Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Seattle University. Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimenhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminschultzfig.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social/post/3mwtnbxz2cs2zI once was working retail and two orthodox Jews asked me if my mother was Jewish. I replied, "Which one?" They both walked out of the store without saying another word to me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:etthxmclqd53gye7pxw7eapw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtnbxz2cs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social/post/3mwtgho7aik23A wonderful video essay that I imagine I'll assign in future classes. I'd love to see a follow-up about how the final girl is used in Camp Miasma as well. Kris doesn't just identify with Little Death, but also LD's victims. The complexity of desiring both felt especially generative to me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:etthxmclqd53gye7pxw7eapw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtgho7aik23https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social/post/3mwtnbxz2cs2zI once was working retail and two orthodox Jews asked me if my mother was Jewish. I replied, "Which one?" They both walked out of the store without saying another word to me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:etthxmclqd53gye7pxw7eapw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtnbxz2cs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social/post/3mwtgho7aik23A wonderful video essay that I imagine I'll assign in future classes. I'd love to see a follow-up about how the final girl is used in Camp Miasma as well. Kris doesn't just identify with Little Death, but also LD's victims. The complexity of desiring both felt especially generative to me. [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Oct 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:etthxmclqd53gye7pxw7eapw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwtgho7aik23https://bsky.app/profile/benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social/post/3mwqnzcihus2tI wonder if my university would allow me to teach a class simply titled "Shitty Movies"30 Sep 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:etthxmclqd53gye7pxw7eapw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqnzcihus2thttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social/post/3mwqlddnwbc2tAfter listening to an episode of @talkscaredpod.bsky.social on it, I finished The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson last night. It crystallized for me how much folk horror is concerned primarily with the question on impermanence, both on a cultural and individual scale. Highly recommend it!30 Sep 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:etthxmclqd53gye7pxw7eapw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqlddnwbc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social/post/3mwqqxoyd6k2tStriking how often pro-AI arguments always require like 10 different caveats. "What if AI was well regulated, trained on non-stolen data, not made by companies run by sociopaths, was didn't harm the environment, made discoveries that were verified beyond the statements of PR reps? What then?"30 Sep 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:etthxmclqd53gye7pxw7eapw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqqxoyd6k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social/post/3mwqioscmzc2tWorth noting too that Uncommitted was a movement that mostly took place during a primary, not the general. [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Sep 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:etthxmclqd53gye7pxw7eapw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqioscmzc2t