Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Volume 44, Issue 1 (2024)

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Research Articles

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Campbeltown Speaks: Small-Town Cinema and the Coming of Sound
Trevor Griffiths
Pages: 1-21
Published online: 14 Sep 2023
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Alice ‘Lavender’ Lee, ‘The Pictures Girl’: A ‘Star Search’ Competition of the Late 1910s
Andrew Shail & Marie-Claire Rackham-Mann
Pages: 22-51
Published online: 20 Sep 2023
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Preserving the Imperial Project: Documenting Film Censorship Practices in the Gold Coast (Ghana)
Augustine Danso
Pages: 52-65
Published online: 14 Sep 2023
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The Growth of the Turkish Film Industry and the Death of Suphi Kaner: Articulating a Star’s Suicide to the History of Labour in Cinema
Serkan Şavk
Pages: 66-85
Published online: 14 Sep 2023
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Material Lives of Cold War Radio Pasts in India
Anandita Bajpai
Pages: 86-119
Published online: 19 Sep 2023
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Deben Bhattacharya at the BBC, 1949–79: Cultural entrepreneurism, precarity, and the business of post-war folklore collection
D-M Withers
Pages: 120-141
Published online: 20 Sep 2023
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Stanley Kubrick, the 1974 Finance Act, and the crisis of the British film industry: a case study of access, power and privilege in British media and politics
James Fenwick
Pages: 142-167
Published online: 15 Sep 2023
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Channel 4 and the South Series (1991-93): from the Third World to the Global South
Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto
Pages: 168-194
Published online: 21 Jan 2024
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The Empire Symphony Film: Fascist Documentary, Infrastructure, and the Avant-Garde
Giuseppe Fidotta
Pages: 195-213
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Race and Radio: Pioneering Black Broadcasters in New Orleans
BALA JAMES BAPTIST, 2019, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, pp. xiv + 152, $35 (paper)
Shu Wan
Pages: 214-215
Published online: 10 Jul 2023
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The Sentimental in Chinese Cinema
HUI MIAO, 2022, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. xvi + 210, $107 (cloth)
Shanshan Diao
Pages: 216-218
Published online: 17 Jul 2023
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Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema
MICHAEL ZRYD, 2023, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, pp. xiv + 279, $140.00 (cloth), $35.00 (paper)
Alex W. Bordino
Pages: 218-219
Published online: 27 Sep 2023
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All the President’s Men
CHRISTIAN KEATHLEY and ROBERT B. RAY, 2023, London and New York, Bloomsbury, pp. 112, illus., $16.15 (paper)
Igor Krstic
Pages: 219-221
Published online: 10 Oct 2023
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Asta Nielsen, the Film Star System and the Introduction of the Long Feature Film
Special Journal Issue Guest Editor: YVONNE ZIMMERMANN, 2021 Early Popular Visual Culture (Abingdon: Routledge) v.19, n.2–3, pp. 107–274
Stephen Bottomore
Pages: 221-227
Published online: 08 Oct 2023
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From Stage to Screen: The Legacy of Traditional Chinese Theatre in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema Soundtracks
SHUANG WANG (ed.), 2023. Singapore, Springer, pp. VIII + 169, £118.88 (Hardcover)
Wenbin Wang
Pages: 227-229
Published online: 02 Oct 2023
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The Art of the Observer: A Personal View of Documentary
DAVID MACDOUGALL, 2022, Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, pp.xii + 239, illus., $30.55 (paper)
Douglas C. Macleod
Pages: 229-230
Published online: 28 Sep 2023
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How Documentaries Work
JACOB BRICCA, 2023, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 232, 100 b&w illus., £12.99 (paperback)
James Fenwick
Pages: 230-232
Published online: 11 Oct 2023
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The Endless End of Cinema: A History of Crisis and Survival in Hollywood
GIANLUCA SERGI and GARY RYDSTROM, 2023New York, Bloomsbury Academicpp. vi + 211, $120.00 (hardcover)
John Littlejohn
Pages: 233-234
Published online: 28 Sep 2023
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Australian Radio Listeners and Television Viewers. Historical Perspectives
BRIDGET GRIFFEN-FOLEY, 2020, London, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. xiii + 167, illus., bibliography, index, $54.99 (bound and paper), $39.99 (ebook)
Julie K. Allen
Pages: 234-235
Published online: 08 Oct 2023
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Dream Projects in Theatre, Novels and Films: the Works of Paul Claudel, Jean Genet, and Federico Fellini
YEHUDA MORALY (Trans. MELANIE FLORENCE), 2021Brighton and Chicago, Sussex Academic Presspp. xiii + 160, illus., $59.95 (paper)
Keren Cohen
Pages: 236-237
Published online: 02 Oct 2023
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Exploring Cinema Memory
ANNETTE KUHN, 2023, Glasgow, Argyll Publishing, pp. 133, bibliography, index, £15
Mélisande Leventopoulos & Özge Özyilmaz
Pages: 237-239
Published online: 15 Oct 2023
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Making Hollywood Happen: The Story of Film Finances
CHARLES DRAZIN, 2022, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, pp. xii + 225, 18 colour and 86 b/w illus., notes, index, $34.95 (hardcover)
Milan Hain
Pages: 239-241
Published online: 26 Sep 2023
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The British Trauma Film: Psychoanalysis and Popular British Cinema in the Immediate Aftermath of the Second World War
ADAM PLUMMER, 2023, London, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 240., £81.00 (Hardback)
Nathan Sands
Pages: 242-244
Published online: 27 Sep 2023
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