Archival Spaces 269 Liberating Hollywood. Women Directors & the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema Uploaded 14 May 2021 The following review was originally written in October 2019 but remained unpublished. With a woman of color winning an Oscar for directing this year, this book remains hugely relevant. In October 2019, it was announced inContinue reading “269: 1970s Women Directors”
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268: The Emergence of Early Television 1878-1939
Archival Spaces 268 Seeing by Electricity. The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 Uploaded 30 April 2021 Even though we think of television as only coming to public consciousness several decades after the birth of cinema, one of the epiphanies of Doron Galilli’s new book, Seeing by Electricity. The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939 (Duke University Press, 2020), is thatContinue reading “268: The Emergence of Early Television 1878-1939”
267: Ufa’s Aryanization
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”
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”
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