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What Our Members Are Doing

Cindy Miller is the Manager of Calls for Papers for the upcoming Film & History conference, which will be held in Chicago, October 30- November 2, 2008. The conference theme is "Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond." Cindy was also Film & History's representative recently at the annual meetings of the National Popular Culture Association, in San Francisco. Her article, "The 'B' Movie Goes to War in 'Hitler, Beast of Berlin' (1939)," is soon to appear in the forthcoming _Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History_ (Peter Rollins and John O'Connor, eds., Kentucky UP).

Nick Cull's new book on the US information agency will be published in May by the Cambridge University Press Those wishing to see a preview should go to:
www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521819970.

Prof. Dina Iordanova [di1@st-andrews.ac.uk]is now writing a blog which covers an extensive range of topics related to film and culture. It can be seen at www.DinaView.com

Jerry Kuehl is this year's Chief Juror for the Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries (FOCAL) www.focalint.org/focalawards.htm whose annual celebration of the use of archive film will take place on May 21 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. He is also member of the jury pre-selecting factual programmes. He has contributed a position paper--Visual History Traduced: a Century of Compilation Films--to the first issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies published by Intellect Books www.intellectbooks.com

Christine Whittaker is a member of the jury pre-selecting factual programmes for the FOCAL awards.

David Elwood, former president of our association, will be speaking on ‘The Marshall Plan in Film’ at a conference organized by the Austrian Marshall Plan Anniversary Foundation in Vienna on Monday May 19.

From Peter C. Rollins
Dear Friends, I am sending you the final TOC for our volume, WHY WE FOUGHT: AMERICA'S WARS IN FILM AND HISTORY (UP of Kentucky, 2008)
Thanks for the advice and guidance over the last three years. Please take note of the publication in Spring, 2008 and ask your library to get a copy. The book should be a long one, but will be relieved by 128 pictures!!
Peter C. Rollins
RollinsPC@aol.com

Pierre Sorlin is helping to organise a major conference on television's early years--1935-1955-- in Paris from May 26-29 2009. Details of the programme can be found on this website's news pages.'

From Michael Nelson
Of particular interest to IAMHIST members is the analysis of the American role in the Cannes Film Festival. In terms of the top prizes, they did not initially dominate. The top prize was initially called the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film and later the Palme d'or. The Palme d'or was introduced in 1955 and was won by the American Marty directed by Delbert Mann. In the first ten years of the festival the Americans won three, (14%), of the 21 top prizes awarded, which was the same number as France and Italy. In the first 30 years the US won only eight of the 42 prizes, (17%), which was less than Italy with ten, (21%). Only later did Hollywood eventually dominate and in the next 25 years won eight more of the 29 prizes awarded, (27%). Over the whole history of the Festival to 2004 their 16 of the 76 prizes awarded, (21%), compared with 11, (14%), for Italy, the runner-up. (In some years there was no festival or awards and in others there were joint equal awards. In the first year there were 11 awards.)

Michael Nelson
www.michaelnelsonbooks.com