Archival Spaces 267 The „Aryanization“ of the Ufa Uploaded 16 April 2021 Some historians have always understood the Third Reich as a dictatorship that suppressed democratic institutions and oppressed, even murdered its citizenry without due process, but as the example of Germany’s largest film company, the Universum Film A.G. (Ufa) demonstrated, a significant portion ofContinue reading “267: Ufa’s Aryanization”
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266: Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism
Archival Spaces 266 Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism Uploaded 2 April 2021 Earlier this week, I participated in an online book launch at the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (https://www.ithaca.edu/finger-lakes-environmental-film-festival) for Terri Simone Francis’s book, Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism (Indiana University Press, 2021). I was invited to be on the panel because as a young curator at GeorgeContinue reading “266: Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism”
265: Love & Death in Cinema
Archival Spaces 265 Love and Death in “ism” Cinema Uploaded 19 March 2021 I’m reading and reviewing for a German publication an excellent new book on Israeli cinema, Projecting the Nation. History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen (2020) by Eran Kaplan. I was particularly struck by a line in his chapter on Eros: “The real fulfillmentContinue reading “265: Love & Death in Cinema”
264: Restored Avant-Garde Films (NL)
Archival Spaces 264 Restored Avant-Garde Films from the Netherlands Uploaded 5 March 2021 Between February 24 and March 9, 2021, the Eye Museum, Amsterdam and Anthology Film Archives, New York, are presenting a streamed film program, “THERE ARE NO RULES!: RESTORED AND REVISITED AVANT-GARDE FILMS FROM THE NETHERLANDS,” co-curated by Simona Monizza, Mark-Paul Meyer andContinue reading “264: Restored Avant-Garde Films (NL)”
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