Recent Scholarship
Film
Collins, Janelle, “Easing a Country’s Conscience: Little Rock’s Central High School in Film,” Southern Quarterly, 46 (Fall 2008), 78–90.
Frost, Jennifer, “Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Gossip, and the Politics of Racial Representation in Film, 1946–1948,” Journal of African American History, 93 (Winter 2008), 36–63.
Gordon, Terri J., “Film in the Second Degree: Cabaret and the Dark Side of Laughter,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 152 (Dec. 2008), 440–65.
Hoerl, Kristen, “Burning Mississippi into Memory? Cinematic Amnesia as a Resource for Remembering Civil Rights,” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26 (March 2009), 54–79.
Krukones, James H., “The Unspooling of Artkino: Soviet Film Distribution in America, 1940–1975,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (March 2009), 91–112.
Lambert, Josh, “‘Wait for the Next Pictures’: Intertextuality and Cliffhanger Continuity in Early Cinema and Comic Strips,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Winter 2009), 3–25.
Malin, Brenton J., “Mediating Emotion: Technology, Social Science, and Emotion in the Payne Fund Motion-Picture Studies,” Technology and Culture, 50 (April 2009), 366–90.
Marcus, Daniel, “William Wyler’s World War II Films and the Bombing of Civilian Populations,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (March 2009), 79–90.
Meeuf, Russell, “John Wayne as ‘Supercrip’: Disabled Bodies and the Construction of ‘Hard’ Masculinity in The Wings of Eagles,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Winter 2009), 88–113.
Nama, Adilifu, “R Is for Race, Not Rocket: Black Representation in American Science Fiction Cinema,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 26 (March 2009), 155–66.
Robé, Chris, “Taking Hollywood Back: The Historical Costume Drama, the Biopic, and Popular Front U.S. Film Criticism,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Winter 2009), 70–87.
Cuesta-Vélez, Cecilia, “The Northamerican Metaphor: Film, Literature, and Society in the Chronicles of Elisa Lerner” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2007). Order No. DA3318670.
Eaton, Rebecca Marie Doran, “Unheard Minimalisms: The Functions of the Minimalist Technique in Film Scores” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3311447.
Edwards, Kurt A., “Billy Graham, Elmer Gantry, and the Performance of a New American Revivalism” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3316812.
Farmer, Angela, “Monsters, Men, and Machines: Gender in Literature and Film, 1942–1962” (Auburn University, 2008). Order No. DA3317311.
Fisher, Kevin B., “Intimate Elsewheres: Altered States of Consciousness in Post WWII American Cinema” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3316979.
Meneghetti, Michael Anthony, “The Future Has Passed, the Past as Style: Martin Scorsese’s Histories” (University of Iowa, 2008). Order No. DA3323451.
Burgoyne, Robert, The Hollywood Historical Film. (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 2008. xiv, 173 pp. Cloth, $84.95, isbn 978-1-4051-4602-9. Paper, $30.00, isbn 978-1-4051-4603-6.)
Hess, Earl J., and Pratibha A. Dabholkar, Singin’ in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009. xiv, 331 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-7006-1656-5.)
Shandley, Robert R., Runaway Romances: Hollywood’s Postwar Tour of Europe. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009. xxvi, 197 pp. $59.50, isbn 978-1-59213-945-3.)
Sturtevant, Victoria, A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. xii, 194 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-252-03428-2. Paper, $20.00, isbn 978-0-252-07622-0.)
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