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Kenneth S Nolley | 1 Nov 2004 05:14
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Re: World on Fire Video

From:    "Holliday, Frederick" <FHolliday <at> carrollcc.edu>

Nicholas,

Good point about the guitar (though it's possible she already owned it
before the video).  If you click on the charity receiptslink you'll see
that they actually donated around $1400 or $1500 pess than they claim.
Probably went to pay for the editing and computer graphics. Still,  in an
age where Britany Spears spends gillions on her lousy videos its nice to
see some artists with their hearts and pocket books at least looking for
the right place.

Fred Holliday

PS -- If you canfind it on the webor MTV I highly recommend Eminem's video
for his Anti-Bush song "Mosh" -- more computer graphics employed in a good
cause (in Em's case to get out the vote).
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Kenneth S Nolley | 1 Nov 2004 16:20
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British Silent Cinema Fest 05

From:    "Laraine Porter" <laraine <at> broadway.org.uk>

Channel Crossings: Anglo-European Film Relations Before 1930

Broadway, Nottingham UK
7-10 April 2005

The 2005 Silent British Cinema Festival will explore the relationship
between Britain and Europe in pre-1030s cinema. We are now calling for
presentations from anyone working on any aspect of British Silent Cinema
and it's links to Europe including the two-way exchange of ideas,
aesthetics, creative and technical personnel such as stars, writers,
directors and camera operators. We will also be exploring British and
European industrial relations in terms of production, distribution and
exhibition including the development of the Film Society movement in the
UK and its impact on the promotion and exhibition of European film in
British cities.

The deadline for submissions is 14 January 2005 and full details can be
downloaded from the attached pdf or our website at

www.britishsilentcinema.com

We are currently construction a comprehensive website on British Silent
Cinem on the address above, but for further details or specfic information
please contact me at

laraine <at> broadway.org.uk

Thanks and best wishes
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Rebecca Bell-Metereau | 2 Nov 2004 21:24
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Re: Mailinfo Guysen Israel News - 1 November 2004

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Rebecca Bell-Metereau | 5 Nov 2004 16:42
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FYI: REVOLUTION TELEVISED: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power

From: "Stacy Zellmann" <zellm003 <at> umn.edu>

For information on the opportunity for reviews of the following books, contact:

Stacy Zellmann
University of Minnesota Press
111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290
Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520
612-627-1934
http://www.upress.umn.edu

REVOLUTION TELEVISED: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power
Christine Acham
University of Minnesota Press | 248 pages | 2004
ISBN 0-8166-4431-4 | hardcover | $24.95

Establishes the influence of the Black Liberation movement on black
television of the 1960s and 1970s.

Christine Acham offers a complex reading of African American television
history, finding within programs like Sanford and Son and Good Times
opposition to dominant white constructions of African American identity.
Revolution Televised deftly illustrates how black television artists
operated within the constraints of the television industry to resist and
ultimately shape the mass media¹s portrayal of African American life.

³Revolution Televised is a brilliant, engaging, often eloquent book that
offers a completely fresh take on black television in the seventies.
Spurning the simplicity of Œnegative¹ versus Œpositive¹ images, it instead
explores the complex forms of agency and resistance that black actors
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Rebecca Bell-Metereau | 5 Nov 2004 18:27
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Query: "REDS" on DVD?

From: "ROBERT KREISER" <bkreiser <at> aaup.org>

Does anyone on the list happen to know whether "REDS" is likely to come
out in DVD any time soon? For my class yesterday I had assigned students
to view the film, only to learn that most video stores have apparently
discarded their VHS copies, even though no DVD was available to replace
it. (Given the length of the film, the one copy on reserve was
insufficient for a class of 40.) By the way, a search of amazon.com
indicated only 21 used or new VHS copies.

Robert Kreiser
Adjunct Professor of History, George Mason University
bkreiser <at> aaup.org
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Rebecca Bell-Metereau | 5 Nov 2004 21:09
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Query: Intro to feminist criticism??

