243: Hugo Haas’ The White Sickness

Archival Spaces 243 Hugo Haas’ The White Sickness (1937) restored; a Plague Allegory Uploaded 22 May 2020 Thanks to my archivist colleague and friend, Adrian Wood, I learned that the Národní filmový archive in Prague has restored Bílá nemoc (1937) from the original nitrate negative (the sound came from a nitrate print) and made it available online on theirContinue reading “243: Hugo Haas’ The White Sickness”

242: Movie Theatres & the Pandemic

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”

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”