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Essays in Film and the Humanities

Volume 26, No. 2 Winter/Spring 2007ISSN-0277-9897


pp. 5-9"Susan Sontag and the Criticism of Cinema's Modernity: An Introduction"
Guest Editors: COLIN BURNETT and DUDLEY ANDREW
pp. 10-23"Putting Her Body on the Line: The Critical Acts of Susan Sontag, Part I"
JIM MCLAUGHLIN
pp. 24-40"Putting Her Body on the Line: The Critical Acts of Susan Sontag, Part II"
JIM MCLAUGHLIN
pp. 41-51"Sontag's Erotics of Film Style: Between Meaning and Presence"
CHARLES O'BRIEN
pp. 52-71"Approaching the Cinema of Silence"
GREG TAYLOR
pp. 72-80"Sontag and Cinephilia"
CHRISTIAN KEATHLEY
pp. 81-90"Sontag, Bresson, and the Unfixable"
BRIAN PRICE
pp. 91-104"The Ethics of Seeing: Susan Sontag and Visual Culture Studies"
MARC FURSTENAU
pp. 105-116"Sontag's Barthes: A Portrait of the Aesthete"
LUCY O'MEARA
pp. 117-136"The Photographic Imagination: Sontag and Benjamin"
G. F. MITRANO
pp. 137-141"Some Notes on Antonioni and Others"
CALVIN KOFF (aka SUSAN SONTAG)
Book Reviews by:
pp. 142-146Linda Watts on The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag and Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag
pp. 16-147Josh Shepperd on Women

Volume 26, No. 1Fall 2006ISSN-0277-9897


pg. 3
Bennett Miller: An Interview


Wheeler Winston Dixon

pg. 13
Nationalizing and Segregating Performance: Josephine Baker and Stardom in ZouZou (1934)


Scott Balcerzak

pg. 32
"Mum's the Word": The Trial of Genre in Dancer in the Dark


Brenda Austin-Smith

pg. 43
"You Came Back!"; or, Mulholland Treib


Franklin Ridgway

pg. 62
Book Review- Dames in the Driver's Seat: Rereading Film Noir


William B. Covey

pg. 66
Annual Bibliography of Film Studies- 2005


J. P. Telotte





Volume 25, No. 3 Summer 2006 ISSN-0277-9897
Special Issue: Indian Cinema Guest Editors: Frances Gateward & David Desser



pg. 3
Introduction: Indian Cinema and Film Studies


Frances Gateward and David Desser

pg. 7
Work, Play and Linguistics Hybridity in Postcolonial India: (DE) Forming the Indian Middle Class in Ray's Kanchenjungha


Reena Dube

pg. 17
Ritwik Ghatak and the Role of Sound in Representing Post-Partition Bengal


Thomas Stubblefield

pg. 30
Stars and Mobilization in South India: What Have Films Got to Do With It?


S.V. Srinivas

pg. 48
A New Universalism: Terrorism and Film Languages in Mani Ratnam's Kannathil Muthamittal


Priya Jaikumar

pg. 65
Mantras of the Metropole: Digital Inscriptions and Mythic Curvatures of Profane Time


Anustup Basu

pg. 79
The Museum as Refuge for Film: The Case of Kumar Shahani's Epic Cinema


Laleen Jayamanne

pg. 93
Bollywood Dreaming: Kal Ho Naa Ho and the Diasporic Spectator


Brian Hu




Volume 25, No. 2 Winter/ Spring 2006 ISSN-0277-9897
Special Issue: Transnational Cinema Guest Editor: Leonard R. Koos


pg. 3Films Without Borders: An Introduction
Leonard R. Koos
pg. 19The Cannes Film Festival as Transnational Space
Lucy Mazdon
pg. 31 Peter Jackson as a Postcolonial Filmaker: National Cinema and Hollywood Genres
Mary Alemany-Galway
pg. 44Lola and Billy the Kid (1999): A Turkish Director’s Western Showdown in Berlin
Roger Hillman
pg. 56Stranger than Fiction: Genre and Hybridity in the “Refugee Film”
Rebecca Prime
pg. 67The Stubborn Persistence of the Local in Wong Kar-wai
James Udden
pg. 80Book Review: From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema
JeanAnn Dabb
pg. 82 Book Review:Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas
Jennifer Forrest
pg. 84Book Review:Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media
Valentina Glajar
pg. 86 Book Review:Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asia Diasporic Film
Leonard R. Koos



