...Sam B. Girgus Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies . By Wilson George M. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . viii , 220 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 . Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship . By Auerbach Jonathan . Durham, NC...

...Abigail Salerno © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies . By Janet Harbord. Cambridge: Polity Press. 2007. ix, 198 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $22.95. Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations . By Jonathan Auerbach. Berkeley and Los...

.... Kenneth W. Warren, University of Chicago Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video. Ed. Phyllis R. Klotman and Janet K. Cutler. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press. 2000...

...Peter Lurie Duke University Press 2001 Peter ‘‘Some Trashy Myth of Reality’s Escape Lurie Romance, History, and Film Viewing in Absalom, Absalom! I must be in the story (verisimilitude needs me), but I must also...

..., the learning and trying out of processes, the attempts to sat- isfy producers and actors. We see the evolution of the short story ‘‘Girl in Glass’’ to ‘‘Front Porch Girl’’ (a one-act play) to ‘‘The Gentleman Caller’’ (a play and film treatment) to ‘‘Daughters of the Revolution’’ (a one-act play...

...Paula Elyseu Mesquita Duke University Press 2006 Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination . By Peter Lurie. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 237 pp. $42.95. Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture . By Charles Hannon. Baton Rouge...

...Sari Edelstein Duke University Press 2007 Front-Page Girls: Women Journalists in American Culture and Fiction, 1880-1930 . By Jean Marie Lutes. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. 2006. vii, 232 pp. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $18.95. The Female Investigator in Literature, Film...

... on film put it, it depended on the arts as tutor texts in the effort to restrain sensory disorder and reinvigorate communal life. Wholly absent from critical treatments that see film as a model for the most kinetic modernist practices, the journal provides entry to a richly interdisciplinary history...

...Lisa Lynch Lynch’s essay explores the divergence between the symbolic imaginary of nuclear power and the imaginative terrain of environmentalism through a look at documentary film about the civilian nuclear industry. Lynch first analyzes several films about US antireactor activism produced...

...Jed Rasula © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Cinematic Modernism: Modernist Poetry and Film . By Susan McCabe. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. x, 284 pp. Cloth, $92.00; paper, $39.99. Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s...

... in Literature and Film . By Ann Brigham . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2015 . x, 262 pp. Cloth , $65.00 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form . By David J. Alworth . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . 2016 . Cloth , $39.50 ; e...

...Erin Gentry Duke University Press 2006 The Biology of Horror: Gothic Literature and Film . By Jack Morgan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2002. xi, 263 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00. Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic . By Justin D...

...Michael Hames-García © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film . By Peter Caster. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2008. xx, 279 pp. $44.95. From the Plantation to the Prison: African American...

... examined how ‘‘race movieslms made for, and often by, African Americans—have worked to counter the white privileges of mainstream cinema. In the space of two short years, then, Gaines opened up the theoretical analysis of the racialized gaze and the historical analysis of American film history from...

... was distorted to the point that he believed his grandmother was his mother. Longing for the exotic life of his reputed father, a circus man, Leyda moved out of his ‘‘humble and unimaginative’’ (328) home life into the more exotic life of photographer, film critic, and sometime communist. As a result...

..., $25.95. Class, Language, and American Film Comedy. By Christopher Beach. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2002. viii, 241 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.00. These two studies take essentially literary...

... critics to reexamine black masculinity by considering the prison experience that has all too often become a rite of passage for poor black men. In essays on topics ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to the 1990s film Soul Food—which she notes recapitu- lates primitivist myths—Harris-Lopez tests popular...

...Jené Schoenfeld 2006 American Racist: The Life and Films of Thomas Dixon . By Anthony Slide. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2004. x, 264 pp. $35.00. The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South . By Thomas Dixon. Lexington: Univ. Press of Kentucky. 2004. xxx, 316 pp...

...Barton Keeton 2006 Shooting Cowboys and Indians: Silent Western Films, American Culture, and the Birth of Hollywood . Andrew Brodie Smith. Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado. 2003. viii, 230 pp. $34.95. Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History . Stanley Corkin...