Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2232153
K. Geddes
{"title":"TV Snapshots – An Archive of Everyday Life","authors":"K. Geddes","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2232153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2232153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46439366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2232148
Gillian Kelly
{"title":"Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge","authors":"Gillian Kelly","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2232148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2232148","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49649662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2232155
William B. Covey
{"title":"Film Noir and Los Angeles: Urban History and the Dark Imaginary","authors":"William B. Covey","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2232155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2232155","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45410352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2232151
Kevin Brianton
{"title":"The Dark Interval: Film noir, Iconography and Affect","authors":"Kevin Brianton","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2232151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2232151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49095116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2232154
Michael Gibson
{"title":"Horror Film and Otherness: Film and Culture","authors":"Michael Gibson","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2232154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2232154","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42030127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2232149
Gillian Kelly
{"title":"Our Blessed Rebel Queen: Essays on Carrie Fisher and Princess Leia","authors":"Gillian Kelly","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2232149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2232149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46478051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2232147
L. Haven
{"title":"Before the Paris Fire: Projecting the Cinematograph in London from 1889-4th May 1997, Part IV of the London County Council and the Cinematograph","authors":"L. Haven","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2232147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2232147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45873963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2232152
Kevin Brianton
{"title":"The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells","authors":"Kevin Brianton","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2232152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2232152","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46280926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2218060
C. Keating, Xiaochun Zhang, C. O’Sullivan
Between late 1936 and early 1937 Italy and China became embroiled in a series of diplomatic exchanges about two controversial films. One was Abyssinia (dir. Kopalin, 1936), a Soviet documentary feature about Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia, whose screening in a Shanghai cinema triggered a riot in February 1937. The other was The General Died at Dawn (dir. Milestone, 1936), a Paramount melodrama set in 1920s war-torn China whose international exhibition in late 1936, including in Italy, was criticised by the Chinese government. This article describes the reactions of diplomats and of local pressure groups to the exhibition of these films and to their ‘offensive’ representations of Italian colonialism and of China’s internal politics and people. Research in classified diplomatic files shows the involvement of the Italian authorities in the organisation of a violent attack on the Isis cinema in Shanghai in February 1937, and provides rich detail about the inner workings of Fascist government officials in Rome and in Shanghai which could not be obtained from press reports alone. Both film cases foreground the limited power of intervention of national censorship boards and illustrate the types of actions and actors involved in transnational film exchanges where questions of national prestige or political authority are at stake. They also bear witness to a momentous time of geo-political transition and alliance-making in the lead-up to the Second World War.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2023.2218050
Landon Palmer
This article investigates the stage performance documentary – the moving image record of a play, concert, comedy routine, or other type of onstage performance – as a mode of media production that has been historically constituted by a multimodal engagement across categories of media and culture. It chronicles the short-lived history of Electronovision, a 1960s moving image capture process that augmented television technologies to record and reproduce live stage events for theatrical exhibition. Electronovision’s history demonstrates how a production company sought legitimacy for the nascent stage performance documentary as more than ‘filmed theater’, but a modern hybridization of stage and screen via cutting-edge technology. Using archival memoranda, industry discourse, and an interview with its director, this article gives particular focus to Electronovision’s production of the rock ’n’ roll revue The T.A.M.I. Show (1964). The work that most convinced the entertainment industry of Electronovision’s ambitions, The T.A.M.I. Show suggests an alternate trajectory that stage performance documentaries might have taken outside of its 16-millmetre formalization by direct cinema.
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