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Film

Harvey, Brian D., “Soviet-American ‘Cinematic Diplomacy’ in the 1930s: Could the Russians Really Have Infiltrated Hollywood?,” Screen (Oxford), 46 (Winter 2005), 487–98.

Huntington, Tom, “King Kong: How the Greatest Special Effects Movie Was Made with the Simplest Technology,” American Heritage of Invention & Technology, 21 (Winter 2006), 20–31.

Rylance, David, “Breech Birth: The Receptions to D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation,” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich), 24 (Dec. 2005), 1–20.

Sigler, Carolyn, “‘I’ll Be Home for Christmas’: Misrule and the Paradox of Gender in World War II–Era Christmas Films,” Journal of American Culture, 28 (Dec. 2005), 345–56.

 

Brégent-Heald, Dominique, “Reel Borders: Imaging Mexico and Canada during the Classical Hollywood Period, 1929–1960” (Duke University, 2004). Order No. DA3171570.

Cagle, Paul Christopher, “Historical Foundations of Hollywood’s Social Problem Film, 1945–1967” (Brown University, 2005). Order No. DA3174579.

Gilbert, Tiffany Nicole, “Nuclear Diva: Constructing Cinematic Divadom in American Film, 1950–1959” (University of Virginia, 2005). Order No. DA3177485.

Rogers, Kenneth B., “Perceived Time: Boredom and Temporality in Experimental Film and Video (1965–1975)” (New York University, 2005). Order No. DA3170870.

Smyth, Jennifer Evelyn, “American Cavalcade: Classic Hollywood’s Filmic Writing of American History, 1928–1942” (Yale University, 2005). Order No. DA3168992.

 

Brunetta, Gian Piero, ed., Il cinema americano (The American cinema). (Turin: Einaudi, 2006. 1,015 pp. €28.00, isbn 88-06-1896-7.) In Italian.

Pavía Cogollos, José, El cuerpo y el comediante: Chaplin y Keaton (The body and the comic: Chaplin and Keaton). (Bilbao: Editorial upv, 2005. 313 pp. isbn 84-9705-819-4.)

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