The History Through Hollywood series looks at old films as inadvertent time capsules packed with the norms and customs of a bygone era. Traditions change, cultural mores shift, and technology r...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2017/10/10/history-through-hollywood-5th-edition/
The History Through Hollywood series looks at old films as inadvertent time capsules packed with the norms and customs of a bygone era. Traditions change, cultural mores shift, and technology r...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2017/05/03/history-through-hollywood-4th-edition/
In this History Through Hollywood, I’m tackling one of my favorite essays on film, Virginia Woolf’s “The Cinema.” It was published in 1926 and encompasses an incredible breadth of film th...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2017/01/23/virginia-woolf-and-cinema/
The History Through Hollywood series looks at old films as inadvertent time capsules packed with the norms and customs of a bygone era. Traditions change, cultural mores shift, and technology r...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2016/10/07/history-through-hollywood-3/
Like many of you, I’ve been enjoying the Rio Olympics for the last two weeks. The swimming events were particularly fun to watch, and of course they made me think of Esther Williams and her com...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2016/08/20/history-through-hollywood-esther-williams-swimmer/
The History Through Hollywood series looks at old films as inadvertent time capsules packed with the norms and customs, both quotidian and grand, of a bygone era. Old movies are full of histor...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2016/04/07/history-through-hollywood-ads/
The History Through Hollywood series looks at old films as inadvertent time capsules packed with the norms and customs, both quotidian and grand, of a bygone era. Old movies are full of histor...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2015/11/23/history-through-hollywood-hello/
or: How Classic Hollywood Done Me Wrong My sister got married last weekend, and after all the happy dust settled, classic Hollywood wriggled its way into my brain-spotlight as it so often does. ...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2015/09/09/history-through-hollywood-love/
The History Through Hollywood series takes a look at the little things you can pick up from watching Old Hollywood films. As I’ve discussed in the earlier posts, classic movies are inadver...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2015/08/05/history-through-hollywood-2/
or, Babel by the Seine Instead of looking at one movie or writing a more typical History Through Hollywood, this week I’m focusing on a strange chapter in movie history inspired by a recent enc...
https://theblondeatthefilm.com/2015/07/06/paramount-in-paris/