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Researched at ARSC  |  2014 – 2015

A wide variety of publications about film, television, new media, history and other subjects have been researched at the Archive Research and Study Center (ARSC) at UCLA.

Have you published work that involved research at ARSC?  Please let us know at: arsc@cinema.ucla.edu

 

Five Fingers: Elegance in Espionage—A History of the 1959-1960 Television Series

By Diane Kachmar

William Cameron Menzies: The Shape of Films to Come

By James Curtis

 

Archival Resources of Republican China in North America

By Chengzhi Wang and Su Chen

 

Irony in The Twilight Zone: How the Series Critiqued Postwar American Culture

By David Melbye

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema

Edited by Allyson Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, Jacqueline Najuma Stewart

Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the
Possibility of Black Modernity

By Allyson Nadia Field

Not Just Batman's Butler: The Autobiography of Alan Napier

By Alan Napier with James Bigwood

A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan

By Carl Rollyson

That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America

By Charles L. Ponce de Leon

Real People and the Rise of Reality Television

By Michael McKenna

Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945 - 1980

Edited by David E. James and Adam Hyman

Hitchcock à la Carte

By Jan Olsson

Lois Weber in Early Hollywood

By Shelley Stamp

Charles Dickens's Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860-2012

By Mary Hammon

The Lives of Robert Ryan

By J.R. Jones

Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Technology, and the Emergence of 1970s Blockbuster Aesthetics

By Julie A. Turnock

Cinema Civil Rights: Regulation, Repression, and Race in the Classical Hollywood Era

By Ellen C. Scott

 

Television Brandcasting: The Return of the Content-Promotion Hybrid

By Jennifer Gillan

 

 

Like a Natural Woman: Spectacular Female Performance in Classical Hollywood

By Kirsten Pullen

Saul Bass: Anatomy of Film Design

By Jan-Christopher Horak

Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986

By Louise Sandhaus

American Anti-Nuclear Activism, 1975-1990: The Challenge of Peace

By Kyle Harvey

Truman Capote: A Literary Life at the Movies

By Tyson Pugh

George Burns Television Productions: The Series and Pilots, 1950-1981

By Richard Irvin

The Heist Film: Stealing with Style

By Daryl Lee