One of the earliest uses of intertitles, the climax of Cecil Hepworth’s How It Feels to Be Run Over (1900) is followed by text flashing almost imperceptibly before our eyes: “?!!!? ! Oh! Mother will be pleased”. The full 42 seconds of the film here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/how…

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Baron Munchausen’s Dream (1911) — Georges Méliès shows customary boundless imagination in this short film depicting the pleasures and terrors that plague the drunken baron: publicdomainreview.org/collection/bar…

New Book | Black Panther: 21st Century Film Essentials | (Scott Bukatman | Combined Academic combinedacademic.co.uk/9781477325353/…

Film legend Buster Keaton died #OnThisDay in 1966. Immerse yourself (har har) in the making of one of his favorite of his own films, "The Navigator" (1924), on our blog!: blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2…

Emily Disregards the Most Compelling Part of the Brontë Sisterhood lithub.com/emily-disregar… via Literary Hub

How The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Tackled the Topic of Black Fatherhood lithub.com/how-the-fresh-… via Literary Hub

New Book | A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood (Diana W. Anselmo) ucpress.edu/book/978052029…

New Book | Madness at the Movies: Understanding Mental Illness Through Film (James Charney, MD) press.jhu.edu/books/title/12…

The NEW QUEER CINEMA movement in film & video was intensely political & aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage over the unchecked spread of AIDS combinedacademic.co.uk/lgbt-history-m… #BehindTheLens Duke University Press LGBT+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #LGBTplusHM

How On the Waterfront Made Marlon Brando a Cinematic Icon lithub.com/how-on-the-wat… via Literary Hub

Cinema Odeon was located in Cairo’s old downtown theatre district. It was specialized in Russian and Italian films in the early 1950s. The center of the façade features finishes in both stucco and glass in an Art Moderne style. 📷: Cinema Odeon, Alexandria, 1960s

OA [October 2023] Political Moods: Film Melodrama and the Cold War in the Two Koreas ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

*Frankenstein* (1910) - Public Domain Review publicdomainreview.org/collection/fra…

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Of War and Capitalism: The Debate About All Quiet on the Western Front Goes All the Way Back to the Book lithub.com/of-war-and-cap… via Literary Hub

Fassbinder Himself (An Essay in Fragments) thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/fassbinder-him… #Biography #Film #Filmcriticism via The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

Local TV stations viewed themselves as institutions serving a community that naturally centered on Los Angeles itself. bit.ly/47xyalI

Newish Book | Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833–1896- Combined Academic combinedacademic.co.uk/9780861967162/…