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Holmlund, Chris. Postteminism trom A to G.” This essay employs psychoanalytic theory to In Focus: Postfeminiasnmd ¢ ontemporary Media identify a fetishistic imperative in the perfect crim Studies. 44.2 (winter 2005): 116-21 that Walter Neff endeavors to commit in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity By tavoring ongoing Hunter, Tim. “The Senat Small Business Com- manipulatioovne r goal attainment and satisfaction mittee Pizza Parlor.” In Focus Children of the Walter Neff engages in a virtuoso cover-upI that Blacklist, an Extended Family 14.4 Summer represents a paradigmatic noir dece ption Inviting 2005): | vietwo feantrasisze that there may alwaysb e more than meets the eve Jarrico, Bill. “The Blacklist through New Eves In Focus: Childreno f the Blacklist an Extended McCombe, John P. “Oh I See The Birds Family. 44.4 summer 2005 104-1] ind the Culmination of Hitchcock’s Hyper romantic Vision.” 44.3 (spring 2005): 64-80 Juhasz, Alexandra, ed. In Focus The Crisis in his essay reads Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller The Publishing. 44.3 (spring 2005): 81-96 Birds (1963) in the context of literary Romanticism Karlyn, Kathleen Rowe. “Too Close for Com The film reveals a debt to the Romantic interest in a natural world that overpowers rational calcula fort’: American Beauty and the Incest Motif.” 44.1 fall 2004): 69-93 tion and causality. Additionally, the film critiques Through a readiofn gth e film American Beauty educational prac tices that limit vision by imposing a false order on the sublime chaos of nature this article ¢ xpl tins how the structure of father daughte r incest, working through displacement Mitchner, Leslie. “Ov Vey! Is It a Crisis or Is It has pro ick d tnarrative th it links a s¢ ri sol recent Just Me?” In Focus: The Crisisi n Publishing. 44.3 cultural de velopm« nts: the sexualization of ever spring 2005 $2-S6 vounger girls, cinema's erasure of mothers and of career women as sympath tic figures, and efforts Mizejewski, Linda. “Dresstoe Kdil l: Postfeminist to remasculinize the middle ie d white male Noir.” In Focus: Postfteminism and Contemporary t Media Studies. 44.2 (winter 2005): 121-26 King, Rob. Made for the Masses with an Appeal to the Classes’: The Triangle Film ¢ orporation Musser, Charles. “Historiographic Method and and the Failure of Highbrow Film Culture.” 44.2 winter 2005 the Study of I rly Cine mia In Focus: Film His Genteel culture failed to provide an ettective tory, or i Baedeker Guide to the Historical Turn model for the development of the early American 14.1 (fall 2004): 101 film industry. The history of the Triangle Film Cor poration exemy lifies the conflict between highbrow Negra, Diane, ed. In Focus Postteminism anc | ercial necessity and sh] ows 1h ow C1o0n7t-e3m3p.o rary Media Studies. 44 vinter 2005 ied the esthetic and Jenter | middle « lass Nickel, Joyce. “Disabling Afric Mann, Katrina. mre xt!: Postwar Hege Men: Liberation ind Race Messag mony Besieged in In the Body Snatchers fall 2004): 25 $4.1 (fall 2004): 49-68 This essay ¢ Sieg ) Sav ion¢ opfl ortehes Btohed y VaSynsa tcIhh erwsh icehm plDooyns fporloimt ictsh e in1d9 4che0 tpsio c tti, ohre 1960f s‘ d itshaab ility familiar post yuurses of difference, namely tolerance racial m Sue T hn lnimigration and Se xual Nishime, LeiLani. “The Mulatto C) deviance, in its hyperbolic dramatization of the Imag |p otential social, |p olitical, and personal disenfran ining a Multiracial Future $4.2 (winter 2005 chisement of px r America’s hegemonic white 449 patriarchy Applying th literature of passtio ncvbgor g cinen kes visiblet he polit vborg rey iCtha MAKES VISIDIC The pontcs of cyborg repre Manon, Hugh S. “Some Like It Cold: Fetishism sentations and illuminates contempoIr ary conc P in Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity.” 44.4 (summer tionso f mixed-race subjectivity and interpolations 2005): 1S—43 of mixed-race b1 odie} s. The p| assing narrative a!l so Cinema Journal 44, No. 4, Summer 2005 143 reveals the constitutive role of melancholy and Staiger, Janet. “The Future of the Past.” In nostalgia both in creating cyborg cinema and in Focus: Film History, or a Baedeker Guide to the undermining its subversive potential. Historical Turn. 44.1 (fall 2004): 126-29. Palmer, Tim. “Side of the Angels: Dalton Trumbo, Tasker, Yvonne, ed., In Focus: Postfeminism the Hollywood Trade Press, and the Blacklist.” 