Volume 25, No. 1 Fall 2005 ISSN-0277-9897


pg. 3Christian Nyby: An Interview
Ric Gentry
pg. 22Reinventing Bird: The Evolving Image of Charlie Parker on Film
John P. McCombe
pg. 38Spinoza’s Stone: The Logic of Donnie Darko
Peter Mathews
pg. 49Class, Gender, and Genre in Zalman King’s “Real High Erotica”: The Conflicting Mandates of Female Fantasy
David Andrews
pg. 74 Book Review: Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from Cinema to the Digital
Dene Grigar
pg. 76 Annual Bibliography of Film Studies—2004
J.P. Telotte



Volume 24, Nos. 2&3 Winter/Spring & Summer 2005 ISSN-0277-9897
Special Issues: Australian and New Zealand Cinema Guest Editor: Ian Conrich


pg. 3Introduction
Ian Conrich, Guest Editor
pg. 8 Out of Place: Reading (Post) Colonial Landscapes as Gothic Space in Jane Campion's Films
Eva Rueschmann
pg. 22 Three Australian Documentaries: Diaspora and Subjectivity
Belinda Smaill
pg. 35 Agnetial Mortality: Death, Corporeality, and Identity in Radiance (1997)
Anthony Adah
pg. 48 White Lubra/White Savage: Pitury and Colonialist Fantasy in Charles Chauvel's Uncivilised (1936)
Jeanette Hoorn
pg. 64 Impaired and Ill at Ease: New Zealand's Cinematics and Disability
Angela Marie Smith
pg. 82 Conflict and Conspiracy: Public and Personal Memory in Australian Film
Jonathan Rayner
pg. 94 Septic Tanks Downunder: Representing American Soldiers as "Other" in Australian Cinema
Mick Broderick
pg. 109 Thematising the Global: Recent Australian Film
Tanya Dalziell and Tony Hughes-D'Aeth
pg. 122 Getting to Wellywood: National Branding and the Globalisation of the New Zealand Film Industry
Jennifer Lawn and Bronwyn Beatty
pg. 140 Global Pressure and the Political State: New Zealand's Cinema of Crisis
Ian Conrich



Volume 24, No. 1 Fall 2004 ISSN-0277-9897



pg. 3Vilmos Zsigmond: An Interview
Ric Gentry
pg. 42Manhunting: The Female Detective in the Serial Killer Film
Philippa Gates
pg. 62Ambition and Ideology: Intertextual Clues to A Simple Plan's View of the American Dream
Jane Hill
pg. 71The Animation of Anne: Japanese Anime Encounters the Diary of a Holocaust Icon
Hema Ramachandran
pg. 84Annual Bibliography of Film Studies--2003
J. P. Telotte


Volume 23, No. 3 Summer 2004 ISSN-0277-9897

Specail Issue: Adaptation Guest Editor: Lynn Higgins


pg. 3Introduction
Lynn A. Higgins
pg. 5Why Adapt?
Linda Hutcheon
pg. 19Adaptation as Forgery: The Case of The Talented Mr. Ripley
Katherine Golsan
pg. 36African Cinema and the Politics of Adaptation
Alexie Tcheuyap
pg. 50Agnieszka Holland vs William Wyler: On Two Adaptations of Henry Jones's Wasington Square

Slawomir Bobowski
pg. 64From Red Sorghum to Devils on the Doortep: Conceptual Evolution in Chinese Film Adaptation
Yu Tian
pg. 73Adapting Chekhovian Mood
Tatiana Smorodinskaya
pg. 87The Mystery of the Unsung Song
Meredith Kolar
pg. 99Post-Literary Adaptation
Thomas Leithch



