Cinema Journal

Winter 2013, 52:2

ACCESS DENIED: Godard Palestine Representation

Niels Niessen

Mental Landscapes: Bazin, Deleuze, and Neorealism (Then and Now)

Justin Horton

"Hard to Handle": Camp Criticism, Trash-Film Reception, and the Transgressive Pleasures of Myra Breckinridge

David Scott Diffrient

Persistently Displaced: Situated Knowledges and Interrelated Histories in The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Samantha N. Sheppard

"Rotten to the Core": Exposing America's Energy-Media Complex in The China Syndrome

Tony Shaw

In Focus: Scholarly Publishing

edited by Mary C. Francis

Surveying Recent Scholarship on Fair Use: A Conversation

moderated by Peter Decherney

Winter 2012, 51:2

Robert Bresson’s Modernist Canvas: The Gesture toward Painting in Au hasard Balthazar

Raymond Watkins

Remembering Cinema “Elsewhere”: From Retrospection to Introspection in the Gallery Film

Catherine Fowler

Tweeting @feliciaday: Online Social Media, Convergence, and Subcultural Stardom

Elizabeth Ellcessor

US “Indie-Horror”: Critical Reception, Genre Construction, and Suspect Hybridity

Jamie Sexton

After New Latin American Cinema

Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez

Doing Justice: A Ritual-Psychoanalytic Approach to Postmodern Melodrama and a Certain Tendency of the Action Film

Richard Pope

Conference Report: Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms: The Promise and Peril of Transition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, May 13–15, 2011

submitted by Miranda Banks

In Focus: Screen Technologies

edited by Haidee Wasson

Book Reviews: Screen Studies

edited by Amanda Lotz

Fall 2012, 52:1

Cinematic Destiny: Marvel Studios and the Trade Stories of Industrial Convergence

Derek Johnson

From Irony to Narrative Crisis: Reconsidering the Femme Fatale in the Films of David Lynch

Frida Beckman

Postclassical Nonfiction: Narration in the Contemporary Documentary

Chris Cagle

Zombie Media: Transmission, Reproduction, and the Digital Dead

Allan Cameron

Mobile Endings: Screen Death, Early Narrative, and the Films of D. W. Griffith

Scott Combs

Nacer Khemir and the Subject of Beauty in Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

Firoozeh Papan-Matin

Conference Report: The Impact of Technological Innovations on the Historiography and Theory of Cinema

submitted by Daniel Fairfax

In Focus: Middle Eastern Media

edited by Kay Dickinson

Book Reviews: Middle Eastern Media

edited by Amanda Lotz

Summer 2012, 51:4

Cranked Masculinity: Hypermediation in Digital Action Cinema

Lorrie Palmer

Fatal Attractions: “Place,” the Korean War, and Gender in Niagara

Merrill Schleier

Television Crime Drama and Homeland Security: From Law & Order to “Terror TV”

Yvonne Tasker

The “Monumental” Heroine: Female Agency in Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen Geï

Anjali Prabhu

Media Heterotopia and Transnational Filmmaking: Mapping Real and Virtual Worlds

Hye Jean Chung

A Country for Old Men: Unforgiven, The Shootist, and the Post-Heyday Western

Jean-Christophe Cloutier

Three Translations: Sergei Tretyakov (Soviet Union), Juan Piqueras (Spain), and Matsumoto Toshio (Japan)

submitted by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Translation Committee

Festival Report: Forty-Ninth New York Film Festival September 30–October 16, 2011

submitted by Martha P. Nochimson

In Focus: Right-Wing Media

edited by Heather Hendershot

Book Reviews: Right-Wing Media

edited by Amanda Lotz

Spring 2012, 51:3

Cinema of Failed Revolt: Brian De Palma and the Death(s) of the Left

Chris Dumas

The Work of Film in the Age of Fordist Mechanization

Lee Grieveson

Historicizing the Shadows and the Acts: No Way Out and the Imagining of Black Activist Communities

