Recently added articles from Journal of Popular Film & Television:
Post-princess models of gender: the new man in Disney/Pixar.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Unlike most Disney animated films, which have been criticized for decades for their stereotypical female leads and traditional representations of gender, all the major features released by Disney's Pixar studios since 1990 have featured masculine protagonists. These male plots are ...
White, black, and Asian in the World War II Combat Film Bataan.(Strange fruit:)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The World War II combat film Bataan depicts the Japanese "yellow peril" enemy not only as hostile to both white and black Americans, but as even more racist to blacks than white Americans, displacing the history of white racism towards blacks onto the Asian enemy. Keywords: ...
Minstrelsy and wartime buddies: Racial and Sexual histories in white Christmas.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The only classic holiday film to link the meaning of Christmas to national history, White Christmas (1954) demonstrates the convergence of postwar sexual and racial anxieties, producing nostalgia for a verboten past represented by the homoerotic buddy film and blackface minstrelsy, ...
All the President's Men as a woman's film.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Abstract: The author reads Alan J. Pakula's 1976 film as a "woman's film." The vignettes focused on women witnesses to the cover-up of the Watergate burglary reveal the pattern of seduction and abandonment common to soap opera and melodrama. The "woman's film" is a suitable genre through ...
Mobile phones as narrative tropes.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; ... Thirty years after their invention, mobile phones now appear in narrative film and fiction, but in modes at odds with their actual uses in daily life. They have become ciphers, clues, tropes for change of scene, and in films such as The Departed, masks allowing characters to assume ...
AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION TV: STAR TREK, STARGATE AND BEYOND.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION TV: STAR TREK, STARGATE AND BEYOND Jan Johnson-Smith. Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 2005. 308 pp. $22.95 paper. In American Science Fiction TV, Jan Johnson-Smith contends that science fiction (SF) has replaced the Western as the preeminent ...
THE RED SHOES.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... The Red Shoes is part of the Tauris British Film Guide series launched in 2003, now partnered with Turner Classic Movies. The guides offer in-depth analysis of British films for a wide audience including general readers, academics, and students. In the edition under review, author Mark ...
THE DEATH OF CLASSICAL CINEMA: HITCHCOCK, LANG, MINNELLI.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; ... In the age of digital cinema when theorists and scholars alike bemoan the death of the so-called classical cinema style, Joe McElhaney's book offers a refreshing perspective on the latter years of classical American filmmaking. His project traces the connections between the "New Wave" ...
If ...(Book review)
Jun 22, 2007; ... IF ... Paul Sutton. London: 1. B. Tauris, 2005. 114 pp. $14.95 paper. Paul Sutton's delightful book is an obvious tribute to the innovative British director Lindsay Anderson (1923-94), who was a formidable creative force in theater and film from mid-century on; but ...
"Miami slice": surgical shockings in Nip/Tuck.(Cover story)
Mar 22, 2007; ... Abstract: This article examines controversial TV series Nip/Tuck's deployment of Gothic themes and tropes to attract an audience conversant with this artistic tradition, but also to dispel criticism of its graphic depictions of cosmetic surgery, a legacy of the rise of "body trauma" ...
From Final Girl to Final Woman: defeating the male monster in Halloween and Halloween H2O.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Abstract: In "Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Films," Carol Clover argued that Laurie Strode, of Halloween, became empowered as the film's Final Girl by fighting off Michael's monstrous attacks long enough to be rescued. However, Laurie's need to be rescued by a male figure, ...
The spectacle of war and the specter of "the horror": Apocalypse Now and American imperialism.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Abstract: This article examines the 1991 Gulf War, and the film Apocalypse Now, arguing that reliance on advanced technologies to conduct war and to replicate it on TV/film has diminished our ability to distinguish between reality and entertainment, turning our experience of war into mere ...
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. as filmmaker: the making and demise of Countdown at Kusini.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Abstract: This article examines the call for African Americans to take charge of their media images by exploring the 1970s case of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., an African American public service organization. Delta Sigma Theta entered into media activism and made history by becoming ...
The female artist in the film version of Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans.
Mar 22, 2007; ... Abstract: Examining the 1960 film version of Beat writer Jack Kerouac's The Subterraneans, this article explores screenwriter Robert Thom's creation of a female artist for the film, considering the character's challenges to traditional female roles, her reflection of Beat philosophies, as ...
The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America since 1941.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... THE REPUBLIC OF MASS CULTURE: JOURNALISM, FILMMAKING, AND BROADCASTING IN AMERICA SINCE 1941 James L. Baughman. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006. 298 pp. $19.95 paper. Now in its third edition, James Baughman's book charts the enmeshed histories of ...
Reading the Vampire Slayer: the New, Updated Unofficial Guide to Buffy and Angel.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2007; ... READING THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: THE NEW, UPDATED UNOFFICIAL GUIDE TO BUFFY AND ANGEL Ed. Roz Kaveney. London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2004. 322 pp. $14.95 paper. In her introduction to the first edition of this collection of essays devoted to Joss Whedon's programs ...
Empathic resonance and Meryl Streep.(how the concept of empathic resonance functions in Meryl Streep's films)
Sep 22, 2006;
Blockbuster meets superhero comic, or art house meets graphic novel? The contradictory relationship between film and comic art.(Cover story)
Sep 22, 2006;
Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Douglas J. Kirkpatrick.(In Memoriam)(In memoriam)
Sep 22, 2006 ... Ambassador Jeane J. Kirkpatrick November 19, 1926-December 7, 2006 and Douglas J. Kirkpatrick July 17, 1956-July 14, 2006 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] All of us at the Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation are deeply ...
A cold war cautionary tale: heterosexuality and ideology in William Wyler's Ben-Hur.
Sep 22, 2006;