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Publications Researched at ARSC  |  2020 – 2024

A wide variety of publications about film, television, new media, history and other subjects have been researched at the Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC) at UCLA.

Have you published work that involved research at ARSC? Please let us know at: arsc@cinema.ucla.edu

 

To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in
Anna May Wong's Cross-Media World

By Yiman Wang

Dear Barbara Loden: Reconsidering Wanda (1970)

By Sadia Quraeshi Shepard

[in]transition, vol. 11, issue 3, 2024, Special Issue: Women and Aging

Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director's Chair

By Alexandra Seros

Gold Dust on the Air: Television Anthology Drama
and Midcentury American Culture

By Molly A. Schneider

“Outtakes and Lost Film: The Fragmentary Encounter
between ‘Newsreel’ Wong and the ‘Chinese Colleen Moore’"

By Xin Peng

JCMA: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 63, issue 3. Spring 2024, p. 170-176

Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder

By Amelie Hastie

Afterlives of Anders als die Andern and of Weimar

By Sara Friedman

Central European History, First View, p. 1-19

The Lost History of the Paul Bunyan Canoe Derby

By Frank Bures

Minnesota History, vol. 69, no. 2, Summer 2024, p. 54-67

Movie-Made Los Angeles

By John Trafton

Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor,
and 1970s American Cinema

By Aaron Hunter and Martha Shearer

Political Camerawork: Documentary and the Lasting Impact
of Reenacting Historical Trauma

By D. Andy Rice

“Dangerous in the Minds of Barrio People”:
Empowering Bicultural Latino Identity on Spanish-Language Television
in Los Angeles, 1960–1990”

By Carlos Francisco Parra

Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 54, issue 4, Winter 2023, p. 287–306

Ana M. López: Essays

By Ana M. López

Laura La Plante: Silent Cinderella

By Laura Jerrolds

Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen: The First Lady's Appearances
in Film and Television, 1932-1962

By Angela S. Beauchamp

Immortal Films: "Casablanca" and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic

By Barbara Klinger

Insight, the Series - A Hollywood Priest's Groundbreaking
Contribution to Television History

By Mark A. Villano

Hollywood's Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American
Power Around the World

By Ross Melnick

 

 

Alternate Archives in US Daytime TV Soap Opera Historiography

By Elana Levine

JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, vol. 60, issue 4, Summer 2021, p. 174-180

From Rabbit Ears to the Rabbit Hole: A Life with Television

By Kathleen Collins

 

 

Industrializing Nationalist Dissent:

Music Censorship, 2 Live Crew, and the Politics of Performance at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards

By Michael M. Reinhard

The Velvet Light Trap, no. 89, Spring 2022, p. 45-55

Latino TV: A History

By Mary Beltrán

Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History

By Elana Levine

Their Best Own Creations book cover

Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television

By Annie Berke

 

"The Black Film Ambassador: The Ecstatic World of Albert Johnson"

By Josslyn Luckett

Film Quarterly, vol. 75, no. 1, Fall 2021, p. 62-69

Patricia Neal: An Unquiet Life

By Stephen Michael Shearer

 

Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash

By Michael Stewart Foley


Vitagraph: America’s First Great Motion Picture Studio

By Andrew A. Erish

 Screening the Police book cover

 

Screening the Police: Film and Law Enforcement in the United States

By Noah Tsika

Stars of Jazz: A Complete History of the Innovative Television Series, 1956-1958

By James A. Harrod 

Very Special Episodes

Edited by Jonathan Cohn and Jennifer Porst

Sweet Oddball: The Story of Alice Pearce

By Fredrick Tucker

To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

By Dan Royles

“Searching for Betty Chen: Rediscovering the Asian American
Filmmakers of UCLA in the Seventies” (full article PDF)

By Josslyn Luckett

Film Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 3, Spring 2020, p. 34-40