Volume 23, No. 2 Winter/Spring 2004 ISNN-0277-9897


pg. 3 The Golden Years: An Interview with Ronald Neame
Wheeler Winston Dixon
pg. 19Speaking the Mind's Voice: Double Discursivity in Jane Campion's The Piano
Erin McGlothlin
pg. 33Mikhail Bakhtin and the Sundance Kid: Generic Dialogue in the Western
Michael Dunne
pg. 48Proust and Cinema, or Luchino Visconti's Search
Duncan McColl Chesney
pg. 62Sarah's Dream/ No Fate: Doubling in Terminator II
Christopher Brooks
pg. 72David Cronenberg's Having to Make the Word Be Flesh
David Roche
pg. 88Book Review: Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley
Susan A. George



Volume 23, No. 1Fall 2003ISSN-0277-9897



pg. 3Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut: A Masque in Disguise
Jane Alison
pg. 13Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful and the Protection of Innocence: Fable, Fairy Tale or Just Excuses?
Grace Russo Bullaro
pg. 27Facualizing the Tattoo: Actualizing Personal History Through Memory in Christopher Nolan's Memento
G. Christopher Williams
pg. 37Wings of Desire and the Value of Mortality
James Conlon
pg. 51Annual Bibliography of Film Studies--2002
J.P. Telotte



Volume 22, No. 3Summer 2003ISSN-0277-9897

Special Issue: The Double in MoviesGuest Editor: Francoise Ghillebaert



pg. 3From Doppelganer to Persona: Acting Becomes the Identity
Francoise Ghillebaert
pg. 8Singling Out the Double: Objectivity, Subjectivity and ALterity in Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique
Lihi Nagler
pg. 21Doubled Lives, Dissimulated History: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Good Men, Good Women
Jean Y. Ma
pg. 34"A Perfect Double Down to the Last Detail": Photography and the Indentity of Film Noir
V. Penelope Pelizzon and Nancy West
pg. 46American Psycho: A Double Portrait of Serial Yuppie Patrick Bateman
Jaap Kooijman and Tarja Laine
pg. 57The Double in Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire
Francoise Ghillebaert
pg. 69Disabled by Desire: Body Doubles in "Rear Window" (1942), Rear Window (1954), and Rear Window (1998)
Nancy Steffen-Fluhr
pg. 89Doubling, Stardom, and Melodrama in India Cinema: The "Impossible" Role of Nargis
Neepa Majumdar
pg. 104"In His Own Image": Genre, Memory and Doubling in Schwarzenegger's Films
John Sears
pg. 115Book Review Laleen Jayamanne's Toward Cinema and Its Double: Cross-Cultural Mimesis
Colin Charlton



Volume 22, No. 2Winter/Spring 2003ISSN-0277-9897

Special Issue: Realist Horror Cinema, Part II - Serial KillersGuest Editor: Steven Jay Schneider



pg. 3Introduction, Pt. II: Serial Killer Film and Television
STEVEN JAY SCHNEIDER
pg. 7Horror Beyond the Camera: Cultural Sources of Violence in Hitchcock's Mid-Century America
Thomas Hemmeter
pg. 20Faces Behind the Mask: Vincent Price, Dr. Phibes, and the Horror Genre in Transition
Rick Worland
pg. 34Monstrosity Without a Body: Representational Strategies in the Popular Serial Killer Film
Steffen Hantke
pg. 55A Psychological Examination of Serial Killer Cinema: The Case of Copycat
Carl Goldberg and Virginia Crespo
pg. 64On the Road Again: Rehearsing the Death Drive in MOdern Realist Horror Cinema
Reynold Humphries
pg. 81A through S(e7en): A Racial Taxonomy of Serial Killer Cinema
Nicholas Rombes
pg. 92The Life and Crimes of Ben; or, When a Serial Killer Meets a Film Crew in Man Bites Dog
Frank Lafond
pg. 103America's Scariest Home Videos: Serial Killers and Reality Television
Philip L. Simpson
pg. 124Review of Seven (BFI Modern Classic)
Chrisotpher Sharrett
pg. 126Review of Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction
Robert E. Wood



