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ARTICLE American Movie Audiences of the 1930S1
ARTICLE American Movie Audiences of the 1930s1 Richard Butsch Rider University Abstract The Depression and movies with sound changed movie audiences of the 1930s from those of the 1920s and earlier. Sound silenced audiences, discouraging the sociabili- ty that had marked working-class audiences before. The Depression led movie com- panies to change marketing strategies and construction plans. They stopped selling luxury and building movie palaces. Instead, they expanded their operation of neigh- borhood theaters, displacing independents that had been more worker friendly, and instituted centrally controlled show bills and policies. Audiences also appear to have become more heterogeneous. All this, too, discouraged the voluble behavior of working-class people. Ironically, in this era of labor activism, workers and their fam- ilies seem to have become quieter in movie theaters, satisfied with the convenience of chain-operated movie houses. The 1930s were an exciting decade for labor activism in the United States and a high point for the growth of unions. Workers in steel, automobile, and other heavy industries organized industrial unions. The Committee on Industrial Or- ganization (later Congress of Industrial Organizations or CIO) was formed with a membership of more than a million workers. Factory workers initiated new tactics in struggles with employers, such as sit-down strikes. In politics, they ad- vanced legislation and programs in the New Deal to help employed and unem- ployed workers. Ironically, at the same time that workers’ collective action and class con- sciousness were at a high point, movie audiences became quiet. They did not act collectively to control their experience in the theater. -
Vision, Desire and Economies of Transgression in the Films of Jess Franco
A University of Sussex DPhil thesis Available online via Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/ This thesis is protected by copyright which belongs to the author. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Please visit Sussex Research Online for more information and further details 1 Journeys into Perversion: Vision, Desire and Economies of Transgression in the Films of Jess Franco Glenn Ward Doctor of Philosophy University of Sussex May 2011 2 I hereby declare that this thesis has not been, and will not be, submitted whole or in part to another University for the award of any other degree. Signature:……………………………………… 3 Summary Due to their characteristic themes (such as „perverse‟ desire and monstrosity) and form (incoherence and excess), exploitation films are often celebrated as inherently subversive or transgressive. I critically assess such claims through a close reading of the films of the Spanish „sex and horror‟ specialist Jess Franco. My textual and contextual analysis shows that Franco‟s films are shaped by inter-relationships between authorship, international genre codes and the economic and ideological conditions of exploitation cinema. Within these conditions, Franco‟s treatment of „aberrant‟ and gothic desiring subjectivities appears contradictory. Contestation and critique can, for example, be found in Franco‟s portrayal of emasculated male characters, and his female vampires may offer opportunities for resistant appropriation. -
Spectacle, Masculinity, and Music in Blaxploitation Cinema
Spectacle, Masculinity, and Music in Blaxploitation Cinema Author Howell, Amanda Published 2005 Journal Title Screening the Past Copyright Statement © The Author(s) 2005. The attached file is posted here with permission of the copyright owner for your personal use only. No further distribution permitted. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. Downloaded from http://hdl.handle.net/10072/4130 Link to published version http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/ Griffith Research Online https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au Spectacle, masculinity, and music in blaxploitation cinema Spectacle, masculinity, and music in blaxploitation cinema Amanda Howell "Blaxploitation" was a brief cycle of action films made specifically for black audiences in both the mainstream and independent sectors of the U.S. film industry during the early 1970s. Offering overblown fantasies of black power and heroism filmed on the sites of race rebellions of the late 1960s, blaxploitation films were objects of fierce debate among social leaders and commentators for the image of blackness they projected, in both its aesthetic character and its social and political utility. After some time spent as the "bad object" of African-American cinema history,[1] critical and theoretical interest in blaxploitation resurfaced in the 1990s, in part due to the way that its images-- and sounds--recirculated in contemporary film and music cultures. Since the early 1990s, a new generation of African-American filmmakers has focused -
