Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...and McLane note, "The dramatis personae of the Flaherty films are the nuclear family structured along conventional lines."7Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane, A New History of Documentary Film, (NY:...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...'Can I come back and hear you some more?'"4Tom Davenport and Barry Dornfeld, Remembering the High Lonesome (2003), film from Folkstreams, http://www.folkstreams.net/film,42; "Transcript to Remembering the High Lonesome," Folkstreams, http://www.folkstreams.net/context,92, 2-3. Roscoe Halcomb allowed Cohen...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...Still from The Joneses. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. Courtesy of John Howard. We approached Faction Films in London, where Caroline Spry, formerly with Channel 4, helped steer the project...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...of the film's white supremacist convictions and grotesque stereotypes, as cinema and media scholar Michael T. Martin emphasizes, Griffith's "filmic manifesto" reflected a prevailing historical interpretation of the Civil War...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...during the presidency of Donald Trump, who consistently endorsed racist policies and spewed racist rhetoric.2Karen Grigsby Bates, "Is Trump Really That Racist?" NPR, October 21, 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/925385389/is-trump-really-that-racist. While the public...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...political forces that elected Donald Trump."17Chauncey Devega, "'Moonlight' and 'Loving': Film as symbolic resistance in the age of Trump," Salon, December 10, 2016, http://www.salon.com/2016/12/10/moonlight-and-loving-film-as-symbolic-resistance-in-the-age-of-trump/. Perhaps what both Moonlight and Loving...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...response, we have been struck in viewing and re-viewing the film by the highly effective ways that the filmmakers and performers have found of enacting a range of painful and...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
Review At the 2013 New York Film Critics Circle Awards (NYFCC), English filmmaker Steve McQueen was named Best Director for his stunning adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir Twelve Years...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...empty rock club near the end of the film, 2014. © IFC Films. Even in moments that seemingly have little to do with Mason Sr. and Olivia's separation, Linklater is...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...material to get. You couldn't just walk into Jupiter and say, "I am a filmmaker and I want to do a film about immigration," for someone to come forward with...