Articles on Film and TV

Compiled by Paul Flaig, University of St. Andrews

Adamik, Verena. "From Utopian Island to Global Empire: Alex Garland's The Beach." Utopian Studies 31:3 (2021): 457-74.

Ali, Farah. "Freedom as a Mirage: Sexual Commodification in Harold Pinter's Films." Journal of Modern Literature 44:3 (2021): 112-28. Accessed July 15, 2021.

Alvarez, Barbara A. "The American Heritage Project: A Legacy of Public Libraries and Community Discussions." Libraries: Culture, History, and Society 5:1 (2021): 76-101.

Amidon, Kevin S. "Today, Tomorrow, and In-Between: Straub/Huillet, the Schoenbergs, and the Gendered Micropolitics of Operatic Performance in Von heute auf morgen." Feminist German Studies 37:1 (2021): 86-110.

Ballard, Mary E., Michael Spencer, Megan K. Holtkamp, Evan Sakrison, and Ta'rah Kindle. "Horror Videogame Sound Effects, Cardiovascular Arousal, and Ethnic Bias in the Decision to Shoot." The American Journal of Psychology 134:2 (2021): 175-86.

Ballas, Anthony. "Film Theory after Copjec." Canadian Review of American Studies 51:1 (2021): 63-81.

Begam, Richard. "Modernism after Poststructuralism; Or, Does Badiou Save Us from Drowning?" Modernism/modernity 28:1 (2021): 117-136.

Bieber, Ada. "The Authority of Wax: The Child Flâneur in East German Cinema." Children's Literature 49 (2021): 40-58.

Bilwakesh, Nikhil. "Bernard Herrmann's Melville and the Sounding of Modern Mania." Leviathan 23:2 (2021): 34-52.

Blass, Ethan. "The Men Who Knew Too Much: Reading Goethe's "Erlkönig" in Light of Hitchcock." Goethe Yearbook 28 (2021): 225-242.

Bloom, Peter J. "The Biopolitics of Media Currency: Transforming the Ghana Film Unit into TV3." African Studies Review 64:1 (2021): 57-70.

Boos, Sonja. "Asynchronicity of Sound and Vision. Towards a Feminist Semiotics of Cinematic Rhythm." Monatshefte 113: 1 (2021): 99-116.

Boutouba, Jimia. "Screen Memories & Invisible Legacies: The ‘Chaâba’ Revisited." Expressions maghrébines 20:1 (2021): 115-132.

Bradley, Rizvana. "Picturing Catastrophe: The visual politics of racial reckoning." The Yale Review 109:2 (2021): 158-177.

Buse, Katherine. "Genesis Effects: Growing Planets in 1980s Computer Graphics." Configurations 29:2 (2021): 201-230.

Carey, Craig. "Realism and Recording: Remixing Literary and Media History." American Literary Realism 53:3 (2021): 198-203.

Carpenter, Marc James. "Replaying Colonialism: Indigenous National Sovereignty and Its Limits in Strategic Videogames." American Indian Quarterly 45:1 (2021): 33-55.

Carroll, Noël. "The Avant-Garde and Creativity: A Gricean Account." The Journal of Aesthetic Education 55:1 (2021): 1-12.

Cohen, Signe. "Fantastic Beasts and the Dangers of American Nostalgia." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 33:1 (2021): 48-65.

Cornyetz, Nina. "Sadism and The Vicissitudes of the Drive in Mishima Yukio's Patriotism." Discourse 43:1 (2021): 123-49.

Cronin, Kate. "Processing Mad Men: Media Studies, Legitimation, and Archival Description." Information & Culture 56:2 (2021): 138-157.

Crookston, Cameron. "Can I Be Frank with You? Laverne Cox and the Historiographic Dramaturgy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show." GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 27:2 (2021): 233-252.

Davidson, Michael. "Siting Sound: Redistributing the Senses in Christine Sun Kim." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 15:2 (2021): 219-237.

