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Film

Alley, Bill, “Crashing Timbers, Ice Floods, and Movie Stars: Universal Studios Comes to Klamath Falls,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 96 (Fall 2005), 181–86. Heavily illustrated.

Auerbach, Jonathan, “American Studies and Film, Blindness, and Insight,” American Quarterly, 58 (March 2006), 31–50.

Becker, Matt, “A Point of Little Hope: Hippie Horror Films and the Politics of Ambivalence,” Velvet Light Trap, 57 (Spring 2006), 42–59.

Chung, Hye Seung, “Portrait of a Patriot’s Son: Philip Ahn and Korean Diasporic Identities in Hollywood,” Cinema Journal, 45 (Winter 2006), 43–67.

Deacon, Desley, “‘Films as foreign offices’: Transnationalism at Paramount in the Twenties and Early Thirties,” in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake, 139–56. (Canberra: Australian National University, 2005. x, 278 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-920942-44-0.)

Ezquerra, Victor Junco, “Guerra Fría en Hollywood: Construcciones de identidad y alteridad en el ciclo de cine anticomunista, 1948–1952” (The Cold War in Hollywood: Constructions of identity and other in a cycle of anti-communist cinema, 1948–1952), Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses (Tenerife) (no. 49, 2004), 215–32. In Spanish.

Matthews, Jill Julius, “Modern Nomads and National Film History: The Multi-continental Career of J. D. Williams,” in Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective, ed. Ann Curthoys and Marilyn Lake, 157–69. (Canberra: Australian National University, 2005. x, 278 pp. Paper, $25.00, isbn 1-920942-44-0.)

Rosenbloom, Nancy J., “From Regulation to Censorship: Film and Political Culture in New York in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 3 (Oct. 2004), 369–406.

Zryd, Michael, “The Academy and the Avant-Garde: A Relationship of Dependence and Resistance,” Cinema Journal, 45 (Winter 2006), 17–42.

 

Askari, Kaveh, “Moving Pictures before Motion Pictures: The Pictorial Tradition and American Media Aesthetics, 1890–1920” (University of Chicago, 2005). Order No. DA3181312.

Barker, Jennifer, “The Aesthetics of Resistance: Modernism and Antifascism” (Indiana University, 2005). Order No. DA3178431.

Hunter, Latham, “The Celluloid Cubicle: Constructions of Masculinity in 1990s Office Movies” (McMaster University, Canada, 2005). Order No. DANQR04239.

Kaplan, Michael Alan, “Friendship and Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary” (Northwestern University, 2005). Order No. DA3177739.

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