Dan Hassler-Forest
@danhf.bsky.social
Author, speaker, all-purpose movie guy, media studies prof @ Utrecht University. Forthcoming: books on the Fast & Furious franchise and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Pre-order: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Pre-order: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
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Dan Hassler-Forest
@danhf.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Fast and Furious Franchising
What the popularity of the Fast and Furious film franchise says about Hollywood blockbusters and media productionFast and Furious Franchising charts the tran...
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My new book FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: HOW THE SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLYWOOD is now available for pre-order from @uminnpress.bsky.social!! www.upress.umn.edu/978151792108...
Taught two wildly invigorating classes today on how Hollywood channels what Žižek has called “our secret fascist dreams”: starting with a scene from CABARET, then moving to THE SOUND OF MUSIC before finally digging into Disney and (you guessed it!) THE LION KING.
a baboon is holding a baby lion in his arms in a cartoon
ALT: a baboon is holding a baby lion in his arms in a cartoon
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November 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Taught two wildly invigorating classes today on how Hollywood channels what Žižek has called “our secret fascist dreams”: starting with a scene from CABARET, then moving to THE SOUND OF MUSIC before finally digging into Disney and (you guessed it!) THE LION KING.
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this is the best theory/philosophy book i've read in recent years, i think about it constantly, and has really helped me make sense of lots of stuff.
read it. now.
read it. now.
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
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gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.versobooks.com/products/303...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
this is the best theory/philosophy book i've read in recent years, i think about it constantly, and has really helped me make sense of lots of stuff.
read it. now.
read it. now.
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/jan...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/jan...
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/jan...
gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/jan...
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when I think about how exhausting it is to be a woman, I can forget that it’s equally exhausting (and equally ridiculous) to perform masculinity.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
when I think about how exhausting it is to be a woman, I can forget that it’s equally exhausting (and equally ridiculous) to perform masculinity.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
A student of mine who happens to be a gifted graphic artist showed me this sketch that captures a quip of mine in laat week’s class. 🤭
November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A student of mine who happens to be a gifted graphic artist showed me this sketch that captures a quip of mine in laat week’s class. 🤭
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You think you've seen it all with this regime and then it turns out they've got someone on the payroll named "I Wanna Be Whorin'."
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
You think you've seen it all with this regime and then it turns out they've got someone on the payroll named "I Wanna Be Whorin'."
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I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
Guess who’s teaching a class on fascism in popular culture tomorrow? 🤗
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Guess who’s teaching a class on fascism in popular culture tomorrow? 🤗
🎶 Out on the wily, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you. I loved you, too 🎶
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you. I loved you, too 🎶
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎶 Out on the wily, windy moors
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you. I loved you, too 🎶
We'd roll and fall in green
You had a temper like my jealousy
Too hot, too greedy
How could you leave me
When I needed to possess you?
I hated you. I loved you, too 🎶
share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, Charlie Brown.
Man is the warmest place to hide, Charlie Brown
Every dead body that is not exterminated gets up and KILLS. The people it kills GET UP AND KILL, Charlie Brown.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, Charlie Brown.
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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WANT!!
Today is the first day of work with my fancy new timer for the “pomodoro” method of working 25 minutes without stopping then 5 min of free time.
I realized that any time I have to use a switch or open my phone, I get distraction, but my new timer is a gravity timer — turn it and it starts.
I realized that any time I have to use a switch or open my phone, I get distraction, but my new timer is a gravity timer — turn it and it starts.
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
WANT!!
"A film will speak politically whether its makers intend for it to or not, but storytellers shouldn’t be compelled to give neat, prescriptive messaging perfectly calibrated to the moral temperature of an audience." Marvelous essay on the ambivalent politics of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. 🔥
Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"A film will speak politically whether its makers intend for it to or not, but storytellers shouldn’t be compelled to give neat, prescriptive messaging perfectly calibrated to the moral temperature of an audience." Marvelous essay on the ambivalent politics of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. 🔥
Goosebumps all over. Rest in power, king.
Goodbye Jimmy Cliff. His vocal in this 1976 SNL performance, good lord---one of the best singers of his generation, of any generation. vimeo.com/155135842
many rivers to cross
jimmy cliff on saturday night live, 1976.
vimeo.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Goosebumps all over. Rest in power, king.
(from Craig Thompson’s most recent book GINSENG ROOTS)
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
(from Craig Thompson’s most recent book GINSENG ROOTS)
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Udo Kier was a fucking Icon. You can't point to one role, because he killed it for his entire life.
I don't what to say. Nothing any of us will say can honor him enough. I feel lucky I got to have been around to see his work.
I don't what to say. Nothing any of us will say can honor him enough. I feel lucky I got to have been around to see his work.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Udo Kier was a fucking Icon. You can't point to one role, because he killed it for his entire life.
I don't what to say. Nothing any of us will say can honor him enough. I feel lucky I got to have been around to see his work.
I don't what to say. Nothing any of us will say can honor him enough. I feel lucky I got to have been around to see his work.
[the richest man in the world talking about the future of humanity:] "Guys! I can make the computer say rude words. ISN'T THIS HILARIOUS?!?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
[the richest man in the world talking about the future of humanity:] "Guys! I can make the computer say rude words. ISN'T THIS HILARIOUS?!?" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This review by @andyzswart.bsky.social of the magnificent new four-part Netflix series #DeathByLightning perfectly summarizes everything that's so great about it. letterboxd.com/swartacus/fi...
A ★★★★½ review of Death by Lightning (2025)
Music! Fighting! Sausages! A surprisingly excellent period mini-series from Netflix? That can’t be right. I smell ringer. That Game of Thrones-like credits animation was a dead giveaway as both thron...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This review by @andyzswart.bsky.social of the magnificent new four-part Netflix series #DeathByLightning perfectly summarizes everything that's so great about it. letterboxd.com/swartacus/fi...
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This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is not the way, and @cnygren.bsky.social and I lay out in detail why it isn’t in this essay here. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...