James I Deutsch

Biographic Data

ID699580
NAMEJames I Deutsch
GIVEN NAMESJames I
FAMILY NAMEDeutsch
SIGNATUREDEUTSCH J I
AFFILIATIONSSmithsonian Institution
ORCID0000-0002-8566-701X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS60
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Nuremberg

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2026

  • Outback: Westerns in Australian Cinema

    James I DeutschARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2026

    The history of Australia shares many similarities with the history of the United States. In both cases, European settlers pushed aside the Aboriginal or Indigenous populations—declaring Australia a

  • The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema: Hollywood, D.C

    James I DeutschARTICLEHistorical Journal Of Film Radio…2026

  • Museum of Making . Derby, UK

    James I DeutschARTICLEThe Public Historian2026

  • Nazi Town, Usa: The Untold Story of Nazi Sympathizers on American Soil

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • Mister Polaroid

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • Historic Main Street Walking Tour

    James I DeutschARTICLEThe Public Historian2024

  • The American Buffalo

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2024

    Journal Article The American Buffalo Get access The American Buffalo. Dir. by Ken Burns. Prod. by Julie Dunfey and Ken Burns. Florentine Films and Weta Washington, D.C., for Pbs, 2023. 236 mins. (https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo) James I Deutsch James I Deutsch Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 202…

  • Canonical and Non-Canonical in Charming Texts and Practices

    James I Deutsch, Washington D C USA Smithsonian Center for Folklife and…ARTICLEIncantatio An International…2023

    Following a two-year pause due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the eleventh international interdisciplinary conference organized by the International Society for Folk Narrative Research’s Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming took place 6th to 9th September 2022, both in-person at the National Library of Latvia in Riga and online via Zoom. Although numbers were lower than the previous Charms conference, which took place in May 2019 in Pescara, …

  • Seven Poor Children ( Syv fattige børn ). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum)

    James I DeutschARTICLEThe Public Historian2023

    Review| November 01 2023 Seven Poor Children (Syv fattige børn). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum) Seven Poor Children (Syv fattige børn). Danish Welfare Museum (Danmarks Forsorgsmuseum), Svendborg, Denmark. Jeppe Wichmann Rasmussen, Curator, Researcher and Project Leader; Martin Friis Hansen, Researcher; Torden & Lynild (Thunder & Lightning), exhibition designers. September 19, 2020–ongoing. https://www.svendborgmuseum.dk/udstillin…

  • Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History Get access Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History. Dir. by Stephen Ives. Prod. by Amanda Pollak and Ives. Insignia Films for American Experience, Pbs, 2023. 60 mins. (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/ruthless-monopolys-secret-history/) James I Deutsch James I Deutsch Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jou…

  • Ted K

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article Ted K. Get access Ted K. Dir. by Tony Stone. Prod. by Sharlto Copley, Matt Flanders, and Tony Stone. Heathen Films, Ten by Twelve Productions and Verisimilitude Films, in association with Hideout Pictures and In Your Face Entertainment. Distributed by Super Ltd, 2021. 120 mins. (https://superltd.com/films/ted-k) James I Deutsch James I Deutsch Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…

  • Attica

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    Multiple books and films have documented the five-day uprising of some 1,200 inmates and their taking hostage thirty-nine guards and staff at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York in September 1971. For instance, A Time to Die: The Attica Prison Revolt (1975—and reissued in 1994 and 2011), by Tom Wicker, a New York Times editor-columnist and one of Attica's inmate-invited observers, records the events that culminated in the deaths …

  • The Velvet Underground

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    The Velvet Underground, directed by Todd Haynes, is exactly the sort of film you might expect to document the rise and fall of the legendary New York band that was mesmerizingly mind-blowing but also totally unpredictable and often frustratingly opaque. Haynes's film is all of the above—not surprising when you consider two of the director's earlier unconventional films about contemporary music: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988), which w…

  • The Trial of the Chicago 7

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    The trial of the Chicago Seven on charges of conspiracy and intent to incite a riot lasted nearly five months, from September 24, 1969, to February 18, 1970, in Chicago's U.S. District Court. The Trial of the Chicago 7, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin, lasts just two hours (not counting the final credits). Historians acknowledge that feature-length fictional films must inevitably take shortcuts and condense actual events—especially when so c…

