American Cinema

Four Books on Film Noir (pdf) - Film Quarterly

by Martin Fradley

in Film Quarterly (Summer 2012): 70-73.

CFP: International Film and Media Studies Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae

by Ágnes Pethő

The International, peer-reviewed, open access journal of the Sapientia University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) invites the submission of original, previously unpublished articles written in English. Articles in all areas of film and media studies are welcome. Deadline for the next issue: June 15, 2012. Previous issue available online here: http://www.acta.sapientia.ro/acta-film/, and here: http://issuu.com/actauniversitatissapientiae/docs/film4_2011

"An Art That Won't Behave": Film and the Seven Arts, 1907-1921

by Michael Devine

American Literature 84.1 (March 2012): 89-117

In the first two decades of the twentieth century, American artists connected to the journal the Seven Arts sought to... more In the first two decades of the twentieth century, American artists connected to the journal the Seven Arts sought to transform the cinema into an indigenous art free from European influence. Precisely because the cinema was “an art that won't behave,” as the journal's first essay 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 of American cinema: in the critical writings and poetry of the journal's contributors, including James Oppenheim, Waldo Frank, Vachel Lindsay, Stephen Vincent Benét, and Babette Deutsch, and in the works of artists close to the journal—John Sloan's painting Movies, Five Cents (1907) and Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's abstract film Manhatta (1921). Imagined as a shelter from the most dispiriting forces of urban-industrial modernity, the cinema was at once embraced, challenged, and idealized by these artists who practiced what Wanda Corn has called a “transcendent modernism.”

“‘I believe that if I haven’t found my Prince Charming already that I will; or he will find me, if he hasn’t already’: Jennifer Lopez, Romantic Comedy and Contemporary Stardom”

by Martin Fradley

co-authored with Alan Dodd, in "Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema" (I.B.Tauris, 2009), pp.190-207.

Digital Time - Recent Work in Film Theory

by Martin Fradley

in 'Film Quarterly' 64:1 (Fall 2010), pp.70-74.

“Why Doesn’t Your Compass Work?”: Pirates of the Caribbean, Fantasy Blockbusters and Contemporary Queer Theory

by Martin Fradley

in Karen Ross (ed.), "The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media" (Blackwell, 2011), pp.294-312.

"That was Heaven". Villa Adriana come Paradiso "favoloso" in Angels in America di Mike Nichols

by Mauro Giori

Published in "Lanx", n. 7, 2010.

"Angels in America" is still Tony Kushner’s major achievement. In adapting it for television, Mike Nichols... more "Angels in America" is still Tony Kushner’s major achievement. In adapting it for television, Mike Nichols accurately respected the political agenda of the author (democratic, hebrew and homosexual), who also wrote the screenplay. The choice of Hadrian’s Villa (instead of a San Francisco devastated by the earthquake of 1906) as a background for the scenes which take place in the Paradise can be understood as coherent with Kushner’s ideological perspective, as well as with his original camp aesthetics.

Bromances, Buddy Films, and Chick Flicks

by John Alberti

Dark Knights, Pilgrims, Ass Kickers, and hit Girls

by John Alberti

Love That Just Can't Define Its Name Original

by John Alberti

Running Out of Gas: The Energy Crisis in 1970s Suburban Narratives

by Christian Long

Canadian Review of American Studies/Revue canadienne d'etudes americaines 41.3 (2011)

Side of the Angels: Dalton Trumbo, the Hollywood Trade Press, and the Blacklist

by Tim Palmer

This essay recontextualizes Dalton Trumbo, HUAC, and the postwar American blacklist by analyzing Tumbo's personal... more This essay recontextualizes Dalton Trumbo, HUAC, and the postwar American blacklist by analyzing Tumbo's personal archives, his writings in the Hollywood trade press, his work in the Screen Writers' Guild as editor of its official journal, The Screen Writer, and his pivotal role in the anti-HUAC debates before he was imprisoned.

Don Siegel (Great Directors Series)

by Deborah Allison

Published in Senses of Cinema, issue 32, July-September 2004.

Clint Eastwood (Great Directors Series)

by Deborah Allison

Published in Senses of Cinema, issue 28, September-October 2003.

The Tragedy of Michael Corleone in The Godfather: Part III

by Phoebe Poon

Published in Literature/Film Quarterly 34.1 (2006): 64-70.

Morality and Legality in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Trilogy

by Phoebe Poon

Published in Philament, vol. 10 (June 2007): 26-46. Access online: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/publications/philament/issue10_pdfs/POON_godfather.pdf

This article was published by the online journal, "Philament," edited by postgraduates at the University of... more This article was published by the online journal, "Philament," edited by postgraduates at the University of Sydney. Website: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/publications/philament/index.htm

«No Country for Old Men». Dialogo cinefilosofico con Gabriele Guerra

by CARLO ANTONICELLI

Co-authored with Gabriele Guerra, assistant professor of philosophy at Sapienza University. After graduating at the Sapienza University with a thesis on Walter Benjamin he earned a PhD in Political Theology at the Frei Universitat of Berlin.
His published books are: Das Judentum zwischen Anarchie und Theokratie. Eine religionspolitische Diskussion am Beispiel der Begegnung zwischen Walter Benjamin und Gershom Scholem, Bielefeld 2007; e La forza della forma. Ernst Jünger dal 1918 al 1945, Civitavecchia-Roma, 2007.

Book review: Jonathan Auerbach, Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)

by Cara Rodway

Published in 'Journal of American Studies', 42:3 (2008)

Review of: David Greven, "Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush" (University of Texas Press, 2009) and Barry Keith Grant, "Shadows of Doubt: Negotiations of Masculinity in American Genre Films" (Wayne State UP, 2011).

by Martin Fradley

in "Film Quarterly" (forthcoming).

"Maximus Melodramaticus: Masculinity, Masochism, and White Male Paranoia in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema"

by Martin Fradley

in Yvonne Tasker (ed.), "Action and Adventure Cinema" (London: Routledge, 2004), pp. 235-251.