The figure of Julius Caesar has loomed large in the United States since its very beginning,
admired and evoked as a gateway to knowledge of politics, war, and even national life. In …

What did 'a night at the movies' mean to audiences during the 1920s? What sort of pleasures
did cinema offer to star-struck fans removed from us now by more than a century? Film …

Film curatorship, according to a recent definition is “[t] he art of interpreting the aesthetics,
history, and technology of cinema through the selective collection, preservation, and …

After WWII, an influx of new immigrants to Canada arrived from Southern and Eastern
Europe. Earlier Italian immigrants from the turn of the century were termed “sojourners” …

This study discusses how motion picture spectatorship practices in Brooklyn developed
separately from that of any other urban center in the United States between 1893 and 1928 …

Most scholarly research on immigration in Saskatchewan at the turn of the twentieth century
has asserted that Italians were not permanent homesteading farmers. This is in part a …

This thesis is a study of how Judas Iscariot was represented in Jesus films between 1902
and 2004. The portrayal of Judas in the Last Supper scene was analysed within the context …

For ninety years, a variety of sources (from 20th century encyclopedias and biographies to
postwar scholarship and Wikipedia) reported that Alberto Savinio's Persée premiered in …

In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the smaller studios of early cinema were
consolidating into the mass-production firms with their characteristic orientation toward …

At the turn of the last century, a modern consumer society based on the mass marketing of
goods and services took shape in America's cities, profoundly affecting the contexts of public …