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• SOURCE: Labor and Working Class History Association
  8/2/2022
  

  Working 9 to 5: The Activism of Women Office Workers

  by Ellen Cassedy

  The author of a new firsthand history of a pioneering organization of women office workers discusses the history behind the movement for "Raises and Roses." 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/13/2021
  

  The Unsettling Message of "Judas and the Black Messiah"

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  The film "brings the disparities engendered by a surveillance state into focus, leaving audiences to wonder what this country would look like if the war on white supremacy were fought with the same implacable intensity as the one against the Black Panther Party some 50 years ago."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  12/2/2020
  

  Revisiting Hitler’s Final Days in the Bunker

  The use of the German film "Downfall" in internet memes points to the danger of treating Hitler's demise as a closure to the murderous ideologies he propagated. 

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• SOURCE: New Orleans Times-Picayune
  12-4-13
  

  Fully 70 percent of films from silent era are lost, according to Library of Congress report

  The report also advocates developing preservation programs.

• SOURCE: BBC News
  7-11-13
  

  Alfred Hitchcock joins UNESCO register

  Alfred Hitchcock's nine surviving silent films will join artefacts such as the Domesday Book in representing the cultural heritage of the UK.Hitchcock's films - the British director's earliest works - premiered at the British Film Institute last summer following extensive restoration.They have now been added to the Unesco UK Memory of the World Register.The register "reflects the richness of UK culture and history, from medieval manuscripts to ground-breaking cinema"....

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• "The Great Gatsby's" Historical Razzle-Dazzle

  by Bruce Chadwick

  F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby is a wafer thin book about the 1920s Jazz Age, long lost love and the intrepid chase of the American dream. It is considered the best novel ever written by an American not because of what it says, but because of what it implies. A hundred stories drift lazily between the pages, and over the water from Gatsby’s swimming pool to the green light on Daisy’s dock.In Baz Luhrmann’s new movie The Great Gatsby, the sixth film retelling of Fitzgerald’s tale, the story is inflated and expanded, as if it were based on a 700 page Herman Melville work. Everything you wondered about the story and characters is spelled out and everything you wanted said is spoken. Luhrmann and screenwriter Craig Pearce left no stone unturned, and no glass of champagne from one of Gatsby’s wild parties unfinished in the new Roaring Twenties epic.

• SOURCE: The New Republic
  3-7-13
  

  David Thomson: Schindler's Girl in the Red Coat Speaks Out

  David Thomson is a film critic who often writes for The New Republic.Here’s an oddity, from Yahoo Movies this past Monday: two photographs, side by side—a dark-haired woman, apparently 23-years-old, in a belted red raincoat, standing in front of a wall covered with Jewish imagery; and then, a child, 3-years-old, in a red coat, but in the foreground of a black-and-white picture that shows German soldiers guarding abashed citizens. It is the same person in both pictures, Oliwia Dabrowska, from Krakow in Poland. There is a heading to the pictures and the short article that follows: “‘Red coat girl’ from ‘Schindler’s List’: I was ‘horrified.’”