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Film Histories, Part 1
This is the first in a series of posts in which I will evaluate some of the one-volume histories of film in English. Nominally, it will be from my perspective of their suitability of their use in the...
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Max Fleischer Teaching Student Officers to Read Maps
The above article from the December 1918 issue of Popular Science is about how a training film produced by “the Training Division of the War College, Mr. Max Fleischer, a former member of the Popular...
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UPA News: Two DVDs and a Book
Jerry Beck at Cartoon Brew breaks the news that two DVD sets devoted to UPA’s theatrical cartoons are coming out soon: UPA Jolly Frolics due out on March 5th from Turner Classic Movies and The Mr....
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Adam Abraham’s “When Magoo Flew”
Adam Abraham’s new book, which has just been published by Wesleyan University Press, is an easy book to recommend to anyone interested in film or animation history. I was one of the anonymous readers...
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Annie Awards Make History
Perhaps historical would be a better word. I’m not talking about the winners in the competitive voting for ASIFA-Hollywood‘s Annie Awards proper (listed here), but rather for the juried awards,...
View ArticleCharles daCosta on Racial Stereotyping in Media
Racial Stereotypes in Media from Ogre on Vimeo. My friend and former Savannah College of Art and Design colleague, Charles daCosta, who now teaches at Swinburne University of Technology, in...
View ArticleMy Cinema Studies 101 Search Engine
As some visitors to this blog may have noticed over the past few days, I have put up a custom search engine designed to search English-language websites for material suitable for students doing...
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Film Histories, Part 2: Animation and TV in Context
Several years ago, I did a posting which promised to be the “first in a series of posts in which I would evaluate some of the one-volume histories of film in English.” For various reasons, I neglected...
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Walt Disney on American Experience
I was rather pleased with Sarah Colt’s two-part documentary Walt Disney shown the past two nights on PBS, as part of its American Experience series. Part of it, I suppose, is that it devoted so much...
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