Volume 22, No. 1Fall 2002ISSN-0277-9897



pg. 3Hawks on Faulkner: Excerpts from an Interview
Bruce Kawin
pg. 23Gender amd the Modern Body: Men, Women, and Machines in Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera
Pearl Latteier
pg. 35Tous les matins du monde: Roland Barthes and the Culture of Musicianship
Nicholas O. Pagan
pg. 45Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Robert Van Ackeren's Deutschland Privat and the Economics of Eroticism
Bruce Williams
pg. 54Annual Bibliography of Film Studies
J.P. Telotte



Volume 21, No. 3Summer 2002ISSN-0277-9897

Special Issue: Realist Horror Cinema, Part I - Dimensions of the Real

Guest Editor: Steven Jay Schneider




pg. 3Introduction, Pt. I: Dimensions of the Real
STEVEN JAY SCHNEIDER
pg. 8Join the United Mutations: Tod Browning's Freaks
BERND HERZOGENRATH
pg. 20Mario Bava's The Evil Eye: Realism and the Italian Horror Film
COLETTE BALMAIN
pg. 32Canibal Holocaust, Realist Horror, and Reflexivity
NEIL JACKSON
pg. 46Mockumentaries and the Production of Realist Horror
GARY D. RHODES
pg. 61Hong Kong Social Horror: Tragedy and Farce in Category 3
TONY WILLIAMS
pg. 72Refiguring Gothic Mythology: The Film Noir-Horror Hybrids of the 1980s
JACK MORGAN
pg. 87Hits, Whacks, and Smokes: The Celluloid Gangster as Horror Icon
CATHERINE DON DIEGO
pg. 99The Horrific in Sluizer's The Vanishing
KEVIN W. SWEENEY
pg. 111The Mourning of Loss in The Sixth Sense
MARGUERITE LA CAZE
pg. 122Living is a Selfish Act: An Interview with Gaspar Noé
MITCH DAVIS
pg. 131Review of Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff
KEN GELDER
pg. 133Reply to Gelder
DAVID KEREKES
pg. 134Review of Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media
MATT HILLS



Volume 21, No. 2Winter/Spring 2002ISSN-0277-9897

Special Issue: Spanish CinemaGuest Editor: Marvin D'Lugo



pg. 3Recent Spanish Cinema in National and Global Contexts
MARVIN D'LUGO
pg. 12Alejandro Amenábar's Tesis: Art, Commerce, and Renewal in Spanish Cinema
CHRISTINA A. BUCKLEY
pg. 26Solas: Andalusian Mothers in a Global Context
GERARD DAPENA
pg. 38In Modernity's Wake: Transculturality, Deterriotorialization and the Question of Community in Icíar Bollaín's Las flores de otro mundo (Flowers from Another World)
PARVATI NAIR
pg. 50Hitting the Mark from Television to Film: Violence, Timing, and the Comedy Team in Alex de la Iglesia's Muertos de Risa (1999)
DONA M. KERCHER
pg. 64Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Airbag and the Politics of Spanish Regional Autorship
ROSANNA MAULE
pg. 78The Geopolitical Aesthetic in Recent Spanish Films
Marvin D'Lugo
pg. 90Review Essay
Recent Books on Spanish Cinema in the 1990s: A Global Perspective
KATHLEEN M. VERNON




Volume 21, No. 1Fall 2001ISSN-0277-9897



Contents
pg. 3No More Excuses: An Interview with Robert Downey, Sr.
WHEELER WINSTON DIXON
pg. 14Jamie Babbit: An Interview
WHEELER WINSTON DIXON
pg. 24Remaking Buenos Aires: Argentine Film from Tango to Kilómetro 111
CURRIE K. THOMPSON
pg. 31A Bergsonian Film: The Picasso Mystery
ANDRE BAZIN. Tranlated & Edited by BERT CARDULLO
pg. 39Book Review
Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture
LELAND POAGUE
pg. 43Annual Bibliography of Film Studies - 2000
J. P. TELOTTE
pg. 72Post Script Index: The First Twenty Years (1981-2001)
COMPILED BY GERALD DUCHOVNAY




