This month we bring you the great film scholar Thomas Elsaesser as part of our collaboration with the new Fieldnotes project. Fieldnotes is conducting oral histories with notable media scholars, so look for more great interviews in coming episodes, and listen to the full interviews at the SCMS website. We also have a fascinating conversation with Rielle Navitski about researching Latin American film history, based on her contribution to a recent “In Focus” section of Cinema Journal on the subject.

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Cinema Journal Presents: Rielle Navitski

Rielle Navitski’s page at the University of Georgia and at Academia.edu
In Focus: Latin American Film Research in the Twenty-First Century
“Reconsidering the Archive: Digitization and Latin American Film Historiography” (from newest CJ)
Ana Maria López’s page at Tulane
Dolores Tierney’s page at Sussex University
Rielle's Fall 2011 Cinema Journal article, “The Tango on Broadway: Carlos Gardel's International Stardom and the Transition to Sound in Argentina”
Asta Nielsen
World Newspaper Archive at the Center for Research Libraries
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
National Endowment for the Humanities
Rielle’s dissertation, “Sensationalism, Cinema and the Popular Press in Mexico and Brazil, 1905-1930”
Cinemateca Brasiliera
Photo of film journalist Pedro Lima and an example of his work
National Library of Brazil
National Library of Mexico
Mexican General National Archive (and at Wikipedia)
Os estranguladores at IMDB
The Gray Automobile (El automóvil gris) at IMDB and on YouTube
The Mexican Revolution
Chris Becker’s book It’s the Pictures that Got Small
Kristen Whissel’s page at UC Berkeley

Fieldnotes Interview: Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser’s website and on Wikipedia
Thomas Elsaesser’s author page at Amazon
Monogram film journal at WorldCat
Burt Lancaster
From Here to Eternity
Charlton Heston
Greatest Show on Earth
Roberto Rossellini
Robert Bresson
Ingmar Bergman
Filmkritik film journal at WorldCat
British Film Institute
Edward Buscombe’s author page at Amazon
Peter Wollen
Charles Barr at St. Mary’s University Twickenham London
Cahiers du Cinema
Movie Magazine
Brighton Film Review at WorldCat
Time Out
Link to complete Elsaesser interview (mp3)

Contributors to Fieldnotes

Closing Comments

The Aca-Media Survey
“If you don’t come see me today, I can’t save you any money”
Michael Kackman at Aca-Media HQ, practicing for our big "new car" car giveaway