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Harvey, Brian Daniel, “In the Stables of Hollywood: Frank Capra’s Treatment for mgm’s Soviet (1932),” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (March 2008), 37–53.

Heffelfinger, Elizabeth, “Foreign Policy, Domestic Fiction: Government-Sponsored Documentaries and Network Television Promote the Marshall Plan at Home,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (March 2008), 1–21.

Kuhn, Annette, “The Trouble with Elinor Glyn: Hollywood, Three Weeks, and the British Board of Film Censors,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (March 2008), 23–35.

Luconi, Stefano, “Il pregiudizio anti-italiano negli Stati Uniti tra identità etnica e questione razziale” (Anti-Italian prejudice in the United States between ethnic identity and racial issues), in Quei bravi ragazzi: Il cinema italoamericano contemporaneo (Those wiseguys: Contemporary Italian American cinema), ed. Giovanni Spagnoletti and Giuliana Muscio, 36–46. (Venice: Marsilio, 2007. €18.00, isbn 88-317-9265.) In Italian.

Smith, Matthew Wilson, “American Valkyries: Richard Wagner, D. W. Griffith, and the Birth of Classical Cinema,” Modernism/Modernity, 15 (April 2008), 221–42.

Yakin, Orhun, “Death Wish: Hollywood usulü suç ve ceza” (Death Wish: Crime and punishment Hollywood style), Dogu Bati: Düsünce Dergisi (Istanbul), 42 (June–Aug. 2007), 87–101. In Turkish.

 

Cooling, Chris, “Declarations of Independence: Film and the American Mythology” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3262672.

Gonder, Patrick, “Like a Monstrous Jigsaw: Genetics, Evolution, and the Body in the Horror Films of the 1950s” (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2007). Order No. DA3279082.

Kemper, Tom, “Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents, 1928–1949” (University of Southern California, 2007). Order No. DA3262686.

Lach, Pamella R., “Dancing Dreams: Performing American Identities in Postwar Hollywood Musicals, 1944–1958” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2007). Order No. DA3272694.

McBane, Barbara, “Asynchronicities: Sound-Image Disjunctions, Deviant Meanings, and Euro-American Cinema” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2007). Order No. DA3265748.

Renkus, William A., “American Political Films: 1968–1980” (University of Florida, 2007). Order No. DA3271191.

Simmons, Christopher Edison, “Diffusing Authorship into System: Thomas Harper Ince, the Emergence of the American Feature, and the Incean Society Films, 1911–1924” (University of Chicago, 2007). Order No. DA3273074.

Sinwell, Sarah E. S., “Fear of a Queer Cinema: Danger, Sex, and Identification in Contemporary American Independent Film” (Indiana University, 2007). Order No. DA3264324.

 

McLean, Adrienne L., Dying Swans and Madmen: Ballet, the Body, and Narrative Cinema. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008. xiv, 304 pp. Cloth, $70.00, isbn 978-0-8135-4279-9. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-0-8135-4280-5.)

Spagnoletti, Giovanni, and Giuliana Muscio, eds., Quei bravi ragazzi: Il cinema italoamericano contemporaneo (Those wiseguys: Contemporary Italian American cinema). (Venice: Marsilio, 2007. €18.00, isbn 88-317-9265.) In Italian.

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