{"title":"Hidden in Plain Sight: Attending to Women’s Amateur Filmmaking Histories at the Irish Film Archive","authors":"Sarah Arnold, Carolann Madden","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2296233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2296233","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to identify various ways in which women’s amateur filmmaking becomes obscured in both film archives and in the academic scholarship on film and filmmaking. Recognising that amateu...","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139470871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Southern Censorship against Hollywood in Better Films Committees and Local Censorship Boards: Film Control as a Woman’s Political Weapon","authors":"Claire Dutriaux","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2296204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2296204","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the advent of the Production Code in 1930/1934, which was supposed to empty local censorship boards of their substance, they continued to act, particularly in the Jim Crow South. The Southe...","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139026769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nazi ‘black’ Propaganda to Britain: Secret Radio Stations and British Renegades","authors":"Graham Smyth","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2296215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2296215","url":null,"abstract":"While many will be familiar with the British traitor William Joyce who, as Lord Haw-Haw, became infamous for his radio broadcasts to Britain on behalf of Nazi Germany during the Second World War, m...","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139026849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fate in Film: A Deterministic Approach to Cinema <b>Fate in Film: A Deterministic Approach to Cinema</b> THOMAS M. PUHR, 2022New York, Wallflower Press (an imprint of Columbia University Press)168 pp., illustrations, indexes of names and film titles, $20.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9780231203913","authors":"Marija Weste","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2268476","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2268476","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 D. Shewman. ‘Review: Short Cuts: Introduction to Film Studies’, Variety, March 6, 2002, https://variety.com/2002/more/reviews/short-cuts-introduction-to-film-studies-1200550834/ (last accessed 07 October, 2023).2 M. Sorrento. ‘Review: No Escape – Fate in Film: A Deterministic Approach to Cinema’, Filmint.nu, December 15, 2022, http://filmint.nu/fate-in-film-a-deterministic-approach-to-cinema-book-review-david-szoke/ (last accessed 07 October, 2023).","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135462788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hitchcock’s <i>Number Seventeen</i> (1932) and the British Film Quota","authors":"James Chapman","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2268918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2268918","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 See John Russell Taylor, Hitch: The Life and Work of Alfred Hitchcock (London: Faber and Faber, 1978), 115–16; Donald Spoto, Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock (London: Fredrick Muller, 1983), 129–30; and Patrick McGilligan, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2003), 146–8.2 François Truffaut, with Helen G. Scott, Hitchcock (London: Paladin, 1986), 102.3 Rodney Ackland, The Celluloid Mistress: or The Custard Pie of Dr Caligari (London: Allan Wingate, 1954), 36.4 ‘British International Pictures, Limited’, The Economist, 25 August 1930, 378.5 Rachael Low, The History of the British Film 1929-1939: Film-Making in 1930s Britain (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1985), 116–17.6 John Sedgwick, ‘Michael Balcon’s Close Encounter with the American Market, 1934-36’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 16, no. 3 (1996): 333–48.7 Raymond Durgnat, The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock; or The Plain Man’s Hitchcock (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), 120.8 Tom Ryall, Alfred Hitchcock and the British Cinema (London: Croom Helm, 1986), 101.9 Gene D. Phillips, Alfred Hitchcock (London: Columbus Books, 1986), 67.10 Steve Chibnall, Quota Quickies: The Birth of the British ‘B’ Film (London: British Film Institute, 2007), xii–xiii.11 For the contexts of the Quota Act, see Rachael Low, The History of the British Film 1918-1929 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1971), 71–106; Margaret Dickinson and Sarah Street, Cinema and State: The Film Industry and the British Government, 1927-84 (London: British Film Institute, 1985), 5–33; and Chibnall, Quota Quickies, 1–17.12 Political and Economic Planning, The British Film Industry: A report on its history and present organisation, with special reference to the economic problems of British feature film production (London: Political and Economic Planning, 1952), 50.13 Truffaut, Hitchcock, 104.14 The ledger is referenced in Linda Wood, ‘Low-Budget Production: Twickenham Film Studios, 1927-1938’ (unpublished MPhil thesis, Polytechnic of Central London, 1989).15 The National Archives (TNA) BT 64/97: Particulars of British Films Acquired by Renters during Quota Year 1932-33. The ledger actually includes 159 films but one of those – Till the Bells Ring (1933) produced by British Sound Film Productions for independent distributor A. L. Bayley – has no cost data. The ledger includes Old Spanish Customers (1932) under MGM though in fact it was released by Wardour Films.16 This includes one film (Verdict of the Sea) where the production company is listed as Regina Film Productions: this film was shot at Elstree Studios with some overseas