Cinema Journal

Winter 2009, 48:2
Fall 2008, 48:1
Summer 2008, 47:4
Spring 2008, 47:3
Winter 2008, 47:2
Fall 2007, 47:1
Summer 2007, 46:4
Spring 2007, 46:3
Winter 2007, 46:2
Fall 2006, 46:1
Summer 2006, 45:4
Spring 2006, 45:3
Winter 2006, 45:2
Cinema Journal Archives

Winter 2009, 48:2

"Wait for the Next Pictures": Intertextuality and Cliffhanger Continuity in Early Cinema and Comic Strips

Josh Lambert

Renoir and Murder

Karla Oeler

Herzog, Landscape, and Documentary

Eric Ames

Taking Hollywood Back: The Historical Costume Drama, the Bio-Pic, and Popular Front U.S. Film Criticism

Chris Robé

John Wayne as "Supercrip": Disabled Bodies and the Construction of "Hard" Masculinity in The Wings of Eagles

Russell Meeuf

Conference Report: Orphans Take Manhattan: The 6th Biannual Orphan Film Symposium, March 26-29, 2008 New York City submitted by Devin Orgeron

In Focus: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities

Edited by Tara McPherson

Book Reviews: BFI Film Classics, edited by Amanda D. Lotz

Fall 2008, 48:1

Examples in Theory: Interpassive Illustrations and Celluloid Fetishism

Boaz Hagin

The New Wave Meets the Tradition of Quality: Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Rodney Hill

"Feed Me!": Power Struggles and the Portrayal of Race in Little Shop of Horrors

Marc Jensen

Pop Go the Warner Bros., et al.: Marketing Film Songs during the Coming of Sound

Katherine Spring

The Eye of the Frog: Questions of Space in Films Using Digital Processes

Deborah Tudor

Conference Report: Border Crossings: Rethinking Silent Cinema, February 8–10, 2008, University of California, Berkeley, submitted by Steve Choe

In Focus: Sound Studies, edited by Michele Hilmes

Book Reviews: Sound Studies, edited by Amanda D. Lotz

Summer 2008, 47:4

The Creature from the Black Lagoon: Marilyn Monroe and Whiteness

Lois Banner

The Visual Re-creation of Black People in a "White" Country: Oscar Micheaux and Swedish Film Culture in the 1920s

Tommy Gustafsson

Of Myths and Men: Better Luck Tomorrow and the Mainstreaming of Asian America Cinema

Margaret Hillenbrand

Nothing on But Hoppy Badges: Hopalong Cassidy, William Boyd Enterprises, and Emergent Media Globalization

Michael Kackman

Noir Citizenship: Anthony Mann's Border Incident

Jonathan Auerbach

In Focus: The British Film Institute, edited by Toby Miller

Who Are These People? By Toby Miller
The British Film Institute by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
After the flood: BFI Publishing beyond the BFI
Rebecca Barden Reponds
Cultural Strategies: Publishing at the British Film Institute by Manuel Alvarado and Edward Buscombe
Whatever Happened to BFI Publishing? by Pam Cook
Implementing Cultural Policy: The Case of the BFI Distribution Library by Colin McArthur
In the Dark: The BFI Archive by Charlotte Brunsdon
In For a Downer? Notes on Some British Film Institute Feature Film Productions of the 1980s by Bill Grantham

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sara Ross

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terri Ginsberg)

Cinema Journal Annotated Index to Volume 47

Spring 2008, 47:3

Becoming Clifton Webb: A Queer Star in Mid-Century Hollywood

Leonard Leff

"The More You Look, the Less You Really Know": The Redemption of White Masculinity in Contemporary American and French Cinema

Judith Franco

National, Regional, and Global: New Waves of Latin American Cinema

Luisela Alvaray

What the Shadow Knows: Race, Image, and Meaning in Shadows (1922)

Alice Maurice

The Price of Heaven: Remaking Politics in All that Heaven Allows, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and Far from Heaven

Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky

In Focus: The Place of Television Studies: A View from the British Midlands, edited by Charlotte Brunsdon and Ann Gray

Is Television Studies History? by Charlotte Brunsdon
"Television Resurrections": Television and Memory by Amy Holdsworth
Feeling Sentimental about Television and Audiences by Helen Wood and Lisa Taylor
Is Archiving a Feminist Issue? Historical Research and the Past, Present, and Future of Television Studies by Rachel Moseley and Helen Wheatley
Television Studies Goes Digital by James Bennett

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sara Ross

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terri Ginsberg)