  • The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    On February 12, 1946, the U.S. Army honorably discharged Sgt. Isaac Woodard (1919–1992) from Camp Gordon outside Augusta, Georgia, following service in World War II's Pacific theater. Still wearing his uniform, the African American veteran boarded a night bus toward Columbia, South Carolina, on his way home to see his wife. However, following an argument en route with the white Greyhound driver, Woodard stepped off the bus in the small town of Ba…

  • The Highwaymen

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2020

    In 1967 Bonnie and Clyde became one of the quintessential films of what historians today are calling the Hollywood renaissance. Starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty as its titular, glamorous outlaw heroes, the film became a type of litmus test for the divisive times that were the late 1960s. Defenders of traditional institutions and authorities tended to hate the film. Challengers of the status quo were among the film's staunchest supporters. …

  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

    Open AccessJames I Deutsch, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2020

    Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band. Dir. by Daniel Roher. Prod. by Andrew Munger, Stephen Paniccia, Sam Sutherland, and Lana Belle Mauro. Imagine Documentaries/White Pine Pictures, 2019. 102 mins. (https://www.whitepinepictures.com/once-were-brothers-robbie-robertson-the-band) James I Deutsch James I Deutsch Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C Search for other works by this aut…

  • Green Book

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    After years of relative obscurity, The Negro Motorist Green Book, also known as The Negro Travelers' Green Book or simply The Green Book, has suddenly emerged as a cinematic staple. In February 2019 the Smithsonian Channel released The Green Book: Guide to Freedom, a sixty-minute documentary directed by Yoruba Richen about African American travelers combating segregation in the mid-twentieth century. In 2020 Pbs plans to broadcast Driving while B…

  • The Eugenics Crusade

    Open AccessJames I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    The Eugenics Crusade succeeds in explaining-systematically, rationally, and intelligently-why the movement for eugenics captivated so many people in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Using extensive interviews with experts drawn from various disciplines, and richly illustrated with relevant photographs, motion pictures, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, and eugenics publications, The Eugenics Crusade tells a story …

  • Hidden Figures

    James I Deutsch, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Hidden Figures is a clever title. It suggests how the film's protagonists—known as computers, due to their mathematical abilities to calculate numbers accurately and rapidly by hand, in support of the U.S. aeronautics and space program—have been largely hidden from history. It also suggests how the solutions to certain mathematical problems are hidden until cracked by someone with the right stuff. Credit for the title goes to Margot Lee Shetterly…

  • The Post

    James I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    The heart of The Post covers a tumultuous seven-week period from May 13, 1971, to July 1, 1971—the day after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Pentagon Papers case in favor of the Washington Post and New York Times. It is a crucial period in the history of the Washington Post, as it seeks to become more than a local newspaper, under the leadership of the publisher Katharine Graham (played by Meryl Streep) and the executive editor Ben Bradlee (p…

  • The Founder

    James I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    Production companies often switch a film's release date to maximize what they perceive as opportunities for awards, marketing, and potential tie-ins. In the case of The Founder—about Ray Kroc, who created the McDonald's fast-food chain—the national release date bounced from November 24 to August 5 to December 16 (all 2016) before settling on January 20, 2017—not counting a one-week run at a Los Angeles theater starting on December 7, 2016, to qua…

  • The Boys of '36

    James I DeutschARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    The 1936 Summer Olympic Games in Berlin provide a setting for several enthralling historical narratives. Perhaps best known is the story of how Adolf Hitler's scheme for demonstrating Aryan supremacy in sports was spoiled by the victories of Jesse Owens (the winner of four gold medals in track and field) and other African Americans—a story highlighted by two other films in 2016: the biopic Race, about Owens, and the documentary Olympic Pride, Ame…

  • Exhibit Review: A 1,000-Year History of Polish Jews, Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland

    James I DeutschARTICLEThe Public Historian2016

    Book Review| May 01 2016 Exhibit Review: A 1,000-Year History of Polish Jews, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland A 1,000-Year History of Polish Jews. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland. Dariusz Stola, Director; Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Advisor to the Director and Chief Curator, Core Exhibition. October 28, 2014–present. http://www.polin.pl/en/. James I. Deutsch James I. Deutsch Smithsonian Ins…