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#SCMS22: Explore Free Content from UC Press Journals
Mar 31 2022
For #SCMS22, we're pleased to offer free online content from Film Quarterly, Feminist Media Histories, Representations, Afterimage, and more. In Film Quarterly's new March issue,Diana Flores Ruíz considers the works of filmmaker Sky Hopinka, a Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of t
What The Great Escape Tells Us About America in the 1960s
Mar 25 2022
By Dana Polan, author of Dreams of Flight: "The Great Escape" in American Film and CultureI had long wanted to revisit the 1963 classic The Great Escape, ever since seeing it as a kid at a drive-in re-release in the mid-60s. Like many young American boys of the time, I imagine, I went to the fil
Nigeria Shows How the Silver Screen Can Be Saved
Mar 18 2022
By Noah Tsika, author of Cinematic Independence: Constructing the Big Screen in Nigeria2019 was a peak year for moviegoing in Nigeria. Never before had there been so many theater screens in the country. Individual films, both locally produced and imported from Hollywood, broke box-office records