Ryan De Rosa

“Smothered in Baked Alaska”: The Anxious Appeal of Widescreen Cinema

Ariel Rogers

White Noise: Performing the White, Middle-Class Family on 1930s Radio

Joy Elizabeth Hayes

In Focus: Performance

edited by Matthew Solomon

Book Reviews: Performance

edited by Amanda Lotz

Fall 2011, 51:1

Jim Brown: From Integration to Resegregation in The Dirty Dozen and 100 Rifles

Joshua Gleich

The Tango on Broadway: Carlos Gardel’s International Stardom and the Transition to Sound in Argentina

Rielle Navitski

Landscapes of Expression: Affective Encounters in South Indian Cinema

Anand Pandian

Memories of Memories: Historicity, Nostalgia, and Archive in Bong Joon-ho’s Memories of Murder

Joseph Jonghyun Jeon

Coloniality and the Trappings of Modernity in Viridiana and The Hand in the Trap

Susan Martin-Márquez

“There’s More Than One Way to Lose Your Heart”: The American Film Industry, Early Teen Slasher Films, and Female Youth

Richard Nowell

Conference Report—Cinema across Media: The 1920s, First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema, University of California, Berkeley, February 24–26, 2011

submitted by Allyson Nadia Field

In Focus: The Long Shadows of 9/11: Science Fiction, Thrillers and the War on Terror

edited by Will Brooker

9/11 Film and Media Scholarship: A Review Essay

David Slocum

Summer 2011, 50:4

From Exhibition to Genre: The Case of Grind-House Films

David Church

“It’s Just Not Turning Up”: Cinematic Vision and Environmental Justice in Todd Haynes’s Safe

Nicole Seymour

Hitting the “Vérité Jackpot”: The Ecstatic Profits of Freeze-Framed Violence

Amy Rust

Audiovisual Change: Viral Web Media and the Obama Campaign

Carol Vernallis

Lacan’s Harpo

Paul Flaig

Joe Swanberg, Intimacy, and the Digital Aesthetic

Aymar Jean Christian

Film Experience and the Formation of Illusion: The Spectator as ‘Surrogate Body’ for the Cinema

Christiane Voss translated by Inga Pollmann, SCMS Translation Committee; introduction by Vinzenz Hediger

In Memoriam: Peter Brunette (1944–2010)

Jon Lewis

Conference Report: Flow Conference, University of Texas at Austin, September 30–October 2, 2010

submitted by Louisa Stein

In Focus: Teaching Television in a Postnetwork Era

edited by Serra Tinic

Book Reviews: Teaching Television

edited by Amanda Lotz

Spring 2011, 50:3

The Benshi Track: Mizoguchi Kenji's The Downfall of Osen and the Sound Transition

Chika Kinoshita

A Certain Explicitness: Objectivity, History, and the Documentary Self

Joshua Malitsky

Localized Globalization and a Monster National: The Host and the South Korean Film Industry

Nikki J. Y. Lee

Out of the Screen and into the Theater: 3-D Film as Demo

Philip Sandifer

”Henri Bergson Talks to Us About Cinema,” by Michel Georges-Michel from Le Journal, February 20, 1914

translated and introduced by Louis-Georges Schwartz, SCMS Translation Committee

Mini-Dossier: Teaching Our Research . . . and Researching Our Teaching

edited by Ted Hovet and Elizabeth A. Lathrop, SCMS Teaching Committee

Festival Report: Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy, June 26–July 3, 2010

submitted by Haden Guest

Conference Report: Women and the Silent Screen VI, Bologna, Italy, June 24–26, 2010

submitted by Victoria Duckett

In Focus: Comics Studies: Fifty Years After Film Studies

edited by Bart Beaty

Surveying the World of Contemporary Comics Scholarship: A Conversation

moderated by Greg M. Smith

Winter 2011, 50:2

How Bridget Was Framed: The Irish Domestic in Early American Cinema, 1895-1917

Peter Flynn

Writer in the Hole: Desny v. Wilder, Copyright Law, and the Battle over Ideas

Eric Hoyt

Visual Aesthetics and Ways of Seeing: Comparing Ringu and The Ring

Valerie Wee

Traces of War: Memory, Trauma, and the Archive in Joseph Cedar Beaufort

Raz Yosef

Hollywood Gossip as Public Sphere: Hedda Hopper, Reader-Respondents, and the Red Scare, 1947-1965

