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Publications : Departmental Publications : Post Script : Back Issues : Vol 21- Vol 26

Vol 21, No. 1

No More Excuses: An Interview with Robert Downey, Sr.
Jamie Babbit: An Interview
Remaking Buenos Aires: Argentine Film from Tango to Kilómetro
A Bergsonian Film: The Picasso Mystery
Book Review: Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture
Annual Bibliography of Film Studies - 2000
Post Script Index: The First Twenty Years (1981-2001)

Vol 21, No. 2 -Spanish Cinema

Recent Spanish Cinema in National and Global Contexts
Alejandro Amenábar's Tesis: Art, Commerce, and Renewal in Spanish Cinema
Solas: Andalusian Mothers in a Global Context
In Modernity's Wake: Transculturality, Deterritorialization and the Question of Community in Icíar Bollaín's Las flores de otro mundo (Flowers From Another World)
Hitting the Mark from Television to Film: Violence, Timing, and the Comedy Team in Alex de la Iglesia's Muertos de Risa
Juanma Bajo Ulloa's Airbag and the Politics of Spanish Regional Authorship
The Geopolitical Aesthetic in Recent Spanish Films
Recent Books on Spanish Cinema in the 1990s: A Global Perspective

Vol 21, No. 3 - Realist Horror Cinema, Part I

Introduction, Pt. I: Dimensions of the Real
Join the United Mutations: Tod Browning's Freaks
Mario Bava's The Evil Eye: Realism and the Italian Horror Film
Cannibal Holocaust, Realist Horror, and Reflexivity
Mockumentaries and the Production of Realist Horror
Hong Kong Social Horror: Tragedy and Farce in Category 3
Refiguring Gothic Mythology: The Film Noir-Horror Hybrids of the 1980s
Hits, Whacks, and Smokes: The Celluloid Gangster as Horror Icon
The Horrific in Sluizer's The Vanishing
The Mourning of Loss in The Sixth Sense
Living is a Selfish Act: An Interview with Gaspar Noé
Review of Killing for Culture
Reply to Gelder
Review of Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media

Vol 22, No. 1

Hawks on Faulkner: Excerpts from an Interview
Gender and the Modern Body: Men, Women, and Machines in Vertov's Man with a movie Camera
Tous les matins du monde: Roland Barthes and the Culture of Musicianship
Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Robert Van Ackeren's Deutschland Privat and the Economics of Eroticism
Annual Bibliography of Film Studies--2001

Vol 22, No. 2 - Realist Horror Cinema, Part II: Serial Killers

Introduction, Pt. II: Serial Killer Film and Television
Horror Beyond the Camera: Cultural Sources of Violence in Hitchcock's Mid-Century America
Faces Behind the Mask: Vincent Price, Dr. Phibes, and the Horror Genre in Transition
Monstrosity Without a Body: Representational Strategies in the Popular Serial Killer Film
A Psychological Examination of Serial Killer Cinema: The Case of Copycat
On the Road Again: Rehearsing the Death Drive in Modern Realist Horror Cinema
A Through S(e7en): A Racial Taxonomy of Serial Killer Cinema
The Life and Crimes of Ben; or, When a Serial Killer Meets a Film Crew in Man Bites Dog
America's Scariest Home Videos: Serial Killers and Reality Television
Review of Seven (BFI Modern Classic)
Review of Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction

Vol 22, No. 3 - The Double in Movies

From Doppelganger to Persona: Acting Becomes the Indentity
Singling Out the Double: Objectivity, Subjectivity and Alterity in Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique
Doubled Lives, Dissimulated History: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Good Men, Good Women
"A Perfect Double Down to the Last Detail": Photography and the Indentity of Film Noir
American Psycho: A Double Portrait of Serial Yuppie Patrick Bateman
The Double in Bunuel's That Obscure Object of Desire
Disabled by Desire: Body Doubles in "Rear Window" (1942), Rear Window (1954), and Rear Window (1998)
Doubling, Stardom, and Melodrama in India Cinema: The "Impossible" Role of Nargis
"In His Own Image": Genre, Memory and Doubling in Schwarzenegger's Films
Book Review Laleen Jayamanne's Toward Cinema and Its Double: Cross-Cultural Mimesis

Vol 23, No. 1

Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut: A Masque in Disguise
Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful and the Protection of Innocence: Fable, Fairy Tale or Just Excuses?
Factualizing the Tattoo: Actualizing Personal History Through Memory in Christopher Nolan's Memento
Wings of Deisre and the Value of Mortality
Annual Bibliography of Film Studies--2002

Vol 23, No. 2

The Golden Years: An Interview with Ronald Neame
Speaking the Mind's Voice: Double Discursivity in Jane Campion's The Piano
Mikhail Bakhtin and the Sundance Kid: Generic Dialogue in the Western
Proust and Cinema, or Luchino Visconti's Search
Sarah's Dream/ No Fate: Doubling in Terminator II
David Cronenberg's Having to Make the Word Be Flesh
Book Review: Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley

