Media Screen Roundup March 2017 A monthly digest of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published by the British Universities Film & Video Council at http://bufvc.ac.uk/2017/04/Media-Screen-Roundup-March-2017
Allred, Mason Kamana. Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity: Cultural Memory and the Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Routledge Focus on Film Studies 2. New York, NY: Routledge, 2017.
Archer, Neil. Beyond a Joke: Parody in English Film and Television Comedy. London: I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Biancorosso, Giorgio. Situated Listening: The Sound of Absorption in Classical Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Brill, Olaf, and Gary Don Rhodes. Expressionism in the Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Candan, Can. Kurdish documentary cinema in Turkey. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Celik, Ipek Azime. In Permanent Crisis: Ethnicity in Contemporary European Media and Cinema. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Christol, Florent. ‘Screening A Christmas Carol (Dickens, 1843): Adaptation as Completion’. Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, no. 82 Automne (2015). doi:10.4000/cve.2275.
Church, David. Disposable Passions: Vintage Pornography and the Material Legacies of Adult Cinema. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Cuff, Pauline. Abel Gance and the End of Silent Cinema: Sounding out Utopia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Curti, Roberto. Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1957/1969. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
De Luca, Tiago, and Nuno Barradas Jorge, eds. Slow Cinema. Traditions in World Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Delmont, Matthew. ‘Television News and the Making of the Boston Busing Crisis’. Journal of Urban History 43, no. 2 (2017): 218–34. doi:10.1177/0096144216688279.
Dixon, Wheeler Winston, Richard Graham. A Brief History of Comic Book Movies. New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016.
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Evans, Christine E. Between Truth and Time: A History of Soviet Central Television. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.
Folléa, Clémence. ‘Normative Ideology, Transgressive Aesthetics: Depicting and Exploring the Urban Underworld in Oliver Twist (1838), Twist (2003) and Boy Called Twist (2004)’. Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, no. 79 Printemps (2014). doi:10.4000/cve.1145.
García, Enrique. Cuban Cinema after the Cold War: A Critical Analysis of Selected Films. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
Gaudillière, Jean-Paul, and Ulrike Thoms, eds. The Development of Scientific Marketing in the Twentieth Century: Research for Sales in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Studies for the Social History of Medicine, Number 22. London ; Brookfield, Vermont: Pickering & Chatto, 2015. Includes the chapter, Marketing Film: Audiovisuals as Scientific Marketing and Medical Training in Psychiatry: The Example of Sandoz in the 1960s by Christian Bonah
Gordon, Marsha. Film Is like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Hagener, Malte, ed. The State of Post-Cinema: Tracing the Moving Image in the Age of Digital Dissemination. New York, NY: Springer Nature, 2016.
Hayes, Anita, and Ruth Hooper. Spondon Goes to the Pictures: A History of Sitwell Cinema. Spondon: Spondon Archive, 2015.
Heywood, Emma. ‘Comparing Russian, French and UK Television News: Portrayals of the Casualties of War’. Russian Journal of Communication 7, no. 1 (2015): 40–52. doi:10.1080/19409419.2015.1008940.
Ingham, Michael. Stage-Play and Screen-Play: The Intermediality of Theatre and Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Jacq, Jasmine, and Eugénie Zvonkine. ‘From Verbality to Performance: Aspects of Speech and Voice in Soviet Cinema’. Russian Journal of Communication 8, no. 2 (2016): 122–29. doi:10.1080/19409419.2016.1188608.
Kapanga, Kasongo M. The Writing of the Nation: Expressing Identity through Congolese Literary Texts and Films. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2016.
Kelly, Aaron. ‘Habeas Corpora: Trauma and Event in the Law of the Postmodern’. The Irish Review 53, no. 1 (2016): 9–28. [Representations of Northern Ireland in literature and film]
Kishore, Vikrant, ed. Salaam Bollywood: representations and interpretations. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016.
Kuc, Kamila. Visions of Avant-Garde Film: Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
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Lee, Alison, and Frederick D. King. ‘From Text, to Myth, to Meme: Penny Dreadful and Adaptation’. Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, no. 82 Automne (2015). doi:10.4000/cve.2343.
Leroy, Maxime. ‘Distorted Dreams: Peter Ibbetson from Illustration to Adaptation’. Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, no. 82 Automne (2015). doi:10.4000/cve.2332.
Magid, Annette M., ed. Apocalyptic Projections : A Study of Past Predictions, Current Trends and Future Intimations as Related to Film and Literature. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. Includes chapters, Getting the Doomsday We Deserve : Roland Emmerich's 2012 and the Neoliberal Disaster Film by Julian Cornell; Strange Days : Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron's Vision of Crises of Gender, Race and Technology at the Turn of the Millennium by Dinah Holtzman; and, The "Weird Spell" of the Empty City : Reimagining America in Post-Apocalyptic Films of the Atomic Age by Meghan Olivas
Peeters, Rens and Jacco van Sterkenberg. ‘Making Sense of Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Televised Football: Reception Research among British Students’. Sport in Society, 20, no 5-6 (2017). doi: 10.1080/17430437.2016.1158472
Manning, Sam. ‘Post-War Cinema-Going and Working-Class Communities: A Case Study of the Holyland, Belfast, 1945–1962’. Cultural and Social History 13, no. 4 (2016): 539–55. doi:10.1080/14780038.2016.1237407.
