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Special Editor's Introduction | Editor's Corner We of Film & History have been busy since the last issue of thejournal and here are some of the highlights of the past months. The Editor's Reflections and Reports. Exciting News: A 2002 Fall Meeting announcement The most exciting news at the Film & History complex is that we have signed a contract with the Kansas City Marriott Hotel, Country Club Plaza for a conference on The American West(s) in Film, Television, and History. The meeting is scheduled for November 7-10, 2002—a year from this Fall. We walked the halls and found this meeting space to be perfect for us; inspection of the rooms showed that the sleeping accommodations are fine as well. The hotel is located adjacentto a shopping and restaurant center built during the 1920s with Skelly Oil money and designed in a fanciful Spanish mode by a favorite architect ofthe Skelly family— a family which lived in our home town of Tulsa, but decided to donate a bit of sophistication to Kansas. The stores in this eight-block area are varied and well-known; the restaurants are countless andthere are otherentertainment options within walking distance of the hotel. Everyone who lives near Kansas City urgedus to choosethis locationnearthe city's famous NelsonAtkins Art Museum (see website above). TheWest is one ofthe most germinal topics of study for film scholars and scholars of American history. In the age of Stephen Ambrose and Patricia Limerick, the debate of the postTurnerians goes on with Ambrose in his Nothing Like It in the World (Simon and Schuster, 2000) celebrating heroic capitalism and its contributions to Progress and Limerick, in Trails: Toward a New Western History (UP of Kansas, 1991), calling the (previously ) unchallenged tenets of Turner into question. We are still trying to determine which model is appropriate—the epic version first limned by Frederick Jackson Turner in his "Significance of the Frontier in American History" or the post-Vietnam condemnations of the US Army, the Department of Interior, and Ameriwww .countryclubplaza.com can corporations as brutal expropriators and colonizers. As readers well know, Hollywood has given much support to both sides of the argument. We will be placing a list of Areas on the Film & History web site; please contact the relevantArea Chair about participating orplease see ifyou would like to become anArea Chair. There may be Areas of Study that we have neglected and we are open to suggestions. In any case, the web site will be updated on a regular basis, so check it periodically for new information and start planning to attend this second, free-standing Film & History conference . (Our first conference focused on the American Presidency and is described in our newsletter, enclosed.) AHA Meeting in Boston (Winter, 2001) Certainly one ofthehighlights of each academic year is the involvement ofFilm & History in the national meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA); we are an affiliated society ofAHA and our presence and participation is important. This year, we attended the meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, just a few blocks from Copley Square and Trinity Church—where your faithful Editor-in-Chief sang inthechoir as aboy soprano from the 4? to the 8th grades. On the scholarly level, we hosted a panel session entitled "CNN's ColdWar Series: Ideology or History?" Text in the program put the focus of the panel succinctly: "The CNN multi-episode "history" ofthe ColdWarhas been airing on the network for several years. In time, the series may find its way into public schools and libraries, supplanting other views of the struggle. Is Cold War a valid history of the conflict or is it an ideological statement?" Film & History made a mighty effort to involve John Gaddis, the Yale University professor who acted as advisor to the CNN series, but Prof. Gaddis was in England on a sabbatical and could The Boston Metropolis. Vol. 31.1 (2001) 1 1 Rollins I Regular Feature not take time out to defend Ted Turner and his producers. More prepared to participate were Richard Pipes, the Distinguished Research Professor of Russian Studies at Harvard University; Richard Raack, Emeritus Professor of History at California State U, Hayward; and Gabriel Schoenfeld...

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