Vol 23, No. 3 - Adaptation

Introduction
Why Adapt?
Adaptation as Forgery: The Case of The Talented Mr. Ripley
African Cinema and the Politics of Adaptation
Agnieszka Holland vs William Wyler: On Two Adaptations of Henry Jones's Wasington Square
From Red Sorghum to Devils on the Doortep: Conceptual Evolution in Chinese Film Adaptation
Adapting Chekhovian Mood
The Mystery of the Unsung Song
Post-Literary Adaptation

Vol 24, No. 1

Vilmos Zsigmond: An Interview
Manhunting: The Female Detective in the Serial Killer Film
Ambition and Ideology: Intertextual Clues to A Simple Plan's View of the American Dream
The Animation of Anne: Japanese Anime Encounters the Diary of a Holocaust Icon
Annual Bibliography of Film Studies--2003

Vol 24, Nos. 2&3-Australian and New Zealand Cinema

Introduction
Out of Place: Reading (Post) Colonial Landscapes as Gothic Space in Jane Campion's Films
Three Australian Documentaries: Diaspora and Subjectivity
Agnetial Mortality: Death, Corporeality, and Identity in Radiance (1997)
White Libra/White Savage: Pitury and Colonialist Fantasy in Charles Chauvel's Uncivilised (1936)
Impaired and Ill at Ease: New Zealand's Cinematics and Disability
Conflict and Conspiracy: Public and Personal Memory in Australian Film
Septic Tanks Downunder: Representing American Soldiers as "Other" in Australian Cinema
Thematising the Global: Recent Australian Film
Getting to Wellywood: National Branding and the Globalisation of the New Zealand Film Industry
Global Pressure and the Political State: New Zealand's Cinema of Crisis

Vol 25, No. 1

Christian Nyby: An Interview
Reinventing Bird: The Evolving Image of Charlie Parker on Film
Spinoza’s Stone: The Logic of Donnie Darko
Class, Gender, and Genre in Zalman King’s “Real High Erotica”: The Conflicting Mandates of Female Fantasy
Book Review: Allegories of Communication: Intermedial Concerns from Cinema to the Digital
Annual Bibliography of Film Studies—2004

Vol 25, No. 2-Transnational Cinema

Films Without Borders: An Introduction
The Cannes Film Festival as Transnational Space
Peter Jackson as a Postcolonial Filmaker: National Cinema and Hollywood Genres
Lola and Billy the Kid (1999): A Turkish Director’s Western Showdown in Berlin
Stranger than Fiction: Genre and Hybridity in the “Refugee Film”
The Stubborn Persistence of the Local in Wong Kar-wai
Book Reviews: From Moscow to Madrid: Postmodern Cities, European Cinema; Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas; Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and Media; Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asia Diasporic Film

Vol 25, No. 3-Indian Cinema

Volume 25, No. 3 Special Issue: Indian Cinema
Introduction: Indian Cinema and Film Studies<>
Work, Play and Linguistic Hybridity in Postcolonial India: (DE) Forming the Indian Middle Class in Ray's Kanchenjungha
Ritwik Ghatak and the Role of Sound in Representing Post-Partition Bengal
Stars and Mobilization in South India: What Have Films Got to Do With It?
A New Universalism: Terrorism and Film Language in Mani Ratnam's Kannathil Muthamittal
Mantras of the Metropole: Digital Inscriptions and Mythic Curvatures of Profane Time
The Museum as Refuge for Film: The Case of Kumar Shahani's Epic Cinema
Bollywood Dreaming: Kal Ho Naa Ho and the Diasporic Spectator

Vol 26, No. 1

Bennett Miller: An Interview

Nationalizing and Segregating Performance: Josephine Baker and Stardom in ZouZou

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

"You Came Back!"; or, Mulholland Treib

BOOK REVIEW: Dames in the Driver's Seat: Rereading Film Noir

Annual Bibliography of Film Studies-2005

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Volume 26, No. 2 (Winter/Spring 2007): Susan Sontag

"Susan Sontag and the Criticism of Cinema's Modernity: An Introduction":COLIN BURNETT and DUDLEY ANDREW
"Putting Her Body on the Line: The Critical Acts of Susan Sontag, Part I"
JIM MCLAUGHLIN
"Putting Her Body on the Line: The Critical Acts of Susan Sontag, Part II":
JIM MCLAUGHLIN
"Sontag's Erotics of Film Style: Between Meaning and Presence":
CHARLES O'BRIEN
"Approaching the Cinema of Silence":
GREG TAYLOR
"Sontag and Cinephilia":
CHRISTIAN KEATHLEY
"Sontag, Bresson, and the Unfixable":
BRIAN PRICE
"The Ethics of Seeing: Susan Sontag and Visual Culture Studies":
MARC FURSTENAU
"Sontag's Barthes: A Portrait of the Aesthete":
LUCY O'MEARA
"The Photographic Imagination: Sontag and Benjamin":
G. F. MITRANO
"Some Notes on Antonioni and Others":
CALVIN KOFF (aka SUSAN SONTAG)
Book Reviews:
Linda Watts on The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag and Female Icons: Marilyn Monroe to Susan Sontag Josh Shepperd on Women