Recent Scholarship
Film
Binggeli, Elizabeth, “Burbanking Bigger and Bette the Bitch,” African American Review, 40 (Fall 2006), 475–92.
Brégent-Heald, Dominique, “Primitive Encounters: Film and Tourism in the North American West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 38 (Spring 2007), 47–67.
Damousi, Joy, “‘The Filthy American Twang’: Elocution, the Advent of American ‘Talkies’, and Australian Cultural Identity,” American Historical Review, 112 (April 2007), 394–416.
Eldridge, David, “Hollywood Censors History,” 49th Parallel (Birmingham) (no. 20, Winter 2006–2007), http://www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk.
Lederer, Susan E., “Dark Victory: Cancer and Popular Hollywood Film,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 81 (Spring 2007), 94–115.
León Aguinaga, Pablo, “El comercio cinematográfico como instrumento de la acción norteamericana en España durante la segunda guerra mundial” (The film industry as an instrument of U.S. action in Spain during World War II), Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea (Madrid), 28 (2006), 303–23. In Spanish.
McGehee, Margaret T., “Disturbing the Peace: Lost Boundaries, Pinky, and Censorship in Atlanta, Georgia, 1949–1952,” Cinema Journal, 46 (Fall 2006), 23–51.
Nathan, Daniel A., Peter Berg, and Erin Klemyk, “‘The Truth Wrapped in a Package of Lies’: Hollywood, History, and Martin Scorcese’s Gangs of New York,” in Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film, ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky, 91–111. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.)
Nichols, John, “Countering Censorship: Edgar Dale and the Film Appreciation Movement,” Cinema Journal, 46 (Fall 2006), 3–22.
Ohmer, Susan, “Speaking for the Audience: Double Features, Public Opinion, and the Struggle for Control in 1930s Hollywood,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24 (March 2007), 143–69.
Pingree, Geoff, “History Is What Remains: Cinema’s Challenge to Ideas about the Past,” in Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film, ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky, 31–51. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.)
Rosenstone, Robert, “In Praise of the Biopic,” in Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film, ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky, 11–29. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.)
Toplin, Robert Brent, “In Defense of the Filmmakers,” in Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film, ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky, 113–35. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.)
Whitney, Allison, “Race, Class, and the Pressure to Pass in the American Maternal Melodrama: The Case of Stella Dallas,” Journal of Film and Video, 59 (Spring 2007), 3–18.
Duncan, Lauren K., “3-D and the Era of Immersion (1985–2005): The Historic Implications of Modern Stereo Film Technology on Content and Presentation” (Regent University, 2006). Order No. DA3227763.
Herbison, Chauncey C., “B(l)ack to the World: Explorations of Race, Trauma Illness, and Healing in Selected Vietnam War Films” (University of Kansas, 2006). Order No. DA3222180.
Ramoutar, Nadia A., “The Color of Love on the Big Screen: The Portrayal of Women in Hollywood Films in Interracial Relationships from 1967 to 2005” (University of Florida, 2006). Order No. DA3224611.
Serna, Laura Isabel, “‘We’re going Yankee’: American Movies, Mexican Nationalism, Transnational Cinema, 1917–1935” (Harvard University, 2006). Order No. DA3217875.
Stearns, Thomas, “Camels in the Ukraine and Other Stories of Hollywood’s Pro-Soviet Interlude, 1943–1945” (University of Arkansas, 2005). Order No. DA3223279.
Wiebe, Carolyn, “Form, Function, and Change in the Romantic Comedy Film, 1940–2005” (New York University, 2006). Order No. DA3215499.
Francaviglia, Richard, and Jerry Rodnitzky, eds., Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. x, 138 pp. Cloth, $35.00, isbn 978-1-58544-566-0. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-58544-580-6.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.
Polan, Dana, Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. x, 406 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-520-24962-2. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-520-24963-9.)
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