film

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• 8/7/2020
  

  Hiroshima (1953, Hideo Sekigawa)

  View a segment from, and read about, Hideo Sekigawa's 1953 film "Hiroshima."

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  8/5/2020
  

  Epic Lego Battles Are A Smash On YouTube

  A subculture of Lego and military history enthusiasts has achieved notoriety for posting stop-motion videos of historic battles, despite the official non-violence policy of the building toy company. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  7/31/2020
  

  The Violence at the Root of the Silent Majority

  by Brian Tochterman

  As a vigilante film, “Joe” inaugurated a genre that exploded onto screens in the 1970s.

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• 7/12/2020
  

  75 Years Ago the First "Nuclear Race" Was in Hollywood

  by Greg Mitchell

  Despite Americans' keen interest and considerable fear in the atomic bomb after the end of World War II, the first commercial film to tackle the Manhattan Project was a bomb of a different sort. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/23/2020
  

  New Film Tells Tale of North Korean Orphans Sent to Europe

  The documentary film “Kim Il Sung’s Children” will be released June 25, the 70th anniversary of the Korean War’s start.

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods: How Bad is It?

  by Jerry Lembcke

  A historian of public perceptions of the Vietnam War (who served as a military chaplain there) warns that Spike Lee's latest film traffics in stereotypes of both American veterans and the Vietnamese people while reinforcing right-wing narratives about the war.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/14/2020
  

  The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’

  Historians Kellie Carter Jackson and Karen L. Cox discuss the film's effect on audiences then and now.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/12/2020
  

  ‘Gone With the Wind’ is also a Confederate Monument, but on Film instead of Stone

  by Nina Silber

  Criticism of the film isn't a case of applying present values to the past. Critics in the 1930s recognized that the film and its source novel glorified white supremacy and denied black claims to citizenship rights.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/10/2020
  

  'Gone With the Wind' Reignites Debate as Hollywood Wrestles with its History

  Debate immediately ensued at the 1936 publication of Mitchell's novel, with its nostalgia for plantation life, portrayal of happy slaves and threatening freed blacks, and sympathy toward the Confederate cause.

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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"