Dougherty, Stephen. "Messages from the Stars: 2001: A Space Odyssey and His Master’s Voice." Science Fiction Studies 48:2 (2021): 306-31.

Egelmeers, Wouter. "Universal Fetishism? Emancipation and Race in Magnus Hirschfeld's 1930 Sexological Visual Atlas." Journal of the History of Sexuality 30:1 (2021): 23-47.

Farrell, Michelle Leigh. "Disrupting the Algorithm: The Streaming Platforms in the Cuban Audiovisual Landscape: El paquete semanal, Netflix, and Mi Mochila." Cuban Studies 50 (2021): 186-204.

Friedman, Sara. "Universal Language with a German Accent: Conrad Veidt in Silent Hollywood." German Studies Review 44:2 (2021): 293-312.

Fryxell, Allegra R. P. "Artificial Eye: The Modernist Origins of AI's Gender Problem." Discourse 43:1 (2021): 31-64.

Garland, Libby. "Hollywood, Washington, and the Making of the Refugee in Postwar Cinema." American Studies 60:1 (2021): 81-108.

Gambaro, Elisa. "The TV Series My Brilliant Friend: Screen-shaping Ferrante's Storytelling for a Wider Audience." MLN 136:1 (2021): 209-223.

García de Toro, Cristina. "Gender Issues and Translation: The Gender of Te Kā Monster in Disney's Moana." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 46:1 (2021): 78-93.

Geschiere, Peter. "Dazzled by New Media: Mbembe, Tonda, and the Mystic Virtual." African Studies Review 64:1 (2021): 71-85.

Goddard, Joe. "Celluloid Cityscapes: Kids, Cars, and Cartoons in the United States, 1938–1965." The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 14: 2 (2021): 294-312.

Greene, Amanda K. "The Passing Hour: 1930s Real-Time, Vile Bodies, and the Ethics of Reading." Configurations 29:2 (2021): 119-154.

Griffiths, Alison. “The crystal reveals the whole: medieval dreamscapes and cinematic space as virtual media.” Journal of Visual Culture 20:1 (April 2021): 85–112.

Grue, Jan. "Ablenationalists Assemble: On Disability in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 15:1 (2021): 1-17.

Gupta-Nigam, Anirban. "After Bliss: Visual Infrastructures of Technostalgia." Theory & Event 24:3 (2021): 816-840.

Hagood, Caroline. "“It Is You Standing There”: Entering Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Performance Space in Dictee." Resources for American Literary Study 42:1 (2021): 74-102.

Hatzivassiliou, Evanthis. "Images of the International System and the Cold War in Star Trek, 1966–1991." Journal of Cold War Studies 23:1 (2021): 55-88.

Hayward, Matthew, and Maebh Long. "Towards an Oceanian Modernism." Modernism/modernity 28:2 (2021): 209-228.

Herrera, Salvador. "Cybersujetos: Reading Border Subjects across Mediums." Intertexts 25:1 (2021): 101-130.

Hider, Philip, Hollie White, and Phillipa Barlow. "Film Genres through Different Lenses: Mapping Commonly Used Film Vocabularies onto the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms." Library Trends 69:3 (2021): 630-645.

Hines, Megan. "A Journey That Wasn’t: Pierre Huyghe’s Graphic Film." The Edgar Allan Poe Review 22:1 (2021): 167-87.

Johnson, Adriana. "An Excess of Visibility, a Scarcity of Water." Discourse 43: 2 (2021): 189-215.

Johnson, Matt. "Hollywood Cinema and Simulation in the Novels of Roberto Arlt." Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 55:1 (2021): 237-259.

Kuplen, Mojca. "Therapeutic Self-knowledge in Narrative Art." The Journal of Aesthetic Education 55:1 (2021): 56-71.

Laguna, Albert Sergio. "On the Comedy of Race." Cultural Critique 111 (2021): 104-32.

