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Voices in Time: Horror Movie Scene-Setting

The author of 'High-Risers' revisits 'Candyman,' in which public housing is the greatest horror of all.
by Ben Austen via Lapham’s Quarterly on March 1, 2018

Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

On Edward Said, othering, and the depictions of Arabs in America.
by Philip Metres via Literary Hub on January 23, 2018

Interviews With Elderly People in 1929

The footage offers a riveting account of American history, in the voices of those who lived it.
by Fox Movietone via Aeon on January 15, 2018
Atticus Finch and children at the diningroom table in the film "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Prop and Property

The house in American cinema, from the plantation to Chavez Ravine.
by John David Rhodes via Places Journal on December 1, 2017
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Moving Pictures

Tracing the history of Americans' relationships with the silver screen, from film's earliest days to the cinematic creations of our own times.

What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?

One film fan's struggle to reconcile the things she loves with the things she knows to be true.
by Claire Dederer via The Paris Review on November 20, 2017

How John Wayne Became a Hollow Masculine Icon

The actor’s persona was inextricable from the toxic culture of Cold War machismo.
by Stephen Metcalf via The Atlantic on November 9, 2017

The Amnesia Plot

How 1940s films reinvented the ways stories are told onscreen.
by David Bordwell via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 25, 2017
An American flag at the Vietnam Memorial on the National Mall.

Ken Burns’s American War

The filmmaker wants ‘The Vietnam War’ to unite America. Can anyone do that under Trump?
by Alyssa Rosenberg via Washington Post on September 14, 2017

The Mystique of the American Diner, From Jack Kerouac to “Twin Peaks”

Freedom, fear and friendliness mingle in these emblematic eateries.
by Ryan P. Smith via Smithsonian on August 31, 2017

Yes, Gone With the Wind Is Another Neo-Confederate Monument

How the classic film helped promote a Reconstruction myth that was central to the maintenance of Jim Crow.
by Ed Kilgore via Intelligencer on August 30, 2017

Explore the Early Years of Technicolor Film in 40,000 Documents

The Technicolor Online Research Archive has newly digitized documents from 1914 to 1955, chronicling the development of Technicolor film.
by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on August 29, 2017
Picture of Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey in the film, "Dirty Dancing."

The Back-Alley Abortion That Almost Didn't Make it into 'Dirty Dancing'

For the 30th anniversary of "Dirty Dancing," we spoke to the film's screenwriter about her revolutionary decision to include a depiction of an illegal abortion.
by Marisa Crawford, Eleanor Bergstein via Vice on August 27, 2017

The Military, Minorities, and Social Engineering

Trump’s transgender ban restarts the debate about the relation between military service and social policy.
by Richard S. Slotkin via The Conversation on August 7, 2017

A New View of Grenada’s Revolution

The documentary, "The House on Coco Road" tells the little-known story of Grenada's revolution and subsequent U.S. invasion.
by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro via New York Review of Books on July 26, 2017

Brian Tochterman on the 'Summer of Hell'

What E.B. White, Mickey Spillane, Death Wish, hip-hop, and the “Summer of Hell” have in common.
by Brian Tochterman, Sarah Cleary via UNC Press Blog on July 21, 2017

Cinematic Airs

A pair of 1959 films brought "Smell-o-vision" into movies.
by Christopher Turner via Cabinet on July 1, 2017

How a Magazine Cover From the '70s Helped Wonder Woman Win Over Feminists

Nearly 45 years after they put the female superhero on the cover of Ms. magazine's first issue, the players behind the cover consider its impact.
by Katie Kilkenny via Pacific Standard on June 21, 2017

Looking Back to Lincoln

During the Great Depression, Americans found solace in history.
by Fishko Files via WNYC on May 11, 2017

The History of American Fear

An interview with horror historian David J. Skal.
by Cori Brosnahan, David J. Skal via PBS on October 28, 2016

Neutron Sunday

In 1956, Ed Sullivan showed America what nuclear war looks like. We were never the same again.
by Donald Fagen via Slate on October 14, 2016
Jim Crow-era postcard with illustration of a black boy in the jaws of an alligator

How America Bought and Sold Racism, and Why It Still Matters

Today, very few white Americans openly celebrate the horrors of black enslavement—most refuse to recognize the brutal nature of the institution or activ...
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on November 10, 2015
Scene from Birth of a Nation.

“A Public Menace”

How the fight to ban "The Birth of a Nation" shaped the nascent civil rights movement.
by Dorian Lynskey via Slate on March 31, 2015
Donald Duck promotes birth control in 1968 animation

Slut-Shaming, Eugenics, and Donald Duck

The scandalous history of sex-ed movies.
by Lisa Hix via Collectors Weekly on December 12, 2014

Winsor McCay Animates the Sinking of the Lusitania in a Beautiful Propaganda Film

Animation pioneer Winsor McCay also innovated animated propaganda.
by Jonathan Crow via Open Culture on May 6, 2014
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Creaky Boards and Cobwebs

The history of haunted houses in the movies.
via BackStory on June 7, 2013
Gen. Lew Wallace, circa 1861.

The Incredible Life of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and Author of Ben-Hur

The incredible story of how a disgraced Civil War general became one of the best-selling novelists in American history.
by John Swansburg via Slate on March 26, 2013
A frame from Zapruder's film.

The Other Shooter: The Saddest and Most Expensive 26 Seconds of Amateur Film Ever Made

For many of us, especially those who weren’t alive when it happened, we’re all watching that event through Zapruder’s lens.
by Alex Pasternack via Vice on November 12, 2012

How Barry Levinson’s Diner Changed Cinema, 30 Years Later

With Diner, Barry Levinson turned a film about nothing into a male-bonding classic, launched careers, and spawned hits from Seinfeld to The Office.
by S. L. Price via HWD on February 10, 2012
Woody Guthrie.

This Land Is Our Land

The Popular Front and American culture.
by Michael Kazin via Humanities on May 1, 2011

The Good War on Terror

To fully understand what has gone wrong since 9/11, it is necessary to rewind the tape to that moment just before.
by Chris Hayes via In These Times on September 8, 2006
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