Overview
- The first collection to explore the international landscape of newsreel studies
- Brings together a team of leading experts in the field across methodological approaches
- Traces the importance of newsreels over time in the first half of the twentieth century and beyond
Part of the book series: Global Cinema (GLOBALCINE)
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This volume addresses the underscrutinised topic of cinema newsreels. These short, multi-themed newsfilms, usually accompanied by explanatory intertitles or voiceovers, were a central part of the filmgoing experience around the world from 1910 through the late 1960s, and in many cases even later. As the only source of moving image news available before the widespread advent of television, newsreels are important social documents, recording what the general public was told and shown about the events and personalities of the day. Often disregarded as quirky or trivial, they were heavily utilised as propaganda vehicles, offering insights into the socio-political norms reflected in cinema during the first half of the twentieth century. The book presents a range of current research being undertaken in newsreel studies internationally and makes a case for a reconsideration of the importance of newsreels in the wider landscape of film history.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ciara Chambers is Lecturer in Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, Ireland, author of Ireland in the Newsreels (2012) and screenwriter of the television series Éire na Nuachtscannán (TG4, 2017). She is a member of the IAMHIST Council, Associate Editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and a member of the Editorial Board of Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media.
Mats Jönsson is Professor in Film Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has written three monographs, edited seven anthologies, and has published several international articles. He is a member of the editorial boards for the interface filmarkivet.se and for the book series Media History Archives.
Roel Vande Winkel is Assistant Professor in Film & TV Studies at KU Leuven, Belgium and at LUCA School of Arts, Belgium. He is Associate Editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television and is co-editor of Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World (with Daniel Biltereyst) and Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema (with David Welch).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching Newsreels
Book Subtitle: Local, National and Transnational Case Studies
Editors: Ciara Chambers, Mats Jönsson, Roel Vande Winkel
Series Title: Global Cinema
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91920-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91919-5Published: 06 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06328-3Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91920-1Published: 14 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-5951
Series E-ISSN: 2634-596X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 309
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Film History, Film Theory, Documentary, European Cinema and TV, American Cinema and TV