293: Austria on Hollywood’s Screens

Archival Spaces 293: Austria Made in Hollywood Uploaded 15 April 2022 Back in December, I reported on the Academy Film Museum Symposium “Vienna in Hollywood. The Influence and Impact of Austrians on the Hollywood Film Industry 1920s – 2020s.” Now, I have finally caught up with an excellent book that focuses less on Austrians inContinue reading “293: Austria on Hollywood’s Screens”

239: Czechoslovak Legions in WWI

Archival Spaces 239 The Czechoslovak Legions in World War I Uploaded March 27, 2020 In the past couple years, I have written blogs about my dad, Jerome (Jaromir) Horák, who was both a concentration camp survivor (https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2014/11/21/international-students-day)  and a refugee from Communist Czechoslovakia (https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/blogs/archival-spaces/2018/08/31/abduction-petr-zenkl), and whose birthday it is today.  More recently, I have beenContinue reading “239: Czechoslovak Legions in WWI”