http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/filmandmedia_oapdeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Open Access Policy Deposits Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:43:51 +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