Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive

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The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the field of film and media studies by addressing the format’s inherent intermediality; its mediation of "events" for local, national, and transnational communities; its distinctive archival legacies; and, consequently, its integral place in film and television studies more broadly. This collection brings fresh, contemporary methodologies and analysis to bear on a vast amount of material that has languished in relative obscurity for far too long. Cover Title Copyright contents acknowledgments 1. introduction part one newsfilm and the news 2. the great war and the birth of american moving image journalism 3. news’ electric circuits: newspapers, newsreels, and radio between the wars 4. home invasions: hearst newsreels, american preparedness, and the coming of world war ii 5. completing the transmedia trinity: a history of the telenews theater corporation 6. historicizing television news in the 1960s: case studies of the kennedy assassination and the selma voting rights campaign 7. breakthroughs by women in documentary newsfilm production: a case history of nbc’s washington documentary unit, 1961–89 part two newsfilm geographies 8. the circulation of local newsreels in the silent period: the case of detroit 9. technologies of place in the early sound newsreel: the aerial view 10. from canada and back again: roy tash, montreal’s associated screen news, and the u.s. newsreel’s transnational flows before world war ii 11. a long ride on the metro: metro news, hearst metrotone inc., and u.s. studio-government relations 12. mama’s brand of tv: lbj, family-owned broadcasting, and complicating “local” newsfilm part three into the archives 13. the hearst metrotone news collection at the ucla film & television archive 14. movietonews, inc.: a researcher’s introduction 15. newsfilm at the national archives and records administration: an overview and spotlight on the universal newsreel collection 16. the ktla newsfilm collection at ucla: research opportunities and challenges 17. reading the news(films): local television news collections at the university of south carolina 18. if you digitize it, they will come or welcome south, brother: local television newsfilm collections at the university of georgia 19. the collaborative collection: boston tv news 20. fifty terms for newsfilm: a typology of archival elements 21. watching radio: early newsfilm collections as alternative radio archives 22. archives of liveness: television newsfilm reconsidered 23. outtakes: perils and possibilities note on wuzhip! contributors about the american film institute index