Recent Scholarship
Film
Baron, Jaimie, “Contemporary Documentary Film and ‘Archive Fever’: History, the Fragment, the Joke,” Velvet Light Trap, 60 (Fall 2007), 13–24.
Cagle, Chris, “Two Modes of Prestige Film,” Screen (Oxford), 48 (Autumn 2007), 291–311.
Ceplair, Larry, “Isobel Lennart and the Dynamics of Informing in Hollywood,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 27 (Oct. 2007), 513–29.
Davidson, Phebe, “‘History with Lightning’: The Legacy of D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation,” in Memory and Myth: The Civil War in Fiction and Film from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Cold Mountain, ed. David B. Sachsman, S. Kittrell Rushing, and Roy Morris Jr., 223–34. (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2007. xiv, 307 pp. Cloth, $62.95, isbn 978-1-55753-439-2. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-1-55753-440-8.)
Hoerl, Kristen, “Mario Van Peebles’s Panther and Popular Memories of the Black Panther Party,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24 (Aug. 2007), 206–27.
Hutton, Paul Andrew, “Silver Screen Desperado: Billy the Kid in the Movies,” New Mexico Historical Review, 82 (Spring 2007), 149–96. Heavily illustrated.
Jacobs, Stephen, “Karloff in Saskatchewan,” Saskatchewan History (Saskatoon), 59 (Spring 2007), 27–39. Heavily illustrated.
Kemmitt, Alicia, “Documentary Stories for Change: Viewing and Producing Immigrant Narratives as Social Documents,” Velvet Light Trap, 60 (Fall 2007), 25–36.
Ross, Harris, “D. W. Griffith v. City Hall: Politics, Ethnicity, and Chicago Film Censorship,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 100 (Spring 2007), 19–40.
Spohrer, Erika, “Becoming Extra-Textual: Celebrity Discourse and Paul Robeson’s Political Transformation,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 24 (June 2007), 151–68.
Barry, Thomas J., “The Rock Star as Contemporary Cowboy: Film Mythology and Ideology” (Kansas State University, 2006). Order No. DA3244646.
Greenwald, Michelle C., “Democracy and Capitalism in the American Western” (University of Tennessee, 2006). Order No. DA3251132.
Jarvinen, Lisa, “Hollywood’s Shadow: The American Film Industry and Its Spanish-Speaking Markets during the Transition to Sound, 1929–1936” (Syracuse University, 2006). Order No. DA3242500.
Kelley, N. Megan, “Passing Anxieties: Identity, Authenticity, and Performance in Hollywood Films, 1947–1960” (York University, Canada, 2006). Order No. DANR19837.
Mooney, Matthew J., “‘All join in the chorus’: Sheet Music, Vaudeville, and the Formation of American Cinema, 1904–1914” (University of California, Irvine, 2006). Order No. DA3243952.
O’Brien, Wesley J., Jr., “Soldiers’ Songs: Music’s Role in Representing Male Protagonists of Selected American Combat Films about the Vietnam War” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3247766.
Roberts, Van Thomas, “Censorship and Propaganda in the Warner Brothers War Films of World War II, 1942–1945” (Mississippi State University, 2006). Order No. DA3240155.
Woodman, Brian J., “Guerrillas of the Midwest: University Community Video and Grassroots Social Change Video in the Twin Cities” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3243456.
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