Retro Gamer Speed Pretty Quickly, Shifting to a Contents Will Remain the Same
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Film Calendar
FILM CALENDAR JULY 26 - OCTOBER 3, 2019 ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD *ON 70MM* OPENS JULY 26 JENNIFER KENT’S THE NIGHTINGALE OPENS AUGUST 16 NOIR CITY CHICAGO SEPTEMBER 6-12 GIVE ME LIBERTY A MUSIC BOX FILMS RELEASE OPENS SEPTEMBER 13 DORIS DAY WEEKEND MATINEES SEPTEMBER 15-29 Music Box Theatre 90th Anniversary Celebration August 22 - 29 Welcome TO THE MUSIC BOX THEATRE! FEATURE FILMS 5 ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD OPENS JULY 26 7 LUZ OPENS AUGUST 2 7 HONEYLAND OPENS AUGUST 9 8 THE NIGHTINGALE OPENS AUGUST 16 CHICAGO 9 AQUARELA OPENS AUGUST 30 ONSCREEN 9 GIVE ME LIBERTY OPENS SEPTEMBER 13 12 MONOS OPENS SEPTEMBER 20 A traveling exhibition of MUSIC BOX 90TH ANNIVERSARY Chicago-made film 16 INNOCENTS OF PARIS AUGUST 22 17 THE FUGITIVE AUGUST 23 18 WORLD CITY IN ITS TEENS AUGUST 24 18 DOLLY PARTON 9 TO 5ER AUGUST 24 19 MARY POPPINS SING-A-LONG AUGUST 25 19 INDIE HORROR: SOCIETY AUGUST 25 20 MUSIC BOX FILMS DOUBLE FEATURE AUGUST 27 21 AUDIENCE CHOICE DOUBLE FEATURE AUGUST 28 22 70MM: BACK TO THE FUTURE II AUGUST 29 24 THE HISTORY OF THE MUSIC BOX SERIES 28 BETTE DAVIS MATINEES 30 DORIS DAY MATINEES 30 SILENT CINEMA 08.26-08.28 32 CHICAGO FILM SOCIETY NEIGHBORHOOD 34 MIDNIGHTS SHOWCASE SCREENINGS Dunbar Park | Grant Park | Horner Park SPECIAL EVENTS Jackson Park | Margate Park | Mckinley Park 6 GALLAGHER WAY MOVIE SERIES MAY - SEPTEMBER Steelworkers Park | Wicker Park 6 DISCOVER THE HORROR JULY 27 8 RUSH: CINEMA STRANGIATO AUGUST 21 08.29-08.31 10 NOIR CITY SEPTEMBER 6-12 CHICAGO ONSCREEN FESTIVAL 11 SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY SEPTEMBER 14 & 15 Humboldt Park | Three days of local films from filmmakers 11 REELING FILM FESTIVAL OPENING SEPTEMBER 19 and film organizations from all over the city in a multi-screen 12 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT SEPTEMBER 22-25 festival celebration of movies by and about Chicago. -
Day Two,San Diego Comic-Con 2013 – Day One
Scene and Heard Mary Loss of Soul There is no accurate description of the whirling dervish I met recently on the set of her soon-to-be- released film, Mary Loss of Soul. It was the last day of shooting, and the energy level and passion of this female director was boundless – and infectious! The woman I speak of is Jennifer B. White. She is a writer, director and producer – but she’ll tell you she is first and foremost a storyteller. “I was ten years old. I’d never heard the term “folktale” – a narrated story to entertain a group of listeners. But, that’s exactly how I began my creative dream – as a storyteller in the woods. Back in the day of knock-on-door neighborhoods in the suburbs of Massachusetts, I’d gather with a group of wide-eyed kids along with my side-kick little sister. I told stories – often about ghosts, witches and anything spooky – making them up as I went along. I started writing novels at the age of 12 on my mom’s old IBM Selectric. As the family keeper of all things old and nostalgic, I held on to those precious works of fiction like they were a buccaneer’s booty.” After college, Jennifer signed with her first literary agent, and went on to become a public relations professional heading up PR in Boston hotels and top agencies where she was published in hundreds of publications throughout the U.S. She continued writing novels throughout her career, and, through a series of fortunate encounters, began writing for Hollywood. -
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UCLA UCLA Previously Published Works Title “Parasite Cinema,” Image and Narrative, special issue on Artaud and Cruelty, 17.5 (2016), 66-79 Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/32j321fb Authors Ravetto-Biagioli, K Beugnet, M Publication Date 2019-10-18 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Martine Beugnet and Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli Parasite Cinema Abstract In Theatre and its Double Artaud explored how the plague communicates beyond simple contact, bringing death to those it touches, but also bringing fear, images, and the imagination, which transforms social rela- tions, disorganising society and producing absurd anti-social actions. In this essay we would like to relate the emergence of a parasite-cinema, one that expresses itself through predatory forms of capture and communica- tion, where images pullulate