Law, Ho Chak. "Restaging Zhu Yingtai in Early Communist China: Shaoxing Opera, Color Film, and the “New Woman”." TDR: The Drama Review 65:2 (2021): 77-94.

Lechte, John. “Bataille: Image and Victim.” Theory, Culture & Society 38:4 (July 2021).

Losada, Matt. "Gendered Figure Lighting, Artifice, and Realism in Rosaura a las diez." Studies in Latin American Popular Culture 39 (2021): 84-103.

Ma, Jean. “Sleeping in the Cinema.” October 176 (2021): 31–52.

Marez, Curtis. "Precarious Locations: Streaming TV and Global Inequalities." American Studies 601 (2021): 9-31.

Marini, Alessandro. "The Gospel in the Borgata: Mario Cipriani in Accattone." The Modern Language Review 116: 2 (2021): 281-94.

Marso, Lori. "Camerawork as Motherwork." Theory & Event 24:3 (2021): 730-757.

Martín, Mónica. "Utopia as a Cosmopolitan Method in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men." Utopian Studies 32:1 (2021): 56-72.

McCann, Andrew. "Melancholy and the Masses: Siegfried Kracauer and the Media Concept." Discourse 43:1 (2021): 150-70.

McGovern, Derek John. "A Tale of Two Prints: The British and American Film Versions of Shaw's Oscar-Winning Screenplay." Shaw 41:1 (2021): 119-38.

Mirrlees, Tanner, and Taha Ibaid. "The Virtual Killing of Muslims: Digital War Games, Islamophobia, and the Global War on Terror." Islamophobia Studies Journal 6:1 (2021): 33-51.

Mitchell, Paul. "Frankenstein's Creature on Film in the Twenty-first Century: Posthuman Monster, Saviour, and Victim Narratives." Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 23:1 (2021): 1-23.

Moss, Joshua Louis. "Cutting to the Punch: Graphic Stunt Comedy and the Emergence of Crisis Slapstick." Studies in American Humor 7:1 (2021): 11-38.

Mulder, Tavid. "Nonself-Contemporaneity: José Carlos Mariátegui and the Question of Peripheral Modernism." Comparative Literature Studies 58:2 (2021): 371-396.

Noth, Juliane. "Militiawomen, Red Guards, and Images of Female Militancy in Maoist China." Twentieth-Century China 46:2 (2021): 153-180.

O'Neill, Helen Anne, and Ruth Livesey. "The Rival Afterlives of George Eliot in Textual and Visual Culture: A Bicentenary Reflection." George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies 73:1 (2021): 1-28.

Panuska, Sarah M. "But Was It Camp? Sadie Benning's It Wasn't Love." Discourse 43:1 (2021): 98-122.

Parisi, Luciana and William Morgan. “What Is (Machine) Philosophy?” Qui Parle 30:1 (2021): 185–207.

Peoples, Gabriel A. "Play (Loudly): The Racialized Erotics of Blacksound in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 42:1 (2021): 109-140.

Poole, Keziah M. "To the rhythm of feminine memory: Decoloniality and dissonance in the films of Assia Djebar." Expressions maghrébines 20:1 (2021): 79-93.

Powell, Larson. "Freud's Russian Neighbor." Modernism/modernity 28:1 (2021): 137-156.

Qader, Nasrin. "The Fragmentary Cinema of Hakim Belabbes." Comparative Literature Studies 58:2 (2021): 237-63.

Ritter, Eric. "Stanley Cavell and the Everyday of Thinking." The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 35:1 (2021): 1-26.

Revesz, Eva B. "Sex, Gender, and the Male Gaze in Arthur Schnitzler's Traumnovelle and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut." German Studies Review 44:2 (2021): 313-333.

Reyburn, Duncan. "Kindly Scandal: A Mimetic Theory of Humor." Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 28 (2021): 201-236.

