• Hagerman, Idaho Saloon (early 1900s)

    Hagerman, Idaho Saloon (early 1900s)

    From Arthur A. Hart’s Camera Eye on Idaho: “This obviously posed picture in Billy Coltharp’s saloon at Hagerman must have been inspired by Wild West movies of the early 1900s. The lighting effects are unusually beautiful.”

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  • Boise’s Social Elite (1890s)

    Boise’s Social Elite (1890s)

    From Arthur A. Hart’s Camera Eye on Idaho: “The fashionable young set of Boise’s social elite posed on the front steps of Thomas Jefferson Davis’ Victorian house in the late nineties. Davis made his fortune in fruit culture and real estate.”

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  • Boise, ID – April 25, 1901

    Boise, ID – April 25, 1901

    From Life in Old Boise by Arthur A. Hart: “This photograph, taken April 25, 1901, shows such local landmarks as the steeple of the First Methodist church, just left of center, between Central School and the Territorial Capitol. Ada County Courthouse is right of the capitol and the Columbia Theater is at far left.”

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  • Bringing out the Dead and Auteur Theory

    Bringing out the Dead and Auteur Theory

    Matthew Bettencourt Professor Sarah E. S. Sinwell Film 6350 October 20th, 2020 Bringing out the Dead and Auteur Theory      Martin Scorsese’s Bringing out the Dead has fallen off the radar since its 1999 release. Possibly due to a poor marketing campaign, the film was a box office bomb and confused audiences who were expecting another…

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  • Star Wars Fan Culture

    Star Wars Fan Culture

    Matthew BettencourtProfessor Sarah E. S. SinwellFilm 6350November 8th, 2020 Star Wars Fan Culture When Star Wars was released in 1977, it became a cultural phenomenon. It pushed the boundaries of what the medium could achieve and ushered in a new era of blockbuster cinema. It was a perfect piece of escapism that defined the childhoods…

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  • Last Year at Marienbad and Art Cinema

    Last Year at Marienbad and Art Cinema

    Matthew BettencourtProfessor Sarah E. S. SinwellFilm 6350September 29th, 2020 Last Year at Marienbad and Art Cinema Last Year at Marienbad (Alain Resnais, 1961) is one of many seminal European films ofthe 1960s that rewrote the rules of traditional cinema. The way it dismantled the classical modeof storytelling was incredibly ambitious for its time. While the…

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