out of control (but do not destroy the body of the host), to Artaud’s understanding of plague as a proliferation of communication. Résumé Dans Le Théâtre et son double Artaud analyse la manière dont la peste communique au-delà du seul contact physique, apportant la mort à ceux qu’elle touche, mais apportant aussi la peur, des images et l’imagination qui transforme les rapports sociaux, désorganisant la société et produisant des comportements absurdes anti-so- ciaux. Dans cet essai nous nous proposons de mettre en rapport la conception artaudienne de la peste comme forme proliférante de communication avec l’émergence d’une nouvelle forme de cinéma, le cinéma parasite, qui s’exprime à travers des formes prédatrices de capture et de communication, des images qui pullulent en dehors de tout contrôle (mais sans détruire le corps de celui qui les accueille). -
Cultural Materialism in the Production and Distribution of Exploitative Lesbian Film: a Historical Case Study of Children of Loneliness (1935)
Cultural Materialism in the Production and Distribution of Exploitative Lesbian Film: A Historical Case Study of Children of Loneliness (1935) Anna Fåhraeus, Halmstad University Abstract Raymond Williams developed a vocabulary and framework for analyzing the ideological forces at work in literature and art, as objects, but also in terms of their production and distribution. This article looks back at his elaboration of cultural materialism and its relationship to film in Preface to Film (1954), written with Michael Orrin, as a way of understanding the media traces of the lost film Children of Loneliness (dir. Richard C. Kahn). The film was an early sex education about homosexuality and this article explores its connections to early exploitation films as a cinematic form, and the dominant and emergent discourses that were used to promote it, as a well as at structures of feeling that these discourses reflect. Keywords: structure of feeling; history of film; Children of Loneliness; homosexuality ‘To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.’ Raymond Williams1 Introduction Raymond Williams laid much of the groundwork for cultural studies and media studies with his work Culture and Society (1958), Communications (1962) and Television (1974). It is less well-known that from his university days in the 1930s he also worked with film and produced several important texts for Film Studies, including ‘Film as a Tutorial Subject’ (1953) and the volume, Preface to Film (1954), co- authored with his friend, the documentary filmmaker Michael Orrin. The book was a manifesto for the political potential of the form. Williams’s contribution was an essay entitled, ‘Film and the Dramatic Tradition.’ The main thrust is that in order to study the moving image as a cultural form, it needs to be understood in relation to the history of drama (Dolan 1 Resources of Hope, published posthumously (1989: 118). -
MONDO TARANTINO MONDO TARANTINO COLEÇÃO CINUSP – Volume 4 Coordenação Geral Tradução Esther Hamburger E Patricia Moran David Donato
MONDO TARANTINO MONDO TARANTINO COLEÇÃO CINUSP – vOLUME 4 COORDENAÇÃO GERAL TRADUÇÃO Esther Hamburger e Patricia Moran David Donato ORGANIZAÇÃO REVISÃO Marcos Kurtinaitis Luciana Tonelli PRODUÇÃO PROJETO GRÁFICO E DIAGRAMAÇÃO Thiago de André André Noboru Siraiama Uva Costriuba PESQUISA Henrique Figueiredo ILUSTRAÇÃO DA CAPA Yasmin Afshar Vitor Morinishi Kurtinaitis, Marcos (org.) Mondo Tarantino / Marcos Kurtinaitis São Paulo: Pró-reitoria de Cultura e Extensão Universitária – USP, 2013. 256 p.; 21 x 15,5 cm. ISBN 978-85-62587-09-2 1. Cineastas 2. Tarantino, Quentin (1963- ) I. Título CDD 791.43092 CDU 791 Ministério da Cultura apresenta Banco do Brasil apresenta e patrocina MONDO TARANTINO CCBB DF CCBB SP CINUSP 15 FEV A 17 MAR 20 FEV A 17 MAR 25 FEV A 15 MAR SCES, Trecho 2 Rua Álvares Penteado, 112 Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 61 3108 - 7600 Centro Colmeia Favo 04 twitter.com/ccbb_df 11 3113 - 3651 / 3652 11 3091 - 3540 fb.com/ccbb.brasilia twitter.com/ccbb_sp www.usp.br/cinusp fb.com/ccbbsp fb.com/cinusp.pauloemilio CORREALIZAÇÃO REALIZAÇÃO Pró-Reitoria de Cultura e Extensão Universitária da USP São Paulo – Fevereiro de 2013 O Ministério da Cultura e o Banco do Brasil apresentam, em parceria com o CINUSP Paulo Emílio, a mostra MONDO TARANTINO, ampla retrospectiva em homenagem ao cineasta que completa 20 anos de carreira. Prestes a completar também 50 anos de idade e contando com enorme prestígio, Quentin Tarantino é, sem dúvida, um dos mais influentes cineastas em atividade. Seus filmes, tamanha a originalidade, sempre provocam as mais acaloradas discussões. E, mais que isso, propiciam uma significativa mudança no cinema. -
