Archival Spaces 242 Will Movie Theatres Survive the 2020 Plague? Uploaded 8 May 2020 On Thursday, 30 April, Ross Melnick and the Carsey-Wolf Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara hosted an online panel discussion, “Moviegoing in the Age of COVID-19,” with Manohla Dargis (New York Times) and Alison Kozberg (Art House Convergence) aboutContinue reading “242: Movie Theatres & the Pandemic”
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241: Show Trial. HUAC and Hollywood
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”
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”
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