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OBITER DICTA FROM THE DIRECTOR'S OFFICE

Jan 01, 2007; Rollins, Peter C ... This is the first issue of the journal in which we can announce the functioning of The Center for the Study of Film and History (hereafter, The Center) as an entity. For the foreseeable future, I will be the Director of the Center and it gives me great pleasure to take on this role for a number ...

WE OF FILM & HISTORY HAVE BEEN BUSY... THE EDITOR'S REFLECTIONS AND REPORTS

Jan 01, 2007; Carmichael, Deborah A ... NEW MASTHEAD Although some things may change, others do not and we have been busy as usual at Film & History. Peter Rollins has become the Director of the Center for the Study of Film and History, allowing him the time to orchestrate larger projects while advising us here at the ...

A VIEW FROM THE CLASSROOM: FILM & HISTORY CONFERENCE

Jan 01, 2007; Schoenbaechler, Jessica ... Scholars and practitioners poked, prodded, dissected and analyzed issues relating to film and history - from recent boy bands to documentary classics - at the fourth Film & History Biennial Conference in Dallas, Texas, which ran from November 8 to 12. Hosted by Film & History: An ...

INTRODUCTION: REALITY TELEVISION AS FILM AND HISTORY

Jan 01, 2007; Taddeo, Julie; Dvorak, Ken ... Welcome to a two part special series exploring reality television as film and history. This edition focuses on the widely popular PBS Historical Homes series, including the British and American productions, 1940s House (2000), Frontier House (2001), Manor House (2002) and Colonial House (2003), ...

ENCOMIUM: DR. RAY FIELDING

Jan 01, 2007; Tomasulo, Frank P ... I believe that the first time I actually met Ray Fielding in person was in 1978. He had just delivered a guest lecture on the March of Time newsreels to Howard Suber's famous Documentary Film course at UCLA and I was a Graduate Teaching Fellow in that class. Even before meeting Dr. Fielding, ...

THE PBS HISTORICAL HOUSE SERIES: WHERE HISTORICAL REALITY SUCCUMBS TO REEL REALITY

Jan 01, 2007; Taddeo, Julie Anne; Dvorak, Ken ... THE PBS HISTORICAL HOUSE SERIES: WHERE HISTORICAL REALITY SUCCUMBS TO REEL REALITY INTRODUCTION: When PBS aired the first of the British-themed and produced historical "House" series, 1900 House, in June 2000, the network described the project as "classy voyeurism" and the place ...

"THE ENDLESS END OF FRONTIER MYTHOLOGY: PBS's FRONTIER HOUSE 2002"

Jan 01, 2007; Edwards, Leigh H ... "THE ENDLESS END OF FRONTIER MYTHOLOGY: PBS's FRONTIER HOUSE 2002" Depicting three families of modern-day "time travelers" who immerse themselves in the rough and tumble culture of 1883 Montana, PBS's Frontier House (2002) series provides a critical, self-reflexive intenogation of ...

FRONTIER HOUSE: REALITY TELEVISION AND THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCE

Jan 01, 2007; Rymsza-Pawlowska, Malgorzata ... Most television audiences view the genre of reality television primarily as entertainment and amusement. Millions of viewers tune into programs such as Survivor, The Apprentice, and The Bachelor because of the excitement, the unexpectedness, and the twists and turns that are taken each week ....

HISTORY AS MYSTERY AND BEAUTY AS DUTY IN THE 1940S HOUSE (1999)

Jan 01, 2007; Diffrient, David Scott ... On the first night of her family's nine-week stay in a painstakingly restored, World War II-era house on the outskirts of London, Lyn Hymers-the flftysomething matriarch and breakout "star" of the British time-travel reality show The 1940s House (1999)-finds herself in a dilemma. After spending ...

"THAT HISTORY SHOULD NOT HAVE EVER BEEN HOW IT WAS": THE COLONY, OUTBACK HOUSE, AND AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

Jan 01, 2007; Arrow, Michelle ... In 2005, Australia's public broadcasters each produced 'reality history' programs: The Colony, which screened on the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) in January,1 and Outback House, produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in mid-year. Australian audiences had previously ...

