Archive • April 2011

Converse with Kevin Brownlow

posted April 25, 2011

The UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) M.A. Program presents A Conversation with Kevin Brownlow, moderated by Jan-Christopher Horak, director, UCLA Film & Television Archive, on Friday, April 29 2011, at 3:30pm. (See our feature about Kevin Brownlow.)

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Home Before Midnight: Fairy Tales at the Movies

posted April 22, 2011

Jack Zipes has spent decades analyzing the way the stories work, and their most effective film versions. He reports that little research has been done on fairy-tale films. He helps to rectify that with his extraordinary book, The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films. Read all about it, today on MIAN.

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Fairy Tales of the Silver Screen

posted April 22, 2011

Jack Zipes has spent decades analyzing the way the stories work, and their most effective film versions. Little research has been done on fairy-tale films; but of what there is, Jack Zipes has been responsible for a large part. Among the handful of books that have appeared on the subject is his The Enchanted Screen: The

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Searching for Experimental Japanese Film

posted April 20, 2011

The history of experimental arts in Japan is less a mystery to outsiders now, thanks to Miryam Sas, a Berkeley film and comparative literature scholar. In her Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return, she analyzes a crucial period in the history of those developments. And here on Moving Image

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Thomas Waugh on Documentary Film

posted April 14, 2011

Thomas Waugh discusses “committed” documentary in his new book, which appears in June. It collects his essays from 1974-2008 relating to how the documentary film’s history and aesthetics bears on issues of the democratic performance of citizens and artists. He has some cross words for Canadian government guardians of film archives.

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Looking for Jane Campion’s Tissues

posted April 14, 2011

In Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (Indiana University Press), Alistair Fox, a professor of English and Director of the Centre for Research on National Identity at the University of Otago, presents a study of the New Zealand director, and asks how she has used her films ­– their symbolism, techniques, and aesthetic strategies – as

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Foraging in Football Films

posted April 14, 2011

There were always rumors about the Intercollegiate Athletic Film Collection, that a treasure trove of films documenting the UW’s athletic history were buried somewhere in Husky Stadium. In early 2009, Hannah Palin, film archives specialist at the UW Libraries, Special Collections, met with representatives from the Intercollegiate Athletics Department to discuss a project to evaluate,

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Filming the Police

posted April 4, 2011

The moving-image collection is of enduring research value, writes Rachel Moskowitz began watching the films collection at the New York Police Museum while a graduate student at New York University’s Archival Management program, and now describes them in a “repository review” originally published in the Winter 2011 issue of  Metropolitan Archivist, a semi-annual periodical of

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Filming New York’s Finest

posted April 4, 2011

The New York City Police Museum in downtown Manhattan has artifacts dating from the city’s first settlement by Dutch pioneers, 300 years ago, to September 11 2001. It has early officer-identification forms; it has back issues of Spring 3100, a publication written by and about members of the force; and it has film and video

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