...Dana Polan Copyright © 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Idtes et Recherches- Hammarion History in Perspective, Perspective in History A Commentary on L‘Origine de la perspective by Hubert Damisch Dana Polan Part of what is so intriguing about Hubert...

... on these films, to be taken up by ourselves and our readers in subsequent issues. fie Song ofthe Shirt (Susan Clayton and Jonathan Curling, 1979) Feminist History and The Song Oftke Skirt* Susan Clayton andJonathan Curling In this article we would like to make some remarks...

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...Richard deCordova Robert C. Allen and Douglas Gomery, Film History: Theory and Practice (New York: Knopf, 1985) Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Film History as Discipline Richard deCordova Robert C. Allen and Douglas Gomery, Film History: Theory...

...Catherine Russell Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Hara Setsuko in End ofSummer (Ozu Yasujiro, 1961). "Overcoming Modernity": Gender and the Pathos of History in Japanese Film Melodrama Catherine Russell Although...

...Jeanne Allen Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Palaces of Consumption as Women’s Club: En-countering Women’s Labor History and Feminist Film Criticism ]eanne Allen As leading promoters of consumer culture in the United States...

...Patrice Petro Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Feminism and Film History Patrice Petro It’s now too easy to assume that if a text is labelled “feminist” theory, then it can’t properly “count” or “figure” as anything else (“woman’s sphere...

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... represent them in film and visual media) and an essay on body transformation in early cinema. An alien spaceship hovers over New York City in Independence Day (dir. Roland Emmerich, US, 1996). Spectacles of History: Race Relations, Melodrama, and the Science Fiction/Disaster Film Despina...

...Kerr Houston Camera Obscura 2005 Kerr Houston teaches art history at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He has also written on the use of athletic iconography in Spike Lee's early films, and recently published a piece on teaching art history to foundation-year students...

...Ramona Curry Camera Obscura 2006 Ramona Curry teaches theory and history of cinema and other forms of popular media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon (1996) and numerous essays about female...

...Robert Markley Copyright © 1996 by Indiana University Press 1997 Incubation Chamber by Jeffrey Westover, 1997. Courtesy of the artist. Alien Assassinations: The X-Files and the Paranoid Structure of History Robert Markley At the beginning of every episode, viewers...

... with Francis Ford, is one of many “highly significant early female figures who have received only cursory attention in the histories of cinema.” Photo courtesy Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive Introduction: Female Stardom and Early Film History Diane Negra Designed to explore specific...

... and anthologies on feminist filmmaking, stardom, and television and film history. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (US, 1987) The Incredible Shrinking Star: Todd Haynes and the Case History of Karen Carpenter Mary Desjardins Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes...

...Amanda Howell Copyright © 1995 by Indiana University Press 1995 Figure 1. Colleen comforts Hue San (China Beach, "Independence Day" 25 October 1989). Reproducing the Past: Popular History and Family Melodrama on China Beach...

...Rhona Berenstein Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 Remembering History: Films by Women at the 1989 Toronto Film Festival Rhona Berenstein . . . the textual construction (written filmic, etc.) of discursive spaces in which not Woman...

... in the Case-History Genre Andrea Slane In 1962, Sidney Poitier and Bobby Darin appeared as a prison psy- chiatrist and an American Nazi in Pressure Point (dir. Hubert Corn- field, US), a not particularly successful “social-problem film...

...Richard Allen Dana Polan, Power and Paranoia: History, Narrative and the American Cinema, 1940–1950 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986) Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 Brushing Classical Hollywood Narrative Against the Grain of History...

...Dana Polan Copyright © 1990 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1990 eviews History in the Battle of Voices Dana Polan In the diversity of methods and objects of analysis it offers, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method, a collection of essays by Carlo Ginzburg, offers...

...Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo is one of the most acclaimed films of all times, recognized by scores of critics, film theorists, and film historians as a pivotal work in both film history and film theory. By now, Vertigo is so deeply embedded in film theory that it is almost...