Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS

nontheatricalscms.bsky.social

11 October 2026 16:07

New and open access article of note! Hongwei Thorn Chen's "Useful and unfilmic: the geopolitics of film theory’s out-of-frame," Screen 67, no. 3 (Autumn 2026): 358-65. Part of "𝘚𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯 and the global circulations of film theory" dossier. doi.org/10.1093/scre...

Martin L. Johnson

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09 October 2026 23:06

Our launch of Copy/Rights and Early Cinema made the Italian news! cinecittanews.it/dal-dinosaur...

Martin L. Johnson

martinlj.bsky.social

26 September 2026 15:11

I'm looking forward to sharing the stage with @allyfield.bsky.social and Donald Crafton at Pordenone. Ian Christie and I will represent the five co-editors — and the 22 authors — that contributed to Copy/Rights and Early Cinema. @leverpress.bsky.social

Martin L. Johnson

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24 September 2026 10:34

Ten years in the making, my new book traces how corporations successfully infiltrated the movies in the early 20th Century in spite of scandal and massive audience resistance. Out in December, but you can order it (with a discount!) now. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group SCMS

nontheatricalscms.bsky.social

24 September 2026 10:34

New book of note — "Useful Cinema in State Socialist Europe." Out now on Routledge. Edited By Lucie Česálková, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, and Ana Szel. Congrats to the editors and all of the contributors! 📕 www.routledge.com/Useful-Cinem...