http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/filmandmedia/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of Film and Media Studies Fri, 15 May 2026 11:54:00 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/96b7p1qv J ohn W arne M onroe . Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art . https://escholarship.org/uc/item/96b7p1qv Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bloom, Peter J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/431925qj Pre-cinema as paradigm and collection at the Getty Research Institute https://escholarship.org/uc/item/431925qj Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bloom, Peter J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hc9w7b5 Simon Dell. The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary. Photography between France and Africa 1900–1939. Leuven University Press, Leuven 2020. 247 pp. Ill. € 55.00. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hc9w7b5 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Bloom, Peter J https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7s0214s8 Drones, Infrared Imagery, and Body Heat https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7s0214s8 Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Parks, L https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4499j4ht Google publicists have suggested the Crisis in Darfur is an example of the Google Earth software’s “success at tangibly impacting what is happening on the ground.” Yet whether or not Google Earth’s interface, along with a medley of other media representations of the conflict, have impacted events on the ground or led to coherent policies of humanitarian intervention remains open to debate. This article draws upon critical approaches from media studies—namely discourse analysis—to analyze several aspects of the Google Earth/USHMM Crisis in Darfur project. While this project was no doubt developed with the noble intention of generating international awareness about widespread violence that has recently occurred in the Darfur region, it is important to evaluate how representations of global conflicts are changing with uses of new information technologies and whether such representations can actually achieve their desired impacts or effects. The article begins with a discussion of... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4499j4ht Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Parks, Lisa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jk770m2 Cover Your WebcamUnencrypting Laura Poitras's Citizenfour https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jk770m2 Tue, 1 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Parks, Lisa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nb0s2p0 Browsing for Dissonance: Paratexts, Box-Art Iconography, and Genre https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9nb0s2p0 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Flanagan, Kevin M. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z72h2hg Video Stores, Media Technologies, and Memory https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z72h2hg Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Wilken, Rowan https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8773z870 Home, Home (Video) on the Range: Reflections on Small-Town Video Stores in 2010 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8773z870 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Herbert, Daniel https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rt440g7 EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE! An Interview with Future Schlock https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rt440g7 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Scheible, Jeff https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qt4d79h Pedagogical Spaces, or, What We’ve Lost in the Post-Video-Store Era https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6qt4d79h Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Beebe, Roger https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f11v2xh A Business without a Future? The Parisian Vidéo-Club, Past and Present https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4f11v2xh Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Jacobson, Brian R. Neves, Joshua https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41v0z2tc The Death and Life of the Back Room https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41v0z2tc Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Alilunas, Peter https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34789514 Video Rental Store: An Interview with Suzanne Carte-Blanchenot and Su-Ying Lee https://escholarship.org/uc/item/34789514 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Hogan, Mél https://escholarship.org/uc/item/312959s6 Video Stores: Introduction https://escholarship.org/uc/item/312959s6 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Scheible, Jeff Neves, Joshua https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jx5f4pw The Long Tail of the Video Store https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jx5f4pw Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Wasser, Frederick https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0vq4d3r7 Exchange and Circulation: An Anthropological Perspective on Video Stores in Kinshasa https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0vq4d3r7 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Pype, Katrien https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0vb2k5gc Things & Movies: DVD Store Culture in Fiji https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0vb2k5gc Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Starosielski, Nicole https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rw264w0 Mapping Hardcore Space https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0rw264w0 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Witkowski, J. Steven