Girish Shambu
@girishshambu.bsky.social
I live in Buffalo and write about film culture. Book: “The New Cinephilia”.
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An extraordinary loss of a generous and bold thinker
It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
An extraordinary loss of a generous and bold thinker
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one or two best essays on SINNERS?
(bonus: an academic article - on genre or film industry or black cultural production or - that helps think about the movie even though not analyzing the movie?)
(bonus: an academic article - on genre or film industry or black cultural production or - that helps think about the movie even though not analyzing the movie?)
November 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
one or two best essays on SINNERS?
(bonus: an academic article - on genre or film industry or black cultural production or - that helps think about the movie even though not analyzing the movie?)
(bonus: an academic article - on genre or film industry or black cultural production or - that helps think about the movie even though not analyzing the movie?)
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Since Hamlet was Shakespeare's longest play, maybe it's fitting that my review of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's great biofictional novel, is 2000+ words. In the words of the mopey Danish prince: "Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing." slate.com/culture/2025...
This Year’s Other Oscar Front-Runner Is Here. I Have Tragic News.
It’s based on a beloved, bestselling novel—and it butchers it.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Since Hamlet was Shakespeare's longest play, maybe it's fitting that my review of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's great biofictional novel, is 2000+ words. In the words of the mopey Danish prince: "Anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing." slate.com/culture/2025...
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On Monday, December 1, Columbia University Press will be selling all books at 50% off! (And some books at 70%!) tinyurl.com/7wzhyfmv @columbiaup.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
On Monday, December 1, Columbia University Press will be selling all books at 50% off! (And some books at 70%!) tinyurl.com/7wzhyfmv @columbiaup.bsky.social
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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A wealth of talent behind the Hitchcock signature: Alma Reville, Joan Harrison, Daphne du Maurier & Patricia Highsmith.
The Gutter's own Carol Borden has some thoughts on the women and genderqueer person who wrote Hitchcock! culturalgutter.com/2025/11/20/f...
From the Archives: (Some of) The Women Who Wrote Hitchcock
Hitchcock gets a lot of credit for his mystery and suspense films, rightfully so, but sometimes that credit goes as far as erasing the writers who came up with the mysteries, twists, dark jokes, th…
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November 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
A wealth of talent behind the Hitchcock signature: Alma Reville, Joan Harrison, Daphne du Maurier & Patricia Highsmith.
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Citation is how we knit the world.
Was listening to the new ep of the Allusionist this morning, and Helen was interviewing So Mayer who promptly name-checked @carriem.co.uk because the Internet is a tiny tiny village
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Citation is how we knit the world.
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A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
The Inattention Economy
Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A link to my new book cover and table of contents. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...
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Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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it's here!
FILMING CAPITAL
special issue of SAQ
"Visual and film studies provide a distinctive lens through which to unravel and confront the complexities of capitalism’s elusive appearance."
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
FILMING CAPITAL
special issue of SAQ
"Visual and film studies provide a distinctive lens through which to unravel and confront the complexities of capitalism’s elusive appearance."
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
Volume 124 Issue 4 | South Atlantic Quarterly | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
it's here!
FILMING CAPITAL
special issue of SAQ
"Visual and film studies provide a distinctive lens through which to unravel and confront the complexities of capitalism’s elusive appearance."
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
FILMING CAPITAL
special issue of SAQ
"Visual and film studies provide a distinctive lens through which to unravel and confront the complexities of capitalism’s elusive appearance."
read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...
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Favorite line from WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY:
“Why is it with the phrase ‘women’s writing’ we are led to believe that perhaps a rescue effort from our troops needs to be sent in its aid?”
“Why is it with the phrase ‘women’s writing’ we are led to believe that perhaps a rescue effort from our troops needs to be sent in its aid?”
October 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Favorite line from WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY:
“Why is it with the phrase ‘women’s writing’ we are led to believe that perhaps a rescue effort from our troops needs to be sent in its aid?”