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Membership Directory

Winter 2008, 47:2

What the Public Wanted: Hollywood, 1937-1942

Catherine Jurca

Ingrid Bergman's Star Persona and the Alien Space of Stromboli

Ora Gelley

A Lotta Night Music: The Sound of Film Noir

Richard R. Ness

Suspenseful Situations: Melodramatic Narrative and the Contemporary Action Film

Scott Higgins

Guys Gone Wild? Soft-Core Video Professionalism and New Realities in Television Production

Vicki Mayer

In Focus: The Practitioner Interview, edited by Christine Cornea

Introduction: Interviews in Film and Television Studies by Christine Cornea
An Ethics and an Aesthetics of Interviewing by Scott MacDonald
Speaking of Soft Core by Linda Ruth Williams
The Recalcitrant Interviewee by Mark Kermode
Studying Up and F**cking Up: Ethnographic Interviewing in Production Studies by Vicki Mayer
After the Interview by Brett Mills

The Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Statement of Best Practices for Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sarah

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terri Ginsberg)

Fall 2007, 47:1

Kuhle Wampe and the Problem of Corporal Culture

Theodore F. Rippey

Making a Go of It: Paternity and Prohibition in the Films of Wes Anderson

Joshua Gooch

Irresistible Death: 21 Grams as Melodrama

Michael Stewart

A Mexican Nouvelle Vague: The Logic of New Waves under Globalization

Jeff Menne

In Focus: Teaching "Difficult" Films, edited by Paul McEwan

Exploitation Films: Teaching Sin in the Suburbs by Eric Schaefer
Racist Film: Teaching The Birth of a Nation by Paul McEwan
Misogynist Films: Teaching Top Gun by Tania Modleski
Teaching Indian Cinema by Sumita Chakravarty
Avant-Garde Films: Teaching Wavelength by Michael Zryd
Indecipherable Films: Teaching Gummo by Jeffrey Sconce

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sara Ross

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terri Ginsberg)

Summer 2007, 46:4

Having It All Ways: The Tourist, the Traveler, and the Local in The L Word

Candace Moore

Blackboard Jungle: The Ethnographic Narratives of Education on Film

Dan Leopard

Decompressing Modernity: South Korean Time Travel Narratives and the IMF Crisis

David Martin-Jones

The Australian Western, or A Settler Colonial Cinema par excellence

Peter Limbrick

In Focus: Visual Culture, Scholarship, and Sexual Images, edited by Chuck Kleinhans

Introduction: Prior Constraints by Chuck Kleinhans
How I published vintage queer filth in film, video, photography, and graphics over 25 years of editors, designers, lawyers, printers, and booksellers--and survived by Thomas Waugh
"Frenzy of the Visible," Indeed! by Linda Williams
You and Voyeurweb: Illustrating the Shifting Representation of the Penis on the Internet with User-Generated Content by Peter Lehman
Racism and Pornography: Evidence, Paradigms, and Publishing by Daniel Bernardi
Seizing Moving Image Pornography by José B. Capino
Academic Cult Erotica: Fluid Beings or a Cubicle of Our Own? by Katrien Jacobs
Conference Update by Chuck Kleinhans

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sara Ross

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terri Ginsberg)

Annotated Index to Volume 46

Spring 2007, 46:3

Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Television, 1950-1953

Yeidy M. Rivero

Moving Pictures, Still Lives: Staging National Tableaux and Text in Prospero's Books

Ryan Trimm

The Surrealism of the Photographic Image: Bazin, Barthes, and the Digital Sweet Hereafter

Adam Lowenstein

Visual "Drive" and Cinematic Narrative: Reading Gaze Theory in Lacan, Hitchcock, and Mulvey

Clifford T. Manlove

In Focus: The 21st Century Archive edited by Eric Schaefer

Archives and Access in the 21st Century by Rick Prelinger
Regional Moving Image Archives in the United States by Karan Sheldon
The Role of Orphan Films in the 21st Century Archive by Dan Streible
The Archivist, the Scholar, and Access to Historic Television Materials by Margaret A. Compton
Collective Effort: Archiving LGBT Moving Images by Lynne Kirste
The Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center by Mike Mashon

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sara Ross

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terri Ginsberg)

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Membership Directory

Winter 2007, 46:2

The Revered Gaze: The Medieval Imaginary of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ

Alison Griffiths

La Camera-Crayola: Authorship Comes of Age in the Cinema of Wes Anderson

Devin Orgeron

The Big Lift (1950): Image and Identity in Blockaded Berlin

Ralph Stern

Banal and Magnificent Space in Electra Glide in Blue (1973), or An Allegory of the Nixon Era