Sathe, Nikhil. "Antoine Doinel in Simmering: Appropriating François Truffaut's The 400 Blows in Sudabeh Mortezai's Macondo." Journal of Austrian Studies 54:1 (2021): 85-102.

Schalk, Sami. "Black Disability Gone Viral: A Critical Race Approach to Inspiration Porn." CLA Journal 64:1 (2021): 100-120.  Shechtman, Anna. “Command of Media’s Metaphors.” Critical Inquiry 47:4 (Summer 2021): 644–674.

Schmid, Marion. "Baroque Visions: Eugène Green's La Sapienza (2014)." The Modern Language Review 116:3 (2021): 428-44.

Sebastián-Martín, Miguel. "Refabricating Individualism and Commodifying Anti-Capitalism: Melodramatic SF and VOD Spectatorship." Science Fiction Studies 48:2 (2021): 332-53.

Smyth, Daniel. "Ontology and Atrocity: Teaching Heidegger's Philosophy of Art." The Journal of Aesthetic Education 55:2 (2021): 15-35.

Soraruff, Amelie Berger. “A Pharmacology of Cinema: Stiegler beyond the Frankfurt School?” Cultural Politics 17:2: 212–227.

Special Issue. “Future Varda,” Camera Obscura 36:1 (May 2021).

Special Issue. “Sports and/as Media Studies” Velvet Light Trap 87 (Spring 2021):

Special Issue. “The Aerial Image” Grey Room 83 (Spring 2021).

Special Issue. “African Cinema: Manifesto & Practice for Cultural Decolonization, Part II.” Black Camera 12:2, (Spring 2021).

Special Issue. “Games and sf” Science Fiction Film and Television 14:2 (Summer 2021).

Special Issue. “SF and Nostalgia” Science Fiction Studies 48:1 (March 2021).

Special Issue. “Documenting Third Cinema (1968–1979): Overlooked and Little-Known Documents Around Third Cinema” Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 62:1 (Spring 2021).

Special Issue. “Crip Temporalities,” South Atlantic Quarterly 120:2 (April 2021).

Special Issue. “Affect,” Feminist Media Histories 7:2 (Spring 2021).

Special Issue. “Precarious Mobilities,” Feminist Media Histories 7:3 (Summer 2021).

Special Issue. “Aurality,” Mechademia: Second Arc 13:2 (Spring 2021).

Special Issue. “Cuir/Queer Amricas: Translation, Decoloniality, and the Incommsurable” GLQ 27:3 (June 2021).

Sperber, David. "“A Tale of a Woman and a Robe”: Institutional Criticism of the Israeli Rabbinical Establishment—The Art of Nurit Jacobs Yinon." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 371 (2021): 63-85.

Steir-Livny, Liat. "(Im)Possible Romance: Intimate Relationships Between Israeli Jews and Non-Jewish Germans in Contemporary Israeli Documentary Cinema." Israel Studies 26:1 (2021): 149-71.

Stępnik, Małgorzata. "The Golem Awakened." Cultural Critique 111 (2021): 26-51.

Stevens, Kyle. "The Politics of Humor, From Dry to Wet." Cultural Critique 112 (2021): 1-23..

Sung, Wendy. “In the Wake of Visual Failure: Twitter, Sandra Bland, and an Anticipatory Nonspectatorship.” Social Text 39:2 (June 2021): 1–23.

Swanson, Bridget. “‘Goethe Boom’ Films: Bildung Reloaded." Goethe Yearbook 28 (2021): 351-357.

Szczepaniak-Gillece, Jocelyn. "Technologies of Blackness: Aldo Tambellini, Psychedelia, Widescreen, Media." Cultural Critique 112 (2021): 59-92.

Tremblay, Jean-Thomas, and Steven Swarbrick. "Destructive Environmentalism: The Queer Impossibility of First Reformed." Discourse 43:1 (2021): 3-30.

Valero, Carles Ferrando. "Haptic Vision in Spanish Modernism: An Account of Sensibilities in Transnational Contact." Modernism/modernity 28:1 (2021): 25-46.

