Recent Scholarship
Film
Averbach, Márgara, “La hora 25 de Spike Lee: Una propuesta renovada del ‘American dream’” (Spike Lee’s 25th Hour: A renewed proposal of the American dream), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007) In Spanish.
Cabrera, Marcela, “The Lion King: Una lectura de la sociedad norteamericana” (The Lion King: A reading of American society), De Sur a Norte: Perspectivas Sudamericanas sobre Estados Unidos (Dec. 2007) In Spanish.
Deocampo, Nick, “Cinema and Colonization: American Colonization and the Rise of Cinema in the Philippines,” Comparative American Studies (London), 5 (June 2007), 147–71.
Gonshak, Henry, “Does Judgment at Nuremberg Accurately Depict the Nazi War Crimes Trial?,” Journal of American Culture, 31 (June 2008), 153–63.
Johnson, Russell L., “Clara Bow in Free to Love (1925): Feature Films and Eugenics in the 1920s,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 27 (July 2008), 1–15.
Nadel, Alan, “The A-historical Actor on the Historical Stage: American Studies, the Cultural Borderline Personality, and John Sayles’ Lone Star,” Comparative American Studies (London), 6 (March 2008), 55–69.
Slater, Thomas J., “June Mathis’s The Legion of Death (1918): Melodrama and the Realities of Women in World War I,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Oct. 2008), 833–44.
Vizzini, Bryan E., “Cold War Fears, Cold War Passions: Conservatives and Liberals Square Off in 1950s Science Fiction,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 26 (Jan. 2009), 28–39.
Wetta, Frank J., and Martin A. Novelli, “Good Bombing, Bad Bombing: Hollywood, Air Warfare, and Morality in World War I and World War II,” oah Magazine of History, 22 (Oct. 2008), 25–29.
Burton, Aaron V., “Jesus in the Movies: A Rhetorical Analysis of Selected Films from 1912–2004” (Bowling Green State University, 2008). Order No. DA3301428.
Cavallero, Jonathan J., “Italian/American Filmmakers in American Motion Pictures: The Films of Capra, Scorsese, Savoca, Coppola, and Tarantino” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3301350.
Cobb, Sean D., “A Shadow Underneath: The Secret History of Paranoia, Borders, and Terrorism in Postwar American Literature and Film” (University of Arizona, 2007). Order No. DA3297822.
Garcia, Desirée J., “There’s No Place Like Home: Race Cinema, Migration, and the Hollywood Musical, 1900–1950” (Boston University, 2008). Order No. DA3296047.
Goltz, Dustin Bradley, “Tragedies from the Future: Temporal Politics in Gay Male Representation” (Arizona State University, 2008). Order No. DA3300662.
Khor, Denise, “Asian Americans at the Movies: Race, Labor, and Migration in the Transpacific West, 1900–1945” (University of California, San Diego, 2008). Order No. DA3291752.
Leary, Charles, “Film Performance and the American Vernacular: The Independent Acts of John Cassavetes” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3296820.
Malin, Leelannee K., “Reel Women: Depictions of Females in the Sport Film Genre” (Howard University, 2007). Order No. DA3299678.
Mithani, Sam, “The Hollywood Left: Cinematic Art and Activism in the 1930s” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3291776.
Overpeck, Deron, “Out of the Dark: American Film Exhibition, Political Action, and Industrial Change, 1966–1986” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2007). Order No. DA3295748.
Shafer, Leah Ruth, “Brand-Name Vision: Props and Comedy in the Films of John Hughes” (Cornell University, 2008). Order No. DA3300186.
Yaquinto, Marilyn, “Policing the World: American Mythologies and Hollywood’s Rogue Cop Character” (Bowling Green State University, 2006). Order No. DA3301780.
Keim, Norman O., Our Movie Houses: A History of Film and Cinematic Innovation in Central New York. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2008. xx, 181 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-0-8156-0896-7.)
Nevins, Francis M., and Gary D. Keller, The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots. (Tempe: Bilingual Press, 2008. xiv, 262 pp. Cloth, $50.00, isbn 978-1-931010-48-1. Paper, $35.00, isbn 978-1-931010-49-8.) Heavily illustrated.
Skal, David J., with Jessica Rains, Claude Rains: An Actor’s Voice. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 290 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8131-2432-2.)
Walsh, John Evangelist, When the Laughing Stopped: The Strange, Sad Death of Will Rogers. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. viii, 189 pp. $26.95, isbn 978-1-60223-029-3.)
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