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Recent Scholarship

Film

Addison, Heather, “Transcending Time: Jean Harlow and Hollywood’s Narrative of Decline,” Journal of Film and Video, 57 (Winter 2005), 32–46.

Beattie, Keith, “It’s Not Only Rock and Roll: Rockumentary, Direct Cinema, and Performative Display,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 24 (Dec. 2005), 21–41.

Boggs, Carl, “Pentagon Strategy, Hollywood, and the Technowar,” New Politics, 11 (Summer 2006), 108–21.

Casella, Donna R., “Feminism and the Female Author: The Not So Silent Career of the Woman Scenarist in Hollywood, 1896–1930,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 23 (July–Sept. 2006), 217–35.

Jones, Stan, “L.A. Transfer: Der Himmel Über Berlin to the City of Angels,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 24 (Dec. 2005), 63–81.

Meckna, Michael, “Louis Armstrong in the Movies, 1931–1969,” Popular Music and Society, 29 (July 2006), 359–73.

Smyth, J. E., “Hollywood ‘Takes One More Look’: Early Histories of Silent Hollywood and the Fallen Star Biography, 1932–1937,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 26 (June 2006), 179–201.

 

Connors, Clare, “The Hollywood Youth Narrative and the Family Values Campaign, 1980–1992” (University of Pittsburgh, 2005). Order No. DA3192936.

Panjeta, Lejla, “Mitoloska platforma mehanizama ubjedivanja kroz sinesteticke filmske poruke: Savremeni Americki film” (The mythological platform of persuasion mechanisms through cinematic film messages: The contemporary American film) (University of Tuzla, Bosnia, 2006). In Bosnian.

Taylor, Priscilla, “Culture and Mythos: Remembering the Hollywood Blacklist” (Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2005). Order No. DA3187920.

 

Scott, Ian, In Capra’s Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. x, 288 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2390-5.)

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