Jennifer Frost

Tarkovsky's Nostalghia: Refusing Modernity, Re-Envisioning Beauty

Christy L. Burns

Conference Report: Eleventh International Domitor Conference, University of Toronto and Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, June 13-16, 2010

In Focus: Writing and Producing TV in the Post-Network Era edited by Sharon Marie Ross

Book Reviews: Industry Studies edited by Amanda D. Lotz

Fall 2010, 50:1

"Making People Think Is What It's All About": An Interview with Mike Leigh

Bert Cardullo

Race, Politics, and Censorship: D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation in France, 1916–1923

Melvyn Stokes

Inside Inside Man: Spike Lee and Post-9/11 Entertainment

Lori Harrison-Kahan

"I Wanted You to be Present": Guilt and the History of Violence in Michael Haneke's Caché

Ipek A. Celik

Cinema 3.0: The Interactive-Image

Kristen Daly

June Mathis's Valentino Scripts: Images of Male "Becoming" After the Great War

Thomas J. Slater

For Robin Wood, 1931–2009

Christopher Sharrett

Festival Report: Sundance Film Festival: Missing Gathers and Women Without Men, Park City, Utah, January 21–31, 2010 submitted by Chris Lippard

In Focus: Non-Western Historiography: A Polemic edited by Ahmet Gürata and Louise Spence

Book Reviews: Non-Western Historiography edited by Amanda D. Lotz

Summer 2010, 49:4

The Subject of Torture: Regarding the Pain of Americans in Hostel

Jason Middleton

Reassuring Convergence: Online Fandom, Race, and Disney's Notorious Song of the South

Jason Sperb

No Longer Themselves? Framing Digitally Enabled Posthumous "Performance"

Lisa Bode

Soviet-Indian Coproductions: Ali Baba as Political Allegory

Masha Salazkina

The Digital Multitude

Kristen Whissel

City of Women: Busby Berkeley, Architecture, and Urban Space

Lucy Fischer

Conference Report: The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum York University, Toronto, Canada, July 27–30, 2009 submitted by Jason Loviglio

In Focus: The French New Wave at Fifty: Pushing the Boundaries edited by Ginette Vincendeau

Book Reviews: Global Waves edited by Amanda Lotz

Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Statement of Fair Use Best Practices for Media Studies Publishing

Spring 2010, 49:3

TV, Time, and the Films of Andy Warhol

Graig Uhlin

Postfeminist Cliques? Class, Postfeminism, and the Molly Ringwald-John Hughes Films

Anthony C. Bleach

"Two Ways of Looking": The Critical Reception of 1940s Horror

Mark Jancovich

The Central Board of Film Certification Correspondence Files (1992–2002): A Discursive Rhetoric of Moral Panic, "Public" Protest, and Political Pressure

Nandana Bose

Conference Report: Comic Arts Conference at the San Diego Comic-Con, July 23–26, 2009
submitted by Greg M. Smith

Professional Development Dossier: Passion, Politics, and People

Karen Beckman

In Focus: China's Rise

edited by Michael Curtin

Book Reviews: Chinese Media

edited by Amanda Lotz

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Membership Directory

Winter 2010, 49:2

"I Do Exist": From "Black Insurgent" to Negotiating the Hollywood Divide—A Conversation with Julie Dash

Michael T. Martin

Flaming the Fans: Shame and the Aesthetics of Queer Fandom in Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine

Chad Bennett

Dangerous Fictions: Race, History, and King

Jennifer Fuller

Batman versus The Green Hornet: The Merchandisable TV Text and the Paradox of Licensing in the Classical Network Era

Avi Santo

"Tryin' To Get Over": Super Fly, Black Politics, and Post-Civil Rights Film Enterprise

Eithne Quinn

Contraband Cinema: Piracy, Titanic, and Central Asia

Barbara Klinger

Festival Review: The 21st Pan-African Film and TV Festival (FESPACO), February 28–March 7, 2009 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso submitted by Chris Lippard

