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Will DiGravio

@willdigravio.bsky.social

researcher, fact-checker: extremism, conspiracies, US history critic: Paste, Time, etc. assistant editor, Cineaste PhD Candidate in Media Studies, University of Amsterdam The Video Essay Podcast views mine www.willdigravio.com

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Prismatic Ground: Los Angeles, The Mills, and A Moon - Millennium Film Journal Read this review of Prismatic Ground by Will DiGravio.

For Millennium Film Journal, my thoughts on three found footage films from this year’s Prismatic Ground:

millenniumfilmjournal.com/los-angeles-...

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Thank you, Will!

And yes, pre-order here! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...

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For nearly two years, I worked as the researcher on @elliotwilliams.bsky.social’s new book, FIVE BULLETS, a history of β€œsubway vigilante” Bernie Goetz, his trial, and 1980s NYC!

It’s as timely as it is captivating!

Pre-order here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/768052...

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reminding myself that every extra freelance gig is one step closer to paying off my student loans/buying an eames lounge chair

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It’s not a sports documentary until an interviewee says the subject was β€œplaying chess while everybody else was playing checkers”

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should be mandated in every classroom throughout our great land

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β€œIt is in the final scene, in which Lloyd’s character completes a dashing run to win the big game, where the film distinguishes itself as a masterpiece’,”  
@willdigravio.bsky.social writes of β€˜The Freshman’: crookedmarquee.com/with-pure-gu...

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Michael Kosta: An Empathetic Jock Ready to Spoof Our Time Comedian and The Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta is a man of many talents, as his television success and new memoir more than show.

Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.

We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:

For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...

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Michael Kosta: An Empathetic Jock Ready to Spoof Our Time Comedian and The Daily Show correspondent Michael Kosta is a man of many talents, as his television success and new memoir more than show.

Check out my profile of The Daily Show's Michael Kosta, an essential member of the best cast on late night television today.

We talked about his on-stage persona, empathy and comedy, and his stellar new memoir, LUCKY LOSER:

For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/michael-k...

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Hell. Yes. www.paristheaternyc.com/film/spaceba...

04.09.2025 21:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Very excited to have been apart of this story, but perhaps even more happy to have my academic freedom at Boston University.

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Very honoured and deeply grateful: to have been elected yesterday as one of the new Fellows of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, an institution I have loved since it funded my PhD study many moons ago.

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Late Night Last Week: Stephen Colbert & the Consolidation of Corporate Power The biggest news in the world of late night last week was the firing of Stephen Colbert and the coming death of the Late Show franchise.

The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...

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Late Night Last Week: Stephen Colbert & the Consolidation of Corporate Power The biggest news in the world of late night last week was the firing of Stephen Colbert and the coming death of the Late Show franchise.

The sole subject of my late night column @pastemagazine.bsky.social: the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the house that David Letterman built.

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/the-late-...

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'Great Enough to Blow Any City Off the Map’: On Site at the First Nuclear Explosion The men who set off the nuclear age tell the tale in their own words.

β€œFor the last five seconds, we all lay there, quietly waiting for what seemed an eternity,” Edward Teller recalls in this @politico.com excerpt abt the Trinity explosion, 80 years ago this week, from my new oral history of the Manhattan Project & the atomic bombings. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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β€œThe layering of images, combined with the cartoon-like set design, achieves an effect that is a blending of worlds: half-real, half-animation.” @willdigravio.bsky.social on the beloved Kelly-and-Jerry dance sequence in β€œAnchors Aweigh”: crookedmarquee.com/gene-kelly-j...

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The Best (and Worst) Moments in Late Night Television This Year (So Far) Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

My thoughts on the best (and worst) moments in late night TV (so far) this year! For @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...

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The Video Essay About The Show: Trailer
YouTube video by Jason Mittell The Video Essay About The Show: Trailer

Today I start a 6-month sabbatical, where my goals are to disengage from academic politics (after chairing our Faculty Council for the past tumultuous year), wander about Europe as much as possible, and write a book / make video essays about media reflexivity. Like this!
youtu.be/69Kmz4PzEHs

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The Sign of a Truly Confident Late-Night Host? Guest Hosts. Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the β€œguest host” tradition.

Bill Carter writes: Jimmy Kimmel is a brave man, or just a confident one. He's the one late-night host who seems to have no hesitation about embracing the β€œguest host” tradition.

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πŸ›œβš οΈ @theguardian.com named @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.com’s LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET a podcast of the week. Out Tuesdayβ€”subscribe now:

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/long-shadow/id1577471264
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/70a5obPALvMVMPSzxYelik

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This @parkermolloy.com interview with @juddlegum.bsky.social is solid gold. What he's built at @popular.info is incredible. That he's doing it without a paywall is really a tremendous service to news consumers. Here's why he made that choice:

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Pass Psych Tonight: How One Professor Made Late Night a Learning Tool When college professor Steve Ross began teaching psychology 16 years ago, he never imagined he’d one day be drawing on his love of late-night television in the classroom. But it turns out that playing a late-night host has become one of his best tools for getting through to students.

When college professor Steve Ross began teaching psychology 16 years ago, he never imagined he’d one day be drawing on his love of late-night television in the classroom. But it turns out that playing a late-night host has become one of his best tools for getting through to students.

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A little snippet from one of my reflections in our first editorial. Watch the fragment by @willdigravio.bsky.social at fragments.video

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"I experienced this rough cut as an archive of Will’s intentions, a showcase of how various videographic techniques were being deployed to achieve them" @willdigravio.bsky.social's fragment published as part of our first collection. Find out more here fragments.video/2025/04/16/p...

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Late Night Last Week: John Mulaney Loses Fight to Teens, as Oliver and Nathan Fielder Look to the Skies Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

In this week’s late night TV recap, John Mulaney looks up at the lights after getting whupped by three 14-year-old boys, while John Oliver and Nathan Fielder look to the skies to fix our aviation nightmares. www.pastemagazine.com/tv/late-nigh...

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Our Summer 2025 issue is here! On the cover: Henry Fonda as Tom Joad in John Ford's THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940).

The issue includes a review of the new found footage epic, HENRY FONDA FOR PRESIDENT, and an interview with its director, Alexander Horwath.

More at our website: www.cineaste.com

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We are delighted to launch β€˜Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video

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Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal is truly uncomfortable, but we need more TV like this Truth is a slippery concept in Fielder’s experimental TV show, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll. But whether what we are seeing on screen is real or not, the series makes for a bizarre and fascinating crit...

As #TheRehearsal ends in the US and debuts in the UK, I was happy to contribute some of my thoughts to this compelling column by Micha Frazer-Carroll:

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