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1910 E1 - The Beginning of a Decade
Season 12 Episode 1
The start of the 1910s doesn’t quite immediately usher in the cinematic measurement that would come to rule the decade: the feature film. But proto-f…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
1909 E7 - A Funny Year
Season 11 Episode 7
One of the most diverse lists of films selected for any season so far defines this brief conclusion to 1909. The unique array of selections does ulti…
7 months ago
1909 E6 - Paul Flaig
Season 11 Episode 6
Paul Flaig, Lecturer in Film Studies at University of St Andrews, wrote a stellar synthesis of disciplines with his new book Weimar Slapstick and Hol…
7 months, 1 week ago
1909 E5 - Yuki Irikura
Season 11 Episode 5
Yuki Irikura, Assistant Professor at Waseda University, mostly selects D.W. Griffith films for her 1909 list, reflecting the director’s growing power…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
1909 E4 - Kathy Fuller-Seeley
Season 11 Episode 4
Kathy Fuller-Seeley, Professor of Media Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, studied early cinema audiences with her book At the Picture Sho…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
1909 E3 - Donald Crafton
Season 11 Episode 3
Author and scholar Donald Crafton wrote Before Mickey: The Animated Film, 1898-1928, a defining work of early animation history. Yet with the excepti…
8 months ago
1909 E2 - Paddy Adamson
Season 11 Episode 2
Paddy Adamson, Associate Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, recently published his monograph Projecting America: The Epic West…
8 months, 1 week ago
1909 E1 - The End of a Decade
Season 11 Episode 1
The end of the first decade of the 20th century is a fitting time to reflect on the monumental changes facing the cinematic medium and the global ind…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
1908 E7 - Prestige and Spectacle
Season 10 Episode 7
The introduction to this 1908 season addressed the elephant in the room: D.W. Grififth’s directorial debut. However, even though he came up quite a b…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
1908 E6 - Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa
Season 10 Episode 6
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, Associate Professor of Film and Media at Seattle University, focuses his research on the history of scientific filmmaking,…
9 months ago