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Category Archives: film
Karen E. Whedbee on “Reverend Billy Goes to Main Street: Free Speech, Trespassing, and Activist Documentary Film”
in author commentary, authors, film, journals, media studies, politics
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Karen E. Whedbee is an associate professor in the media studies program in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University. She has published widely on topics related to free speech, communication ethics, and the history of participatory democracy. Among … Continue reading
Q&A with Susan Potter, author of “Queer Timing”
in art, film, gay/lesbian, Q&A, sexuality studies
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Susan Potter is lecturer in film studies at the University of Sydney. She recently answered some questions about her new book, Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? When I … Continue reading
Celebrating 10 Years of the Women and Film History International Series
in announcement, film, The Callout, women's history
Tagged silent film, Women and Film History
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This year marks the 10th Anniversary of University of Illinois Press’ Women and Film History International series. In collaboration with film historians, Kay Armatage, Jane M. Gaines, and Christine Gledhill, the series was originally devised as a home for new … Continue reading
4 Things You Need to Know at #SCMS18
in authors, awards, film, media studies, Uncategorized
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Headed to SCMS in Toronto this week? So are we! Here’s what you need to know: 1. We’re giving away 50 copies of Pink-Slipped: What Happened To Women In The Silent Film Industries. Stop by our booth in the exhibit hall and grab … Continue reading
Women in Film: In 2017, “Time’s Up”
in american history, feminist studies, film, media studies, Uncategorized, women's history
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In Jane M. Gaines newest book, Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?, she rediscovers the previously overlooked women of the silent era that were instrumental in the earliest days of film. Today, the film industry is known for … Continue reading
Contemporary Film Directors Series: Celebrating 15 Years of Scholarship on Filmmakers From Around the World
in film, The Callout, UIP100
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“Our aim has been to publish conceptually ambitious, risk-taking work that challenges familiar models for understanding film authorship.”–Justus Nieland, CFD series editor Since the publication of an illuminating cross-cultural dialogue on the legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in 2003, the University … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Steven Soderbergh
in biography, film
Tagged Aaron Baker, Contemporary Film Directors Series, directors, film, movies, Steven Soderbergh
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Born on January 14, 1963, in Atlanta, Steven Soderbergh found filmmaking in his teens. His Hollywood apprenticeship included work as a cue card holder and a director of concert films. In 1986, his film Sex, Lies, and Videotape helped launch the surge … Continue reading
Happy National Spaghetti Day
in film, food
Tagged Francis Ford Coppola, Hollywood's Italian American Filmmakers, Italian American Table, Jeff Menne, Jonathan J. Cavallero, Simone Cinotto, The Godfather
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“There’s a reason that this genre film never worked. It must be ethnic to the core—you must smell the spaghetti. That’s what brought the magic to the novel—it was written by an Italian.” With those words former studio head Robert … Continue reading
One hundred-and-one years ago, Francis Albert Sinatra entered the world in Hoboken, New Jersey. He proceeded to live one of the more completely lived lives this side of Casanova. Though foiled by television, Sinatra otherwise thrived across mass media, earning love … Continue reading
Climbing Twin Peaks, plus David Lynch cooks quinoa
in film
Tagged Contemporary Film Directors Series, David Lynch, food, Justus Nieland, television, Twin Peaks
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An excerpt from Justin Nieland‘s once-again-timely book David Lynch. Laura Palmer—passive, suffering, already victimized—is one kind of a melodramatic myth, and Twin Peaks, both the series and the fictional town, is Lynch’s most enduring melodramatic network, a famously quirky environment of character. … Continue reading
