Research Catalog

Title

Rediscovering U.S. newsfilm : cinema, television, and the archive / edited by Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, and Mark Williams.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cooper, Mark Garrett
• Levavy, Sara Beth
• Melnick, Ross
• Williams, Mark (Mark J.)

Description

ix, 345 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the field of film and media studies by addressing the format's inherent intermediality; its mediation of "events" for local, national, and transnational communities; its distinctive archival legacies; and, consequently, its integral place in film and television studies more broadly. This collection brings fresh, contemporary methodologies and analysis to bear on a vast amount of material that has languished in relative obscurity for far too long"--

Series Statement

AFI film readers

Uniform Title

AFI film readers.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Newsreels > United States > History
• Television broadcasting of news > United States > History
• Motion picture journalism > United States > History
• Broadcast journalism
• Newsreels
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Great War and the birth of American moving image journalism / Greg Wilsbacher -- News' electric circuits : newspapers, newsreels, and radio between the wars / Sara Beth Levavy -- Home invasions : Hearst newsreels, American preparedness, and the coming of World War II / Kenneth Hough -- Completing the transmedia trinity : a history of the telenews theater corporation / Michael Aronson -- Historicizing television news in the 1960s : case studies of the Kennedy assassination and the Selma voting rights campaign / Aniko Bodroghkozy -- Breakthroughs by women in documentary newsfilm production : a case history of NBC's Washington Documentary Unit, 1961-1989 / Thomas A. Mascaro -- The circulation of local newsreels in the silent period : the case of Detroit / Richard Abel -- Technologies of place in the early sound newsreel : the aerial view / Jennifer L. Peterson -- From Canada and back again : Roy Tash, Montreal's Associated Screen News and the U.S. newsreel's transnational flows before WWII / Joseph Clark -- A long ride on the Metro : Metro News, Hearst Metrotone Inc., and U.S. studio-government relations / Ross Melnick -- Mama's brand of TV : LBJ, family-owned broadcasting, and complicating 'local' newsfilm / Caroline Frick -- The Hearst Metrotone News Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive / Blaine M. Bartell -- Movietonews, Inc. : a researchers introduction / Greg Wilsbacher -- Newsfilm at the National Archives and Records Administration : an overview and spotlight on the Universal Newsreel Collection / Ellen Mulligan and Carol Swain -- The KTLA Newsfilm Collection at UCLA : research opportunities and challenges / Mark Quigley -- Reading the news(films) : local television news collections at the University of South Carolina / Amy Meaney -- If you digitize it, they will come or welcome South, brother : local television newsfilm collections at the University of Georgia / Ruta Abolins -- The collaborative collection : Boston TV News / Karen Cariani -- Fifty terms for newsfilm : a typology of archival elements / Dan Streible -- Watching radio : early newsfilm collections as alternative radio archives / Shawn VanCour -- Archives of liveness : television newsfilm reconsidered / Mark J. Williams -- Outtakes : perils and possibilities / Mark Cooper and Jaimie Baron (including Note on Wuzhip! / Mark Cooper, Elaine Chun, Stanley Dubinsky, and Tracey Weldon-Stewart).

Call Number

MFL 18-6541

ISBN

• 9781138699458
• 1138699454

LCCN

2018011939

OCLC

975370369

Title

Rediscovering U.S. newsfilm : cinema, television, and the archive / edited by Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, and Mark Williams.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

AFI film readers

AFI film readers.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Cooper, Mark Garrett, editor.

Levavy, Sara Beth, editor.

Melnick, Ross, editor.

Williams, Mark (Mark J.), editor.

Research Call Number

MFL 18-6541