Events

In the twentieth century, U.S. filmmakers generated tens of thousands of hours of newsfilm that was screened in movie theaters or viewed on television sets across the country. This vast output of news coverage, covering the period from the 1910s to the 1970s, has not been matched by a scholarly effort to understand it. To address this persistent oversight, this symposium will, for the first time in the United States, bring together many of the nation’s leading newsfilm scholars and archivists to present new and foundational work that is featured in the new book Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television and the Archive (AFI/Routledge, 2018), edited by Mark Cooper, Sara Levavy, Ross Melnick, and Mark Williams.
The symposium is free and open to the public. For a full conference schedule visit:
www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/newsfilm
Thursday-Saturday, October 25-27, 2018
Pollock Theater and Wallis Annenberg Conference Room, 4315 SSMS
Sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center, the College of Letters and Sciences, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Center for Cold War Studies, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Department of Film and Media Studies.