Symposium: Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm

Event Date: 

Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 4:30pm to Saturday, October 27, 2018 - 12:15pm

Event Date Details: 

See Schedule for more details.

Event Location: 

  • Pollock Theater and Wallis Annenberg Conference Room
  • 4315 SSMS

Event Price: 

Free and open to the public.

Newsmen stand atop car filming burning building while crowd looks on.

In the twentieth century, U.S. filmmakers generated tens of thousands of hours of newsfilm that was screened in movie theaters or viewed on television sets across the country. This vast output of news coverage, covering the period from the 1910s to the 1970s, has not been matched by a scholarly effort to understand it. To address the oversight, this symposium will, for the first time in the United States, bring together many of the nation’s leading newsfilm scholars and archivists to present the new and foundational work featured in the new book Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive (AFI/Routledge, 2018), edited by Mark Cooper, Sara Levavy, Ross Melnick, and Mark Williams. The symposium is free and open to the public. See schedule for details.
 
Sponsored by the Carsey-Wolf Center, the College of Letters and Sciences, the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Center for Cold War Studies and International History, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and the Department of Film and Media Studies.