New Publications and Articles / New Terms and Topics

  No. 05 / 2006:

Journals
• The first issue of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video in 2006 (23:1) is on "Anna May Wong and Orientalism".
• The Winter-Issue of the Journal of Popular Film & TV (33:4) has Phoebe Poon´s "The Corleone Chronicles: Revisiting The Godfather Films as Trilogy" and Kyle Bishop´s "Raising the Dead: Unearthing the Nonliterary Origins of Zombie Cinema".
• Screen´s spring-issue (47:1) has a.o. Barbara Klinger´s "The art film, affect and the female viewer: The Piano revisited" (s.Jane Campion) and Laikwan Pang´s "Walking into and out of the spectacle: China´s earliest film scene".
• Film History 18:1 is on "Cold-War German Cinema" (s.a.Postwar German Cinema).

Books
• Thomas Klein & Thomas Koebner (Hg.): "Robert Altman: Abschied vom Mythos Amerika". Bender (Mainz)
• New by Blackwell Publ. (Malden/MA & Oxford/UK): - Murray Smith & Thomas Wartenberg (Eds.): "Thinking Through Cinema: Film as Philosophy" // - Patrick McGee: "From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western".
• Rosalind Galt: "The New European Cinema: Redrawing the Map". Columbia UP (New York).
• From Continuum (London & New York): - Warren Buckland: "Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster" // - David Clarke: "German Cinema Since Unification".
• Priya Jaikumar: "Cinema at the End of Empire: A Politics of Transition in Britain and India". Duke UP (Durham)
• Aus der edition text + kritik (München): - Film-Konzepte Nr.2 hg.v.Th.Koebner & F.Liptay): "Chaplin - Keaton: Verlierer und Gewinner der Moderne" // - Jan Distelmeyer (Hg.): "Spaß beiseite: Jüdischer Humor, `Arisierung´ und verdrängendes Lachen".
• Mike Figgis: "Digital Film-Making". Faber & Faber (London)
• I.B.Tauris (London & New York) has: - Howard Hughes: "Crime Wave: The Filmgoers´ Guide to Great Crime Movies" // - Roz Kaveney: "Teen Dreams".
• Werner Barg / Horst Niesyto / Jan Schmolling (Hg.): "Grundlagen und Praxishilfen für die Filmbildung". kopaed (München)
• New Publications by McFarland (Jefferson/NC): - James F.Broderick: "The Literary Galaxy of Star Trek: An Analysis of References and Themes in the Television Series and Films" // - M.Ray Lott: "Police on Screen: Hollywood Cops, Detectives, Marshals and Rangers" // - Leonard Mustazza: "The Literary Filmography. 6200 Adaptations of Books, Short Stories and Other Nondramatic Works" (2 Vols.).
• By Palgrave Macmillan (New York) are: - Karl Kroeber: "Make Believe in Film and Fiction: Visual vs. Verbal Storytelling" // - Shakuntala Banaji: "Reading `Bollywood´: The Young Audience and Hindi Films".
• Peter Lang Verlagsgruppe (Frankfurt/M etc.): - Frank Eugene Beaver: "Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art" // - Matthew Wilhelm Kapell & John Shelton Lawrence (Eds.): "Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, and Critics" (s. G.Lucas) // - Philip Kiszely: "Hollywood Through Private Eyes: The Screen Adaptation of the 'Hard-Boiled' Private Detective Novel in the Studio Era".
• New from Routledge (London & New York) are: - Karen Hollinger: "The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star" // - Martin Lefebvre (Ed.): "Landscape and Film" // - Catherine Grant & Annette Kuhn (Eds.): "Screening World Cinema: The Screen Reader".
• Richard Schickel (Ed.): "The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian". Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham/MD).
• Celeste A.Fisher: "Black on Black: Urban Youth Films and the Multicultural Audience". Scarecrow (Lanham/MD).
• Neues aus dem Schüren Verlag (Marburg): - Alice Bienk: "Filmsprache: Einführung in die interaktive Filmanalyse" // - Felicitas Kleiner: "Scheherazade im Kino" (s.: Orientalism or Fantasy Film) // - Susanne Marschall & Fabienne Liptay (Hg.): "Mit allen Sinnen: Gefühl und Empfindung im Kino".
• Markus Fellner: "psycho movie: Zur Konstruktion psychischer Störung im Spielfilm". transcript (Bielefeld).
• Eva Cherniavsky: "Incorporations: Race, Nation, and the Body Politics of Capital". University of Minnesota Press.
• 3 new Interview-Books by the University of Mississippi Press: with Howard Hawks (ed. by Scott Breivold), Liv Ullmann (ed. by Robert Emmet Long), and Woody Allen (ed. by Robert E.Kapsis & Kathie Coblentz)
• Sergio de la Mora: "Cinemachismo: Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film" and David Hogarth: "Realer Than Reel: Global Directions in Documentary", both at the University of Texas Press
• Anja Streiter: "Jacques Doillon: Autorenkino und Filmschauspiel". Vorwerk 8 (Berlin)