Vanhove, Pieter. "Locating Lumumba." Comparative Literature Studies 58:2 (2021): 264-85.

Wade, Ashleigh G. "Radical Curation: Making Space for Black Childhood(s) in the Art Hoe Collective." Visual Arts Research 47:1 (2021): 13-28.

Weinstock, Jane. “Screening Memories.” October 176 (2021): 73–83.

Weninger, Stephen. "The Sacred Engine: Myth and Fiction in Snowpiercer." Journal of Narrative Theory 51:1 (2021): 104-125. 

Wijaya, Elizabeth. "Screening Today: The Visible and Invisible Worlds of Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn." Discourse 43:1 (2021): 65-97.

Whitehurst, Katherine. "Youth Films and the Nation: Imagining Obama's US Foreign Policy in Disney's Moana." Narrative Culture 8:1 (2021): 155-74.

Yapp, Hentyle. "To Free Speech from Free Speech: Marxism, Mediation, and Disability Aesthetics in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness." Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies 15:2 (2021): 169-185.

Zierler, Wendy. "Looking and Listening Differently: Crimes and Misdemeanors, II Samuel 11–12 and #MeToo.” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 38 (2021): 93-118.

AVPN: Audio-Visual Professional Notes

Film & Media Scholars on Podcasts, Blogs, and Video Essays

Compiled by Paul Flaig, University of St. Andrews

Álvarez López, Cristina and Martin, Adrian. “The Thinking Machine #48: Videography 1978” (April 2021).

Álvarez López, Cristina and Martin, Adrian. “The Thinking Machine #50: Nicholas Ray - Notes on Style” (July 2021).

Armbrust, Walter and Chihab El Khachab. “Making Film in Egypt.” University of Oxford Podcasts (May 2021).

Atkinson, Sarah. “Transitional moments in cinematic virtual reality: A video essay.” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 8:2 (March 2021).

Baruch, Yaron. “Community - Intermediate Intertextuality” (May 2021).

Berridge, Susan and Tanya Horeck. “Sexual misconduct in film and TV: how intimacy coordination can help to address the historic issue.” The Conversation (May 2021).

Binotto, Johannes. “Practices of Viewing: Muted” (June 2021).

Bolton, Lucy. “Virginia Woolf on the magic of going to the cinema.” The Conversation (March 2021).

Bordwell, David. “Once upon a time in Hollywood, again: Tarantino revises his fairy tale.” Observations on Film Art (July 2021).

Combe, Kirk. “Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film: Rant Against the Regime.” University of Oxford Podcasts (May 2021).

Di Gravio, Will. “Episode 26. The Scholarly Video Essay.” The Video Essay Podcast (May 2021).

Gillespie, Michael B. “Deep Cover: Who’ll Pay Reparations on My Soul?” Criterion Collection Essays on Film (July 2021).

Grizzaffi, Chiara and Giulia Scomazzon. “Stories of Haunted Houses: Female Subjects and Domestic Spaces in Contemporary Gothic Films and TV Series.” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 8:2 (March 2021).

Hadas, Leora. “Cruella: why Disney and other studios are trying to invite sympathy for devilish characters.” The Conversation (June 2022).

Hedden, Andrew. “Streetwise/Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell: Qualities of Life.” Criterion Collection Essays on Film (June 2021).

Johnson, Beth. “Film and TV diversity behind the camera is getting much worse.” The Conversation (February 2021).

Lombardi, Giancarlo. “Frank Burke et al., "A Companion to Federico Fellini" (Wiley-Blackwell, 2020).” New Books in Film (July 2021).

Ma, Jean. “Flowers of Shanghai: Inside the Dream.” Criterion Collection Essays on Film (May 2021).

Maier, Kodi. “Disney/YouTube Luca, Disney and queerbaiting in animation.” The Conversation (July 2021).

