{"title":"Dark Temporalities: Technologies of Race and Lighting in Ernst Lubitsch's The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)","authors":"M. Allred","doi":"10.2979/filmhistory.33.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.33.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Racial depictions on the early Weimar screen spoke to the loss of Germany's colonies and addressed the tensions surrounding the so-called black horror of France sending black colonial troops to occupy the Rhineland in the aftermath of the Great War. Analysis of The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) in this context reveals how state-of-the-art lighting and makeup not only constructed race onscreen but showcased the entanglement of race and technology. Science and culture combined to stage the incompatibility of dark men and light women as both an immediate threat and historical tradition.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122039742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interspecies Labor in Early Cinema: Making Animal Pictures at David Horsley's Bostock Jungle and Film Company","authors":"Sharon K. Sharp","doi":"10.2979/filmhistory.33.2.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.33.2.02","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines how David Horsley's Bostock Jungle and Film Company adapted interspecies labor practices from the circus on- and offscreen in order to popularize animal pictures and legitimize animal labor and captivity. As this article documents, colonialist perspectives about human subjugation of nature through animals were translated to cinema by the adaptation of circus interspecies labor and stardom, which shaped early cinema's practice of using exotic animals as resources for filmmaking. By examining Bostock Jungle and Film Company paratexts, training manuals, and trainer autobiographies, the article sheds new light on the neglected practice of animal training and animal work in early cinema.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133906002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Anxious Love Affair: The Presence and Absence of Italian Neorealism in Soviet Film Culture","authors":"Viktoria Paranyuk","doi":"10.2979/filmhistory.33.2.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.33.2.05","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article explores the complex response to Italian neorealism and the various roles the movement assumed in Soviet culture, particularly during the Khrushchev thaw (1956–64). I propose that neorealism threatened the primacy of socialist realism, functioned to reinforce the position of the Soviet Union as the global authority on realism, activated rehabilitation discourse of the 1920s avant-garde, and illuminated the role film criticism had in knowledge production around neorealist cinema. In particular, the article focuses on the notion of curious absence, referring to the films that were viewed at rare screenings, such as special events, leaving momentary traces in a range of discourses that informed the local vibrant film culture of the 1950s and early 1960s.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130443209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Woman's Picture in the Trade Press of Classical Hollywood","authors":"S. Sharot","doi":"10.2979/filmhistory.33.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/filmhistory.33.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The 1940s has been considered the heyday of the woman's film by film scholars, but more films were marked in one way or another as a woman's picture by the film industry during the interwar years than in the post–World War II period. The early promotion of women-centered films was, in part, an attempt to attract the middle classes to movie theaters. Commercial considerations and the industry's understandings of what appealed to women, as revealed by advertisements, trade reviews, and reports by exhibitors, determined which women-centered films were tagged as women's pictures.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134496609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"French Actors and the Hollywood Studio System: The Case of Ketti Gallian, 1934–1937","authors":"Louise G. Hilton","doi":"10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Almost completely forgotten today, Ketti Gallian was a young French actress who made four films in Hollywood in the mid-1930s, playing the female lead opposite Spencer Tracy and Warner Baxter in two of them. Gallian's example is rare in that she was a virtual unknown within the film community in France when she signed a Hollywood contract. Once enmeshed in the machinery of the studio system, she found ways to resist its myriad constraints but ultimately failed to realize her ambitions, a victim of studio mismanagement and, especially, linguistic insecurity, which undermined her onscreen performance and marketability—a problem also faced by some of her better-known compatriots in Hollywood.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115596043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sanitizing Cinema: Women at Work in 1920s Bombay","authors":"S. Narayanswamy","doi":"10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article reframes the relationship between women and early cinema in Bombay in the 1920s by foregrounding women's collective work toward sanitizing the cinematic medium and using cinema as an instrument to further public well-being and women's rights. It argues for a historiography of cinema in 1920s Bombay where female cultural and political instigators used cinema to shape progressive social and educational policies. Through events such as the Bombay Baby Week and the All India Women's Conference, influential women produced and employed useful cinema to create the earliest film exhibition spaces for women in late colonial Bombay.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123902433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"For One Life: Early Post–World War II Film Representations of the Holocaust in East Central Europe","authors":"Jan Láníček","doi":"10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The article analyzes early post–World War II representations of the Shoah in East Central European films. I argue that several filmmakers attempted to challenge the political memory of the war that universalized the Nazi persecution of the Jews and denied the complicity of the local gentile population in the Shoah. The key examples in support of the main thesis come from the recently discovered scripts of For One Life (Pro jeden život) a Czechoslovak Holocaust film planned for shooting in 1948. The existence of three different versions of the script allows us to analyze how several main topics developed in response to formal and informal feedback, and how the counter narratives were gradually replaced by the already established political memory of the war. In this way the article provides novel conclusions concerning the memory of the war and the Holocaust in the region.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129849715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hard, Fast, and Brokerage: Irving H. Levin, the Filmakers, and the Birth of Conglomerate Hollywood","authors":"Peter S. Labuza","doi":"10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article examines the relationship between business and artistic innovation in shaping vertical integration practices in post-Paramount Hollywood. I examine the career of Irving H. Levin, who shaped Ida Lupino's independent film company by financing her films through guarantee contracts with exhibitors. Levin continually transformed exhibition companies, most notably National General Corporation, to finance and distribute independent films despite the antitrust limitations imposed by the Paramount consent decrees. By persuading the industry and courts to allow for antitrust exemptions based on economic precarity, he set a precedent for the return of vertical integration by the 1980s.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121552395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Film It in France, Build It in Burbank: How To the Victor Paved the Way for Postwar Runaway Productions","authors":"Daniel Gómez Steinhart","doi":"10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/FILMHISTORY.33.1.05","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In 1947, director Delmer Daves and producer Jerry Wald tried to convince Warner Bros. executives to film To the Victor (1948) on location in France with interiors done on Warner's Burbank lot. Despite the executives' reluctance to approve the faraway trek, Daves and Wald prevailed and proved the viability of international location work. Drawing from various archives and special collections, this article constructs a history of one of the first post–World War II Hollywood productions to conduct principal photography in France. It contends that the film helped lay the foundations for the practices that would characterize Hollywood's postwar runaway productions.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130534987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Birth of a Nation in Canada: Black Protest and White Denialism across Canada's Color Lines","authors":"Sasha Crawford-Holland","doi":"10.2979/FILMHISTORY.32.4.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/FILMHISTORY.32.4.01","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This study investigates how The Birth of a Nation's Canadian exhibition and reception shaped Canada's racial formation during a decisive period of nation building. The notoriously racist film took Canada by storm despite national mythologies founded on principles of equality and compassion. While Black Canadians grounded their protests against the film in patriotic ideals, white Canadians brandished those ideals as evidence of the protests' redundancy. Analyzing historical discourse in mainstream newspapers, the Black press, trade publications, and censorship documents, I investigate how seemingly benevolent, Canadian modalities of racism enabled this white-supremacist film to triumph north of the border.","PeriodicalId":426632,"journal":{"name":"Film History: An International Journal","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115212021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}