Film and History

The New Film History as Media Archaeology

The article assesses the impact of digital technologies on our understanding of film history. While the “New Film History” has revitalized the study of the cinema’s “origins,” it has not yet proven itself equally successful in analyzing the subsequent turn-of-the-century multimedia conjuncture. Faced with this challenge, the essay makes a case for a new historiographical model, “Media Archaeolo...

Using Popular Film in the Architectural History Classroom

Filming eugenics: teaching the history of eugenics through film.

In teaching eugenics to undergraduate students and general public audiences, film should he considered as a provocative and fruitful medium that can generate important discussions about the intersections among eugenics, gender, class, race, and sexuality. This paper considers the use of two films, A Bill of Divorcement and The Lynchburg Story, as pedagogical tools for the history of eugenics. T...

The History of Fixed-film Wastewater Treatment Systems

The Science and ‘art’ of wastewater engineering stretches only slightly beyond one hundred years. Within this period, the applied technology has certainly made significant strides in promoting disease control and environmental protection. Fixed-film treatment unquestionably plays an important role in this history, particularly since it represented the original biological mechanism. Beginning wi...

Syncopated Beats and the History of Sadness: The Affective Fusion of Audience and Film through Music

Recent developments in the disciplines of cinema studies, theology, and religion and film have generated renewed interest in the experiential dimensions of filmgoing. More specifically, those contributing to theological scholarship have begun to explore these cinematic experiences as theologically significant. With these developments in mind, this essay offers a close reading of the principal m...