Archive for 2011

The Film for which Ken Loach Was Reproached

posted August 24, 2011

In 1969, Ken Loach made a documentary film about the operations of the charity, Save the Children, commissioned by the charity. Officials of the organization did not like what Loach presented them, at all. So much so, that they barred any public showing of the film. But now, to kick off a retrospective of the

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Want to Read Your Article on Film Theory and Aesthetics?

posted August 16, 2011

Dear academics: The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association has issued a call for papers on film theory and aesthetics to anyone who would like to propose presenting their work at the association’s annual conference, which runs February 8-11 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You have until December 1 2011 – see our Workplace announcement.

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Call for Papers: Film Theory and Aesthetics

posted August 16, 2011

Call for Papers: Film Theory and Aesthetics 2012 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 33sd Annual Conference February 8-11, 2012, Albuquerque, NM The Film Theory and Aesthetics Area is seeking proposals for review, from now until December 1 2011. Suggestions for possible presentations: Precinema and its influence on film theory Theories of Early and Silent cinema

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9/11 TV News Archive: Learning from Recorded Memory

posted August 16, 2011

Learning from Recorded Memory mini-conference Wednesday, August 24 2011, 4-6pm Place: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Michelson Theater, New York Internet Archive and NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program are inviting scholars, journalists. and students to a mini-conference to introduce the 9/11 TV News Archive. In an

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Describing Moving Images

posted August 15, 2011

September 27 2011 Simmons University, Boston, USA Northeast Historic Film is offering a full-day workshop titled “Describing Moving Images” for managers and staff members of special collections, historical societies, and archives, as well as “lone arrangers” and LIS students. The event, to be held at Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences Tech Lab,

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Preserving San Francisco Bay Area Television

posted August 15, 2011

The American television network CBS’s Bay Area affiliate, KPIX-TV, reports on the work of the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, at San Francisco State University, in a short film that summarizes issues relating to preserving surviving footage and making it available to the public.

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Filming the Aftermath of Genocide

posted August 15, 2011

Rwanda has been far from alone in experiencing the horrors of genocide. Now, efforts are under way to advance a long, painful process of national healing by creating an audio-visual record of those events at the Iriba Center for Multimedia Heritage.

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The Audio-Visual Record of a Brutalized Nation

posted August 15, 2011

Rwanda has been far from alone in experiencing the horrors of genocide. Now, efforts are under way to advance a long, painful process of national healing by creating an audio-visual record of those events at the Iriba Center for Multicultural Heritage.

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Jungleland Revisited

posted August 8, 2011

Louis Goebel moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1919, worked on films sets with animals, and decided to rent lions to moviemakers. The result was the fabled Jungleland, reports the Thousand Oaks Acorn.

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Robert Ryan Remembered

posted August 8, 2011

In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis writes about a retrospective of films starring Robert Ryan: “The two dozen features in a Film Forum series dedicated to Ryan and opening on Friday includes dazzlers, solid genre fare, some curiosities and a few duds. Most are better than anything playing now at the multiplex.”

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