Perry Mason Original Television Series (Boxes 1-22; 1957-1966) 2
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9m3nd0w6 No online items Finding Aid for the Barbara Hale Collection, 1957-1994 Processed by N. Vega; machine-readable finding aid created by N. Vega and J. Graham UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections University of California, Los Angeles, Library Performing Arts Special Collections, Room A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 Phone: (310) 825-4988 Fax: (310) 206-1864 Email: [email protected] http://www2.library.ucla.edu/specialcollections/performingarts/index.cfm © 2005 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Finding Aid for the Barbara Hale 284 1 Collection, 1957-1994 Descriptive Summary Date (inclusive): 1957-1994, Date (bulk): (bulk 1957-1966) and Date (bulk): (bulk 1985-1994) Collection number: 284 Creator: Hale, Barbara, 1922- Extent: 25 boxes (12.5 linear ft.) Abstract: Barbara Hale began her acting career in 1943 and although she has appeared in numerous screen and television productions, she is most recognized as her character Della Street, in the television drama Perry Mason. The collection consists of television scripts, call sheets, and production information from the original Perry Mason series (1957-1966) and Perry Mason two hour movies (1985-1994). Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Performing Arts Special Collections. Los Angeles, California 90095-1575 Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information. Restrictions on Access COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access. -
Neo-Exploitation
Neo-exploitation Nostalgia for horrific wonders Martijn van Hoek 0304964 Blok 4 2011/2012 22-06-2012 Thema: Genre Begeleider: J.S. Hurley Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................... 3 Exploring exploitation and nostalgia ......................................................................... 4 Exploring horror fan culture .................................................................................... 6 Exploring neo-exploitation .....................................................................................13 Redefining a genre................................................................................................13 GRINDHOUSE ..........................................................................................................14 CABIN FEVER ..........................................................................................................15 IRRÉVERSIBLE .........................................................................................................17 Conclusion ...........................................................................................................18 Literature ............................................................................................................19 2 Introduction In the first decade of the new millennium, a section of the horror genre was not looking to the future, but instead drew inspiration from the past. A number of filmmakers looked to the exploitation films of the -
203 General S T Aff Pla Yers Review His T Or Y Honors V
GENERAL STAFF PLAYERS REVIEW HISTORY VOLMANAC 203 HONORS VOLMANAC RECORDS UTSPORTS.COM // @VOL_FOOTBALL VOLMANAC RETIRED NUMBERS On Sept. 15, 2012, the University of Tennessee announced the retirement of the jersey of legend Johnny Majors (45). Based on the new criteria for these types of honors, the jersey of Majors was retired, but the number 45 was not taken out of circulation. This will be the case for all subsequent Tennessee football players whose jerseys are retired. In 2005, ceremonies were held to retire the jerseys of Doug Atkins (91), Peyton Manning (16) and Reggie White (92). Also, in 2006, four former Vols, Clyde (lg) Fuson (62), Rudy Klarer (49), Bill Nowling (32), and Willis Tucker (61), who had their jerseys retired in 1946 were honored. Ceremonies were held during the 2006 UT-Air Force game to officially memorialize those four players killed in World War II. FOUR VOLS who died during World War II had their jerseys retired in 1946. Ceremonies were held Sept. 9, 2006. PEYTON MANNING DOUG ATKINS 16 Ceremony Oct. 29, 2005 Ceremony Nov. 19, 2005 91 Manning is the most decorated athlete in UT history. He left Doug Atkins is considered by CLYDE (IG) FUSON Tennessee as the SEC’s all-time many to be the greatest defensive (March 11, 1923 — Dec. leading passer with 11,201 yards, linemen in football history. After 624, 1944), a native of Middlesboro, setting 42 passing records during his originally signing with UT on a Ky., and fullback on the 1942 team, Vols career that included two NCAA, basketball scholarship, Atkins went shared playing time with Nowling.