film

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• 1/26/20
  

  The Film “1917” and the Allegory of the Wooden-Headed

  by James Ottavio Castagnera

  Viewed with one eye on this current context, “1917” can surmount its surface characterization as an exciting “war movie” to become an allegory.

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• 1/14/20
  

  Annual Jewish Film Festival, Following New Wave of Anti-Semitism, Offers Hope and Inspiration

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Given the attacks on Jews all over the country, the Jewish Film Festival, one of the oldest in the United States, could not have come at a better time

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• SOURCE: Slate
  10/31/19
  

  Historians Manisha Sinha, Kate Clifford Larson, and Milton Sernett Interviewed for Article on Historical Accuracy of Harriet Film

  "What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Harriet"

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• 11/5/19
  

  Harriet Appropriately and Aptly Honors Harriet Tubman

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Harriet is not only an enjoyable and inspirational film, but one that covers a lot of pre and post-Civil War history as well as some about the war itself.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  November 2, 2019
  

  'History should not be airbrushed', historians complain as Wolverhampton's role in record-breaking balloon flight left out of Aeronauts film

  by Sophie Barnes

  The Aeronauts film has come under fire by a historian who has warned history should not be “airbrushed” after Wolverhampton’s role in a record-breaking balloon flight was left out of the film.

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• 10/9/19
  

  A Brooding, Psychotic New Joker Joins the Batman Legend

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Bruce Chadwick examines the history of the character of the Joker and reviews the latest film. 

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• 8/11/19
  

  The Cultural History Behind Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

  by David L. O'Connor

  Like most folktales, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is filled with interesting characters, events, and messages from a bygone era.  

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/21/19
  

  Bowling Green State Removed Lillian Gish's Name from Their Theatre Over Her Role in Birth of a Nation. Why Do Some Want the Name Restored?

  A who's who of film -- James Earl Jones, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, among others -- want the name restored.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/25/19
  

  Green Book and the Oscars' Complicated History With Movies About Race

  While many supporters of Green Book believe it’s a clever inversion of old tropes, its detractors see its victory as a continuation of the Oscars rewarding a familiarly naive story, told from a familiarly white viewpoint.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/22/19
  

  Revisiting The American Nazi Supporters of "A Night at the Garden"

  by Margaret Talbot

  One advantage to living through Trumpism is that it has compelled a reckoning with aspects of our country’s past that, for a long time, many Americans preferred not to acknowledge.

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• SOURCE: Colossal
  12-27-2018
  

  Video of the Week: Edited Film Footage from 1890’s Paris Explores Some of the Everyday Thrills of Late 19th-Century Life

  by Kate Sierzputowski

  Videographer Guy Jones slows down film from the late 1800s to early 1900s to more accurately match the speed at which modern footage is recorded and played. In addition to editing the pace of the century-old film, Jones also adds in sound effects to make the scenes more relatable.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  12-7-2018
  

  Forty Years Ago, 12.6 Million Feet of History Went Up in Smoke

  Remembering the fire at a National Archives film vault that destroyed years worth of flammable nitrate film newsreels

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• SOURCE: NYT
  10-23-18
  

  The Library of Congress Lets You Stream Hundreds of Free Films

  The National Screening Room is something of a time capsule: The videos cover the period from 1890 through 1999, capturing a broad range of American life.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  12-20-17
  

  Our film and video history is threatened by the rise of streaming video

  For film historians and film buffs the rapidity with which streaming has supplanted discs and tape as a viewing mode is a bug, not a feature.

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• 7-29-16
  

  Review of Brian J. Snee's "Lincoln Before Lincoln: Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America’s Greatest President "

  by Ron Briley

  There's Spielberg's Lincoln and then there's all the rest.  His featured the Great Emancipator.  The others mostly focused on Lincoln's role as the savior of the Union.

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• 12-7-15
  

  Ten Rounds of History: The All-American Boxing Film Is Back with Creed

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Why have we loved boxing movies so much for over a hundred years?

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  6-8-15
  

  Black America's Forgotten Film History

  A new MoMA exhibit puts black films front and center

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• 6-5-15
  

  Why We Love Prison Stories, from the 1922 Chain Gang Movies to Netflix’ Orange Is the New Black

  by Bruce Chadwick

  There has always been drama in prison stories, all the way back to the silent era chain gang films.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  2-13-15
  

  Why Movie ‘Facts’ Prevail

  by Jeffrey M. Zacks

  Studies show that if you watch a film — even one concerning historical events about which you are informed — your beliefs may be reshaped by “facts” that are not factual.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  1-19-15
  

  It’s not just “Selma”: Hollywood’s history problem

  by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

  Again and again, from "John Adams" to "Lincoln," romantic truthiness supplants historical truth on-screen