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From Celebrated Film Scholar Dudley Andrew: Andre Bazin on Adaptation
Apr 01 2022
Available for the first time in English, these previously unavailable essays introduce readers to the foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation as put forth by one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the 20th century.Adaptation was central to André B
Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran — A Found Audio Tour
Mar 31 2022
By Kaveh Askari, author of Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in TransitRelaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran investigates how the cultural translation of cinema has been shaped by the physical translation of its ephemera. I examine film circulation and its effect on Iranian
#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
Deleted Scene: The Archival Memo I Had To Lose To Find My Book’s Argument
Mar 30 2022
By Annie Berke, author of Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar TelevisionAt a recent book event– co-hosted with Liz Clarke, author of The American Girl Goes to War– one participant asked: “How did you decide what to put in the book and what to leave out?”Having relied on archiv
Revisiting an Oscar Night Controversy — in 1975
Mar 30 2022
By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the movies. Film historian J
#SCMS22: Meet Raina Polivka and Explore our Books
Mar 29 2022
UC Press is excited to share with you some new publications and recent highlights from the University of California Press’s Film and Media Studies list. UC Press has the oldest scholarly cinema studies list in the country, which has always emphasized the history of cinema as an art form and as an in
Q&A with Noah Tsika, author of Cinematic Independence
Mar 28 2022
Noah Tsika is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is contributing editor of Africa Is a Country and the author of several books, including Traumatic Imprints and Nollywood Stars. He is also a first-generation scholar.Cinematic Independence traces 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
#SCMS21 Award Spotlight: Q&A with Brian Jacobson
Mar 16 2021
We’re proud to announce that Brian Jacobson, editor of In the Studio: Visual Creation and Its Material Environments has won the 2021 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Best Edited Collection Award!We reached out to Jacobson as part of our #SCMS2021 virtual conference series to discuss his awar