Recent Scholarship
Film
Abel, Richard, “‘Zip!-Zam!-Zowie!’: A New Take on Institutional American Cinema’s History before 1915,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (Dec. 2009), 421–32.
Aguinaga, Pablo León, “State-Corporate Relations, Film Trade, and the Cold War: The Failure of mpeaa’s Strategy in Spain, 1945–1960,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (Dec. 2009), 483–504.
Barrenechea, Antonio, “Hemispheric Horrors: Celluloid Vampires from the ‘Good Neighbor’ Era,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (Sept. 2009), 225–37.
Huebner, Andrew J., “The Conditional Optimist: Walt Disney’s Postwar Futurism,” The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture, 2 (Dec. 2009), 227–44.
Kitamura, Hiroshi, “Hollywood’s ‘New’ Orientalism: The Case of Tokyo File 212 (1951),” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (Dec. 2009), 505–22.
Orbach, Barak Y., “Prizefighting and the Birth of Movie Censorship,” Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 21 (Summer 2009), 251–304.
Purcell, Fernando, “Imágenes en proyección: Imperio, región y nación desde la óptica del cine norteamericano” (Screening images: Empire, region, and nation from a North American cinema perspective), in Ampliando miradas: Chile y su historia en un tiempo global (Widening views: Chile and its history in a global age), ed. Fernando Purcell and Alfredo Riquelme, 195–214. (Santiago: Ril Editores, 2009. 330 pp. Pesos 8.900, isbn 978-956-284-701-8.) In Spanish.
Scott, Ian, “Frank Capra and Leni Riefenstahl: Politics, Propaganda and the Personal,” Comparative American Studies (London), 7 (Dec. 2009), 285–97.
Argade, Jyoti, “Jungle Boys, Babus, and Camp Orientals: The Liminal Personae of the Film Star Sabu” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3352560.
Dotter, Anne, “Transnational Cultural Transactions: Distributing American Teen-Girl Films in France, 1986–2006” (University of Kansas, 2009). Order No. DA3354577.
Fusco, Katherine, “Time Material: Temporality, Narrative, and Modernity in Silent Film and American Naturalism” (Vanderbilt University, 2008). Order No. DA3346811.
Gershovich, Mikhail, “‘Making the Devil Useful’: English Teachers and the Movies in America, 1910–1941” (City University of New York, 2009). Order No. DA3344973.
Seymour, Nicole, “Foreign Bodies and Anti-bodies: Queer Bodily Transformations in Post–World War II Literature and Film” (Vanderbilt University, 2008). Order No. DA3346823.
Williams, Melissa Drue, “‘Excuse the Mess, but We Live Here’: Class, Gender, and Identity in the Post-Cold War working-class family sitcom” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3349803.
Bean, Shawn C., The First Hollywood: Florida and the Golden Age of Silent Filmmaking. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xiv, 193 pp. $27.50, isbn 978-0-8130-3243-6.)
Biskupski, M. B. B., Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939–1945. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010. xii, 362 pp. $60.00, isbn 978-0-8131-2559-6.)
Litvak, Joseph, The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. x,294 pp. Cloth, $79.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4467-4. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-0-8223-4484-1.)
Moore, Eileen C., Race Results: Hollywood vs. the Supreme Court; Ten Decades of Racial Decisions and Film. (Beverly Hills: Cool Titles, 2009. 305 pp. $25.95, isbn 978-1-935270-00-3.)
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