Mark Shiel

In Focus: Fair Use and Film, edited by Peter Decherney

From Fair Use to Exemption by Peter Decherney
Fair Use, Film, and the Advantages of Internet Distribution by Fred von Lohmann
Untold Stories: Collaborative Research on Documentary Filmmaker's Free Speech and Fair Use by Peter Jaszi and Patricia Aufderheide
Access to Orphan Works: Copyright Law, Preservation, and Politics by Eric J. Schwartz and Matt Williams
"If You Can't Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything": Piracy, Privacy, and Public Relations in 21st Century Hollywood by Jon Lewis

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sara Ross

Professional Notes

Terri Ginsberg

Fall 2006, 46:1

Countering Censorship: Edgar Dale and the Film Appreciation Movement

John Nichols

Disturbing the Peace: Lost Boundaries, Pinky, and Censorship in Atlanta, Georgia, 1949-1952

Margaret T. McGehee

Cinemagoing in Portsmouth during the 1930s

John Sedgwick

"The most explosive object to hit Britain since the V2!": The British Films of Hardy Kruger and Anglo-German Relations during the 1950s

Melanie Williams

In Focus: Documentary, edited by B. Ruby Rich

Bus 174 and the Living Present by Amy Villarejo
Cinema Solidarity: The Documentary Practice of Kim Longinotto by Patricia White
Rethinking Documentary in the Digital Age by Faye Ginsburg
Wu Wenguang: An Introduction by Chris Berry
DV: Individual Filmmaking by Wu Wenguang, translated by Cathryn Clayton

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sara Ross

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terri Ginsberg)

Summer 2006, 45:4

"Must the Players Keep Young?": Early Hollywood's Cult of Youth

Heather Addison

The Clothes Make the Fan: Fashion and Online Fandom when Buffy the Vampire Slayer Goes to eBay

Josh Stenger

"Have You Ever Seen the Inside of One of Those Places?": Psycho, Foucault, and the Postwar Context of Madness

Cynthia Erb

No(ir) Place to Go: Spatial Anxiety and Sartorial Intertextuality in Die Unberührbare

Mattias Frey

In Focus: Academic Labor, edited by Jonathan Buchsbaum

"Yes, we are students, but we are also workers": Interviews of Student Strike Organizers at NYU, interviewed by Jonathan Buchsbaum and Penny Lewis
"We are teachers, hear us roar": Contingent Faculty Author an Activist Culture by Marc Bousquet
Academic Labor: The Canadian Context by Vicky Smallman
Crisis and Resistance: A Union Fights Back by Barbara Bowen
The Crisis in Academic Employment: A Local Story by Jon Lewis

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sara Ross

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terri Ginsberg)

Annotated Index to Volume 45

Spring 2006, 45:3

"Before She Was a Virgin . . .": Doris Day and the Decline of Female Film Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s

Dennis Bingham

Brand-Name Literature: Film Adaptation and Selznick International Pictures' Rebecca (1940)

Kyle Dawson Edwards

Sex Is Dangerous, So Satisfy Your Wife: The Softcore Thriller in Its Contexts

David Andrews

From the Portrait to the Close-Up: Gender and Technology in Still Photography and Hollywood Cinematography

Patrick Keating

In Focus: The Death of 16mm? edited by Heather Hendershot

Archiving, Preserving, Screening 16mm by Jan-Christopher Horak
Film and Media Studies and the Law of the DVD by William Fisher and Jacqueline Harlow
16mm: Reports of Its Death Are Greatly Exaggerated by Scott MacDonald
Of Ghosts and Machines: An Interview with Zoe Beloff (interviewed by Heather Hendershot)

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Sara Ross

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terri Ginsberg)

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Membership Directory

Winter 2006, 45:2

Matthew Barney and the Paradox of the Neo-Avant-Garde Blockbuster

Alexandra Keller and Frazer Ward

The Academy and the Avant-Garde: A Relationship of Dependence and Resistance

Michael Zryd

Portrait of a Patriot's Son: Philip Ahn and Korean Diasporic Identities in Hollywood

Hye Seung Chung

Benshi as Stars: The Irony of the Popularity and Respectability of Voice Performers in Japanese Cinema

Hideaki Fujiki

In Focus: Writing for the American Screen, edited by James Schamus

What a Screenplay Isn't by Howard Rodman
Split Personality: Random Thoughts on Writing for Theater and Film by José Rivera
Documentary by Design by Sydnye White
Writers United? by John Auerbach
My Unexpected Life in the Mainstream by Jan Oxenberg

Archival News

Scott Higgins and Scott Ross

Professional Notes

Kirsten Moana Thompson (with Terry Ginsberg)

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