In Focus: Cinephilia edited by Mark Betz

Book Reviews: Cinephilia & the Post-European Auteurs edited by Amanda D. Lotz

Fall 2009, 49:1

Avant-Garde Re-Enactment: World Mirror Cinema, Decasia, and The Heart of the World

Michele Pierson

"Noble and Uplifting and Boring as Hell": Asian American Film and Video, 1971–1982

Jun Okada

Looking for Vito

Michael Schiavi

What's the Deal With Soundtrack Albums? Metal Music and the Customized Aesthetics of Contemporary Horror

Joseph Tompkins

Undesirable Bodies and Desirable Labor: Documenting the Globalization and Digitization of Transnational American Dreams in Indian Call Centers

Dale Hudson

Sports of Spectatorship: Boxing Women of Color in Girlfight and Beyond

Camilla Fojas

Conference Report: Futures of Entertainment 3, November 21–22, 2008, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

submitted by Derek Kompare

SCMS Lifetime Membership Address, March 6, 2008, Philadelphia, PA: Stepping Sideways edited by Thomas Elsaesser

In Focus: SCMS at Fifty, edited by Lucy Fischer

Book Reviews: SCMS at Fifty

Summer 2009, 48:4

Electric Homes! Automatic Movies! Efficient Entertainment!: 16mm and Cinema's Domestication in the 1920s

Haidee Wasson

Contemporary Hollywood Masculinity and the Double-Protagonist Film

David Greven

Reading the Title Sequence (Vorspann, Générique)

Georg Stanitzek

Narnia as a Site of National Struggle: Marketing, Christianity, and National Purpose in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

James Russell

The Crowd Outside the Lettered City: Imagining the Mass Audience in 1920s India

Manishita Dass

Conference Report: Console-ing Passions, University of California–Santa Barbara, April 24–26, 2008

submitted by Moya Luckett

In Focus: Fandom and Feminism: Gender and the Politics of Fan Production

edited by Kristina Busse

Book Reviews: Feminist Film and Media Studies

edited by Amanda D. Lotz

Annotated Index to Volume 48

Spring 2009, 48:3

The Unadapted: Warner Bros. Reads Zora Neale Hurston

Elizabeth Binggeli

Indie Culture: In Pursuit of the Authentic Autonomous Alternative

Michael Z. Newman

Japan's Blair Witch: Restraint, Maturity, and Generic Canons in the British Critical Reception of Ring

Daniel Martin

Lives Aquatic: Mediterranean Cinema and an Ethics of Underwater Existence

Elena Past

In Memoriam: Manny Farber, 1917–2008

Robert Sklar

Conference Report: The 17th Annual Screen Conference, July 4–6, 2008 Glasgow, Scotland submitted by Will Straw

Teaching Dossier: Assignment Design edited by Kevin Sandler

Response to the In Focus Dossier on the British Film Institute

Andrew Lockett and Rob White

In Focus: Moving Between Platforms: Film, Television, Gaming, and Convergence

edited by Jonathan Gray

Book Reviews: Gaming

edited by Amanda D. Lotz

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Membership Directory

Winter 2009, 48:2

"Wait for the Next Pictures": Intertextuality and Cliffhanger Continuity in Early Cinema and Comic Strips

Josh Lambert

Renoir and Murder

Karla Oeler

Herzog, Landscape, and Documentary

Eric Ames

Taking Hollywood Back: The Historical Costume Drama, the Bio-Pic, and Popular Front U.S. Film Criticism

Chris Robé

John Wayne as "Supercrip": Disabled Bodies and the Construction of "Hard" Masculinity in The Wings of Eagles

Russell Meeuf

Conference Report: Orphans Take Manhattan: The 6th Biannual Orphan Film Symposium, March 26-29, 2008 New York City submitted by Devin Orgeron

In Focus: Media Studies and the Digital Humanities

Edited by Tara McPherson

Book Reviews: BFI Film Classics, edited by Amanda D. Lotz

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)