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• SOURCE: KERA
  9/14/2020
  

  Hollywood’s Colorblind Illusion (audio)

  American Studies professor Justin Gomer, author of "White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights" discusses the political impact of Hollywood's treatment of race. 

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• 9/13/2020
  

  Native Actors Outside the Frame

  by Liza Black

  Liza Black's new book traces the lives of prominent and anonymous Native actors, examinng the way that Hollywood films exploited their labor and images while spinning narratives that justified the historical conquest of Native lands.

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• SOURCE: Broadway World
  8/31/2020
  

  PBS Will Air "Driving While Black" Documentary on October 13

  PBS will air a historical documentary examining the issue of mobility and freedom to travel as aspects of American racism.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  9/1/2020
  

  Stanley Kubrick’s Calculated Rebellion

  A new biography of the acclaimed director focuses on his thematic obsession with rebellion and how it suceeds or fails.

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• SOURCE: WUNC
  8/26/2020
  

  Civil War And Southern Charm: How Hollywood Takes On The South (audio)

  Film experts Marsha Gordon and Laura Boyes talk about watching films that gloss over the darker parts of Southern history, but they also explore how more contemporary films resonate with viewers as true to their own experiences.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/6/2020
  

  'And The World Went Crazy': How Hollywood Changed After Hiroshima

  Hollywood in the 1950s and 1960s wrestled with the idea of a planet without humanity. After "Dr. Strangelove" satirized any effort to treat nuclear war seriously on the big screen, Hollywood viewed the bomb through schlock and horror, until the 1980s revival of sentiment for disarmament and "The Day After."

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• 8/7/2020
  

  Hiroshima (1953, Hideo Sekigawa)

  View a segment from, and read about, Hideo Sekigawa's 1953 film "Hiroshima."

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  8/5/2020
  

  Epic Lego Battles Are A Smash On YouTube

  A subculture of Lego and military history enthusiasts has achieved notoriety for posting stop-motion videos of historic battles, despite the official non-violence policy of the building toy company. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  The Violence at the Root of the Silent Majority

  by Brian Tochterman

  As a vigilante film, “Joe” inaugurated a genre that exploded onto screens in the 1970s.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  75 Years Ago the First "Nuclear Race" Was in Hollywood

  by Greg Mitchell

  Despite Americans' keen interest and considerable fear in the atomic bomb after the end of World War II, the first commercial film to tackle the Manhattan Project was a bomb of a different sort. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/23/2020
  

  New Film Tells Tale of North Korean Orphans Sent to Europe

  The documentary film “Kim Il Sung’s Children” will be released June 25, the 70th anniversary of the Korean War’s start.

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods: How Bad is It?

  by Jerry Lembcke

  A historian of public perceptions of the Vietnam War (who served as a military chaplain there) warns that Spike Lee's latest film traffics in stereotypes of both American veterans and the Vietnamese people while reinforcing right-wing narratives about the war.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/14/2020
  

  The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’

  Historians Kellie Carter Jackson and Karen L. Cox discuss the film's effect on audiences then and now.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/12/2020
  

  ‘Gone With the Wind’ is also a Confederate Monument, but on Film instead of Stone

  by Nina Silber

  Criticism of the film isn't a case of applying present values to the past. Critics in the 1930s recognized that the film and its source novel glorified white supremacy and denied black claims to citizenship rights.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/10/2020
  

  'Gone With the Wind' Reignites Debate as Hollywood Wrestles with its History

  Debate immediately ensued at the 1936 publication of Mitchell's novel, with its nostalgia for plantation life, portrayal of happy slaves and threatening freed blacks, and sympathy toward the Confederate cause.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  5/11/2020
  

  “Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

  by Paris A. Spies-Gans

  Historian Paris A. Spies-Gans discusses the historical references and significance of the critically acclaimed French film.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/12/2020
  

  In Netflix’s ‘Hollywood,’ One Movie Fixes Racism. Hooray!

  Ryan Murphy’s revisionist series is laughably self-satisfied and willfully naïve about complex real-world problems. I also kind of enjoyed it.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/7/2020
  

  4 Movies That Got World War II Right, According to a Historian

  Here are four films that accurately depict life during and after the war, according to Rob Citino, Senior Historian at the National World War II Museum.

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• 4/26/2020
  

  “Dueling Banjos” and Divided America

  by Roger Chapman

  If we could consider our differences as not warfare but call-and-response, perhaps we could find some harmony in the song of our nation.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  Laughter in an Age of Pandemics

  by Michael A. Genovese

  We are all struggling, and we all need the distractions that only absurdity can provide. So laugh now and then; see the silly, the absurd and the comic in life.