Issue 10
Articles
Miramax's Asian Experiment: Creating a Model for Crossover Hits
Lisa Dombrowski
"If we stretch our imaginations": the Monstrous-Feminine Mother in Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby (1993) and Alexandra's Project (2003)
D. Bruno Starrs
Dogville: Lars Von Trier's Desexualized America
Ahmed F. Elbeshlawy
[ALL ARTICLES ON ONE PAGE]
Book Reviews
Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture By Ted Friedman
Reviewer: Anne Petersen
Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry
By Richard M.J. Fischer
Reviewer: Farhang Erfani
Uncovering the Holocaust: The International Reception of Night and Fog By Ewout van der Knaap (ed.)
Reviewer: Chris Cagle
Color: The Film Reader By Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price (eds.)
Reviewer: Deborah Allison
Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture By Annalee Newitz
Reviewer: Natasha Patterson
Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory By Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener (eds.) & Quintessential Tarantino
Reviewer: Ryan Shand
Billy Wilder, American Film Realist By Richard Armstrong
Reviewer: Thorsten Carstensen
Carmen: From Silent Film to MTV By Chris Perriam and Ann Davies (eds.)
Reviewer: Tom Whittaker
The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931 – 1941: Madness in a Social Landscape
By Reynold Humphries & The Quest for the Wicker Man By Benjamin Franks, Stephen Harper, Jonathan Murray and Lesley Stevenson (eds.)
Reviewer: Edmund P. Cueva
Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative in National Contexts By David Martin-Jones
Reviewer: Terry Rowden
Filmosophy By Daniel Frampton
Reviewer: Ils Huygens
Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image
By Laura Mulvey
Reviewer: Daniel Herbert
Robert and Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922 By Robert J. Christopher
Reviewer: Timothy Shorkey
Directed By Stephen Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Blockbuster By Warren Buckland & In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin By Ian Scott
Reviewer: Elaine Lennon
Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment By Douglas Brode
Reviewer: D.K. Peterson
The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture By Diane Negra (ed.) & Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000 By Maria Pramaggiore
Reviewer: Sinéad Moynihan
Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and The European Road Movie By Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli
Reviewer: Fiona Handyside
Film Remakes By Constantine Verevis
Reviewer: Vicente Rodríguez Ortega
[ALL BOOK REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]
Film Reviews
The Namesake
Reviewer: Rashna Wadia Richards
El Topo
Reviewer: Jo Eadie
Sugar
Reviewer: Richard Harrison
Water
Reviewer: Amitava Nag
Babel
Reviewer: Devorah Macdonald
[ALL FILM REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]
Conference Reports
Fourth Annual MeCCSa Postgraduate Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 12 – 13 July, 2007
Reporter: Philippa Daniel
Anglo-French Cinematic Relations Since 1930 conference, University of Southampton, UK, 14 – 16 September 2007
Reporter: Jonathan Driskell
Reception Studies Society, Bi-Annual Conference, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA, 27 – 29 September 2007
Reporter: Brian Faucette
Identities and Encounters: British Association of American Studies (BAAS) Postgraduate Conference, University of Manchester, UK, 17 November, 2007
Reporter: Henry Thompson
[ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON ONE PAGE]
