344: Anti-Semitic Film History

Archival Spaces 344 Nazi Film History: Film “Kunst” Film Kohn Film Korruption Uploaded 5 April 1924 Like most of my fellow film historians, I had never actually read the 1937 Nazi tract disguised as film history, Carl Neumann, Curt Belling, and Hans-Walther Betz’s Film-“Kunst”, Film Kohn, Film-Korruption. Ein Streifzug durch vier Film-Jahrzehnte, although I hadContinue reading “344: Anti-Semitic Film History”

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”

248: Kevon Brownlow’s It Happened Here

Archival Spaces 248 Kevin Brownlow’s It Happened Here (1964) Downloaded  31 July 2020 I can’t believe it has taken me nearly fifty years to catch up with Kevin Brownlow’s first feature film, It Happened Here, which had its UK premiere at the London Film Festival on 1 November 1964. I first became aware of the film sometime in lateContinue reading “248: Kevon Brownlow’s It Happened Here”