“Why is it with the phrase ‘women’s writing’ we are led to believe that perhaps a rescue effort from our troops needs to be sent in its aid?”
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In honor spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
Griffith, father of cinema.
Griffith, father of cinema.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
Archives banned making copies.
Archives banned making copies.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
New library catalogue website.
New library catalogue website.
October 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In honor spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.
Griffith, father of cinema.
Griffith, father of cinema.
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Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
October 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.
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What to do if someone you know has been detained — from immigration attorney Michael Foote….
October 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
What to do if someone you know has been detained — from immigration attorney Michael Foote….
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It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's the end of The Best American Poetry.
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse.
defector.com/good-riddanc...
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'Perhaps surprisingly comic.' As if the blessed Virginia isn't actually very funny even in the course of her most serious novels, not to mention the diaries, etc.
‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published
A chance discovery at a country house revealed the three funny – sometimes surreal – interlinked tales, written almost a decade before Woolf’s first book was published
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 9:17 AM
'Perhaps surprisingly comic.' As if the blessed Virginia isn't actually very funny even in the course of her most serious novels, not to mention the diaries, etc.
‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
‘A cottage of one’s own’: Newly unearthed Virginia Woolf stories to be published www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Fernando" by Kay Dickinson. The latest in our Singles series, it outlines how ABBA’s mega-hit song could express support with anti-capitalist and Third World liberation while simultaneously becoming an icon of global capital.
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September 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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It's here!!! *Very excited* to receive my copy of the new @filmquarterly.bsky.social -- which includes our *collectively edited* dossier on CINEMA AND PLEASURE. ❤️🎞️ @girishshambu.bsky.social @caetlin.bsky.social
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September 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
It's here!!! *Very excited* to receive my copy of the new @filmquarterly.bsky.social -- which includes our *collectively edited* dossier on CINEMA AND PLEASURE. ❤️🎞️ @girishshambu.bsky.social @caetlin.bsky.social
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Literally the master's tools.
September 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Literally the master's tools.
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IMO it was clear this guy was awful when he started dating a high school girl, but he somehow keeps getting worse www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
Jerry Seinfeld compares ‘Free Palestine’ movement to KKK in surprise Duke appearance
“By saying Free Palestine, you’re not admitting what you really think,” Seinfeld said. “Compared to the Ku Klux Klan I’m actually thinking the Klan is actually a little better here because they can co...
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September 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
IMO it was clear this guy was awful when he started dating a high school girl, but he somehow keeps getting worse www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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"When we exclude QUILTBAG narratives and communities from radical and antifa history, we do the Nazis' work for them."
Fighting words by @suchmayer.bsky.social!! Thanks @girishshambu.bsky.social for exactly the book we all need. 🏳️🌈🍻
Fighting words by @suchmayer.bsky.social!! Thanks @girishshambu.bsky.social for exactly the book we all need. 🏳️🌈🍻
September 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
"When we exclude QUILTBAG narratives and communities from radical and antifa history, we do the Nazis' work for them."
Fighting words by @suchmayer.bsky.social!! Thanks @girishshambu.bsky.social for exactly the book we all need. 🏳️🌈🍻
Fighting words by @suchmayer.bsky.social!! Thanks @girishshambu.bsky.social for exactly the book we all need. 🏳️🌈🍻
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Really looking forward to this! The great @pamhutch.bsky.social on Iris Barry. Out Sept 23.
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BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Iris Barry, First Lady of Film
Delve into the world of Iris Barry – pioneering film critic, curator and preservationist.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Really looking forward to this! The great @pamhutch.bsky.social on Iris Barry. Out Sept 23.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Any favorite examples of writing on this topic? I'm especially interested in essays that teach well.
Okay, here's a question: Beyond Godzilla, what are some examples of Japanese atomic cinema? I know about The Bells of Nagasaki (1950) and Children of Hiroshima (1952), but what else?
September 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Any favorite examples of writing on this topic? I'm especially interested in essays that teach well.
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits