Showing papers in "Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television in 2009"
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TL;DR: The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American propaganda and public diplomacy, 1945-1989 NICHOLAS CULL Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008 xxvi+533 pp, illus as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The Cold War and the United States Information Agency: American propaganda and public diplomacy, 1945–1989 NICHOLAS CULL Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2008 xxvi+533 pp, illus
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TL;DR: Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the making of the American child, 1930-1960 NICHOLAS SAMMOND Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2005 472 pp., illus., bibliography, index, $24.95 (pape...
Abstract: Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the making of the American child, 1930–1960 NICHOLAS SAMMOND Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2005 472 pp., illus., bibliography, index, $24.95 (pape...
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TL;DR: Many scholars studying interwar film propaganda have rightly concentrated on the crucial role of images, especially motion pictures, in refining the tools of the trade as mentioned in this paper, and many of them have focused on the importance of images in refining tools of trade.
Abstract: Many scholars studying interwar film propaganda have rightly concentrated on the crucial role of images, especially motion pictures, in refining the tools of the trade. Much of this research has pr...
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TL;DR: One evening in 1925, the guests at Gloria Swanson's Manhattan penthouse decided to watch a print of The Battleship Potemkin, the latest film of director Sergei Eisenstein this article.
Abstract: One evening in 1925 the guests at Gloria Swanson's Manhattan penthouse decided to watch a print of The Battleship Potemkin, the latest film of director Sergei Eisenstein. Lacking a screen, they hun...
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TL;DR: Black Space: imagining race in science fiction film ADILIFU NAMA Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2008 200 pp., illus., bibliography, index, $24.95 as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Black Space: imagining race in science fiction film ADILIFU NAMA Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2008 200 pp., illus., bibliography, index, $24.95 (paper) The election of America's first bla...
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TL;DR: The dominant use of male voices in trailer announcements from "the Oxbridge-ridden trailers for older British films" to recent examp has been observed by Medhurst as discussed by the authors who observed that "To trail is male".
Abstract: Andy Medhurst has observed that ‘To trail is male,’ referring to the dominant use of male voices in trailer announcements from ‘the Oxbridge-ridden trailers for older British films’ to recent examp
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TL;DR: Blackpool is famous for entertainment and is celebrated for its theatres and for the stars who appeared there, especially from the 1930s to the 1950s when the resort was at its most popular as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Blackpool is famous for entertainment. It is celebrated for its theatres and for the stars who appeared there, especially from the 1930s to the 1950s when the resort was at its most popular. In a t...
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TL;DR: Government agencies have long employed entertainment industry liaisons to work with Hollywood in order to improve their public image as discussed by the authors, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation established a liaison with the entertainment industry.
Abstract: Government agencies have long employed entertainment industry liaisons to work with Hollywood in order to improve their public image. For instance, the Federal Bureau of Investigation established i...
TL;DR: In this paper, a monograph on Turkish Cinema: identity, distance and belonging is presented, focusing on the themes of distance, distance, and belonging in Turkish Cinema, and its relation to Turkish identity and distance.
Abstract: Turkish Cinema: identity, distance and belonging GONUL DONMEZ-COLIN London, Reaktion Books, 2008 268 pp., illus., bibliography, filmography and index, £16.95 (pbk) In her latest monograph, Gonul Do...
TL;DR: Bell and Gray as mentioned in this paper discuss the recent explosion of history programming across a number of television networks and channels, including PBS, History Channel, and History Channel (HBO) and PBS History Channel.
Abstract: Erin Bell and Ann Gray begin their essay on ‘History on television’1 by noting that, ‘The recent explosion of history programming across a number of television networks and channels prompts us to a
TL;DR: The 1980 conference of the Soviet film-makers' union opened in Moscow with typical fanfare as mentioned in this paper, and a packed house attended the keynote speech of F. T. Ermash, the director of Goskino USSR, the state bureau of the film industry.
Abstract: The 1980 conference of the Soviet film-makers’ union opened in Moscow amid typical fanfare. A packed house attended the keynote speech of F. T. Ermash, director of Goskino USSR, the state bureaucra...
TL;DR: The study of the relationship between stars and their admirers is an area which, in recent years, has witnessed a growing interest in the field of Anglo-American film studies as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The study of the relationship between stars and their admirers is an area which, in recent years, has witnessed a growing interest in the field of Anglo-American film studies. Examples include Jack...
TL;DR: Nanook of the North (1922) as discussed by the authors, a dramatized documentary about Inuit life in the Canadian Arctic, remains an iconic work of world cinema, made without any film industry support and ena...
Abstract: Nanook of the North (1922), Robert Flaherty's dramatized documentary about Inuit life in the Canadian Arctic, remains an iconic work of world cinema.1 Made without any film industry support and ena...
TL;DR: The role of the film producer is difficult to define, much less analyse from a historical or critical point-of-view as mentioned in this paper, and much of what has been written on the produ...
Abstract: It is by now somewhat well known that the role of the film producer is difficult to define, much less analyse from a historical or critical point-of-view. Much of what has been written on the produ...
TL;DR: VUFKU logo, designed by Alexander Dovzhenko as discussed by the authors, is one of the most famous logos in Russian literature. But it was viewed as some exotic detail in Russian cinema and, consciously or unconsciously, we became accustomed to identi...
Abstract: VUFKU logo, designed by Alexander Dovzhenko. Many of us got used to viewing national cinema as some exotic detail in Russian cinema and, consciously or unconsciously, we became accustomed to identi...
TL;DR: Tokyo File 212 (1951) is an intriguing film that depicts an American undercover agent's efforts to thwart a communist uprising in the busy comme... as mentioned in this paper. But it is not suitable for children.