44.4 and Contemporary Media Studies. 44.2 (winter summer 2005): 57-74. 2005): 107-33. This essay recontextualizes Dalton Trumbo, HUAC, and the blacklist by analyzing Trumbo’s Trumbo, Nikola. “A Different Childhood.” In personal archives, his writings in the Hollywood Focus: Children of the Blacklist, an Extended trade press, his work in the Screen Writers’ Guild Family. 44.4 (summer 2005): 96-100. as editor of its official journal, The Screen Writer, and his pivotal role in the anti- HUAC debates Van Dusen, Geraldine. “Behind the Curtains: before he was imprisoned. The Blacklist Years.” In Focus: Children of the Blacklist, an Extended Family. 44.4 (summer Petro, Patrice. “Whose Crisis Is It?” In Focus: 2005): 100-104. The Crisis in Publishing. 44.3 (spring 2005): 86-89 Waller, Gregory A. “Imagininagn d Promoting the Small-Town Theater.” 44.3 (spring 2005): 3-19. Poster, Jamie. “Code Orange: Career Fear and This essay examines the small-town theater as Publishing.” In Focus: The Crisis in Publishing. business strategy, local institution, and culturally 14.3 (spring 2005): 89-92. resonant myth in the early 1930s, focusingo n trade Rapf, Joanna E., ed. In Focus: Children of press discourse and a series of stories published in the Blacklist, an Extended Family. 44.4 (summer the Saturday Evening Post that concern the opera- 2005): 75-115. tion of a movie theater in a small Indiana town. Ross, Steven J. “Jargon and the Crisis of Read- Wexman, Virginia Wright. “Right and Wrong: ability: Methodology, Language, and the Future That’s [Not] All There Is to It!’ Young Mr. Lincoln of Film History.” In Focus: Film History, or a and American Law.” 44.3 (spring 2005): 20-34. Baedeker Guide to the Historical Turn. 44.1 (fall This essay draws on historigraphic and anthro- 2004): 130-33. pological models to explore the ways in which as- sumptions about the law may be deployed in works Sklar, Robert. “Does Film History Need a Cri- of mainstream cinema. Using Young Mr. Lincoln sis?” In Focus: Film History, ora Baedeker Guide (1939) as an example, it argues that potentially con- to the Historical Turn. 44.1 (fall 2004): 134-38. flicting legal paradigms can be reconciled through Slocum, J. David. “Cinema and the Civilizing filmic narratives. Process: Rethinking Violence in the World War II Combat Film.” 44.3 (spring 2005): 35-63. Zhu, Ying. “Yongzheng Dynasty and Chinese This essay proposes an alternative critical Primetime Television Drama.” 44.4 (summer approach to the “violence” of the World War II 2005): 3-17. This essay contextualizes the phenomenal suc- combat film. Guiding this approach is the idea of a “civilizing process” that attends both to specific cess, in the late 1990s, of the Chinese primetime television drama Yongzheng Dynasty. It provides representations in war films and to the institutional a formal analysis of the show from a comparative role of cinema in socializing and regulating indi- perspective and discusses its role in cultivating vidual behavior. The theoretical grounding here is the sociological work of Norbert Ellis, whose major Chinese primetime drama as an economically vi- able and a culturally significant enterprise. study, The Civilizing Process, was first published in 1939. Smoodin, Eric. “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis in Publishing.” In Focus: The Crisis in Publishing. 44.3 (spring 2005): 95-98. 144 Cinema Journal 44, No. 4, Summer 2005