Archival Spaces 241 Thomas Doherty’s Show Trial. Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist (2019) Uploaded 24 April 2020 Thomas Doherty’s Show Trial Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist relies on original historical evidence, including documents, newsreels, contemporary newspaper reports, and the official protocols of the HUAC Hearings of October 1947, to recreate a historicalContinue reading “241: Show Trial. HUAC and Hollywood”
Author Archives: Jan-Christopher Horak
240: Nollywood
Archival Spaces 240 Nollywood Uploaded April 10, 2020 For years I was planning a Nollywood film series at UCLA, but the difficulty of researching and finding films in what was a very informal video-based industry proved insurmountable. Nollywood refers of course to the cinema of Nigeria, which only came to prominence in the 1980sContinue reading “240: Nollywood”
239: Czechoslovak Legions in WWI
Archival Spaces 239 The Czechoslovak Legions in World War I Uploaded March 27, 2020 In the past couple years, I have written blogs about my dad, Jerome (Jaromir) Horák, who was both a concentration camp survivor (https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2014/11/21/international-students-day) and a refugee from Communist Czechoslovakia (https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2018/08/31/abduction-petr-zenkl), and whose birthday it is today. More recently, I have beenContinue reading “239: Czechoslovak Legions in WWI”
238: A Film Curator does what?
Archival Spaces 238 A Film Curator does what? Uploaded 13 March 2020 I have been seeing the verb to curate with increasing frequency in the unlikeliest places, e.g. I was recently on a Delta Airlines flight where you can now purchase a Delta vacation with “the world’s best hotels and curated experiences.” Apart from theContinue reading “238: A Film Curator does what?”
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