Showing papers in "Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television in 2021"
TL;DR: In this article, the emergence of an educational film revolution in Turkey during the Cold War era as a result of a transnational communication network was identified and analyzed. But the authors did not consider the role of the media in this revolution.
Abstract: This article identifies and analyzes the emergence of an educational film revolution in Turkey during the Cold War era as a result of a transnational communication network. This network of institut...
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TL;DR: Unlike more celebrated Hollywood-on-Hollywood films, Wanger's Stand-In (1937) emphasizes the centrality of labour to studio-era production as mentioned in this paper, and is a classic screwball comedy.
Abstract: Unlike more celebrated Hollywood-on-Hollywood films, Walter Wanger’s neglected screwball comedy Stand-In (1937) emphasizes the centrality of labour to studio-era production. Besides climaxing with ...
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TL;DR: In this article, contemporary debates over the competing screen formats, venues, and technological platforms designed to deliver moving images to domestic and public audiences in mid-twentieth century were analyzed.
Abstract: This article analyses contemporaneous debates over the competing screen formats, venues, and technological platforms designed to deliver moving images to domestic and public audiences in mid-twenti...
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed the authenticity principles connected to Hollywood's portrayal of China and the Chinese through three important American films screened or banned in China, including Broken Blossoms (1) and The Forbidden City (2).
Abstract: This article analyses the authenticity principles connected to Hollywood’s portrayal of China and the Chinese through three important American films screened or banned in China – Broken Blossoms (1...
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TL;DR: The reuse of radio dramas from radio dramas on early television was not uncommon; indeed, much of the television programming of this period consisted of repurposed radio scripts as mentioned in this paper, and the scores for these...
Abstract: The reuse of storylines from radio dramas on early television was not uncommon; indeed, much of the television programming of this period consisted of repurposed radio scripts. The scores for these...
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TL;DR: Swedish community radio started in 1979 and was the first type of broadcast to be organized outside of the public service monopoly that had been in operation since 1924 as mentioned in this paper, which was called Swedish Community Radio (SRC).
Abstract: Swedish community radio started in 1979 and was the first type of broadcast to be organised outside of the public service monopoly that had been in operation since 1924 This article unveils some o
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TL;DR: The authors suggests that Key Largo (Warner Bros., 1948), a film generally viewed in terms of the features of melodrama and the gangster genre, also reflects the fraught politics of its time.
Abstract: This article suggests that Key Largo (Warner Bros., 1948), a film generally viewed in terms of the features of melodrama and the gangster genre, also reflects the fraught politics of its time. Dire...
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TL;DR: The history of Hollywood's on-screen relationship with the State of Israel is often thought to have begun with Otto Preminger's Exodus, an epic account of Jewish bravery in late-1940s Palestine rel...
Abstract: The history of Hollywood’s on-screen relationship with the State of Israel is often thought to have begun with Otto Preminger’s Exodus, an epic account of Jewish bravery in late-1940s Palestine rel...
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TL;DR: The authors examines the distribution and partisan discourse around the pro-Republican Spain in Flames (1937), the first feature-length nonfiction film about the Spanish Civil War to reach America.
Abstract: This article examines the distribution and partisan discourse around the pro-Republican Spain in Flames (1937), the first feature-length nonfiction film about the Spanish Civil War to reach America...
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TL;DR: The authors explored the history of Lydia Bailey, the only US studio-made film to depict the Haitian Revolutionary period, and asked why, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such an unlikely project was pursued.
Abstract: This article explores the history of Lydia Bailey, the only US studio-made film to depict the Haitian Revolutionary period. It asks why, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such an unlikely project ...
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TL;DR: A case study of the formation and growth of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF) in the 1990s is presented in this article, where the authors use archival sources and interviews with figures central to the festival's formation to understand a crucial question: why was the festival located in a postindustrial city like Sheffield?
Abstract: This article presents a case study of the formation and growth of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival (SIDF) – later renamed Sheffield Doc/Fest – in the 1990s. It uses archival sources and interviews with figures central to the festival’s formation to understand a crucial question: why was the festival located in a post-industrial city like Sheffield? By the end of the 1980s, the city was undergoing economic transformation, from ‘steel city’ to ‘post-steel city’, in the process suffering an identity crisis given its decades of dependence on its former steel industry. With a focus on the motivations of the political, industrial, cultural, and academic stakeholders that were central to the festival’s formation and growth, the article demonstrates how an exploration of festival formation in a post-industrial city reveals wider implications about urban regeneration in the 1990s. The article examines the role of the Sheffield City Council’s Department of Employment and Economic Development and its endeavour to initiate a catalytic effect between private and public organisations, showing how the cultural and media industries were viewed as vital to the economic diversification of the city in the 1990s. The article demonstrates the importance of stakeholder dynamics and their intervention in the cultural management policies of local councils, suggesting that SIDF’s fate rested on the cultural networks of local and national figures and the political tensions in their respective motivations. It demonstrates how a political economic approach to the study of festivals allows for a fuller understanding of the formation, growth, and maintenance of festivals in a post-industrial context.
TL;DR: One of the many reasons distribution has retained its status as the least understood aspect of commercial film culture has been the absence of records, particularly from the late 1910s and early 19th century as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: One of the many reasons distribution has retained its status as the least understood aspect of commercial film culture has been the absence of records, particularly from the late 1910s and early 19...
TL;DR: One of the most iconic images of World War II and one of the greatest wartime photographs ever taken is Evgenii Khaldei's shot of a silhouetted Red Army soldier standing on the roof of the Reic...