Abstract: Tokyo File 212 (1951) is an intriguing film. Staged in Japan during the heyday of the Korean War, it portrays an American undercover agent's efforts to thwart a communist uprising in the busy comme...
TL;DR: Osten as mentioned in this paper was one of the first riders to experience the first personal interaction with transitcasting and its Muzak-programmed content, and described his experience in a letter to The Washington Post.
Abstract: One morning in late February 1949, William Osten of Washington, DC, walked out of his house in Northwest Washington, DC, to begin his daily commute downtown to work. That morning, he happened to step on one of Capital Transit’s new radioequipped buses. Capital Transit had recently begun installing radios in its buses and streetcars through Transit Radio, Inc., a company that offered the sets for free and paid the transit companies for the right to sell commercial time on the single station picked up by the receivers. Although Transit Radio-equipped buses had already debuted in several other cities with little controversy, in Washington, DC, a lively debate ensued in the city newspapers from the moment of its announcement. Osten had followed these discussions, but found himself unprepared for the feelings created by his first personal interaction with transitcasting and its Muzak-programmed content. Describing his experience in a letter to The Washington Post, he wrote,
TL;DR: For example, during the escalation of the Cold War, Hollywood stars were framed in Czechoslovak Communist propaganda as possessing two qualities: they were perceived in this most Western Soviet satelli...
Abstract: During the escalation of the Cold War, Hollywood stars were framed in Czechoslovak Communist propaganda as possessing two qualities. Firstly, they were perceived in this most Western Soviet satelli...
TL;DR: Zimmermann et al. as discussed by the authors present a survey of media in nationalsozialismus in Deutschland, Italy, and Spanien in the 1930er und 1940er Jahren.
Abstract: Medien im Nationalsozialismus. Deutschland, Italien und Spanien in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren CLEMENS ZIMMERMANN Wien/Koln/Weimar, Bohlau, 2007 x+316 pp., illus., index, bibliography, €24.90 (pbk...
TL;DR: In early 1957, after barely half a year of regular broadcasts, the fledgling medium of Swedish television introduced a program that would turn out to be a tremendous success, 10.000 kronor-kvitt eller dubbelt (10,000 crowns) double or nothing as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In early 1957, after barely half a year of regular broadcasts, the fledgling medium of Swedish television introduced a program that would turn out to be a tremendous success, 10.000 kronor—kvitt eller dubbelt (10,000 crowns—double or nothing). It was a quiz show that made folk heroes out of ordinary Swedes with detailed knowledge of specific subjects, such as high-school student Ulf Hannerz, whose mastery of the subject of aquarium fish earned him the nickname ‘Hajen’ (The Shark), and housepainter Erik Englund, who became known as ‘Uncas’ after displaying his knowledge of North American Indians. The program’s popularity delighted the management of Radiotjänst, Sweden’s broadcasting corporation, which in a year-end review a few months later characterized it as ‘a breakthrough on a broad front with the public and the press.’ When the corporation provided an early history of television four years later, it conjured up the image of Kvitt eller dubbelt as a ‘battering ram’ that broke down public apprehensions about the new medium, because the ‘lavish publicity that the newspapers devoted to the broadcasts had contributed to making TV a topic of conversation and active interest.’ It was public fascination with the Kvitt eller dubbelt phenomenon that had played a decisive role in persuading Swedes to buy TV sets and pay the mandatory license fee, according to the corporation. When it came to revealing the origins of the idea for this success, officials of Radiotjänst (renamed Sveriges Radio in the fall of 1957) were straightforward. It was, acknowledged Per-Martin Hamberg in 1959, a ‘programming form borrowed from America.’ Nils Erik Bæhrendtz, who was doubly involved in the quiz show, both as
TL;DR: In the early 1970s, the head of Australia's dominant early wireless company thought it could be something else, undertaken by someone els... as mentioned in this paper, who believed that "empire broadcasting was something the BBC did from Daventry".
Abstract: History tells us ‘empire broadcasting’ was something the BBC did from Daventry. The head of Australia's dominant early wireless company thought it could be something else, undertaken by someone els...
TL;DR: In this article, Martin's analysis of the direct-to-video (D2V) version of the erotic thriller "Sexy Thrills" is presented. But the analysis is limited.
Abstract: Sexy Thrills: undressing the erotic thriller NINA K. MARTIN Urbana and Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Press, 2007 vii+206 pp., $65.00 (cloth) Nina K. Martin's analysis of the direct-to-video (...
TL;DR: Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the reeducation of postwar Germany as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the field of post-war German history, focusing on the re-education of Germany during World War II.
Abstract: Theaters of Occupation: Hollywood and the reeducation of postwar Germany JENNIFER FAY Minneapolis, London, University of Minnesota Press, 2008 xxx+228 pp., illus., $22.50 (paper) Jennifer Fay has p...
TL;DR: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Bang as discussed by the authors was the seminal 1969 book of critic Pauline Kael's "Kiss, Kiss, Bang Bang" (KKB) book of criticism.
Abstract: Renowned American movie critic Pauline Kael titled her seminal 1969 book of criticism Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.1 She did so, she said in ‘A note on the title’, because she saw these words on an Italian ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the changing attitudes toward civilian populations as targets of aerial bombardment during World War II, as expressed in the films of William Wyler, one of Hollywood's fore...
Abstract: This essay traces the changing attitudes toward civilian populations as targets of aerial bombardment during World War II, as expressed in the films of William Wyler. Wyler, one of Hollywood's fore...