Archival Spaces 367 The First Mexican Sound Film Restored Uploaded 21 February 2025 Considered Mexico’s first “national” production in the sound film era, Santa (1932) was based on the eponymous Mexican novel (1903) by Federico Gamboa, which is as much a modernist portrait of Mexico City, as it is of the fate of its heroine.Continue reading “367: Santa’s Restoration”
Tag Archives: film history
365: Nicholas Baer’s Historical Turns
Archival Spaces 365: Nicholas Baer: Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (2024) Uploaded 24 January 2025 Nicholas Baer’s now-published dissertation, Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024), attempts to read five canonical German films from the Weimar Republic in the light of theContinue reading “365: Nicholas Baer’s Historical Turns”
363: M&K Controversy
Archival Spaces 363 Mitchell and Kenyon Discovery in Dispute Uploaded 27 December 2024 I can’t quite remember when I first saw the Mitchell and Kenyon films but Andrea Leigh tells me it was at the AMIA Conference in 2001 when the British Film Institute first began circulating 35mm prints of their restorations. I was trulyContinue reading “363: M&K Controversy”
362: Ufa Musicals 2
Archival Spaces 362 Kurt Gerron’s Ein toller Einfall (1932) Uploaded 13 December 2024 Back in June, I wrote about the UFA film operettas of the early 1930s, noting that many resisted the move to classical Hollywood narrative, displaying instead a high degree of self-reflexivity, employing direct address, featuring both song and dance, and emphasizing theContinue reading “362: Ufa Musicals 2”
Archival Spaces 