Some Tips on Using this Site
posted August 3, 2010
We’ve set up Moving Image Archive News so that it can update you every day or two on what is most recent the site. You can subscribe (lower left) via a “reader” (free of charge); then, you will receive updates via email as new items appear. All new items do go on the Blog, with
The Surprising History of the Hindi Action Film
posted July 20, 2010
Ever wonder where the stylizations of Bollywood films come from? Turns out that song, dance, and all the fanfare were features of the very first Indian sound film, Alam Ara, from 1931. Just as compelling is to learn that its star, Master Vithal, was a descendant of a long line of Hindi action-film stars, dating
Searching East Asian Film Archives
posted July 19, 2010
Cinema at the City’s Edge: Film and Urban Networks in East Asia, edited by Yomi Braester and James Tweedie, appeared in April 2010 from the University of Washington Press, in cooperation with Hong Kong University Press’s TransAsia: Screen Cultures series. In the book, scholars of cinema, architecture, and urban studies from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia,
Her Life as a Night Elf Priest
posted July 17, 2010
When experts on film write books about genres of movies, they first – ideally – will watch as many examples of the genre as possible. In the books pages of Moving Image Archive News, we have a catalog of new and forthcoming books about moving images – film, tv, and much else – accompanied in