Volume 20, Nos. 2&3Winter/Spring & Summer 2001ISSN-0277-9897

Special Double Issue: Chinese CinemaGuest Editors: Sheldon H. Lu and Yeh Yueh-yu



Contents
pg. 3Introduction: Centennial Reflections on Chinese-Language Cinemas
SHELDON H. LU and YEH YUEH-YU
Part I. Historiography, Poetics, Style
pg. 9Transcultural Spaces: Toward a Poetics of Chinese Film
DAVID BORDWELL
pg. 25Shadow Opera: Towards a New Archeology of the Chinese Cinema
MARY FARQUHAR and CHRIS BERRY
pg. 43

Bodies in the Air: The Magic of Science and the Fate of
the Early "Martial Arts" Film in China


ZHANG ZHEN
pg. 61Politics and Poetics of Hou Hsiao-hsien's Films
YEH YUEH-YU
pg. 77Working from the Margins: Urban Cinema and Independent Directors
in Contemporary China

SHUQIN CUI
Part II. Postcoloniality, Transitionality, Gender
pg. 94Borrowing Postcolonial: Wu Nien-chen's Dou-san and the Memory Mine
DARRELL W. DAVIS
pg. 115Locating Feminine Writing in Taiwan Cinema: A Study of Yang Hui-shan's Body and Sylvia Chang's Siao Yu
SHIAO-YING SHEN
pg. 124Diaspora and National Identity: Exporting "China" through the Hong Kong Cinema
DAVID DESSER
pg. 137Hong Kong Diaspora Film and Transnational TV Drama: From Homecoming and Exile to Flexible Citizenship
SHELDON H. LU
pg. 147(In)authentic Hong Kong: The "(G)local" Cultural Identity in Postcolonial Hong Kong Cinema
STEPHEN PRINCE
Part III. Bibliography
pg. 159Hong Kong Electric Shadows II: Recent English Publications on Hong Kong Cinema
H. C. LI



Volume 20, No. 1Fall 2000ISSN-0277-9897

Special Issue: Kurosawa Akira Guest Editor: Keiko McDonald



Contents
pg. 3Introduction
KEIKO McDONALD
pg. 7The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, Kurosawa and the Theater
DONALD RICHIE
pg. 10Kurosawa Akira's No Regrets for Our Youth (1946)
TAMAE PRINDLE
pg. 23Dream, Song and Symbol: More about Drunken Angel
KEIKO McDONALD
pg. 34Kurosawa's Narration and the Noh Theater
MATTHEW BERNSTEIN
pg. 46A Note on The Lower Depths (Donzoko) of Kurosawa Akira
J. THOMAS RIMER
pg. 53Naked Swords: The Zen Warrior Tradition and the Intertextual Odyssey of the Nameless Ronin in Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, and Sanjuro
EDDY VON MUELLER
pg. 68The Place of Dodeskaden
DAVID DESSER
pg. 79Kurosawa and Cinematic Traditions

OBAYASHI NOBUHIKO
Translated by DAVID MILLS


pg. 82Stability of the Heart Amidst Hills of Green: An Ecocritical Reading of Akira Kurosawa's Ran
DAVID JORTNER
pg. 92In Memory of Kurosawa Akira
STEPHEN PRINCE
pg. 96BOOK REVIEW: Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto's Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema
Reviewed by DAISUKE MIYAO



Volume 19, No. 3Summer 2000ISSN-0277-9897



Contents
pg. 3Dede Allen: An Interview
RIC GENTRY
pg. 29Scatological Film Practice: Pulp Fiction and a Cinema in Movements
DEVIN ANTHONY ORGERON
pg. 41Clint Eastwood's Last Cowboy: The Bridges of Madison County
JIM SANDERSON and CECIL JOHNSON
pg. 58Misreading "Little Limp Lo" and "Humbert the Terrible": The Obfuscation of Child Abuse in Adrian Lyne's Lolita
LEE ANN DE REUS and KENNETH WOMACK
pg. 67Annual Bibliography of Film Studies--1999
J.P. TELOTTE