From: MFRANK <at> bentley.edu

colleagues--

i write again with a question that i first asked two or three years back,
dealing with a matter i need to address again

some of my students in a first year writing course which takes cinema
as its topic [but it's an expos course, not a cinema studies course] are
intrigued by feminist criticism and want to do research papers on some
aspect of that large and complex area . . .  there's obviously no shortage

of  materials to be found, and they've successfully located a lot of very
interesting stuff, almost all of which is virtually unintelligible
to them  . . .  these are kids who know almost nothing about freud or
marx,  and have never even heard of foucault, lacan, althusser, zizek,
raymond williams, john berger, or laura mulvey . . . such terms as
"diegesis," "simulacrum," "apparatus," "repression," "iconicity,"
"representation," "subject position" and "the gaze" are a foreign
language  . . .

these are smart and ambitious students, and welcome the challenge
of reading difficult stuff, but it has to be stuff that they have the
tools to decipher . . . and most of the stuff we ourselves read every
day --stuff that may often challenge us--is simply beyond them

there is work that fits the bill -- i think especially of that by molly
haskell and marjorie rosen -- but it's pretty dated now, and in fact
one of the reasons that it remains so readable is that it antedates the
more intensely theoretical turns that cinema studies in general, and
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Rebecca Bell-Metereau | 5 Nov 2004 21:51
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Re: Query: Intro to feminist criticism??

From: "Mandy Dailey-Berman" <mdberman <at> dukeupress.edu>

While I can not speak to a specific textbook, I can point you to the
Duke University Press journal Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and
Media Studies. For more information regarding Camera Obscura, you can
visit http://www.dukeupress.edu/cameraobscura.
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Rebecca Bell-Metereau | 5 Nov 2004 22:24
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Re: Query: Intro to feminist criticism??

From: "Vivian Sobchack" <sobchack <at> ucla.edu>

Look at the essays on a variety of topics in the recent FEMINIST
ANTHOLOGY IN EARLY CINEMA, edited by Diane Negra and Jennifer Bean.
Many of the essays are very accessible and the feminist scholarship
is contemporary.

Vivian Sobchack
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Rebecca Bell-Metereau | 7 Nov 2004 23:20
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Re: Query: "REDS" on DVD?

From: "Darryl Wiggers" <darryl <at> internet.look.ca>

Sorry Robert. My guess is it's the sluggish speed of Paramount to release a
lot of its library titles. Bertolucci's 1900 and The Conformist (both of
which were lensed by Reds' Vittorio Storaro) and if... (the Lindsay
Anderson-directed film) top my list of anxious releases. There are others
but I've long ago given up waiting. I had occasion to talk with people in
Paramount's tv division and I queried them about what the problem was as
most of the other studios were making a decent effort to re-release titles.
They passed my query to their video division and the response was basically,
they're happy with the profit margins thus far and see no need to change
strategy.

But things are slowly picking up. Recent months saw the long-awaited release
of Once Upon a Time in the West. Of course we also got yet another release
of The Untouchables -- a movie I quite like -- but we really didn't need a
second release when so many are awaiting first release on dvd.

dw
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Rebecca Bell-Metereau | 7 Nov 2004 23:33
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Re: feminist film criticism

From: "Yoram Allon" <yoram <at> wallflowerpress.co.uk>
Hi Mike

I have just the thing for you - Wallflower Press (all titles
distributed in North America via Columbia University Press) have just
published a new volume in their Short Cuts series of 40,000-word,
entry-level undergraduate introductions to Film Studies - Feminist Film
Studies: Writing the Woman Into Cinema, by Janet McCabe - all the books
in this series have been written with students such as yours
specifically in mind, ie people coming to certain subjects within Film
Studies for the first time, and this is a comprehensive survey of the
major lines on enquiry in feminist film criticism since the 1970s which
does not assume prior postgraduate research in cultural theory!

Please visit www.wallflowerpress.co.uk for more information about this
book and others in the Short Cuts series.

with kind regards

Yoram Allon
Editorial Director

Wallflower Press
4th Floor, 26 Shacklewell Lane
London
E8 2EZ
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