I know that some of you use my article on the production, reception, and protest of _Blockade_ (an important early attempt by the classical Hollywood studio system to depict an ongoing war: the Spanish Civil War) in coursepacks. I wanted to alert you that I've just put online a resource that may help those of you who teach about film reception: a 75 page scrapbook by an Elkhart, IN theater owner documenting the local premier of _Blockade_. The scanned images from the scrapbook present a remarkably thorough case study of film reception and ballyhoo in the 1930s. Included are lobby cards, newspaper and roadside advertisements, specially printed printed restaurant napkins and shopping bags, audience response cards, lunch counter displays, and more. I'm attaching a sample image to this mail. Thanks for my colleague Kathy Fuller-Seeley (rural film exhibition and Ebay hunter extraordinaire) for acquiring the scrapbook (which was literally saved from a dumpster), and to Jae Ryu for digitizing the images. The _Blockade_ material is available at my website (http://www.gsu.edu/~jougms). If you want to head straight for the text of the _Blockade_ article, that's at http://www.gsu.edu/~jougms/Blockade.htm To go straight to the scrapbook images, go to http://www.gsu.edu/~jougms/blocimg.htm Also, I've received a lot of nice comments about the Tips for Graduate Writing page and the Guide to Library Research on Moving Images page that we put up about a month ago on the Moving Image Studies website. If you haven't checked those out, you can do so by visiting our program website (http://communication/gsu.edu/movingimagestudies/intro.html and clicking on "Links". Greg Smith Greg M. Smith Associate Professor and Graduate Director Moving Image Studies Program Film/Video/Digital Imaging Program Department of Communication Georgia State University http://www.gsu.edu/~jougms (personal website) http://communication.gsu.edu/movingimagestudies/intro.html (program website) Office: 1050 One Park Place (404) 463-9428 Fax: (404) 651-1409 Email: [log in to unmask] Mailing address: Department of Communication Georgia State University P.O. Box 4000 Atlanta, GA 30302-4000 For Courier and Overnight Services (FedEx, UPS, etc.): Department of Communication One Park Place South Suite 1050 Atlanta, GA 30303 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org