308: Maddow’s “Ultra”

Archival Spaces 308 Rachel Maddow’s Ultra Podcast Uploaded 11 November 2022 I’ve been listening to Rachel Maddow’s podcast, “Ultra,” narrativising the activities of home-grown American Fascists in the immediate pre-World War II period who openly supported and even carried out terror acts for the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler. The podcast has reminded me ofContinue reading “308: Maddow’s “Ultra””

307 Lynn Spigel’s TV Snapshots

Archival Spaces 307 Lynn Spigel’s TV Snapshots Archive Uploaded  28 October 2022 On 21 October 2022, Film Quarterly hosted a webinar with Professor Lynn Spigel (Northwestern University) to discuss her new book, TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life (Durham, NC:  Duke University Press, 2022).  Reprising an interview between Bruno Guarana and Spigel in FilmContinue reading “307 Lynn Spigel’s TV Snapshots”

306: Andrew Sarris

Archival Spaces 306 Andrew Sarris Uploaded 14 October 2022 It was fifty years ago that I first met Andrew Sarris as an undergraduate.  A film critic for The Village Voice, Sarris was the first reviewer I read regularly after becoming interested in film, even getting a subscription to the weekly paper, which also published JonasContinue reading “306: Andrew Sarris”

305: Invaders from Mars

Archival Spaces 305 Invaders from Mars (1953) restored Uploaded 30 September 2022 At the Cinecon Classic Film Festival in Los Angeles over Labor Day weekend, Scott MacQueen, the former head of film preservation at UCLA Film & Television Archive, presented his restoration of William Cameron Menzies’s Invaders from Mars (1953). MacQueen had previously introduced theContinue reading “305: Invaders from Mars”