American Film Noir: Style, City, and Neo-Noir
A plain guide to American film noir: its origins in the early 1940s, chiaroscuro, the city, the femme fatale, the unreliable narrator, and the move into
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History & Archives
Archival records, local venues and careful methods for reading Cincinnati dance and music history.
Cincy Bop Bulletin / History & Archives / 5 field notes
The archive is not a costume box. It is a way to ask what was documented, what was remembered and what still needs checking.
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The Isle of Man TT Course: Length, Start and Corners
The Snaefell Mountain Course runs 37.73 miles of closed public roads. Where it starts, its named corners, and why Bray Hill matters.
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The Music Hall Ballroom as a Dance Room
Cincinnati’s Music Hall has a documented history as more than a concert shell. Its ballroom also belongs to the city’s dance story.
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Reading the Cincinnati Bop Club Archive
The old site is modest, specific and valuable. Here is what its pages let us say, and what they do not.
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A Practical Method for Local Dance Archives
Local dance history becomes clearer when documents, memories, current pages and interpretation keep their labels.
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