Ford At Fox Part Two (c)
Note: here is the fourth instalment of what has already turned out to be a long review. It is late and longer than ever. In this section the last of…
In Confidence: Sam Rohdie
Sam Rohdie - Photograph by Margaret Lam [This act of mourning has as its origin a letter of reference, itself updated and revised over 13 years. Because the letter was always…
Ford At Fox Part Two
Ford At Fox Part Two (a) A Brief(er) Introduction Born Reckless (1930) - Addendum: Cast and Character Issues Up The River (1930) What would you think of an architect who arrived at…
Lois Weber, or the exigency of writing
[1] Uploaded 1 March 2001 Table of contents 1. The exigency of writing 2. On writing and directing 3. Lois Weber, writer of cinema 4. Lois Weber, writing exigence 5.…
The Film of Memory
Some explanation Historical memory is most often a matter of textual presence, and this paper constitutes an absence, which somehow seems fitting. As I remember it, the earliest version of…
Tenth Memoire: Screening The Past Askew
The pun of our journal's name should not be ignored in the context of remembering what we hoped for it ten years ago and what it may actually have accomplished.…
Textual Criticism in the Study of Film
[1] Film Restoration and Textual Criticism In 1980 the London Film Festival screened a new print of Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (Abel Gance, 1927), a film originally shot during 1925-1926.…
Leonie Naughton: ‘touched by what she has left behind’
Screen Hub Friday 21 September, 2007 Screen Hub wishes to remember Leonie Naughton, who taught many members of the screen community, and made an important contribution to the intellectual environment for…
The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910
The Spoor of the Woozle Richard Abel, The Red Rooster Scare: Making Cinema American, 1900-1910. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1999. ISBN 0-520-21478-1 (pb) 301pp US$24.95 (Review copy supplied by…
The Ritual Model of Form
The following article is not exactly a Classic or Re-Run; it is a chapter from Bill Routt’s PhD thesis and was selected by Bill for inclusion here. Popular art, which…
Ford At Fox Part Three (a)
Introduction When it is completed, Part Three will be the fifth instalment of a review of the lesser John Ford films contained in the gigantic Ford At Fox box set. It…
De la figure en général et du corps en particulier: l’invention figurative au cinéma
William D. Routt Uploaded 1 March 2000 Nicole Brenez, De la figure en général et du corps en particulier: l'invention figurative au cinéma. Paris, Brussels: De Boeck Université. 1998. ISBN…
Ford At Fox
Part 3c[1] Introduction to Part 3c [Young Mr Lincoln (1939)] [Drums Along The Mohawk (1939)] [The Grapes of Wrath (1940)] Tobacco Road (1941) - The question of mode - The…
Ford At Fox Part Two (b)
Note: this is the third tranche of a multi-tranche review. It deals with some of the films made by John Ford at the Fox Studios in the first half of…
Introduction: A New Source of History
This piece has an interesting cultural history. It was originally published in Le Figaro on 25 March 1898 and reprinted later that year as a twelve-page pamphlet, Une nouvelle source de l'histoire: création…
Misprision (note version)
[1] misprision, n., misdemeanor. -- ME., fr. OF. mesprision, mesprison, 'mistake, wrongdoing', fr. mespris, pp. Of mesprendre (F. se méprendre), 'to take amiss, do wrong', fr. pejorative pref. mes- (see mis-) and prendre, 'to take', fr. L. prehendere, prendere. Cp.…
Ford at Fox 4
Ford At Fox 4.1 Introduction to Part 4 4.2 Documentaries (1941-43) 4.3 [My Darling Clementine (1946)] 4.4 When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950) 4.5 This Is Korea! (1951) 4.6 What…
Pieces
Cover Introduction When I first saw Jigsaw, a film released by United Artists in 1949, it reminded me strongly of Kiss Me Deadly, a film released by United Artists in 1955. My…
Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and their Fans
Jeffrey A. Brown, Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and their Fans. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. ISBN 1 57806 282 9 (pb) 232pp US$18.00 (Review copy supplied by University Press…
Feature Review: Ford At Fox
[Screening the Past asked Bill Routt to review this archival DVD set documenting most of the surviving films John Ford directed at (Twentieth-Century) Fox from 1920—1952. More of the review will…
Listening to the egg
[1] Production still from Dad And Dave Come To Town (Australia 1938). Dir. Ken Hall. Cast: Bert Bailey (Dad Rudd), Connie Martyn (Mum). [2] The joke here is a sound…
Ford At Fox Part 3b
Four Men and a Prayer (1938) Let's get this straight first off: Four Men and a Prayer is not a religious picture. Far from it. Or, at least, given the…