Archival Spaces 311 Douglas Sirk’s All I Desire (1953) Uploaded 23 December 2022 For the past couple of months I have been researching and planning a lecture course for UCLA, FTV 113 Film Authors, which will focus on the careers of Douglas Sirk, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Todd Haynes. Not only have all three specializedContinue reading “311: Sirk-Fassbinder-Haynes”
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310: The DuPont Story
Archival Spaces 310 The DuPont Story (1950) Uploaded 9 December 2022 With Senator Gerald Nye (R, ND) back in the news as an insurrectionist and anti-Semite, the political predecessor of Jim Jordan, I was reminded of his early 30’s project of blaming Jewish bankers and armaments manufacturers, like DuPont, for getting America into World WarContinue reading “310: The DuPont Story”
309: Art Cinemas in Crisis
Archival Spaces 309 Only in Theatres (2022) Uploaded 25 November 2022 There is a shot in the new documentary Only in Theatres of Greg Laemmle, the CEO of the storied Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles, patiently putting up new lettering on the marquee, a cumbersome still analog process. The image is not only emblematic ofContinue reading “309: Art Cinemas in Crisis”
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””
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