The Fall 2024, Volume 94 edition of The Velvet Light Trap opens with the article, “Help: Afram and Black Capitalism” by Will Hair. The essay provides a formal and historiographic unpacking of Help, a 1970 ABC television production …
Year: 2025
Reconstructing the Postwar U.S. Campus Film Society Movement with the Amos Vogel Papers
Tanya Goldman The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is one of many institutions that house materials related to the great cineaste Amos Vogel (1921-2012). A man of capacious tastes and eager to …
Lost & Found: Jean Béranger’s “Lafcadio” (1948)
Zachary Zahos In the course of an average day, archivists at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research handle one-of-a-kind materials, whose historical value draws researchers from across the globe. But rare is the …
WCFTR Receives NEH Grant for “Project Ballyhoo”
Ben Pettis The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) has received a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a project titled “Project Ballyhoo: Analyzing Publicity Text …
New at the Media History Digital Library: The Wilkinson Pressbook Collection
By Zachary Zahos The Media History Digital Library has recently returned from a trip to that most fabled and misunderstood decade, the 1960s, with a treasure trove of freshly digitized film pressbooks in tow. Newly …