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Film

Addison, Heather, “‘Must the Players Keep Young?’: Early Hollywood’s Cult of Youth,” Cinema Journal, 45 (Summer 2006), 3–25.

Dussere, Erik, “Out of the Past, Into the Supermarket: Consuming Film Noir,” Film Quarterly, 60 (Fall 2006), 16–27.

Eldridge, David, “‘There is hope for the future’: Retrospective Visions of the Bomb in 1950s Hollywood,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 26 (Aug. 2006), 292–309.

Glancy, Mark, “Temporary American Citizens? British Audiences, Hollywood Films, and the Threat of Americanization in the 1920s,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 26 (Oct. 2006), 461–84.

Leab, Daniel, “The Government and the Filming of George Orwell’s Animal Farm in the 1950s,” Media History (Abingdon), 12 (Aug. 2006), 133–55.

O’Reilly, Jean, “A Case Study: Ruggles of Red Gap, Leo McCarey, and Charles Laughton,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 23 (no. 5, 2006), 407–22.

Scott, Ian, “From Toscanini to Tennessee: Robert Risking, the owi, and the Construction of American Propoganda in World War II,” Journal of American Studies (Cambridge), 40 (Aug. 2006), 347–66.

Shaw, Tony, “Our Man in Managua: Alex Cox, U.S. Neo-Imperialism, and Transatlantic Cinematic Subversion in the 1980s,” Media History (Abingdon), 12 (Aug. 2006), 209–23.

Smith, Timothy B., “History in the Making: Shiloh: Portrait of a Battle Fifty Years Later,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 65 (Summer 2006), 148–61. Heavily illustrated.

Wetta, Frank J., and Martin A. Novelli, “‘Romantic isn’t it, Miss Dandridge?’: Sources and Meanings of John Ford’s Cavalry Trilogy,” American Nineteenth Century History (London), 7 (June 2006), 299–321.

 

Barrow, Ann, “Homeless on the Range: Masculinity and the Orphan Myth in the American Western, 1950–1990” (York University, Canada, 2005). Order No. DANR11547.

Kwiatkowski, Bruce Eric, “War or Peace? Representations of Pro- and Anti-war Sentiment in Popular American Combat Films, 1898 to 1974” (University of Toledo, 2005). Order No. DA3200877.

Ooten, Melissa Dawn, “Screen Strife: Race, Gender, and Movie Censorship in the New South, 1922–1965” (College of William and Mary, 2005). Order No. DA3201117.

Watson, Nessim John, “Action Movie Arabs and the American Call to Endless War: The Role of American Orientalism in Organizing the U.S. ‘Response’ to the 9/11 Attacks” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005). Order No. DA3193956.

 

Fernández, Susan J., and Robert P. Ingalls, Sunshine in the Dark: Florida in the Movies. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006. xviii, 283 pp. $34.95, isbn 0-8130-2990-2.) Heavily illustrated.

Horne, Gerald, The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. xiv, 360 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-520-24372-9. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-24860-1.)

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