a journal of cities and culture
Jean Renoir’s vision of space has continued to sustain theorization since André Bazin’s major critical reappraisal of the quintessential French auteur in Cahiers du Cinéma,1See especially ‘Renoir français’/‘The French Renoir’, reprinted in André Bazin, Jean Renoir, …
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Joshua Glick’s Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 (2018, University of California Press) offers a magnificent excavation of the city’s documentary production cultures. Importantly, the project explores how the city’s films and television programs made a …
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For both seasoned and novice historians, the experience of entering an archive for the first time can be incredibly overwhelming. Too much material to take in, time constrictions, obscure institutional protocols, and bewildering surprises of all kinds conspire against the …
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[But our demise is greatly exaggerated – Chelsea Vowel, Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Issue in Canada]
‘Unceded: The Voices of the Land’, the very first Indigenous-led exhibition to be presented at the 2018 …
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New Orleans in film and television figures …
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