The bracing humour and frankness of the long-time Sight & Sound editor, who has died aged 88, remains an inspiration
This has been a very sombre week, with the deaths of many greatly loved and admired critics and public intellectuals: the loss of Lisa Jardine and David Cesarani followed by that of Philip French. Now there is also the departure of film critic Penelope Houston, editor of Sight & Sound magazine from 1956 to 1990, whose mighty contributions had perhaps slipped under the radar, until they were revived recently by a BFI seminar on gendered criticism and women’s criticism.
Related: Penelope Houston, Sight & Sound editor for 35 years, dies aged 88
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This has been a very sombre week, with the deaths of many greatly loved and admired critics and public intellectuals: the loss of Lisa Jardine and David Cesarani followed by that of Philip French. Now there is also the departure of film critic Penelope Houston, editor of Sight & Sound magazine from 1956 to 1990, whose mighty contributions had perhaps slipped under the radar, until they were revived recently by a BFI seminar on gendered criticism and women’s criticism.
Related: Penelope Houston, Sight & Sound editor for 35 years, dies aged 88
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- 10/28/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Academics hope emphasis on survivors' testimonies will change the way in which war history is studied
The arrival in Britain of an archive of tens of thousands of Holocaust testimonies will give much needed historical weight to the experiences of survivors, according to a leading scholar.
David Cesarani, of the Holocaust Research Centre at the University of London, believes that the Us video archive, set up 18 years ago by Steven Spielberg, will help to rebalance a picture that has been dominated by the study of the perpetrators of the atrocities of the second world war.
The extraordinary catalogue of personal testimony, collected by the Shoah Foundation Institute since the film director made Schindler's List in 1993, is housed at the University of Southern California, but on Friday it was formally shared with academics and students at the research centre at Royal Holloway to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The archive footage, which...
The arrival in Britain of an archive of tens of thousands of Holocaust testimonies will give much needed historical weight to the experiences of survivors, according to a leading scholar.
David Cesarani, of the Holocaust Research Centre at the University of London, believes that the Us video archive, set up 18 years ago by Steven Spielberg, will help to rebalance a picture that has been dominated by the study of the perpetrators of the atrocities of the second world war.
The extraordinary catalogue of personal testimony, collected by the Shoah Foundation Institute since the film director made Schindler's List in 1993, is housed at the University of Southern California, but on Friday it was formally shared with academics and students at the research centre at Royal Holloway to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. The archive footage, which...
- 1/29/2012
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
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