Mantrant, Sophie. ‘L’univers sonore de Sredni Vashtar (Andrew Birkin, 1981)’. Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, no. 82 Automne (2015). doi:10.4000/cve.2319.
Markovits, Andrei S., and Adam I. Green. ‘FIFA, the Video Game: A Major Vehicle for Soccer’s Popularization in the United States’. Sport in Society 20, no. 5–6 (2017): 716–34. doi:10.1080/17430437.2016.1158473.
McClean, Alison. ‘Painting the Town Red: The Impact of Anglo-Soviet Exchange on the Visual Arts in Britain in the 1930s’. Russian Journal of Communication 8, no. 3 (2016): 230–41. doi:10.1080/19409419.2016.1213616. [Includes Kino films and film-maker Ivor Montagu]
MacDougall, Philip, ed. Treason’s Harbours : Dockyards in Art, Literature and Film. Portsmouth, Hampshire: The Naval Dockyards Society, 2014.
McElhaney, Joe, ed. A Companion to Fritz Lang. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
McFarlane, Brian. Twenty British Films: A Guided Tour. Manchester, [UK]: Manchester University Press, 2015.
McGilligan, Patrick. Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane. New York, NY: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.
Mckinnon, Scott. Gay Men at the Movies: Cinema, Memory and the History of a Gay Male Community. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2016.
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Mellet, Laurent. Sense and Sensibility à l’écran : l’adaptation entre explication et consolation. Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, no. 82 Automne (2015). doi: 10.4000/cve.2361. Merigeau, Pascal. Jean Renoir: A Biography. Philadelphia, PA: Running Press Book Publishers, 2017.
Miller, Gemma. ‘“He Has No Children”: Changing Representations of the Child in Stage and Film Productions of Macbeth from Polanski to Kurzel’. Shakespeare 13, no. 1 (2017): 52–66. doi:10.1080/17450918.2016.1174728.
Moseley, Rachel, Helen Wheatley, and Helen Wood, eds. Television for Women: New Directions. London ; New York: Routledge, 2017.
Nance, Susan, ed. The Historical Animal. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2015.
Napier, Alan, and James Bigwood. Not Just Batman’s Butler: The Autobiography of Alan Napier. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
Naumann, Michel, and Natalia Naydenova. ‘Des Hauts de Hurlevent à Onimaru’. Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, no. 82 Automne (2015). doi:10.4000/cve.2289. . [From Wuthering Heights to Onimaru]
Newark, Peter. Bang out of Order!: The Rise and Fall of Actor Derek Newark. Bath: Brown Dog Books, 2016.
Newark, Tim. War Films. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd, 2016.
Pagès, Meriem, and Karolyn Kinane, eds. The Middle Ages on Television: Critical Essays. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
Price, Elain. Nid Sianel Gyffredin Mohoni! : Hanes Sefydlu S4C. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2016.
Raicu, Elena. ‘A Room with Two Views: An Insight into the 1985 and 2007 Film Adaptations of E. M. Forster’s Novel’. Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, no. 82 Automne (2015). doi:10.4000/cve.2302.
Rajamani, Imke. ‘Feeling Anger, Compassion and Community in Popular Telugu Cinema’. The Indian Economic & Social History Review 54, no. 1 (2017): 103–22. doi:10.1177/0019464616683482.
Rooney, Monique. Living Screens : Melodrama and Plasticity in Contemporary Film and Television. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Scheg, Abigail G., ed. Bullying in Popular Culture: Essays on Film, Television and Novels. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015. Includes the chapters, Bullying boundaries: how are reality television programs and school policies shaping youth perceptions of acceptable aggressive behaviors by Tamara Girardi; and, It gets
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better (when you come back from the grave and kill them all): bullying and the horror film and the indeterminacy of the monster by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Mariana J. Zorate and Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao
Spring, Dawn. ‘Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade’. Journal of American History 103, no. 4 (2017): 1109–10. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaw614.
Teo, Stephen. Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and inside Hollywood. Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2017.
Tiffin, George. A Star Is Born: The Moment an Actress Becomes an Icon. London: Head of Zeus, 2015.
Vidojković, Dario. ‘Early Representations of Wartime Violence in Films, 1914–1930’. Cultural History 6, no. 1 (2017): 37–56. doi:10.3366/cult.2017.0134.
White, John. European Art Cinema. London: Routledge, 2017.
Wimmler, Jutta. Religious Science Fiction in Battlestar Galactica and Caprica: Women as Mediators of the Sacred and Profane. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
Winston, Brian, Gail Vanstone, and Chi Wang. The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Zakharova, Larissa. ‘Was the Soviet Telephone a Medium of Secondary Orality? Some Evidence from Soviet Films of the 1930s–1970s’. Russian Journal of Communication 8, no. 2 (2016): 183–94. doi:10.1080/19409419.2016.1190235.
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