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Film

Joo, Eunwoo, “Miguk Musungyongwhawa Baekin Gukgaeui Tansang” (The birth of a white nation in American silent films), Miguksa Yongu/Korean Journal of American History (Seoul), 24 (Nov. 2006), 81–116. In Korean.

Kelly, David, “The Irish Films of Martin Scorsese,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 26 (July 2007), 1–16.

Mendible, Myra, “Sexy Señoritas and Other Imperial Fantasies: U.S. Foreign Policy, Domestic Fictions, and the Latina Body,” Screening the Past (Melbourne) (no. 22, 2007), http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/.

 

Carmichael, Deborah A., “The Griffith Brothers Circuits of Oklahoma: Film Exhibition Success outside the Hollywood Studio System” (Oklahoma State University, 2007). Order No. DA3259609.

Epstein, Rebecca Lindsey, “Crime and Nourishment: The Food and Foodways of Hollywood Gangster Films” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2005). Order No. DA3254767.

Hatch, Kristen Lee, “Playing Innocent: Shirley Temple and the Performance of Girlhood, 1850–1939” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2006). Order No. DA3254815.

Hillyer, Minette, “Making Home: Film and the Modern American Everyday” (University of California, Berkeley, 2006). Order No. DA3253896.

Ovalle, Priscilla Peña, “Shake Your Assets: Dance and the Performance of Latina Sexuality in Hollywood Film” (University of Southern California, 2006). Order No. DA3257767.

 

Ishizuka, Karen L., and Patricia R. Zimmermann, eds., Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xx, 333 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-520-23087-3. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-24807-6.)

Lewis, Jon, and Eric Smoodin, eds., Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. x, 413 pp. Cloth, $89.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3807-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-8223-3821-5.)

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