Abstract: One of the most iconic images of World War II – and one of the greatest wartime photographs ever taken – is Evgenii Khaldei’s shot of a silhouetted Red Army soldier standing on the roof of the Reic...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the media activism of Cuban exiles in the 1960s and 1970s by examining the Cuban media activists' recruitment of and coalitions with US conservatives.
Abstract: This article explores the media activism of Cuban exiles in the 1960s and 1970s by examining the Cuban media activists’ recruitment of and coalitions with US conservatives. The author argues that i...
TL;DR: This article argued that the US film rental exchange served as an essential link that ensured the efficient distribution of motion pictures, from production to distribution, from movie rental exchange to the movie market.
Abstract: This essay argues that the US film rental exchange—too often neglected in cinema histories—served as an essential link that ensured the efficient distribution of motion pictures, from production to...
TL;DR: Based on a case study of the import of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) children's programme Unser Sandmannchen to Sweden in the early 1970s, the authors explores the cultural recoding at work.
Abstract: Based on a case study of the import of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) children’s programme Unser Sandmannchen to Sweden in the early 1970s, this article explores the cultural recoding at work...
TL;DR: In this paper, a global situation of inequality, ecological devastation and political authoritarianism discursively backed-up by fake news and alternative facts is discussed, and how to counter it.
Abstract: How to counter a global situation of inequality, ecological devastation and political authoritarianism discursively backed-up by ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative facts’? To stabilize itself, Martin-Jon...
TL;DR: The 11th Plenum of the Central Committee of the East German SED, held in December 1965 and resulting in the ban of over a dozen feature films, marks the most ferocious act of political censorship i...
Abstract: The 11th Plenum of the Central Committee of the East German SED, held in December 1965 and resulting in the ban of over a dozen feature films, marks the most ferocious act of political censorship i...
TL;DR: The authors presents a collection of essays from leading Continental philosophers of the past century, from Bergson to Badiou, focusing on their work on philosophy on film from a philosophical point of view.
Abstract: Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is a recent collection of essays from leading Continental Philosophers of the past century. This anthology, edited by Christopher Kul-Want, centers on di...
TL;DR: In this article, the role of one of the first arthouse cinemas in London, the Everyman in Hampstead, is examined. A detailed local study and a wider context of cinema in Britain in the 1930s are explored.
Abstract: This article examines the role of one of the first arthouse cinemas in London, the Everyman in Hampstead. A detailed local study, it also explores the wider context of cinema in Britain in the 1930...
TL;DR: As in other Eastern European countries, film industry and culture were of central interest for the newly established socialist Yugoslav state after the Second World War as mentioned in this paper, and they were of great importance to the new country.
Abstract: As in other Eastern European Countries, film industry and culture were of central interest for the newly established socialist Yugoslav state after the Second World War. Besides the institutionalis...
TL;DR: The impetus for Lloyd's new book, Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age as mentioned in this paper, was the relative absence of women's programs, and the work of women broadcasters, in historical accounts of the Aust...
Abstract: The impetus for Justine Lloyd’s new book, Gender and Media in the Broadcast Age, was the relative absence of women’s programs, and the work of women broadcasters, in historical accounts of the Aust...
TL;DR: In the early 1970s, West German producer Manfred Durniok (1934-2003) played a crucial role in channelling the work of critical filmmakers from East to West as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: West German producer Manfred Durniok (1934–2003) played a crucial role in channelling the work of critical filmmakers from East to West. Straddling the Iron Curtain, Durniok financed international ...
TL;DR: This article uncovered British newsreel media's largely unknown role in propagating Yugoslavia as a country that defied the Cold War binary, using archival research of the British Information Research De...
Abstract: This paper uncovers British newsreel media’s largely unknown role in propagating Yugoslavia as a country that defied the Cold War binary. My archival research of the British Information Research De...
TL;DR: In this article, the development of the pairing of pro football and television from 1939, the year of the first broadcast of a pro football game until 1970, the first year the NFL broadcast Mo...
Abstract: This article examines the development of the pairing of pro football and television from 1939, the year of the first broadcast of a pro football game until 1970, the first year the NFL broadcast Mo...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the banning of Monty Python's Life of Brian by 39 local councils in the United Kingdom in late 1979 and early 1980, focusing on three of these local areas.
Abstract: This article investigates the banning of Monty Python’s Life of Brian by 39 local councils in the United Kingdom in late 1979 and early 1980. Focusing on three of these local areas – Harrogate, Dud...
TL;DR: Gundle's book as mentioned in this paper confirms his status as the leading historian of Italian cinema in the English-language literature in the 1990s and 2000s, with a lavish choice of illustrations all supplied by the author.
Abstract: This elegantly produced book, complete with a lavish choice of illustrations all supplied by the author, confirms Stephen Gundle’s status as the leading historian of Italian cinema in the English-s...
TL;DR: In 1953, the Australian film censor and the New South Australia Chief Secretary's Office simultaneously banned a locally produced dramatised documentary Children of the Wasteland from exhibition and exportation.
Abstract: In 1953, the Australian film censor and the New South Wales Chief Secretary’s Office simultaneously banned a locally produced dramatised documentary Children of the Wasteland from exhibition and ex...
TL;DR: For over thirty years the Children's Film Foundation (CFF) produced a variety of shorts, travelogues, serials and features which were shown at a network of Saturday morning cinema clubs all over the UK as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: For over thirty years the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF) produced a variety of shorts, travelogues, serials and features which were shown at a network of Saturday morning cinema clubs all over th...
TL;DR: In this paper, a book in one's field of research comes along and you pick it up and cannot put it down, and the author, a research fellow at Stockholm University, has written...
Abstract: From time to time a book in one’s field of research comes along and you pick it up and cannot put it down. This is one such book. The author, a research fellow at Stockholm University, has written ...