This project by Darinelle Merced-Calderon examines how communities in Vieques and St. Croix express solidarity and resistance through music, protest, and performance, tracing the intertwined legacies of colonialism and cultural connection across U.S. territories.
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This AVAnnotate project, created by Trent Wintermeier, presents several annotated interviews of famous figures, such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Salvador Dalí, from the Mike Wallace interview, held in the Harry Ransom Center collections. The project is designed as a teaching and learning tool to show how instructors can incorporate archival audiovisual material into coursework.
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The project was created by Jack Riordan and focuses on the work of Lester Hamlet, the distinguished and influential Cuban filmmaker. Offering bilingual content (English and Spanish), the project explores Hamlet’s poetry, archival materials, and cultural contexts. It presents a richly annotated digital edition of Hamlet’s poems alongside historical documents and interactive commentary, allowing readers
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This is a project created by Jack Riordan that explores two canonical early-cinema films side by side. Clement introduces viewers to Lois Weber, a pioneering silent film-era director, and contrasts her film Suspense (1913) with D. W. Griffith’s The Lonely Villa (1909), situating both within the “panic room” motif. What’s especially interesting is the close
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The project “Cuba en Pantalla” was created by Jack Riordan and draws on his experience taking the “Curso de Cine Cubano” at the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC) in the fall of 2019. The project explores Cuban history, identity, and social imaginaries through a curated selection of films spanning from the 1960s
This project by Jack DeVry Riordan explores the theory and topic of Auteurism and some of the filmmakers who best represent it, including filmmakers Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa, and more.
This comparison project by Luke Sumpter annotates Lois Weber’s 1916 silent film Shoes. In one of the annotation sets, the first contributor traces the film’s narrative through its use of intertitles to establish a timeline, pathos, dialogue, and its overall exegesis. The second set of annotations traces the film’s editing techniques, which in 1916, were
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This comparison project by Luke Sumpter and Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth showcases two different aspects of formal film analysis, editing and intertitle, within the 1916 silent film Shoes by Lois Weber.
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This digital edition by Janet Reinschmidt annotates the 1921 film Camille starring Rudolph Valentino and Alla Nazimova.
Camille (1921): A Case for Annotating Film History Read More »
This project is an interdisciplinary study by Luke Sumpter, an undergraduate student at UT Austin, of time in digital media. Sumpter annotates and discusses films by Denis Villeneuve, Derek Jarman, a radio play adaptation of The Glass Menagerie, and a recorded conversation between Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams held at the Harry Ransom Center.
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