky.social!

I am old & tired.

We’re looking for secretary nominees until the 25th to hold elections. It’s a 3 year term: secretary ➡️ junior co-chair ➡️ senior co-chair ➡️ retirement.

Check out the CFP for this year’s World Picture conference hosted in collaboration w/ brilliant colleagues at UvA @jacobengelberg.bsky.social @rhysteven.bsky.social & Abe Geil in November! necs.org/news/calls-f...

Text that reads: "Taverne Amendment. The Taverne Amendment allows researchers to share the final published version (Version of Record) of short scientific works via the institutional repository after an embargo period, even if they were published behind a paywall. "The maker of a short scientific work, the research for which has been paid for in whole or in part by Dutch public funds, shall be entitled to make that work available to the public for no consideration following a reasonable period of time after the work was first published, provided that clear reference is made to the source of the first publication of the work." (Dutch Copyright Act 2015) Together, Dutch universities have decided to interpret 'short scientific work' as journal articles, proceedings papers and book chapters, and 'a reasonable period of time' as six months."

the title page of the chapter, reading: "10. Call Me Bi Any Other Name: Anal Monstration, Formal Bisexualization, Gay Indigestion. Jacob Engelberg."

a frame from the film Call Me by Your Name. Elio leans against the car and watches Oliver kissing Chiara.

a frame from the film Call Me by Your Name. Elio looks up from Marzia's crotch as they have sex.

a nice thing about dutch academia is a copyright amendment that allows for the open publication of short scholarly works 6 months after their initial publication. this means that my chapter on Call Me by Your Name is now freely accessible! you can find it in the URL on my profile.

Homotopia Takeover Day  - homotopia Saturday 5 April 2025, Lecture Theatre, Museum of Liverpool   The inaugural Homotopia Takeover presents a line-up of live music, talks and provocations responding to The Holly Johnson Story.   Join us...

As part of the Homotopia takeover of Museum of Liverpool and the Holly Johnson exhibition (Sat 5th April), @mbpearl.bsky.social and myself will be talking "Don't Relax! Culture, Protest, and Music during the AIDS Crisis" event info here: www.homotopia.net/events/homot...

In memory of her passing my favourite Linda Williams media moment is just at the end of an old television documentary series on the history of pornography. She did have a soft spot for 'Boys in the Sand' (1972).

@screeningsex.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @scmsadultfilm.bsky.social

a young woman (Susan Kohner) clutches a casket adorned with flowers, crying. from Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life (1959)

RIP Linda Williams. we've lost an intellectual giant whose debts to film studies & pornography studies can never be repaid. i'm grateful that she got her flowers before she passed, with a symposium & special issue honouring her work in recent years. long may her writing be taught in our classrooms.

A letter that reads the following: Petition from scholars of film and media to reinstate early moving image works on TMDB and Letterboxd 13 March 2025 Dear Travis Bell (TMDB) and Matthew Buchanan (Letterboxd), We are scholars of film and media writing to you as representatives of The Movie Database (TMDB) and Letterboxd to express our dismay at the decision taken by TMDB to remove photographic motion studies/chronophotography from its database. Following an update in February 2025, TMDB’s New Content Bible began listing “photographic motion studies (chronophotography)” among the list of types of content not allowed in the database. Shortly thereafter, these works began to be removed from the database. We are writing to request that this decision be reversed. TMDB and Letterboxd, which uses the former’s database, are preeminent resources in film cataloging, used globally by millions each year. Up until recently, one of the great advantages of this database has been the extensive number of entries documenting early moving-image experiments by the likes of Charles Comte, Georges Demenÿ, Étienne-Jules Marey, and Eadweard Muybridge, among others. Whereas TMDB’s New Content Bible, in its justification of these works’ removal, draws attention to the fact that there are over 100,000 works by Muybridge, we fail to see how this renders them unsuitable for the database. Instead, such a figure only reveals the extensivity of these moving-image works and encourages curiosity around them. We are well aware of the debates around when cinema can be said to have begun, what constitutes film, and the disagreements that persist on these topics. Rather than act as the arbiter of what among early moving-image cultures constitutes film and what does not, we urge you to take a more capacious approach. Such an approach would be in line with TMDB’s ethos as a “community built” endeavour and Letterboxd’s articulation of itself as a network for “ grass-roots film discussion and discovery”; t…

