jhoberman.bsky.social
Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer 📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War 🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
👤 Joined on 23 November 2024
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@jhoberman.bsky.socialI’m no longer in academia, but I remember the pressure to professionalize by going to academic conferences. No institution should be positioning people to have to make a choice involving crossing a picket line.
Show PostI watched it probably 15 years ago when I was taking in every Ryan performance I could. I read Phantoms a few years ago and expected it’d show up — a delight to read that section
Show PostRe desk murderers: a good time to recommend Eyal Press’s excellent book Dirty Work, & his even more morally acute Beautiful Souls.
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