This week on INSIDE THE ARTHOUSE, we discuss the One Hundred year anniversary of Arthouse film with professor,historian, author and Academy Film Scholar, Ross Melnick. Join us for a lively conversation about the amazing history of arthouse film: Where it started, how far it’s come, and where is it today.
Greg Laemmle, CEO of Laemmle Theatres, third generation arthouse theater owner, adds his perspective, as we explore the last century– and then consider the future of arthouse.
Ross Melnick is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He was named an Academy Film Scholar and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow for his book, Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World (Columbia University Press, 2022), which received the 2023 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association.
He is also the author of American Showman: Samuel ‘Roxy’ Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry (CUP, 2012), co-editor of Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema, Television, and the Archive (AFI/Routledge, 2018) and co-author of Cinema Treasures (MBI, 2004), inspired by the website, cinematreasures.org, he co-founded 25 years ago. His research has appeared in Cinema Journal, Film History, The Moving Image, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Aniki, and in numerous edited collections. He previously worked in theatrical marketing and distribution for four different film companies.