Recent Scholarship
Film
Dinerstein, Joel, “‘Emergent Noir’: Film Noir and the Great Depression in High Sierra (1941) and This Gun for Hire (1942),” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 415–48.
Elliot, Jane, “Stepford usa: Second-Wave Feminism, Domestic Labor, and the Representation of National Time,” Cultural Critique (no. 70, Fall 2008), 32–62.
Hanson, Philip, “The Arc of National Confidence and the Birth of Film Noir, 1929–1941,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 387–414.
Jacobs, Lea, “Unsophisticated Lady: The Vicissitudes of the Maternal Melodrama in Hollywood,” Modernism/Modernity, 16 (Jan. 2009), 123–40.
Rice, Tom, “‘The True Story of the Ku Klux Klan’: Defining the Klan through Film,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 42 (Dec. 2008), 471–88.
Sanfilippo, Matteo, “La figura dell’immigrato nel cinema statunitense” (The image of the immigrant in American movies), Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies (Rome), 169 (2008), 87–105. In Italian.
Gorfinkel, Elena, “‘Indecent Desires’: Sexploitation Cinema, 1960s Film Culture, and the Adult Film Audience” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3307997.
Houser, Tai Lynden, “Mind the Gap: Overcoming Dualities in Motor City, USA” (Florida Atlantic University, 2008). Order No. DA3316918.
James, Deveryle, “‘A Zoo of Lusts . . . A Harem of Fondled Hatreds’: Interrogating Sexual Violence against Women in Film, 1915–2003” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2008). Order No. DA3307654.
MacLeod, Douglas C., Jr., “De-politicization: A Process in Film Adaptation” (State University of New York, Albany, 2008). Order No. DA3311699.
Mosher, Jerry Dean, “Weighty Ambitions: Fat Actors and Figurations in American Cinema, 1910–1960” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3304674.
Segura, Allison C., “Perfect Creatures: A Social and Cultural Interpretation of Vampires in Fiction and Film” (University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2008). Order No. DA3313954.
Spiro, Jarrett, “The Impact of Network Position and Network Mobility on Collaborative Strategies, Novelty, and Innovation: The Case of the Artists Network in the U.S. Film Industry, 1909–2005” (Stanford University, 2008). Order No. DA3313667.
Steinberg Woll, Susan, “Persistence of Vision: A History of American Personal Documentary Film” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3308161.
Thomas, Katharine S., “Hollywood Blackface and Its Descendents: Negotiating Race and Difference through Performances of the Other in Hollywood Musicals” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3309515.
Turnock, Julie A., “Plastic Reality: Special Effects, Art, and Technology in 1970s U.S. Filmmaking” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3309114.
Abel, Richard, Giorgio Bertellini, and Rob King, eds., Early Cinema and the “National.” (New Barnet: John Libbey, 2008. vi, 354 pp. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-861-96689-9.)
Gehring, Wes D., Red Skelton: The Mask behind the Mask. (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 2008. xxxiv, 362 pp. $19.95, isbn 978-0-87195-275-2.)
Grieveson, Lee, and Haidee Wasson, eds., Inventing Film Studies. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. xxxii, 446 pp. Cloth, $99.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4289-2. Paper, $27.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4307-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
King, Rob, The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xvi, 355 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-520-25537-1. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-25538-8.)
Spehr, Paul, The Man Who Made Movies: W. K. L. Dickson. (New Barnet: John Libbey, 2008. vi, 706 pp. $49.95, isbn 978-0-861-96695-0.)
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