ADVENTURES IN THE COLONY: BIG BROTHER MEETS SURVIVOR IN PERIOD COSTUME

Jan 01, 2007; Gapps, Stephen ... It is 40 degrees in the shade during a November heat wave and I am dressed in ill-fitting leather buckled shoes, long woolen stockings, canvas breeches, a linen shirt, a rather too tight red woolen soldier's 'coatee' (jacket), a neck 'stock' and a felted wool 'shako' (hat). I am carrying a ...

THE OMNISCIENT NARRATOR AND THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: THE CASE OF ATOMIC CAFÉ

Jan 01, 2007; Wiener, Jon ... The form of the historical documentary today is familiar - painfully familiar: the narrator, the talking head-experts and witnesses, and the historical footage that illustrates the points the speakers are making. The narrator is required and often the star - From Ken Burns's Civil War on PBS, ...

THE EXILES (1989)

Jan 01, 2007; Donohue, Westerly A ... THE EXILES (1989) Richard Kaplan, director Exile is a curious word, for it holds the possibility, at least, of return, as Tom Ambrose aptly wrote in Hitler's Loss: What Britain and America Gained from Europe's Cultural Exiles (2001: Peter Owen Publishers). Yet, of the thousands ...

APOLLO 13/JOURNEY TO THE MOON/MARS AND BACK (1994-2006)

Jan 01, 2007; Launius, Roger D ... APOLLO 13/JOURNEY TO THE MOON/MARS AND BACK (1994-2006) Nova, PBS production This wonderful boxed set of three documentaries cover a range of spaceflight subjects and will be of interest to all those interested in the history of this subject. Produced over more than a decade for ...

AFRICA MIA (2002)

Jan 01, 2007; Higgins, Shana M ... AFRICA MIA (2002) Bernardo Morillo, director In the past ten years or so, the comparative study of blackness and racial ideologies in the Americas has become an area of intensified analysis and scholarship. Afro-Latina/o as a concept is fraught with ambiguity. For some the term ...

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BORSCHT BELT (1987)

Jan 01, 2007; Van Ells, Mark D ... THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BORSCHT BELT (1987) Peter Davis, director During the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants and their descendants created the so-called "Borscht Belt"-an agglomeration of cottages, hotels, and entertainment venues that catered to a Jewish clientele-in the ...

REGRET TO INFORM (1998)

Jan 01, 2007; McCosham, Anthony ... REGRET TO INFORM (1998) Barbara Sonneborn, director A common complaint about filmic representations of the Vietnam war, particularly those produced in Hollywood, is that the films tend to focus too narrowly on the personal relationships of the characters involved, ignoring not ...

HITLER'S SUNKEN SECRET (2005)

Jan 01, 2007; Van Riper, A Bowdoin ... HITLER'S SUNKEN SECRET (2005) Nova, PBS production Deuterium, or "heavy hydrogen," has a proton and a neutron in its nucleus where ordinary hydrogen has only a proton. Two atoms of it, bonded with one of oxygen, form a molecule of "heavy water." Water that has been highly ...

THEY CHOSE CHINA (2005)

Jan 01, 2007; Sendzikas, Aldona ... THEY CHOSE CHINA (2005) Shuibo Wang The American soldier, who is taken P.O.W., survives captivity and returns home currently holds the status of "hero" in American society, as the media attention surrounding the capture and rescue of Jessica Lynch during the Iraq War ...

WOMEN WHO LOVED CINEMA, (PARTS 1 AND 2). (2002)

Jan 01, 2007; Habib, Samar ... WOMEN WHO LOVED CINEMA, (PARTS 1 AND 2). (2002) Marianne Khoury 'Ashiqat al-Cinema is an important documentary for several reasons. The first is that it provides an encyclopedic overview of scholarship, local knowledge, archival footage and material relating to the subject of ...