Recent Scholarship
Film
Binggeli, Elizabeth, “The Unadapted: Warner Bros. Reads Zora Neale Hurston,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Summer 2009), 1–15.
Larson, Allen, “Hollywood Party, Jimmy Durante, and the Cultural Politics of Coherence,” Velvet Light Trap, 64 (Fall 2009), 11–22.
Laucht, Christoph, “‘An Extraordinary Achievement of the ‘American Way’: Hollywood and the Americanization of the Atom Bomb in Fat Man & Little Boy,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 1, 2009), 41–56.
Lavik, Erlend, “‘Not the Obstacle but the Means’: Film History and the Postmodern Challenge,” Rethinking History (London), 13 (Sept. 2009), 371–94.
Maguire, Lori, “The Destruction of New York City: A Recurrent Nightmare of American Cold War Cinema,” Cold War History (London), 9 (Nov. 2009), 513–24.
Newland, Paul, “Look Past the Violence: Automotive Destruction in American Movies,” European Journal of American Culture (Bristol), 28 (no. 1, 2009), 5–20.
Newman, Michael Z., “Indie Culture: In Pursuit of the Authentic Autonomous Alternative,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Summer 2009), 1634.
Osborne, Virginia Nickles, “‘The Most Ordinary Life Imaginable’: Cold War Culture in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer,” Southern Literary Journal, 41 (Spring 2009), 106–125.
Purcell, Fernando, “Una mercancía irresistible: El cine norteamericano y su impacto en Chile, 1910–1930” (An irresistable merchandise: North American cinema and its impact in Chile, 1910–1930), Historia Crítica, 38 (2009), 46–69. In Spanish.
Wasson, Haidee, “Electric Homes! Automatic Movies! Efficient Entertainment! 16mm and Cinema’s Domestication in the 1920s,” Cinema Journal, 48 (Summer 2009), 1–21.
Carman, Emily Susan, “Independent Stardom: Female Stars and Freelance Labor in 1930s Hollywood” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3343311.
Edwards, Tonia M., “From Boyz to the Banlieue: Race, Nation, and Mediated Resistance” (Indiana University, 2008). Order No. DA3331250.
Hawkins, Michael Gary, “Co-producing the Postcolonial: U.S.-Philippine Cinematic Relations, 1946–1986” (University of California, Los Angeles, 2008). Order No. DA3335885.
Nathanson, Elizabeth, “As Easy as Pie: Housework, Temporality, and Postfeminist Popular Culture” (Northwestern University, 2008). Order No. DA3336458.
Ross, Angela M., “The Princess Production: Locating Pocahontas in Time and Place” (University of Arizona, 2008). Order No. DA3336620.
Scandiffio, Theresa, “‘Better’n Any Circus That Ever Come to Town’: Cinema, Visual Culture, and Educational Programming at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, 1921–1935” (University of Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3338508.
Schlater, Angela, “Flaming Youth: Gender in 1920s Hollywood” (Loyola University, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3340166.
Hughes-Warrington, Marnie, ed., The History on Film Reader. (New York: Routledge, 2009. x, 326 pp. Cloth, $140.00, isbn 978-0-415-46220-4. Paper, $44.95, isbn 978-0-415-46219-8.)
MacDonald, Scott, Adventures of Perception: Cinema as Exploration; Essays/Interviews. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. viii, 427 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-520-25854-9. Paper, $29.95, isbn 978-0-520-25856-3.)
Prince, Stephen, Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xii, 388 pp. Cloth, $87.50, isbn 978-0-231-14870-2. Paper, $27.50, isbn 978-0-231-14871-9.)
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