...M. R. Ghanoonparvar With a brief survey of Iranian fiction and film since the early twentieth century, this article reflects on the changes and developments in these two art forms in recent decades. It argues that although serious writers and filmmakers in the past century displayed a commitment to...

...Camilo D. Trumper This article examines the political role of documentary film in Chile between 1970 and 1973. Based on a careful study of two influential films, Pedro Chaskel and Hector Ríos's Venceremos and Patricio Guzman's The Battle of Chile , the author argues that documentary filmmakers...

...Paula T. Cronovich This article sheds light on the process of the unprecedented “No” campaign of 1988 in Chile, whereby Augusto Pinochet was ousted by a simple yes/no referendum, thus ending his more than fifteen years in power. Pablo Larraín's 2012 film No takes this historical event as the basis...

...Ian Christopher Fletcher 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 10-Fletcher.btw 4/23/02 4:42 PM Page 173 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY Film and History Ian Christopher Fletcher We are pleased to present...

...Rachel T. Greenwald 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 11-Greenwald.btw 4/23/02 4:43 PM Page 175 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY Models of Identity Exploration in Film: A Letter without Words and How Tasty...

...Mona L. Siegel 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 12-Siegel.btw 4/23/02 4:43 PM Page 180 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY Germinal: Teaching about Class and Industrial Capitalism through Film Mona L...

...Sonya Michel ©Copyright October 1981, by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1981 Feminism, Film and Public History Sonya Michel The public history of American working women has been greatly enriched in the past few years by the...

...Stephen Brier Copyright © April 1988 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1988 A Historv Film Without Much J History Stephen Brier Matewan, written and directed by John Sayles; produced by Peggy Rajski and Maggie Renzi...

...Kyoko Hirano Copyright © April 1988 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1988 The JapaneseTragedy: Film Censorship and the American occupation Kyoko Hirano During the American Occupation of Japan...

...Daniel J. Walkowitz Copyright ©1991 MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1991 JoshBrown PUBLIC HISTORY Leftist Film Traditions: What's Left? Daniel J. Walkowitz Berkeley in the '60s...

...Harriet Gavshon 1990 ”Bearing Witness”: Ten Years Towards an Opposition Film Movement in South Africa Harriet Gavshon In December last year, South Africa’s longest-running political trial came to an end. State vs. P. Baleka and...

...Yaël Simpson Fletcher; Nalini Persaud The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain. Irish Film Board, 2003. A Grin without a Cat (Le fond de l'air est rouge), directed by Chris Marker. Icarus Films, 1977 and 1993. 2005 by MARHO: The Radical...

... Documentary Film Joshua Brown “Historical understanding is like a vision, or rather like an evocation of images.” Johan Huizinga’s insight taps the essence of historical inquiry.’ Our understanding of the past is inextricably bound by images -whether we...

...Erik Loomis This piece reviews four recent films — three documentaries and a feature film — that focus on issues of water privatization. Western governments and the World Bank have pressed water privatization on nations in the developing world, often to the detriment of residents. Companies have...

...George Lipsitz Copyright © 1993 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1993 Ethnic Images in Film George Lipsitz Department of Ethnic Studies University of California, San Diego Fall 1991 Using ethnicity and race as primary frames of analysis, Ethnic studies 101...

...Whitney Strub Pat Rocco shot and exhibited the first openly erotic gay films in the United States, beginning in the summer of 1968, near downtown Los Angeles. Yet he has been remembered primarily as a transitional figure, relegated to a marginal position in the narrative of gay history. This...

...Walter Licht Copyright December 1984 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1984 Working for Pullman: Two Films Walter Licht --Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle. Paul Wagner Productions, 1706 P Street, N.W...

...Walid el Houri; Dima Saber The article focuses on Hezbollah's filmed operations as key media texts in the group's discourse of resistance. In 1986 Hezbollah surprised the public with an innovation in their strategies of resistance: their fighters filmed one of their armed operations in the occupied...

...Albert Auster Copyright September, 1978 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization 1978 In Defense of the Working Class: Hollywood and Its New Labor Films, "Blue Collar" and "F .I. S .To" Albert Auster...

...Laura Lindenfeld Within the last decade there has been a significant outpouring of documentary films seeking to critique and transform the modern, industrial agricultural system. Although they have not attracted audiences comparable to a Hollywood blockbuster, some have received far more attention...