Mayer, So. “Working Girls: Have You Ever Heard of Surplus Value?” Criterion Collection Essays on Film (July 2021).

Mayne, Judith. “Merrily We Go to Hell: Gingerbread, Cake, and Crème de Menthe.” Criterion Collection Essays on Film (May 2021).

Pierce, Lee. “D. A. Miller, "Hidden Hitchcock" (U Chicago Press, 2016)” New Books in Film (March 2021).

Pollard, Damien. “The political history of dubbing in films.” The Conversation (July 2021).

Sainz, Celia. “Cinema Turns: Catalan Creative Documentary.” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 8:2 (March 2021).

Shaviro, Steven. “Thoughts on transgression in the 21st century.” The Pinocchio Theory (April 2021).

Shaviro, Steven. “India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975).” The Pinocchio Theory (February 2021).

Soberon, Lennart. “Shoot to Kill: The Weaponized Gaze of the American Action Film.” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 8:2 (March 2021).

Stuart, Rachel. “Maria San Filippo, "Provocauteurs and Provocations: Screening Sex in 21st Century Media" (Indiana UP, 2021)” New Books in Film (April 2021).

Thomas-Parr, Georgia. “Hausu of the Rising Sun: Death of the Girl.” [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 8:2 (March 2021).

Book List

Selected List of Recently Published Books in Film and Media Studies

Compiled by Colleen Glenn, College of Charleston

Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora, eds. Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalization, Liberation, and Contested Bodies. Rutgers UP, 2021.

Boffone, Trevor. Renegades: Digital Dance Cultures from Dubsmash to TikTok. Oxford UP, 2021.

Church, David. Post-Horror: Art, Genre, and Cultural Elevation. Edinburgh University Press, 2021.

Dyhouse, Carol. Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen. Oxford UP, 2021.

Erish, Andrew A. Vitagraph: America's First Great Motion Picture Studio. U of Kentucky Press, 2021.

Ginsberg, Terri, and Lippard, Chris, eds. Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

Golden, Eve. Jayne Maynesfield: The Girl Couldn’t Help It. U of Kentucky Press, 2021.

Keating, Patrick. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. U of Texas Press, 2021.

Keazor, Henry and Thorsten Wübbena, eds. Rewind, Play, Fast Forward: The Past, Present, and Future of the Music Video. Columbia University Press, 2021.

Kessler, Kelly. Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical. Oxford UP, 2021.

Kumar, Sangeet. The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web. Indiana UP, 2021.

MacDonald, Scott and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart, eds. William Greaves: Filmmaking as Mission. Columbia UP, 2021.

Marsh, Leslie L. Branding Brazil: Transforming Citizenship on Screen. Rutgers UP, 2021.

McElhaney, Joe. Luchino Visconti and the Fabric of Cinema. Wayne State UP, 2021.

Meden, Jurij. Scratches and Glitches: Observations on Preserving and Exhibiting Cinema in the Early 21st Century. Wallflower Press, 2021.

Nacher, Anna. The Aesthetics of Post-Digital Imaging: Between Camera Traps and Virtual Reality. Jagiellonian University Press/Columbia UP, 2021.

Negra, Diane. Shadow of a Doubt. Liverpool UP, 2021.

Pederson, Claudia Costa. Gaming Utopia: Ludic Worlds in Art, Design, and Media. Indiana UP, 2021.

Prince, Stephen. Apocalypse Cinema. Rutgers UP, 2021.

Rea, Christopher. Chinese Film Classics: 1922-1949. Wallflower Press, 2021.

Richards, Rashna Wadia. Cinematic TV: Serial Drama goes to the Movies. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2021.

Scepanski, Phillip. Tragedy Plus Time: National Trauma and Television Comedy. U of Texas Press, 2021.

Schweitzer, Dahlia. Haunted Homes. Rutgers UP, 2021.

Woofter, Kristopher and Will Dodson. American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper. U of Texas Press, 2021.