Recent Scholarship
Film
Davis, Blair, “Made-from-tv Movies: Turning 1950s Television into Films,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (June 2009), 197–218.
Hubka, David, Wendy Hovdestad, and Lil Tonmyr, “Child Maltreatment in Disney Animated Feature Films, 1937–2006,” Social Science Journal, 46 (Sept. 2009), 427–41.
Ovnick, Merry, “The Mark of Zorro: Silent Film’s Impact on 1920s Architecture in Los Angeles,” California History, 86 (no. 1, 2008), 28–64. Heavily illustrated.
Parmelee, Stephen, “Remembrance of Films Past: Film Posters on Film,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (June 2009), 181–95.
Prasch, Thomas, ed., “Insurgents and Guerrillas, Cowboys and Indians, Lions and Tigers and Bears: Film and History in Kansas and the Great Plains,” Kansas History, 32 (Summer 2009), 124–43.
Smyth, J. E., “Jim Crow, Jett Rink, and James Dean: Reconstructing Ferber’s Giant (1952–1956),” American Studies, 48 (Fall 2007), 5–27.
Czach, Elizabeth, “Careless Rapture: Artifacts and Archives of the Home Movie” (University of Rochester, 2008). Order No. DA3326528.
Feeney, Megan J., “Hollywood in Havana: Film Reception and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3328304.
Flynn, Peter, “Coming into Clover: Ireland and the Irish in Early American Cinema, 1895–1917” (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2008). Order No. DA3325276.
Gruenwald, Jacqueline C., “Revising Gender Roles: The De-evolution of the Heroine in the Film Adaptations of Edna Ferber” (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2008). Order No. DA3320328.
Jordan, Jessica Hope, “Sex and the Goddess: Hyper-femininity in American Film” (University of California, Davis, 2008).
Liepa, Torey, “Figures of Silent Speech: Silent Film Dialogue and the American Vernacular, 1909–1916” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3320809.
McKenna, Denise M., “The City That Made the Pictures Move: Gender, Labor, and the Film Industry in Los Angeles, 1908–1917” (New York University, 2008). Order No. DA3330159.
Moser, Joseph Paul, “Patriarchs, Pugilists, and Peacemakers: Interrogating Masculinity in Irish Film” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3324482.
Reinsch, Paul N., “At Least Half the Picture: Sound and Narration in the Postwar/Pre-Dolby American Film” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3325201.
Sheehan, Rebecca Anne, “Towards an ‘Infinite Cinema’: American Avant-Garde Film and Its Modernist Inheritance” (University of Pennsylvania, 2008). Order No. DA3328650.
Shin, Mina, “Yellow Hollywood: Asian Martial Arts in U.S. Global Cinema” (University of Southern California, 2008). Order No. DA3325019.
Swender, Rebecca Ann, “Sound Stages: Acting, Technology, and the Transition to Sound in America, 1928–1931” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2008). Order No. DA3327970.
Beltrán, Mary C., Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes: The Making and Meaning of Film and tv Stardom. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. x, 212 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03454-1. Paper, $25.00, isbn 978-0-252-07651-0.)
Neve, Brian, Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xii, 252 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-1-84511-560-9.)
Sato, Tadayuki, Eiga de manabu esunikku Amerika (Ethnic America learned through films). (Tokyo: ntt, 2008. 239 pp. ¥1,600, isbn 978-4-75714-191-9.) In Japanese.
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