The first filmed prizefight, Veriscope'sCorbett-Fitzsimmons Fight(1897) became one of cinema's first major attractions, ushering in an era in which hugely successful boxing films helped transform a ...stigmatized sport into legitimate entertainment. Exploring a significant and fascinating period in the development of modern sports and media,Fight Picturesis the first work to chronicle the mostly forgotten story of how legitimate bouts, fake fights, comic sparring matches, and more came to silent-era screens and became part of American popular culture.
This article introduces several essays and shorter articles derived from talks given at the Sixth Orphan Film Symposium (Orphan 6) held at New York University in March 2008. It defines what is meant ...by the term "orphan film" in its legal and conceptual senses and notes how the term has emerged as the predominant metaphor for motion picture preservation in the US and elsewhere. It is likely to remain a binding concept denoting neglected cultural productions found on celluloid, magnetic or digital media and formats of the future. Since such an all-embracing scope can limit utility a focus has emerged on recordings as historical documents: "not-a-movie" films, artefacts not released theatrically - unfinished newsreels, outtakes, amateur works, test reels, unidentified footage, surveillance recordings. A list of some of the films screened at Orphan 6 indicates that historians are not seeing most of the films that exist to be studied. The thematic focus of Orphan 6 was the role of orphan films in recording, constructing and imagining the state, broadly conceived. (Quotes from original text)
Learning with the lights off Orgeron, Devin; Orgeron, Marsha; Streible, Dan
Oxford University Press,
2012, 2011-12-00, 2011-12-09, 2012-01-15
eBook, Book
Learning With the Lights Off is the first collection of essays to address the phenomenon of film's educational uses in twentieth-century America. Each essay analyzes in close detail some crucial ...aspect of educational film history, ranging from case studies of films and filmmakers to analyses of genres and broader historical assessments.
Film historians andFilm Historyface the historiographical problem of naming their object of study. What will the wordfilmmean from this point forward? Now that digital video files have displaced ...photochemical motion-picture film, historians and scholars should avoid referring to digital moving image works as “films.”
The Film of Her Streible, Dan
The Films of Bill Morrison,
12/2017
Book Chapter
In 1999, near the end of its successful run at more than 50 international film festivals,The Film of Her, which Bill Morrison premiered at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence in 1996, played to a ...different type of audience. Rather than screening for festival-goers, Morrison presented his short cine-poem to an admixture of film preservationists, archivists, scholars, artists, curators, collectors, technical experts, librarians, researchers, stock footage vendors, critics, students, and self-selected enthusiasts. Morrison’s participation in the inaugural Orphan Film Symposium at the University of South Carolina (USC) had a fortuitous and beneficial impact on both the artist and his
In Memoriam: Helen Hill Streible, Dan
Film history (New York, N.Y.),
01/2007, Letnik:
19, Številka:
4
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article memorializes the tragic death of filmmaker, teacher, writer, community builder and activist Helen Hill (1970-2007). A New Orleans-based artist, Hill had much of her life's work damaged ...or destroyed in the floods following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The article reports on the recent preservation and restoration of her films and the creation of the Helen Hill Collection at the Harvard Film Archive. A filmography of her known works is appended.
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