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Banks, Taunya Lovell, “Outsider Citizens: Film Narratives about the Internment of Japanese Americans,” Suffolk University Law Review, 42 (no. 4, 2009), 769–94.

Baron, Lawrence, “The First Wave of American ‘Holocaust’ Films, 1945–1959,” American Historical Review, 115 (Feb. 2010), 90–114.

Cassano, Graham, “‘The Last of the World’s Afflicted Race of Humans Who Believe in Freedom’: Race, Colonial Whiteness, and Imperialism in John Ford and Dudley Nichols’s The Hurricane (1937),” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 44 (Feb. 2010), 117–36.

Craig, Siobhan, “The Third Man and the Wilder Side of Rubble,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 27 (May 2010), 193–209.

Doherty, Thomas, “The Rom-com Genre and the Shopping Gene,” oah Magazine of History, 24 (April 2010), 25–28.

Greene, Jane M., “Hollywood’s Production Code and Thirties Romantic Comedy,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 30 (March 2010), 55–73.

Ko, Dong-Yeon, “Jeonhoo hankuk youngwhaei deungjanghaneun joohan Miguneui image” (Representing American gis in postwar Korean cinema), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 30 (Nov. 2009), 147–75. In Korean.

Larrieux, Stéphanie, “The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: The Politics of Race, Gender, and Power in Post-apocalyptic Hollywood Cinema,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 27 (March 2010), 133–43.

Marsh, Bill, “Visual Education in the United States and the ‘Fly Pest’ Campaign of 1910,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 30 (March 2010), 21–36.

Mayer, Ruth, “The Glittering Machine of Modernity: The Chinatown in American Silent Film,” Modernism/Modernity, 16 (Nov. 2009), 661–84.

Okada, Jun, “‘Noble and Uplifting and Boring as Hell’: Asian American Film and Video, 1971–1982,” Cinema Journal, 49 (Fall 2009), 20–40.

Quinn, Eithne, “‘Tryin’ to Get Over’: Super Fly, Black Politics, and Post–Civil Rights Film Enterprise,” Cinema Journal, 49 (Winter 2010), 86–105.

Rosenbloom, Nancy J., “Toward a Middle-Class Cinema: Thomas Ince and the Social Problem Film, 1914–1920,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (Oct. 2009), 545–72.

 

Anderson, Kristen Michelle, “‘Comic Venus’: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3355172.

Bishop, Kyle William, “Dead Man Still Walking: A Critical Investigation into the Rise and Fall . . . and Rise of Zombie Cinema” (University of Arizona, 2009). Order No. DA3356396.

Ferrari, Michele Ierardi, “Boyz, Bastards, Virgins, and Pretty Women: Class and Gender in American Fiction and Film of the 1990s” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3364879.

Hofstetter, Angela Dawn, “Lyrical Beasts: Equine Metaphors of Race, Class, and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema” (Indiana University, 2009). Order No. DA3357987.

Jackson, Robert Andrew, “Fade In, Crossroads: The Southern Cinema, 1890–1940” (University of Virginia, 2009). Order No. DA3362836.

Johnson, Stephen Patrick, “Staying Power: The Mainstreaming of the Hard-Core Pornographic Film Industry, 1969–1990” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009). Order No. DA3359387.

Luft, Shanny, “The Devil’s Church: Conservative Protestantism and the Movies” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3355651.

Tillman, Aaron, “Magical American Jew: The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film” (University of Rhode Island, 2009). Order No. DA3368007.

Wang, Xiaofei, “Constructing Japaneseness: War, Race, and American Cinema, 1924–1992” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3355359.

 

Burgoyne, Robert, Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xvi, 235 pp. Cloth, $67.50, isbn 978-0-8166-4291-5. Paper, $22.50, isbn 978-0-8166-4292-2.) Revised edition.

Shannon, Christopher, Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema. (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2010. xxxiv, 220 pp. $25.00, isbn 978-1-58966-200-1.)

Toplin, Robert Brent, History by Hollywood. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x, 269 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07689-3.) Second edition.

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