Category: Media Studies

September 17, 2009

Stephen Prince discusses 9/11 films on NPR

Stephen Prince, author of Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism was recently on On the Media to discuss how filmmakers have taken on the challenge of capturing the truth of the 9/11 attacks. In the interview, Prince discusses...

September 11, 2009

Two new looks at cinematic and literary representations of 9/11

As Stephen Prince author of Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism points out in a recent interview in Rorotoko, “shortly after the attacks, many people predicted that storytelling … would be changed forever.” Prince’s book explores a range...

August 5, 2009

Ang Lee

With the complete retrospective of his films currently running at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and with his next film Taking Woodstock due to release later this month, Ang Lee is once again in the news. For those interested...

July 21, 2009

Walter Cronkite and Fred Friendly — a post by Ralph Engelman

The following is a post by Ralph Engelman, author of Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism. Walter Cronkite’s recent death prompted thoughts about the complex relationship between the great anchor and Fred Friendly. The mixed...

July 2, 2009

Kindle & The Future of Print Journalism — A Post by Ted Striphas

The following post is from Ted Striphas, author of The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control. The post originally appeared on his blog The Late Age of Print. As someone who writes about the future...

June 25, 2009

Guobin Yang on Online Activism in China and Iran

In a recent article on Yale Global Online, Guobin Yang, author of the recently published The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, examines the similarities and differences among Internet activists in Iran and China. While Iranian protesters...

June 10, 2009

Marda Dunsky on Satellite Television in the Arab World

In a recent article for the Wide Angle Web site, Marda Dunsky, author of Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, looks at the phenomenon of satellite television in the Arab world. Dunsky argues that...

May 6, 2009

Reading film in China

Earlier this week on Book Bench, the New Yorker‘s blog on books, Evan Osnos recommended some books that might serve as an introduction to filmmaking in China. We were pleased to see that he mentioned Michael Berry’s Speaking in Images:...

May 1, 2009

David Bordwell on Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The noted film scholar and critic David Bordwell recently featured the book Apichatpong Weerasethakul, edited by James Quandt on his Web site (scroll down a bit for the review of the book.) Apichatpong Weerasethakul is first English language study of...

April 16, 2009

Cultographies

Over the past few weeks we’ve highlighted some of the titles from the Cultographies series, including Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Bad Taste. For more on the series and cult films in general, there is a great Cultographies Web...

April 15, 2009

New Biography of Fred Friendly

We have just published the first-ever biography of legendary television executive Fred Friendly. In his book, Friendlyvision: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism, Ralph Engleman examines Friendly’s immense impact on television news as well as his...

March 18, 2009

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

Earlier this week at South by Southwest, there was a surprise screening of Todd Haynes’s legendary and brilliant film Superstar. The film has become notorious for its use of dolls to narrate the tragic life of the singer Karen Carpenter,...