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The Archive's publication, Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film, can now be downloaded here.

The Archive's commemorative publication, Hallmark Hall of Fame: The First Fifty Years, is now available on-line.

Hollywood & Europe: Economics, Culture, National Identity 1945-95

Now Available from Indiana University Press

October, 1998: Hollywood & Europe: Ever since the end of the First World War anquished voices have been raised in Europe about the need to counter Hollywood's domination of the movie marketplace. The concen has been for the balance of payments, for the protection of the indigenous industry, and for the preservation of national identity threatened bu the invasion of alien cultural forms.

Edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Steven Ricci, this new addition in the UCLA Film and Television Archive Studies in History, Criticism and Theory series of scholarly publications, co-published with the British Film Institute, presents the responses of an international and distinguished group of schaolars and academics to these issues.

Selected as a Breakthrough Books in American Film by Lingua Franca Magazine, February, 1999.

October, 1998: The Prelude to War Video Library: Twenty-Seven hours of rare newsfilm depicting the most compelling events of the 1930s. This preserved and restored archival footage was selected by a National Advisory Committee made up of historians, film archivists and filmmakers.

The Prelude to War Video Library is made up of over 800 individual news items selected from the Hearst Metrotone Newsreel Collection at UCLA. The Library documents the complex social and political history of the period from 1929 to 1941. It contains over twenty-seven hours of newsfilm, both complete newsreels and individual stories, covering, in three broad thematic groups: AMERICA BEFORE WORLD WAR II (the Depression and the New Deal; the rise of science and technology; industrialization and organized labor; race relations; sports; EUROPE BEFORE WORLD WAR II (the Depression; the rise of fascism; nationalism and colonialism; gender and class relations); REGIONAL CONFLICTS (the Spanish Civil War; the Sino-Japanese War; the Italian invasion of Ethiopia; the Russo-Finnish War; the Manchukuo conflict; events in Singapore, India, and Palestine).

Executive Order 9066:
The Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II

Now Available from Grolier Educational

March, 1998: The CD-ROM draws upon the extraordinary resources of the Japanese American National Museum and is inspired by the Museum's dramatically successful exhibition on this topic. This interactive educational title includes hundreds of photographs, artwork, personal accounts, chronologies, maps, and historical essays. It also draws upon rare archival footage including UCLA's Hearst Metrotone Newsreel Collection.

Volumes in the The UCLA Film and Television Archive
Studies in History, Criticism and Theory Series

Before the Nickelodeon:
Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
Published by University of California Press, Ltd.
ISBN: 0-520-06080-6 (hardback)
ISBN: 0-520-06986-2 (paperback)

This volume takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema-unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current moviemaking. Historian Charles Musser focusses on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery, and the situates his achievements within the vibrant context of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the commercial strategies of the Edison Manufacturing Company-the leading American film-producing entity from 1894 to 1908.

Based on painstaking detective work, this first full-length biographical treatment of Porter also offers a richly textured portrait of Thomas A. Edison. However, Musser avoids a narrowly auteurist approach and places Porter's own nonlinear storytelling system within the evolution of the motion picture world after the nickelodeon theaters.

Edison films captured a vanishing world-one that Musser analyzes in terms of class, race and ethnicity, gender, and culture. He shows how Porter's old-middle-class beliefs shaped not only his subject matter but also his system of production.

With this book, Porter will take his rightful place among the American filmmakers who dominated their period and forever changed the way we think of the cinema.

The Mexican Cinema Project
Edited by Chon A. Noriega and Steven Ricci
©1994 UCLA Film and Television Archive

The catalogue documents the most comprehensive public exhibition of historic Mexican film ever undertaken in the United States.

An array of provocative interpretive essays written by specialists in the fields of Mexican film studies, history, literature and politics. Additionally, detailed film notes, indexes and bibliography provide extensive filmographic data on the titles presented in the retrospective.

S T R O B E

STROBE, an on-line journal of film, television, and new media published by Critical Studies graduate students in the UCLA Department of Film & Television, is avaliable here.