Sincerely, 1. Richard Abel, Emeritus Professor, University of Michigan Ann Arbor 2. Dr. Leslie Abramson 3. Prof. François Albera, Université de Lausanne 4. Lauren Alberque, film archivist, Kimbell Art Museum 5. Yousef Alghawi, University of Southern California 6. Jacopo Barbero, University of Amsterdam 7. Dr. Cory Barker, Penn State University 8. Prof. Martin Barnier, Université Lumière Lyon2 France 9. Giorgio Bertellini, University of Michigan 10. Erica Biolchini, University of Amsterdam 11. Assoc. Prof. Amy E. Borden, Portland State University 12. Marta Braun, Emeritus Professor and Director, Toronto Metropolitan University 13. Quin Bright 14. Dr. Cüneyt Çakırlar, Nottingham Trent University 15. Nick Carbone, New York Public University 16. Diana Cardenas, UCLA Film & Television Archive 17. Prof. Erica Carter, King’s College London 18. Bárbara Carvalho, CESEM/NOVA University of Lisbon 19. Barbara Cattaneo, Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence 20. Asst. Prof. Palita Chunsaengcha, University of Minnesota 21. Laurel Day, George Blood LP 22. Asst. Prof. Doğa Çöl, Istanbul Medipol University 23. Prof. Allison Cooper, Bowdoin College 24. Dr. Keith Dando 25. Prof. Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida 26. Eileen DiPofi, University of Southern California 27. Prof. Kevin Donnelly, University of Southampton 28. Stephanie Dykes 29. Desirae Embree, Texas A&M University 30. Dr. Jacob Engelberg, University of Amsterdam 31. Dan Erdman, Media Burn 32. Dr. Victor Fan, King’s College London 33. Dr. Kathy Feeley, University of Redlands 34. Augustin Ferrari Braun, University of Amsterdam 35. Assoc. Prof. Allyson Nadia Field, University of Chicago 36. Asst. Prof. Roberto Filippello, University of Amsterdam 37. Dr. Ian Fleishman, University of Pennsylvania 38. Dr. Charles Forceville, Universiteit van Amsterdam 39. Dr. John Fullerton, Emeritus Professor, Stockholm University 40. Luis Alonso García, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 41. Dr. Philippa Gates, Laurier University 42. Dr…

47. Prof. em. Thomas Gunning, University of Chicago 48. James Haberl, Niles North High School 49. Dr. Gert Jan Harkema, University of Amsterdam 50. Benjamin Harry, Brigham Young University 51. Sarah Hartzell, The Ohio State University 52. Mirko Heinemann 53. Prof. Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 54. Scott Higgins, Wesleyan University 55. William E. Hill III 56. Prof. Laura Horak, Carleton University 57. Amanda Howard, CA, University of Arizona Libraries 58. Prof. Daniel Humphrey, Texas A&M University 59. Dr. Rhys Steven Jones, University of Amsterdam 60. Tien-Tien Jong, University of Chicago 61. Tara D. Kelley, Rutgers University 62. Dr. Laurence Kent, University of Bristol 63. Jane Keranen, University of Chicago 64. Susan Kerns, PhD, Milwaukee Film 65. Prof. em. Dr. Frank Kessler, Utrecht University 66. Ben Kiem, University of Toronto 67. Dr. N.H. de Klerk, Utrecht University/Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History, Wien 68. Katerina Korola, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 69. Reto Kromer, AV preservation by reto.ch 70. Prof. Thomas Lamarre, University of Chicago 71. Christine Lamy 72. Mary Lane 73. Dr. Michael Lawrence, University of Sussex 74. Dr. S. Lenk, Philipps-University Marburg 75. Jim Leonard 76. Kristin Lipska, Prelinger Archives 77. Loiseau, freelance researcher 78. Hugo Ljungbäck, University of Chicago 79. Letícia Magalhães 80. Dr. Cat Mahoney, University of Liverpool 81. Anne-Marie Malthête-Quévrain, Cinémathèque Méliès 82. Andronika Martonova, Institute of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 83. Michael Mazzacane 84. Dr. Robert J. Mills, University of Southampton 85. Juliëtte Molenaars, Universiteit van Amsterdam 86. Prof. Daniel Morgan, University of Chicago 87. Charles Musser, Yale University 88. Gary Needham, University of Liverpool 89. Arcadio Andrea Oranday, University of Chicago 90. Prof. Federico Pierotti, University of Lausanne 91. Eric Pitz, UCLA 92. D Plumer 93. Prof. Karen Redrobe, University of Pen…

