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”
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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””
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”
