sona for four decades, while Glen Donner looks at how Cruise appears to unnaturally defy the aging process in both looks and actions despite now being in his late fifties. Tying these ideas together, Justin Owen Rawlins investigates Cruise’s persistence to do his own stunts on set, one of which resulted in a broken ankle which he continued to perform with until the scene was over. Michael DeAngelis’s

The Jornal Portugues: Revista Mensal de Actualidades was a newsreel produced between 1938 and 1951 for the SPN/SNI, the main organ of propaganda of the Portuguese Estado Novo (1933–1974). It theref...

During the 1960s, the rise of television as a mass medium in France went hand in hand with that of sport. Political authorities not only supported their development, but also controlled their forms...

In 1970, United Artists (UA) announced that John Boorman was to develop a film adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Boorman collaborated on the screenplay adaptation throughout t...

Co-productions are often notoriously difficult, and this was certainly the case in 1936–37 for the most important co-production between Nazi Germany and Japan. What should have been one joint film ...

Broadcast in January 1955, a single episode of The Bob Hope Show on the Colgate Comedy Hour, Hope’s first USO show on American television, reflects wider shifts taking place in television in the 19...

One of the many reasons distribution has retained its status as the least understood aspect of commercial film culture has been the absence of records, particularly from the late 1910s and early 1920s, when the studio system was formed in the United States. While historians have persuasively argued that exhibitors helped develop moviegoing culture in the early 20th century, these studies have been

In 1953, Bellingham’s KVOS-TV aired its first broadcast—Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation—to audiences in northwest Washington State and southwest British Columbia. KVOS was the second television sta...

This article discusses the reception of Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali in Finnish media from 1960 to 1965, during the emergence of satellite broadcasting networks. The focus is especially on his two mat...

Steve Canyon, developed in the late 1950s from the popular newspaper comic strip of the same name created by Milton Caniff, was the first attempt at generating a filmed dramatic series for American...

This essay explores the process through which the moving image became part of the promotion of Britain as a new nuclear nation in the mid-1950s. Made by, for, or with the authority of the newly cre...

Between early 1994 and the end of the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, a team of journalists working for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in former Yugoslavia (UNPROFOR) was in charge...

Yehuda Moraly's Revolution in Paradise reads much like a detective story. All the meticulously gathered clues point to one culprit–the antisemitism just below the surface of the French films produc...