New Publications and Articles / New Terms and Topics

  12 / 2005:

Journals
• Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22:4: - Philippa Gates: "»Fighting the Good Fight«: The Real and the Moral in the Contemporary Hollywood Combat Film" / - Danielle Bouchard / Jigna Desai: "»There´s Nothing More Debilitating than Travel«: Locating US Empire in Todd Haynes´ Safe".
• Journal of Popular Film & Television 33:2: "African Americans in Film and Television: Twentieth-Century Lessons for a New Millennium".
• Camera Obscura No.59: - Lindsey Moore: "Women in a Widening Frame: (Cross-)Cultural Projection, Spectatorship, and Iranian Cinema" / - Carolin Overhoff Ferreira: "The Adolescent as Postcolonial Allegory: Strategies of Intersubjectivity in Recent Portuguese Films" / - Brett Farmer: "The Fabulous Sublimity of Gay Diva Worship".
• Screen 46:3: "The child in film and television".
• Film Quarterly 59:1: - Russell Merritt: "Lost on Pleasure Islands: Storytelling in Disney´s Silly Symphonies" / - Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli: "Floating on the Borders of Europe: Sokurov´s Russian Ark" / - Joanna E.Rapf: "Doing Nothing – Harry Langdon and the Performance of Absence".

Books
• Irmbert Schenk / Christine Rüffert / Karl-Heinz Schmid / Alfred Tews (Hg.): Experiment Mainstream? Differenz und Uniformierung im populären Kino. Bertz + Fischer, Berlin
• Birgitta Steene: Ingmar Bergman. A Reference Guide. Amsterdam UP
• Catherine Constable: Thinking In Images. Film Theory, Feminist Philosophy and Marlene Dietrich. British Film Institute
• From Duke UP, Durham: - Steven Cohan: Incongruous Entertainment. Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical; - Leerom Medovoi: Rebels. Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity
• From McFarland, Jefferson/NC: - Gregory Desilet: Our Faith in Evil. Melodrama and the Effects of Entertainment Violence; - Gary D.Rhodes / John Parris Springer (Eds.): Docufictions. Essays on the Intersection of Documentary and Fictional Filmmaking; - Nathan C.Southern with Jacques Weissgerber: The Films of Louis Malle. A Critical Analysis.
• Lawrence Baron: Projecting the Holocaust into the Present: The Changing Focus of Contemporary Holocaust Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham/MD
• From I.B.Tauris, London & New York: - Sarah Smith: Children Cinema and Censorship: From Dracula to the Dead End Kids; - Mike Chopra-Gant: Hollywood Genres and Postwar America: Masculinity, Family and Nation in Popular Movies and Film Noir
• Wheeler Winston Dixon (Ed.): American Cinema of the 1940s. Themes and Variations. Rutgers UP, New Brunswick
• Eckhard Pabst (Hg.): Mythen, Mütter, Maschinen. Das Universum des James Cameron. Ludwig, Kiel
• Nigel Mather: Tears of laughter. Comedy-drama in 1990s British cinema. Manchester UP
• Steven Marsh: Popular Spanish Film Under Franco. Comedy and the Weakening of the State. Palgrave Macmillan, New York
• Peter Schulze: Transformation und Trance. Die Filme des Glauber Rocha als Arbeit am postkolonialen Gedächtnis. gardez!, Remscheid