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Teaching Local Television History with Primary Sources

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Teaching with Primary Sources Vol 4(3) Stephen Groening University of Washington The curriculum for my department’s new major in Cinema and Media Studies includes an upper-division course entitled “Television History;” as the new hire in Television … Continue reading

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Teaching Radio History to Help Save It?: Listening, Radio Preservation, and the History Classroom

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Teaching with Primary Sources Vol 4(3) Christine Ehrick University of Louisville An essay entitled “Private Passion, Public Neglect: The Cultural Status of Radio, written in 2000, lamented the neglect of radio as a subject of academic … Continue reading

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Film History Comes Alive: Primary Materials Research as Participatory Pedagogy

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Teaching with Primary Sources Vol 4(3) Emily Carman Chapman University Although my university is just thirty-seven miles south of Los Angeles—home to many impressive film and television archives and special collection libraries—my students often lack transportation … Continue reading

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Surfing the Archive: Teaching Humanistic Approaches to Historical Research Using Online Media Archives and Digital Databases

Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier Vol. 2 (3) Fall 2014 Colleen Montgomery University of Texas at Austin   Like many film history instructors, I find that most of my students enter the classroom with both a wealth of personal experiences with … Continue reading

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