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From Celebrated Film Scholar Dudley Andrew: Andre Bazin on Adaptation
Apr 01 2022
Available for the first time in English, these previously unavailable essays introduce readers to the foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation as put forth by one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the 20th century.Adaptation was central to André B
Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran — A Found Audio Tour
Mar 31 2022
By Kaveh Askari, author of Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in TransitRelaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. I examine film circulation and its effect on Iranian
Deleted Scene: The Archival Memo I Had To Lose To Find My Book’s Argument
Mar 30 2022
By Annie Berke, author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar TelevisionAt a recent book event– co-hosted with Liz Clarke, author of The American Girl Goes to War– one participant asked: “How did you decide what to put in the book and what to leave out?”Having relied on archiv
Revisiting an Oscar Night Controversy — in 1975
Mar 30 2022
By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Film historian J
Q&A with Noah Tsika, author of Cinematic Independence
Mar 28 2022
Noah Tsika is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is contributing editor of Africa Is a Country and the author of several books, including Traumatic Imprints and Nollywood Stars. He is also a first-generation scholar.Cinematic Independence traces t
What The Great Escape Tells Us About America in the 1960s
Mar 25 2022
By Dana Polan, author of Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and CultureI had long wanted to revisit the 1963 classic The Great Escape, ever since seeing it as a kid at a drive-in re-release in the mid-60s. Like many young American boys of the time, I imagine, I went to the fil