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Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm

The twentieth century generated tens of thousands of hours of American newsfilm but not the scholarly apparatus necessary to analyze and contextualize them. Assembling new approaches to the study of U.S. newsfilm in cinema and television, this book makes a long overdue critical intervention in the field of film and media studies by addressing the formats inherent intermediality; its mediation of events for local, national, and transnational communities; its distinctive archival legacies; and, consequently, its integral place in film and television studies more broadly. This collection brings fresh, contemporary methodologies and analysis to bear on a vast amount of material that has languished in relative obscurity for far too long.

Mark Garrett Cooper is a Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of South Carolina, USA.

Sara Beth Levavy is a scholar of Film, Media, and Art History.

Ross Melnick is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Mark Williams is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Dartmouth College, USA.

Previously published in the AFI Film Readers series

Edited by Edward Branigan and Charles Wolfe

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Nataa uroviov and Kathleen Newman

Documentary Testimonies

Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker

Slapstick Comedy

Rob King and Tom Paulus

The Epic Film in World Culture

Robert Burgoyne

Arnheim for Film and Media Studies

Scott Higgins

Color and the Moving Image

Simon Brown, Sarah Street, and Liz Watkins

Ecocinema Theory and Practice

Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt

Media Authorship

Cynthia Chris and David A. Gerstner

Pervasive Animation

Suzanne Buchan

The Biopic in Contemporary Film Culture

Tom Brown and Beln Vidal

Cognitive Media Theory

Ted Nannicelli and Paul Taberham

Hollywood Puzzle Films

Warren Buckland

Endangering Science Fiction Film

Sean Redmond and Leon Marvell

New Silent Cinema

Paul Flaig and Katherine Groo

Teaching Transnational Cinema

Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett

Fantasy/Animation

Edited by Christopher Holliday and Alexander Sergeant

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com

Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm

Cinema, Television, and the Archive

Edited by

Mark Garrett Cooper, Sara Beth Levavy, Ross Melnick, and Mark Williams

First published 2018

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contents

mark garrett cooper, sara beth levavy, ross melnick, and mark williams

part one
newsfilm and the news

greg wilsbacher

sara beth levavy

kenneth hough

michael aronson

aniko bodroghkozy

thomas a. mascaro

part two
newsfilm geographies

richard abel

jennifer peterson

joseph clark

ross melnick

caroline frick

part three
into the archives

blaine m. bartell

greg wilsbacher

ellen mulligan and carol swain

mark quigley

amy meaney

ruta abolins

karen cariani

dan streible

shawn vancour

mark williams

mark garrett cooper and jaimie baron

mark garrett cooper, elaine chun, stanley dubinsky, and tracey l. weldon

1. i
2. ii

Every newsreel was produced by a geographically dispersed body of unheralded and uncredited players. This book is similarly endowed. Specific gratitude, then, is certainly in order.

First, we would like to thank our enormously supportive series editors Chuck Wolfe and Edward Branigan. From this projects earliest conception, Chuck guided us toward a tightly focused collection. We also thank Routledge editor Felisa Salvago-Keyes and senior editorial assistant Christina Kowalski for supporting this project from the start, especially as the table of contents shifted over time. We are particularly grateful for the fluid process of production and Routledges keen attention to every detail of this book.

Our anonymous outside readers also materially shaped the books development and encouraged our dedication to cultivating contributions that demonstrate newsfilms centrality to our field and to many others. We thank them for their invaluable feedback on our proposal.

This book also owes a debt to those scholars who have previously focused on newsfilm in the U.S. and around the globe. We are enormously grateful to Raymond Fielding for his seminal works The American Newsreel (1972) and The March of Time (1978). Thomas Doherty also merits special thanks for keeping newsfilm on the agenda for film and media studies. Though this volume works exclusively with U.S. newsfilm, it owes a debt to scholars such as Clyde Jeavons, Jane Mercer, and Daniela Kirchner; Luke McKernan; Brian Winston; and Mats Jnsson, Lars-M. Srensen, and Tore Helseth (co-founders of The Newsreel Network) who have energized the study of European newsfilm as a resource for investigations of history, politics, war, identity, society, culture, and many other vital subjects.

If this book can be dedicated to anyone, though, it is to the archivists and librarians who steward these invaluable collections. With every new publication that makes use of materials in their care, the centrality of newsfilm to (media) historiography and to our complex history becomes more evident. We thank them for making this book possible, for contributing to this work, and for protecting this material for future scholars and media makers.

Finally, Ross would like to thank Noa Bolozky and Mark Williams, Mary Desjardins for allowing them to check urgent emails during meals, for enduring early morning alarms for editorial conference calls, and for countenancing late-night writing and editing sessions. All of these bad habits, were afraid to say, will continue.

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