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Broadway New York 1893

Perilous Proceedings

Documenting the New York City construction boom at the turn of the 20th century.
by David Gibson via Library of Congress on June 29, 2020
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The First Movie Kiss

The public fascination was so intense that fans soon started demanding live reenactments.
by Linda Williams, Kristin Hunt via JSTOR Daily on May 7, 2020

‘1917’ and the Trouble With War Movies

"Every film about war ends up being pro-war," Francois Truffaut once said.
by Adam Nayman via The Ringer on January 29, 2020
Soldiers inspecting damaged helmets in a scene from John Huston's 1945 film "The Battle of San Pietro."
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The War Documentary That Never Was

John Huston's 1945 movie The Battle of San Pietro presents itself as a war documentary, but contains staged scenes. What should we make of it?
by Kristin Hunt via JSTOR Daily on December 5, 2019
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How Oscar Micheaux Challenged the Racism of Early Hollywood

The black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux was one of the first to make films for a black audience, a rebuke to racist movies like "The Birth of a Nation."
by Anna Siomopoulos, Kristin Hunt, Richard Grupenhoff via JSTOR Daily on October 3, 2019
Joe Buck and Rizzo walking on a bridge.

How John Schlesinger’s Homeless and Lonesome ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Rode His Way to the Top

It became the first and only X-rated movie to win a best picture Oscar.
by Koraljka Suton via Cinephilia & Beyond on August 4, 2019

Death Proof

With ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ Tarantino slakes his thirst for nostalgia while playing with another piece of history.
by Soraya Roberts via Longreads on August 1, 2019
Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface with flag during Apollo 11.

How Stanley Kubrick Staged the Moon Landing

To understand America, you can start with Apollo 11 and all that is counterfactual that’s grown around it.
by Rich Cohen via The Paris Review on July 18, 2019

“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," featured in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," embodied many sentiments of a black generation.
by Mark Anthony Neal via Black Perspectives on June 24, 2019

'Reality Bites' Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony

The 1994 studio film was written by a 20-something who mined her own life to tell the story of a generation that disdained 'selling out.'
by Soraya Roberts via The Atlantic on March 6, 2019

Colorizing and Fictionalizing the Past

The technical wizardry of Peter Jackson's "They Shall Not Grow Old" should not obscure its narrow, outdated storyline.
by Bridget Keown via Nursing Clio on February 12, 2019
Still from early film of an African American man.

Solomon Sir Jones Films, 1924-1928

The Solomon Sir Jones films consist of 29 silent black and white films documenting African-American communities in Oklahoma from 1924 to 1928.
via Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library on December 14, 2018

A Skyline Is Born

A history of filmmakers retelling the story of New York’s architecture.
by Tatum Dooley via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 14, 2018

Mayberry Machiavelli

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’
by Tom Carson via The Baffler on November 5, 2018

How Does a Film Become Lost?

What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.
by Andrew Egan via Tedium on October 11, 2018

Two Ways of Looking at the Bisbee Deportation

A century-old image and the film it inspired.
by Katherine Benton-Cohen, Robert Greene via Lapham’s Quarterly on August 30, 2018

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

Sexism and Male Voyeurism Have Been Intertwined Throughout Movie History

Harvey Weinstein and the history of the male cinematic gaze.
by David Thomson via Vox on October 19, 2017

Who Was the Most Prolific Black Filmmaker of the Silent Film Era?

Who was the most prolific African American filmmaker of the silent film era? That’s a question that has us asking, “were there any?”
by Stephanie Weber via Atlas Obscura on February 16, 2016
Orson Welles

A Hundred Years of Orson Welles

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.
by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on November 30, 2015
Characters in the 1934 film "The Thin Man."

Fools in Love

Screwball comedies are beloved films, but for decades historians and critics have disagreed over what the genre is and which movies belong to it.
by Andrew Katzenstein via New York Review of Books on August 29, 2024
From left, Sam Warner, Harry M. Warner, Jack L. Warner, and Albert Warner.

Are Hollywood’s Jewish Founders Worth Defending?

Jews in the industry called for the Academy Museum to highlight the men who created the movie business. A voice in my head went, Uh-oh.
by Michael Schulman via The New Yorker on July 17, 2024
Four Black Marvel villains.

Marvel's Black Villain Era

The question of villainy has always been a complicated issue for African Americans in film.
by Brandon David Wilson via RogerEbert.com on June 21, 2024
Person in a red veil.

Connecting with Trans History, Rebellion, and Joy, in “Compton’s 22”

Transgender people's reactions to watching oral histories of the legacy of a 1966 riot in the Tenderloin that was nearly lost to history.
by Drew de Pinto via The New Yorker on June 5, 2024
Still from Pretty Poison (1968).

The All-American Crack-Up in 1960s Hollywood Cinema

Starting in the 1960s, more and more Hollywood films depicted an increasingly violent and alienated American society quickly losing its mind.
by Eileen Jones via Jacobin on May 24, 2024
Three men fight on a rooftop, above a large city on a river.

The Golden Age of the Paranoid Political Thriller

On the grand tradition of movies reflecting a deep distrust of those in charge.
by Keith Roysdon via CrimeReads on March 25, 2024
Harry Smith pointing finger upward

Outsider’s Outsider

At once famous and obscure, marginal and central, Harry Smith anticipated and even invented several important elements of Sixties counterculture.
by J. Hoberman via New York Review of Books on February 28, 2024
Silhouette of Oppenheimer wearing a fedora.

How Do We Know the Motorman Is Not Insane?

Oppenheimer and the demon heart of power.
by James Robins via The Dreadnought on December 20, 2023
Collage of American Indian film characters.

Native Americans on the Silver Screen, From Wild West Shows to 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

How American Indians in Hollywood have gone from stereotypes to starring roles.
by Sandra Hale Schulman via Smithsonian on October 12, 2023
A still from the 1960 film Spartacus of two Roman gladiators fighting.

How Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus Broke the Hollywood Blacklists

The 1960 film was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers. Its arrival in theaters was a middle finger to the McCarthyist witch hunt in Hollywood.
by Taylor Dorrell via Jacobin on September 14, 2023
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