94. Valentine Robert, Maîtresse d'enseignement et de recherche, University of Lausanne 95. Steve Ruffin 96. Daniel Sánchez Salas, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos 97. Kendra Lee Sanders, University of Chicago 98. Dr. Maria San Filippo 99. Michael Seeber 100. Dr. Martha Shearer, University College Dublin 101. Dr. Elyse Singer, City University of New York 102. Dr. Thomas Slater, Indiana University of Pennsylvania 103. Dr. Hannah Spaulding, University of Liverpool 104. PD Dr. Simon Spiegel, University of Zurich 105. Prof. Aurore Spiers, Texas A&M University 106. Dr. Katherine Spring, Wilfrid Laurier University 107. Distinguished Prof. Shelley Stamp, University of California, Santa Cruz 108. Prof. dr. Eliza Steinbock, Maastricht University 109. Alex Thelen 110. Dr. Michael L. Thomas, University of Amsterdam 111. Maria Tortajada, Professeur ordinaire, Université de Lausanne 112. Prof. Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool 113. Prof. em. William Uricchio, MIT 114. Dr. Tjalling Valdés Olmos, University of Amsterdam 115. Dr. Gwendolyn Waltz, independent scholar 116. Vanessa Weller, Michigan State University 117. Dr. Grant Wiedenfeld, Sam Houston State University 118. Dr. Maryn Wilkinson, University of Amsterdam 119. Prof. Michael Williams, University of Southampton

119 film and media scholars from 61 institutions across 16 countries have written to Travis Bell (The Movie Database) and Matthew Buchanan (Letterboxd) to make the case to reinstate early moving image works in their catalogues. Thank you to everyone who signed.

film & media scholars. today is the last day you can sign the petition to restore early moving image works to Letterboxd/The Movie Database. find the details below

The official publication day of our THE PROP! @fordhampress.bsky.social www.fordhampress.com/978153150961...

a man in a top hat plays with a jumping dog

a nude man walks

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a man shot-putting

attention film & media scholars! last month, The Movie Database, whose catalogue populates Letterboxd, removed hundreds of early moving image works in a new content policy. read why my colleagues & i think this is a mistake in our open letter. please consider signing: forms.gle/zCyZt9fMwYcj...

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the front cover of a book entitled, Transnational Horror: Folklore, Genre, and Cultural Politics. Edited by Cüneyt Çakırlar.

A woman in a wedding dress reaches towards the neck of a man in a suit. From the film Demon (2015).

a man wearing a kippah and a shawl hands a piece of jewellery to another man. from the film Ezra / എസ്ര (2017)

i'm in humbling company in @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social's wonderful edited collection 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳: 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘬𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘦, 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴. my chapter looks at invocations of the dybbuk across postmillennial cinemas beyond the Anglosphere. get your library to order it! doi.org/10.2307/jj.2...

sites posing as film journalism that are actually just AI bots can be quite entertaining

motion studies teach us about so much: cinema & movement, the centrality of human & animal bodies to film culture, histories of French colonialism, the use of ethnographic film in efforts to naturalise race science, the list goes on. @letterboxd.social's pedagogical potential is bereft without them

a bullet-pointed list showing some of the material banned: • Al generated movies (for example deepfake content). • Audio-only content including audiobooks, narrative podcasts, radio dramas, and audio movies (e.g. Bullit et Riper). • exception: motion comics are allowed. • Filmed podcasts or radio shows • Blu-ray Pure Audio Discs • [highlighted] Photographic motion studies (chronophotography) [highlight ends]- for example the over 100,000 works by Eadweard Muybridge. • Online courses (Masterclass or internal university classes)

gutted to learn that The Movie Database, which populates @letterboxd.social, has banned early motion studies. this is frustrating not just as someone who added dozens of Marey, Demenÿ, and Comte films to the database, but because it stifles efforts to bring early film history to a wider audience