Cinema Journal

Professional Notes 52.3

Edited by Eric Freedman, with Chris Robé

Recent Books

Albarran, Alan B., ed. The Social Media Industries. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Arapostathis, Stathis, and Graeme Gooday. Patently Contestable: Electrical Technologies and Inventor Identities on Trial in Britain. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Benson-Allott, Caetlin. Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Brook, Vincent. Land of Smoke and Mirrors: A Cultural History of Los Angeles. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013.

Brown, Ian, and Christopher T. Marsden. Regulating Code: Good Governance and Better Regulation in the Information Age. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Brunton, Finn. Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Costikyan, Greg. Uncertainty in Games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Fischer, Lucy. Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013.

Gallagher, Mark. Another Steven Soderbergh Experience: Authorship & Contemporary Hollywood. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Goldman, Eric A. The American Jewish Story Through Cinema. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Goodlad, Lauren M. E., Lilya Kaganovsky, and Robert A. Rushing, eds. Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.

Greven, David. Psycho-Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Hadjioannou, Markos. From Light to Byte: Towards an Ethics of Digital Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Harrow, Kenneth W. Trash: African Cinema from Below. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.

Hart, Kylo-Patrick R. Queer Males in Contemporary Cinema: Becoming Visible. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013.

Havens, Timothy. Black Television Travels: African American Media around the Globe. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Hjorth, Larissa, and Michael Arnold. Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia-Pacific. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Huhtamo, Erkki. Illusions in Motion: Media Archaeology of the Moving Panorama and Related Spectacles. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Humphrey, Daniel. Queer Bergman: Sexuality, Gender, and the European Art Cinema. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Johnson, Derek. Media Franchising: Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Juul, Jesper. The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Kassabian, Anahid. Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013.

Lev, Peter. Twentieth Century-Fox: The Zanuck-Skouras Years, 1935-1965. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Malitsky, Joshua. Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.

Massood, Paula J. Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013.

Maurice, Alice. The Cinema and Its Shadow: Race and Technology in Early Cinema. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

McCullough, Malcolm. Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

McGilligan, Patrick. George Cukor: A Double Life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Mirrlees, Tanner. Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Miyao, Daisuke. The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.

Nochimson, Martha P. David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

O’Rourke, Karen. Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Pace, Richard, and Brian P. Hinote. Amazon Town TV: An Audience Ethnography in Gurupá, Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Pomerance, Murray. The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013.

Portanova, Stamatia. Moving Without a Body: Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Rich, B. Ruby. New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.

Rybin, Steven. Michael Mann: Crime Auteur. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013.

San Filippo, Maria. The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.

Santa Ana, Otto. Juan in a Hundred: The Representation of Latinos on Network News. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Schulte, Stephanie Ricker. Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Serazio, Michael. Your Ad Here: The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing. New York: New York University Press, 2013.

Sito, Tom. Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013.

Smith-Shomade, Beretta E., ed. Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013.

Tompkins, Cynthia. Experimental Latin American Cinema: History and Aesthetics. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Toriasco, Domietta. The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Tzioumakis, Yannis, and Siân Lincoln, eds. The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2013.

Underberg, Natalie M., and Elayne Zorn. Digital Ethnography: Anthropology, Narrative, and New Media. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013.

Articles on Film and TV in Non-media Journals (compiled by Chris Robé)

Alsultany, Evelyn. "Arabs and Muslims in the Media after 9/11: Representational Strategies for a ‘Postrace’ Era,” American Quarterly 65, no. 1 (March 2013): 161-169.

Bignall, Simone. "Black Swan, Cracked Porcelain and Becoming-Animal,” Culture, Theory and Critique 54, no. 1 (2013): 121-138.

Boes, Tobias. "Political Animals: Serengeti Shall Not Die and the Cultural Heritage of Mankind,” German Studies Review 36, no. 1 (February 2013): 41-59.

Clare, Stephanie. "Is the Rectum a Mirror?: Queer Palindromes in John Greyson’s Fig Trees and Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 19, no. 2 (2013): 191-213.

D’Argenio, Maria Chiara. "A Contemporary Andean Type: The Representation of the Indigenous World in Claudia Llosa’s Films,” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 8, no. 1 (March 2013): 20-42.

Decherney, Peter. "Communicating Fair Use: Norms, Myth, and the Avant-Garde,” Law and Literature 25, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 50-64.

De Groof, Matthias. "Rouch’s Reflexive Turn: Indigenous Film as the Outcome of Reflexivity in Ethnographic Film,” Visual Anthropology 26, no. 2 (March 2013): 109-131.

Drake, Simone C. "More than Nationalism in Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and Kasi Lemmons’s Talk to Me,” Spectrum: A Journal on Black Men 1, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 29-54.

