New Publications and Articles / New Terms and Topics

  No. 06 / 2006:

Journals
• The Spring-issue of The Velvet Light Trap No.57 is on "Authorship".
• Quarterly Review of Film and Video 23:3 with articles on Leni Riefenstahl (by S.Tegel), Neorealism (by R.Gabara), "the Woman Scenarist in Hollywood - 1896-1930" (by D.R.Casella - see: Women at/in the movies), Murnau´s The Last Laugh (by J.N.Bade), and Hawks´ Rio Bravo (by D.L.G.Arnold).
• Two main articles in the summer-issue of Film Quarterly (59:4): Stephen Prince: "Beholding Blood Sacrifice in The Passion of the Christ: How Real Is Movie Violence?" (s.: Mel Gibson) and Kristen Whissel: "Tales of Upward Mobility: The New Verticality and Digital Special Effects".

Books
• Anat Zanger: "Film Remakes as Ritual and Disguise: From Carmen to Ripley". Amsterdam UP.
• Der Bender Verlag (Mainz) hat eine neue Reihe `Genres/Stile´ mit den ersten beiden Bänden zur Nouvelle Vague und zu Road Movies (hg.v. Norbert Grob u. Thomas Klein).
• British Film Institute with: - John Hill: "Cinema and Northern Ireland: Film, Culture and Politics" // - Mark Wheeler: "Hollywood. Politics and Society".
• From Edinburgh UP are Ian Conrich / Estella Tincknell (Eds.): "Film's Musical Moments" and Yannis Tzioumakis: "American Independent Cinema".
• Thomas Koebner / Fabienne Liptay (Hg.): Film-Konzepte Nr.3: "Nicolas Roeg". Edition text + kritik (München)
• Robert L.McLaughlin / Sally E.Parry: "We'll Always have the Movies. American Cinema during World War II". University of Kentucky Press (Lexington).
• New Books by McFarland (Jefferson/NC): - Rogelio Agrasánchez, Jr.: "Mexican Movies in the United States: A History of the Films, Theaters and Audiences, 1920–1960" // - Randy Rasmussen: "Orson Welles: Six Films Analyzed, Scene by Scene" // - Barnett Singer: "Brigitte Bardot: A Biography".
• Vinay Lal / Ashis Nandy: "Fingerprinting Popular Culture: The Mythic and the Iconic in Indian Cinema". Oxford UP (New York)
• Peter Lehman (Ed.): "Pornography: Film and Culture". Rutgers UP (New Brunswick/NJ).
• Scarecrow (Lanham/MD) published recently: - Reynold Humphries: "The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape" // - Jason Sperb: "The Kubrick Facade: Faces and Voices in the Films of Stanley Kubrick".
• Julia Nieder: Die Filme von Hayao Miyazaki. Schüren (Marburg)
• Philippa Gates: "Detecting Men: Masculinity and the Hollywood Detective Film". State University of New York Press (Albany).
• Announced by the University of California Press for August is Richard Abel´s new book "Americanizing the Movies and `Movie-Mad´ Audiences, 1910-1914" (s.: Early American Cinema or Historical Reception).
• Marvin D'Lugo: "Pedro Almodóvar". University of Illinois Press (Urbana)
• Eduardo González: "Cuba and the Tempest: Literature and Cinema in the Time of Diaspora". Uni of North Carolina Pr (Chapel Hill).
• From the University of Minnesota Press: - Katarzyna Marciniak: "Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference" // - Cynthia Chris: "Watching Wildlife" (s. Animals in Film).
• Patricia Melzer: "Alien Constructions. Science Fiction and Feminist Thought". Uni. of Texas Pr. (Austin).
• Deborah A.Carmichael (Ed.): "Landscape of Hollywood Westerns: Ecocriticism in an American Film Genre". Uni of Utah Press (Salt Lake City)
• John Orr / Elzbieta Ostrowska (Eds.): "The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World" and Dina Iordanova (Ed.): "The Cinema of the Balkans" (s. Eastern Europe) are by Wallflower Press (London).
• Gunter Süß: "Sound Subjects - Zur Rolle des Tons in Film und Computerspiel". Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.