{"title":"The early years of television and the BBC","authors":"James Shelton","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2023.2208918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2208918","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"6 6 1","pages":"397 - 398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83814423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between defiance and control: wild animal performance in the interwar circus","authors":"Sabine Hanke","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2023.2205573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2205573","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the mishaps during tiger and lion performances at circuses in the interwar period via the concept of losing control. It argues that accidents involving wild animals offer a view behind the scenes in the highly regulated environment of circus performances. This approach allows us to access the agency of performance animals and audiences’ interpretations of these unintended aspects of the show. Animal trainers embody the regulated and rehearsed world of the circus, but their animal performances, and especially the mishaps that occasionally occur, permit us to read wild animals as agents. Through a case study of the trainer Georg Kulovits, better known as Togare, this article analyses how animal behaviour disrupted the emotional dramas of interwar circus performances. In addition, these accidents functioned as a key performative act, as they reminded audiences of the authenticity of the show.","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"50 1","pages":"383 - 396"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76881952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘There is no gallery’: race and the politics of space at the Capitol Theatre, New York","authors":"Pardis Dabashi","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2023.2209940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2209940","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay brings developments in Black film historiography and architecture studies to bear on the study of Northern picture palaces as the period of their prominence coincided with the Jim Crow era. Taking as my focus New York City’s Capitol Theatre – which opened in the immediate wake of the US race riots of 1919 and was the largest movie theater to date – I show how Northern middle-class film culture enforced racial segregation in the absence of legal protection. Southern movie theaters were able either to outlaw Black attendance or relegate their Black patronage to the gallery, a seating section closest to the roof of the auditorium and farthest removed from the screen. Northern movie theaters, on the other hand, had to find extralegal ways to ensure a predominantly white clientele – while also maintaining the image of the Northern picture palace as a shrine to New World inclusivity. They accomplished this, I demonstrate, through a combination of film-programming, strategically equivocal promotional language, and, most strikingly, architectural design.","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"2 1","pages":"208 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73550492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working on marginalised cinema audiences with the Jewish historical press website: illustrated on the quest for Jewish patrons of the palace venue in 1920s Warsaw","authors":"Karina Pryt","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2023.2209944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2209944","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As is widely acknowledged in film studies and beyond, Jewish entrepreneurs and artists contributed significantly to the rise of cinema in the US and many European countries. However, apart from some research in the American and British contexts, the extent to which Jewish cinemagoers attended screenings is largely unknown. To stimulate greater scholarly interest in this topic, this paper discusses the broad applicability of the Historic Jewish Press digital collection, which contains newspapers printed in 16 different languages, reflecting the range of languages used by Jewish communities worldwide. Using the example of the search for Jewish patrons of the Palace Cinema in 1920s Warsaw, the paper shows how digital research can be used to extract information about marginalised Jewish audiences. Finally, it demonstrates how these sources can be used for new investigations and research perspectives.","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"62 1","pages":"284 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84487176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cinema’s original sin: D. W. Griffith, American racism, and the rise of film culture","authors":"Patrick Adamson","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2023.2207844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2207844","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"77 1","pages":"299 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77409244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The moving image as an instrument of oppression and resistance in Jim Crow Era Jacksonville, Florida, 1907–1917","authors":"David Morton","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2023.2209941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2209941","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper will examine the contrasts in racial representations in films produced in Jacksonville at the cusp of the segregation era. These tensions will be examined by exploring how motion picture consumption factored into the politics of race in one of the largest cities in the New South during cinema’s silent era. This will be accomplished by exploring how the marginalized and disenfranchised attempted to assert agency in public and private spaces despite living in an environment of white supremacy and social inequities. By tracing the lived experiences of African American moviegoers in a Southern city at the onset of the Jim Crow Era, a broader comprehension of the early American film industry’s dismissiveness of – and at times outright insensitivity toward – acts of political terror against African Americans can be better understood.","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"44 1","pages":"223 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74043467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘In the world of movies and talkies’: Hollywood in the Yiddish Forverts, 1920-1935","authors":"Lies Lanckman","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2023.2209943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2209943","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the presence of Hollywood film in the Yiddish newspaper Forverts in the silent and early sound era, with a particular focus on the movie page ‘In der Velt fun Muvis un Tokis’ (‘In the World of Movies and Talkies’) which was published weekly from 1929 to 1935. In investigating the coverage, I highlight the similarities to and differences from what was published in contemporaneous mainstream, Anglophone fan magazines and newspapers, highlighting how certain differences were a direct reflection of the preoccupations of the Jewish immigrant readership of the Forverts. I then present a case study focusing on the representation of Hollywood star Norma Shearer in this Yiddish newspaper, highlighting how Shearer, a Jewish convert, was represented very differently by the Forverts than she was in the pages of magazines such as Photoplay or Motion Picture. As such, I demonstrate how non-English language sources are vital to the study of historical fan and star studies, and how the Yiddish press can help us gain new insights on familiar topics.","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"266 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88713342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Film exhibition for indigenous people in Soviet Siberia: ‘cinema-coming’ and political enlightenment in the red yurt","authors":"C. Damiens","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2023.2209939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2209939","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How can we get insights into early Soviet cinema screenings for indigenous audiences in the Siberian taiga at the end of the 1920s? Preserved by the Grodekov Khabarovsk Regional Museum (Russia), the recently published diaries of Alexandra Putintseva, a cultural worker posted at the ‘Far Eastern red yurt’ from 1929 to 1932, are a valuable source to investigate the issue. Putintseva’s diaries provide a wealth of information on movie screenings within these particular Soviet institutions, as well as their reception by indigenous audiences. They show that, far from the common colonial stereotype, indigenous audience was not astonished or frightened in front of the cinematic spectacle or apparatus. Furthermore, they also offer essential information on the immediate context within which these screenings took place, an issue of equal importance in understanding what cinema as a social practice meant for indigenous audiences. Performed in a multifunctional building aiming to radically change (‘modernise’) indigenous (‘traditional’) way of life, cinema was classified as political enlightenment work. As a result, for the indigenous audience, watching films was intimately intertwined with the new Bolshevik society and its modernising endeavour. Ultimately, the diaries illustrate what I have termed ‘cinema-coming’ (when the expected audience does not go to the cinema, cinema ‘comes’ to the audience), in which film exhibition was closely linked to state ideology and the formation of modern citizens.","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"189 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88671317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"White screens, Black fandom: silent film and African American spectatorship in Harlem","authors":"Agata Frymus","doi":"10.1080/17460654.2023.2209942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2023.2209942","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates Black moviegoing in the United States during the silent film era. In existing scholarship, African American moviegoers tend to be discussed with reference to race movies – that is, independent films featuring all-Black casts. However, even during their heyday, race movies were in limited supply and could not compete directly with the dominant, vertically integrated Hollywood film studios. Thus, using data gathered from film programmes of Harlem’s Black cinemas in the 1920s – reconstructed primarily through Black newspapers New York Age and New York Amsterdam News – the article discusses the popularity of Hollywood films among Black spectators. If Black viewers were not embedded in the newly institutionalised white fan culture – consuming screen narratives that representationally marginalised them – then what were the parameters of their engagement? Drawing on fan magazines, social surveys, and established literature on African Americans as consumers of mainstream culture, this piece interrogates the pleasures of cinema as articulated by Black viewers.","PeriodicalId":42697,"journal":{"name":"Early Popular Visual Culture","volume":"11 1","pages":"248 - 265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89228583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}