Cinema Journal: University of Texas Press

Cinema Journal is sponsored by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and presents recent scholarship by SCMS members. The journal publishes essays on a wide variety of subjects from diverse methodological perspectives. A "Professional Notes" section informs Society of Cinema and Media Studies readers about upcoming events, research opportunities, and the latest published research.

Cinema Journal is a member of the CELJ, the Conference of Editors of Learned Journals. It is indexed and/or abstracted in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Extended Academic Abstracts, Film Literature Index, International Index to Film Periodicals, and PMLA.

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

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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