Garroway, Kristine Henriksen. "Was Bathsheba the Original Bridget Jones? A New Look at Bathsheba on Screen and in Biblical Scholarship,” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women’s Studies & Gender Issues no. 24 (Spring 2013): 53-73.

Gauch, Suzanne. "Impasses of Algerian Cinema,” Third Text 27, no. 2 (March 2013): 260-277.

Goltz, Dustin Bradley. "‘Sensible’ Suicide, Brutal Selfishness, and John Hughes’s Queer Bonds,” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 13, no. 2 (April 2013): 99-109.

Greenhill, Pauline, and Steven Kohm. "Hoodwinked! and Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade: Animated ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Films and the Rashômon Effect,” Marvels & Tales 27, no. 1 (2013): 89-108.

Heiduschke, Sebastian. "GDR Cinema as Commodity: Marketing DEFA Films since Unification,” German Studies Review 36, no. 1 (February 2013): 61-78.

Howe, Lawrence. "Charlie Chaplin in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Reflexive Ambiguity in Modern Times,” College Literature 40, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 45-65.

Jones, Sara. "Memory on Film: Testimony and Constructions of Authenticity in Documentaries about the German Democratic Republic,” European Journal of Cultural Studies 16, no. 2 (April 2013): 194-210.

Khoo, Olivia. "Bad Jokes, Bad English, Good Copy: Sukiyaki Western Django, or How the West Was Won,” Asian Studies Review 37, no. 1 (March 2013): 80-95.

Kumar, Akshaya. "Provincialising Bollywood? Cultural Economy of North-Indian Small-Town Nostalgia in the Indian Multiplex,” South Asian Popular Culture 11, no. 1 (April 2013): 61-74.

Lim, Joanne B Y. "Video Blogging and Youth Activism in Malaysia,” International Communication Gazette 75, no. 3 (April 2013): 300-321.

Magnus-Johnston, Kendra. "‘Reeling In’ Grimm Masculinities: Hucksters, Cross-Dressers, and Ninnies,” Marvels & Tales 27, no. 1 (2013): 65-88.

Miller, D. A. "Hitchcock’s Understyle: A Too-Close View of Rope,” Representations 121, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 1-30.

Mollet, Tracey. "‘With a smile and a song . . .’: Walt Disney and the Birth of the American Fairy Tale,” Marvels & Tales 27, no. 1 (2013): 109-124.

Neumann, Iver B. "Unexpected Enchantment in Unexpected Places: Mormonism in Battlestar Galactica,” European Journal of Cultural Studies 16, no. 2 (April 2013): 226-243.

Nikoloutsos, Konstantinos. "Reviving the Past: Cinematic History and Popular Memory in The 300 Spartans (1962),” Classical World 106, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 261-283.

O'Neill, Patricia. "Imagining Global India: Bollywood’s Transnational Appeal,” Continuum 27, no. 2 (April 2013): 254-266.

Pak-Shiraz, Nacim. "Imagining the Diaspora in the New Millennium Comedies of Iranian Cinema,” Iranian Studies 46, no. 2 (March 2013): 165-184.

Potter, George. "The Tramp & the Culture Industry: Adorno, Chaplin, and the Possibility of Progressive Comedy,” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 69, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 73-90.

Smets, Kevin, Philippe Meers, Roel Vande Winkel, and Sofie Van Bauwel. "Pride and Popcorn: Consuming the Idea of Community at Film Screenings in the Turkish Diaspora,” Identities 20, no. 2 (April 2013): 115-132.

Tan, Susan Shau Ming. "Burn with Us: Sacrificing Childhood in The Hunger Games,”

The Lion and the Unicorn 37, no. 1 (January 2013): 54-73.

Van Heuckelom, Kris. "Londoners and Outlanders: Polish Labour Migration through the European Lens,” The Slavonic and East European Review 91, no. 2 (April 2013): 210-234.

Warren, Shilyh. "Recognition on the Surface of Madeline Anderson’s I Am Somebody,” Signs 38, no. 2 (Winter 2013): 353-378.

Weber, Brenda R. "Masculinity, American Modernity, and Body Modification: A Feminist Reading of American Eunuchs,” Signs 38, no. 3 (Spring 2013): 671-694.

Willemen, Paul. "Indexicality, Fantasy and the Digital,” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 14, no. 1 (March 2013): 110-135.

Yang, Wei. "Voyage into an Unknown Future: A Genre Analysis of Chinese SF Film in the New Millennium,” Science Fiction Studies 40, no. 1 (March 2013): 133-147.

Zurawski, Joseph W. "Out of Focus: The Polish American Image in Film,” Polish American Studies 70, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 5-35.

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