Reassuringly, the two golden ages of American film each arrived in the wake of utter chaos. The roughly simultaneous advent ...

Father Blake teaches American film history and criticism. During and after his years as executive editor of America magazine, a national weekly journal of opinion, he served as regular film reviewer.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is home to an extensive number of objects and images related to film and television history, and we are digitizing more all the time.

Drawing on U.S. archival film footage, first-hand accounts from American Soldiers and German civilians, and documentation from the Library of Congress and U.S. Army archives, the film captures one ...

In addition, he serves as an adjunct professor—teaching courses on American film history and folklore—in the American Studies Department at George Washington University. The landmark event ...

Courses in film history, theory, and criticism enable students to become active, selective, and ethical participants in a world progressively more dominated by the media of visual communication.

WILLIAMSBURG — On March 25, award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns offered the Historic Triangle a sneak peek at his newest documentary, “The American Revolution.” An expansive look at the virtues and ...