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  No. 07 / 2006:

Journals
• Michael Zryd: "The Academy and the Avant-Garde: A Relationship of Dependence and Resistance" and Hideaki Fujiki: "Benshi as Stars: The Irony of the Popularity and Respectability of Voice Performers in Japanese Cinema" are in Cinema Journal´s winter-issue (45:2).
• Screen (47:2) has - among others - articles by Elizabeth Ezra: "The case of the phantom fetish: Louis Feuillade´s Les Vampires", by Dale Hudson: "»Just play yourself, `Maggie Cheung«´: Irma Vep, rethinking transnational stardom and unthinking national cinemas" (see: Olivier Assayas), and by Catherine Constable: "Baudrillard reloaded: interrelating philosophy and film via The Matrix Trilogy".
• The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television has in Vol. 26:1 Susan Tegel: "Leni Riefenstahl´s Gypsy Question Revisited: The Gypsy Extras in Tiefland" and two articles on Jean Renoir´s Salute to France / Salut à la France (by Janet Bergstrom and Brett Bowles).
• J.P.Telotte´s "Narratives of Resistance: Verhoeven´s Soldier of Orange" and Ivana Kronja´s"The Aesthetics of Violence in Recent Serbian Cinema: Masculinity in Crisis" are in the spring-issue of Film Criticism (30:3).

Books
• Christoph Hesse: "Filmform und Fetisch". Aisthesis Verlag (Bielefeld).
• Aus dem Bertz + Fischer Verlag (Berlin) kommen: Kristina Jaspers / Wolf Unterberger (Hg.): "Kino im Kopf: Psychologie und Film seit Sigmund Freud" sowie: Ralph Eue / Linda Söffker (Hg.): "Aki Kaurismäki".
• By the British Film Institute are new: Symon Quy: "Teaching Short Films" as well as: Mark Wheeler: "Hollywood. Politics and Society".
• Two new books from Blackwell (Malden/MA): - Rick Worland: "The Horror Film: An Introduction"; - Julie F.Codell (Ed.): Genre, Gender, Race, and World Cinema. An Anthology".
• Thomas Koebner / Fabienne Liptay (Hg.): Film-Konzepte Nr.4: Indien. edition text+kritik (München).
• William J.Mann: "Kate: The Woman who was Katherine Hepburn". Faber & Faber (London).
• Klaus Krüger / Thomas Hensel / Tanja Michalsky (Hg.): "Das bewegte Bild: Film und Kunst". Wilhelm Fink Verlag (Paderborn)
• Martina Roepke: "Privat-Vorstellung: Heimkino in Deutschland vor 1945". Georg Olms Verlag (Hildesheim).
• Announced by I.B.Tauris (London) are: - David West: "Chasing Dragons: An Introduction to the Martial Arts Film"; - Lina Khatib: "Filming The Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World"; - Hamid Reza Sadr: "Iranian Cinema: A Political History".
• Michelle Langford: "Allegorical Images: Tableau, Time and Gesture in the Cinema of Werner Schroeter". Intellect (Bristol/UK).
• There are or will be a few new books by John Libbey Publ. (Eastleigh/UK): on "Experimental Film and Video Anthology" (ed.by Jackie Hatfield); on Film Distribution from 1895 to the 1910s" (ed.by Frank Kessler and Nanna Verhoeff); on "Good Girls & Wicked Witches: Women in Disney's Feature Animation" (by Amy M.Davis); on "Inter - Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema" (ed.by Tytti Stoila); and on "Trading Culture: Global Traffic and Local Cultures in Film and Television" (ed.by Sylvia Harvey).
• From the John Hopkins UP are planned: John T.Irwin: "Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir" and Karen Ward Mahar: "Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood".
• Joseph McBride´s "What ever happened to Orson Welles?", J.E.Smyth´s "Reconstructing American Historical Cinema", and Tom Sito´s "Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson" are from the University of Kentucky Press (Lincoln).
• Roger Bryant on "William Powell" and Yvonne D.Sims on "Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture" are now available from McFarland (Jefferson).
• Vivienne Clark / Bill Malyszko: "Complete A-Z Media & Film Studies Handbook". Oxford UP (New York).
• Palgrave Macmillan (New York) offers: Sanjay Sharma: "Multicultural Encounters" and William M.Tsutsui / Michiko Ito (Eds.): "Godzilla's Footsteps: Japanese Pop Culture Icons on the Global Stage".
• Routledge has a few new books: - Alexandra Keller: "James Cameron"; - Angela Dalle Vacche / Brian Price (Eds.): "Color: The Film Reader"; - Rachel Dwyer: "Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema".
• Paul G.Pickowicz / Yingjin Zhang (Eds.): "From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China". Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham/MD).
• Harry Keyishian: "Screening Politics: The Politician in American Movies" and Charles L.P.Silet (Ed.): "The Films of Woody Allen" are from Scarecrow Press.
• Aus dem Schüren Verlag (Marburg) kommen Lars Dammanns "Kino im Aufbruch: New Hollywood 1967-1976" und Patrick Vonderaus: "Bilder vom Norden: Schwedisch-deutsche Filmbeziehungen, 1914-1939".
• Christian Wenger: "Jenseits der Sterne: Gemeinschaft und Identität in Fankulturen. Zur Konstitution des Star Trek-Fandoms". transcript (Bielefeld).
• Gerald Horne: "The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten". University of California Press (Berkeley).
• The `Conversations with Filmmakers´-Series of the University of Mississippi Press (Jackson) has three new books: with Andrei Tarkovsky (ed.by John Gianvito), with Federico Fellini (ed.by Bert Cardullo), and with The Coen Brothers (ed.by William Rodney Allen).
• Tim Jon Semmerling: "`Evil´ Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear". University of Texas Press (Austin).
• Neuveröffentlichungen aus dem UVK sind: - Markus Heide / Claudia Kotte: "Kanadischer Film: Geschichte, Themen, Tendenzen"; - Cornelia Ruhe: "Cinéma beur: Analysen zu einem neuen Genre des französischen Films"; - Lisa Gotto: "Traum und Trauma in Schwarz-Weiß: Ethnische Grenzgänge im amerikanischen Film".
• Hamid Dabashi (Ed.): "Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema". Verso Books (London).
• Ernest Mathijs (Ed.): "Lord of the Rings: Popular Culture in Global Context" (P.Jackson); Lester Friedman (Ed.): "Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism" (2nd ed.); Geetha Ramanathan: "Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women's Films"; and Daniel Frampton: "Filmosophy" (Film and Philosophy) are all new from Wallflower Press (London).
• Wayne State UP (Detroit) with J.David Riva (Ed.): "A Woman at War: Marlene Dietrich Remembered", and Catherine Fowler / Gillian Helfield (Eds.): "Representing the Rural: Space, Place, and Identity in Films about the Land".