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Hollywood in Berlin
The latest addition to the Bioscope Library is a welcome example of a modern film scholarship text made freely available online. Thomas J. Saunders’ study, Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema… more →
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Hollywood in Berlin
urbanora wrote 3 weeks ago: The latest addition to the Bioscope Library is a welcome example of a modern film scholarship text … more →
Social fears and moral panics
urbanora wrote 1 month ago: A call for papers has been issued for the next IAMHIST conference, due to be held in Aberystwyth, … more →
(I'm not a) juvenile delinquent
urbanora wrote 1 month ago: In the last post, on the Lynds’ Middletown, there was a footnote reference to Cyril Burt … more →
Movies in Middletown
urbanora wrote 1 month ago: Muncie, Indiana, from the Centre for Middletown Studies, www.bsu.edu/middletown Usually when the … more →
Movies and conduct
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urbanora wrote 3 months ago: Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Banky in The Son of the Sheik (1926) Motion pictures are not understo … more →
The nightside of Japan
urbanora wrote 3 months ago: As evidence of the value of Live Search for searching across the texts of books digitised by the Int … more →
The Birth of a Nation
urbanora wrote 5 months ago: I think it’s true to say that, if film historians could go alter film history just that litt … more →
The instruction of disabled men in motion picture projection
urbanora wrote 7 months ago: Motion picture projectors for instruction at the Red Cross Institute It’s been a while sinc … more →
Motion Pictures: A Study in Social Legislation
urbanora wrote 10 months ago: The above document contains some of the recommendations from the National Board of Review of Motio … more →
How workingmen spend their spare time
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urbanora wrote 1 year ago: How many people writing on early film know about this? Using a bit of lateral searching on the Inter … more →
The Cinema: Its Present Position and Future Possibilities
urbanora wrote 1 year ago: There are so many interesting and valuable texts in the silent cinema field being added to the Int … more →
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