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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  5/11/2020
  

  “Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

  by Paris A. Spies-Gans

  Historian Paris A. Spies-Gans discusses the historical references and significance of the critically acclaimed French film.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/12/2020
  

  In Netflix’s ‘Hollywood,’ One Movie Fixes Racism. Hooray!

  Ryan Murphy’s revisionist series is laughably self-satisfied and willfully naïve about complex real-world problems. I also kind of enjoyed it.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  5/7/2020
  

  4 Movies That Got World War II Right, According to a Historian

  Here are four films that accurately depict life during and after the war, according to Rob Citino, Senior Historian at the National World War II Museum.

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• 4/26/2020
  

  “Dueling Banjos” and Divided America

  by Roger Chapman

  If we could consider our differences as not warfare but call-and-response, perhaps we could find some harmony in the song of our nation.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  Laughter in an Age of Pandemics

  by Michael A. Genovese

  We are all struggling, and we all need the distractions that only absurdity can provide. So laugh now and then; see the silly, the absurd and the comic in life.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  3/30/2020
  

  Helen Hunt Brings Trailblazing War Journalist to Life in "World On Fire"

  “I remember reading that she called her paper the next day and held the phone out the window [so they could hear the gunfire and chaos] and said, ‘It’s happening right now!'”

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  3/4/2020
  

  Little Women: Greta Gerwig’s Love Letter to the 19th-Century Novel

  by Christine Jacobson

  It’s thrilling to see the historic Roberts Brothers publishing house richly imagined in the film’s first scene and to watch Jo spar with her editor over the rights to her novel and its ending.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  2/26/20
  

  A New Film Series Teases Out the Complex History of Black Heroines On Screen

  The series, entitled It's All in Me: Black Heroines, runs through March 5 at MoMA.

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• 1/26/20
  

  The Film “1917” and the Allegory of the Wooden-Headed

  by James Ottavio Castagnera

  Viewed with one eye on this current context, “1917” can surmount its surface characterization as an exciting “war movie” to become an allegory.

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• 1/14/20
  

  Annual Jewish Film Festival, Following New Wave of Anti-Semitism, Offers Hope and Inspiration

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Given the attacks on Jews all over the country, the Jewish Film Festival, one of the oldest in the United States, could not have come at a better time

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• SOURCE: Slate
  10/31/19
  

  Historians Manisha Sinha, Kate Clifford Larson, and Milton Sernett Interviewed for Article on Historical Accuracy of Harriet Film

  "What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Harriet"

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• 11/5/19
  

  Harriet Appropriately and Aptly Honors Harriet Tubman

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Harriet is not only an enjoyable and inspirational film, but one that covers a lot of pre and post-Civil War history as well as some about the war itself.

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• SOURCE: The Telegraph
  November 2, 2019
  

  'History should not be airbrushed', historians complain as Wolverhampton's role in record-breaking balloon flight left out of Aeronauts film

  by Sophie Barnes

  The Aeronauts film has come under fire by a historian who has warned history should not be “airbrushed” after Wolverhampton’s role in a record-breaking balloon flight was left out of the film.

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• 10/9/19
  

  A Brooding, Psychotic New Joker Joins the Batman Legend

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Bruce Chadwick examines the history of the character of the Joker and reviews the latest film. 

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• 8/11/19
  

  The Cultural History Behind Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

  by David L. O'Connor

  Like most folktales, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is filled with interesting characters, events, and messages from a bygone era.  

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  6/21/19
  

  Bowling Green State Removed Lillian Gish's Name from Their Theatre Over Her Role in Birth of a Nation. Why Do Some Want the Name Restored?

  A who's who of film -- James Earl Jones, Helen Mirren, Martin Scorsese, among others -- want the name restored.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/25/19
  

  Green Book and the Oscars' Complicated History With Movies About Race

  While many supporters of Green Book believe it’s a clever inversion of old tropes, its detractors see its victory as a continuation of the Oscars rewarding a familiarly naive story, told from a familiarly white viewpoint.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/22/19
  

  Revisiting The American Nazi Supporters of "A Night at the Garden"

  by Margaret Talbot

  One advantage to living through Trumpism is that it has compelled a reckoning with aspects of our country’s past that, for a long time, many Americans preferred not to acknowledge.

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• SOURCE: Colossal
  12-27-2018
  

  Video of the Week: Edited Film Footage from 1890’s Paris Explores Some of the Everyday Thrills of Late 19th-Century Life

  by Kate Sierzputowski

  Videographer Guy Jones slows down film from the late 1800s to early 1900s to more accurately match the speed at which modern footage is recorded and played. In addition to editing the pace of the century-old film, Jones also adds in sound effects to make the scenes more relatable.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  12-7-2018
  

  Forty Years Ago, 12.6 Million Feet of History Went Up in Smoke

  Remembering the fire at a National Archives film vault that destroyed years worth of flammable nitrate film newsreels