locations, and was to all intents and purposes a BIP film.17 Simon Rowson, ‘A Statistical Survey of the Cinema Industry in Great Britain in 1934’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 99, no. 1 (1936): 111.18 The average for the British & Dominions Film Corporation needs to be","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136034540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring Cinema Memory <b>Exploring Cinema Memory</b> ANNETTE KUHN, 2023Glasgow, Argyll Publishing pp. 133, bibliography, index, £15","authors":"Mélisande Leventopoulos, Özge Özyilmaz","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2262267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2262267","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135758798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York <b>Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York</b> CORTLAND RANKIN, 2023London and New York, Routledgepp. viii + 248, illus., filmography, and index, $170 (cloth), $47.65 (eBook)","authors":"Robert Gordon Joseph","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2262274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2262274","url":null,"abstract":"\"Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York.\" Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136210482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How Documentaries Work <b>How Documentaries Work</b> JACOB BRICCA, 2023Oxford, Oxford University Press pp. 232, 100 b&w illus., £12.99 (paperback) <b>A New History of Documentary Film</b> BETSY A. MCLANE, 20233rd ed., pp. 464, 110 b&w illus., £24.99 (paperback)","authors":"James Fenwick","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2262261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2262261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136210361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All the President’s Men <b>All the President’s Men</b> . CHRISTIAN KEATHLEY and ROBERT B. RAY, 2023London and New York, Bloomsburypp. 112, illus., $16.15 (paper)","authors":"Igor Krstic","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2262240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2262240","url":null,"abstract":"\"All the President’s Men.\" Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136358540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film <b>Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film.</b> Special Journal Issue Guest Editor: Yvonne Zimmermann, 2021 Early Popular Visual Culture (Abingdon: Routledge) v.19, n.2–3, pp. 107–274","authors":"Stephen Bottomore","doi":"10.1080/01439685.2023.2262254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2023.2262254","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Stephen Bottomore, ‘‘The Great Favorite, Miss Asta Nielsen’: Asta Nielsen on Australasian Screens’, in Importing Asta Nielsen: The International Film Star in the Making, 1910-1914, ed. Martin Loiperdinger and Uli Jung (Eastleigh: John Libbey & Company, 2013), 308–20.2 The soon-to-be megastar, Charlie Chaplin, receives only 31 hits, purely because he only started appearing in films in 1914; and fellow megastar Mary Pickford (194 hits) only made a big impact from around 1913.3 Some information about this group: Florence Turner was a major film star who worked in Britain as well as America. Max Linder is hailed as the first film star in a recent study (Andrew Shail, The Origins of the Film Star System: Persona, Publicity and Economics in Early Cinema (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019). Maurice Costello may have been the first star to appear in films (from 1906, says MacCann, 1992), and a contemporary guide (B. M. Wood, Who's Who in the Motion Picture World (New York: Who's Who in Pictures Publishing Co., c1915, p. 50) states that he was ‘the first internationally famous motion picture star’, that he pioneered the modern style of film acting and directed all his own films. He won a film star popularity contest in 1912. John Bunny was the most-mentioned film star in the pre-war period, and was making nearly a film a week by the summer of 1913. All these except Linder have been rather overlooked by historians/biographers: there is no book devoted to Turner, only a self-published one on Bunny (2017), and only a family biography (2019) for Costello: Kevin Scott Collier, Funny Bunny: Film Comedian John Bunny (Scotts Valley, CA: CreateSpace, 2017); Terry Chester Shulman, Film's First Family : The Untold Story of the Costellos (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2019).4 And indeed begs a more general question of how and why historians choose their subjects to study.5 Steve Massa, Rediscovering Roscoe : The Films of \"Fatty\" Arbuckle (Orlando, FL: BearManor Media, 2019); Anthony Slide, ‘Early Women Filmmakers: The Real Numbers’, Film History 24, no. 1 (March 2012): 114–21.6 Given this project model and the relative neglect of the three above-mentioned film stars, perhaps one could propose a ‘Vitagraph performers project’?7 See https://wfpp.columbia.edu/essay/shaping-the-craft-of-screenwriting-women-screen-writers-in-silent-era-hollywood/ and https://wfpp.columbia.edu/2023/01/07/afi-catalog-launches-wtta-website/8 Ann Martin, Virginia M. Clark and Maria Schlesinger, What Women Wrote: Scenarios, 1912–1929 (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1987) [microform].9 https://aficatalog.afi.com/wtta/10 Anthony Slide, ‘Early Women Filmmakers: The Real Numbers’, Film History 24, no. 1 (March 2012): 114-121.11 Establishing such figures for women’s authorship is an inexact science, as Slide explained in his article, and there are many works where the author is unknown, where the Christ","PeriodicalId":44618,"journal":{"name":"HISTORICAL JOURNAL OF FILM RADIO AND TELEVISION","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135199985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}