Film and Literature Studies

Miró: Theatre of Dreams

February 7th, 2023

More old TV, and something you might call Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man. Miró: Theatre of Dreams is a documentary about the Spanish (or as he might have preferred, Catalan) artist Joan Miró. This was broadcast by the BBC in 1978, and again in 1984, but it’s one I hadn’t seen until now. Robin Lough’s film was the first television profile of the artist in which Miró talks at length with his British friend, Roland Penrose, an artist and writer who did much to champion Surrealism in its ea...

The Battle over Street Play in New York City (1910-1930)

January 1st, 2023

"Where there are kids, there is play." Iona Opie "The setting of boundaries is always a political act." Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder "We begin with the child when he is three years old. As soon as he begins to think he gets a little flag put in his hand." Dr Robert LEY, leader of Nazi Labor Front. As an urban game designer, and an immigrant to the US, I find it particularly interesting to understand the relationship between cultures and public space: the implicit and expli...

Pale Blue Eye Review

December 22nd, 2022

The Pale Blue Eye is one of those movie titles that’s evocative yet teasingly vague — it makes the film sound like a Western based on a song by Lou Reed. Actually, the movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel, which uses an 1830s military setting and murder mystery to frame a kind of origin myth of Edgar Allan Poe. At West Point, which in the early 19th century is basically a fort in the woods overlooking the Hudson River, a cadet suffers a violent death. He is cut down from a noose hangin...

Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s | Isis: Vol 113, No 2

May 26th, 2022

Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930s Science in Glass: Material Pathologies in Laboratory Research, Glassware Standardization, and the (Un)Natural History of a Modern Material, 1900s–1930sKijan EspahangiziAbstract At the turn of the twentieth century, so-called "glass diseases" seriously affected the use of scientific and technical glassware. It had become ap...

Prosopography

March 31st, 2022

Prosopography (idea) See all of Prosopography, no other writeups in this node. Prosopography From the Greek prospon, character and graphy, writing. Prosopography has been defined as the historical study of individuals as groups and groups as individuals.1 an independent science of social history embracing genealogy, onomastics and demography.2 a study that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or li...

Dick Powell’s Radio Detectives

January 12th, 2022

I don’t know about you, but I get into classic star moods. Lately my obsession is Dick Powell’s voice on the radio. It’s much easier for me to work listening to old-time radio programs than it is to try to watch movies and so here I am to share a collection of Dick Powell radio detectives. I say this often when I pay tribute to a star whose voice is smooth as silk…it is made for radio. That is true of Dick Powell who brings a sharp delivery and a wonderful deep noir lilt I cannot get en...

Screwball Comedy - history

January 8th, 2022

The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history. Twentieth Century A common misconception about 1930s Hollywood cinema is that escapism was the trend du jour. The ubiquity of genres like historical melodramas and musicals indicates that rationale may be true to an extent, but even the most fantastic films were grounded in some semblance of social realism. And how could they not be? With ...

Charles E. Coughlin (person) by pingouin - Everything2.com

May 28th, 2020

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2Charles E. Coughlin (person)See all of Charles E. Coughlin, there is 1 more in this node.(person)by pingouin Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:52:51 Charles E. Coughlin. A Catholic priest who became a top-rated radio personality of the 1930s, with sermons that struck a nerve in people battered by The Great Depression. A proto-televangelist, selling "religious" tchotchkes and such to his audience - he had 50 million listeners in the US at the pea...

1931

December 28th, 2019

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