Recent Scholarship
Film
Anderson, Emily, “Treacherous Pin-ups, Politicized Prostitutes, and Activist Betrayals: Jane Fonda’s Body in Hollywood and Hanoi,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 25 (July 2008), 315–33.
Auerbach, Jonathan, “Noir Citizenship: Anthony Mann’s Border Incident,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 102–20.
Banner, Lois W., “The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Marilyn Monroe and Whiteness,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 4–29.
Bibler, Michael P., “Always the Tragic Jezebel: New Orleans, Katrina, and the Layered Discourse of a Doomed Southern City,” Southern Cultures, 14 (Summer 2008), 6–27.
Boddy, William, “A Century of Electronic Cinema,” Screen (Oxford), 49 (Summer 2008), 142–56.
Brown, Tom, “Spectacle/Gender/History: The Case of Gone with the Wind,” Screen (Oxford), 49 (Summer 2008), 157–78.
Carman, Emily Susan, “Independent Stardom: Female Film Stars and the Studio System in the 1930s,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 583–615.
Christie, Thomas B., and Andrew M. Clark, “Framing Two Enemies in Mass Media: A Content Analysis of U.S. Government Influence in American Film during World War II,” American Journalism, 25 (Winter 2008), 55–72.
Godfried, Nathan, “Revising Labor History for the Cold War: The ilgwu and the Film, With These Hands,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (Aug. 2008), 311–33.
Gustafsson, Tommy, “The Visual Re-creation of Black People in a ‘White’ Country: Oscar Micheaux and Swedish Film Culture in the 1920s,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 30–49.
Haspel, Paul, “Antietam, James Island, and Fort Wagner: The Battle Sequences in Edward Zwick’s Glory,” Studies in Popular Culture, 30 (Fall 2007), 65–85.
Jurca, Catherine, “What the Public Wanted: Hollywood, 1937–1942,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Winter 2008), 3–25.
Leff, Leonard, “Becoming Clifton Webb: A Queer Star in Mid-Century Hollywood,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Spring 2008), 3–28.
Maurice, Alice, “What the Shadow Knows: Race, Image, and Meaning in Shadows (1922),” Cinema Journal, 47 (Spring 2008), 66–89.
McFadden, Margaret T., “Shall We Dance? Gender and Class Conflict in Astaire-Rogers Dance Musicals,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 678–706.
Rogers-Carpenter, Katherine, “Re-envisioning 1930s Working Women: The Case of Kitty Foyle,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 707–30.
Ross, Harris, “The Pennsylvania State Board of Censors: The Great War, the Movies, and D. W. Griffith,” Pennsylvania History, 75 (Spring 2008), 227–59.
Sieving, Christopher, “The Concessions of Nat Turner,” Velvet Light Trap, 61 (Spring 2008), 38–50.
Davis, Blair, “The 1950s B-Movie: The Economics of Cultural Production” (McGill University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR32170.
Gillespie, Michael Boyce, “Significations of Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of a Black Film” (New York University, 2007). Order No. DA3286478.
Laderman, David Jon, “Slip-Sync: In/authenticity and Performance in the Punk Musical Film Cycle, 1978–1986” (University of California, Davis, 2007). Order No. DA3282986.
Robinson, Linda A., “Far from Simple: Nostalgia for America’s Turn-of-the-Century Small Town in Film and Television, 1940–1963” (Northwestern University, 2007). Order No. DA3278080.
Scott, Ellen Christine, “Race and the Struggle for Cinematic Meaning: Film Production, Censorship, and African American Reception, 1940–1960” (University of Michigan, 2007). Order No. DA3287628.
Setliff, Jonathan Stuart, “The March of Time and the American Century” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2007). Order No. DA3283403.
Briley, Ron, Michael K. Schoenecke, and Deborah A. Carmichael, eds., All-Stars and Movie Stars: Sports in Film and History. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. x, 318 pp. $40.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2448-3.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/rso/.
Lindlof, Thomas R., Hollywood under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. xii, 394 pp. $32.50, isbn 978-0-8131-2517-6.)
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