Past Fifth Issues
63.5, 2023-2024
Writing Film History without Films: Song Booklets and an Archival Hermeneutic of Speculation
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From Extraction to Wilderness: Australian Film History, Environmental History, and The Last Wild River
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Late Slasher: Remediation to Premediation in Urban Legend, Gossip, and Final Destination
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“The House in That Film Was Very Real”: Aging and Verisimilitude in Hindi Film Set Construction
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The Voice Within: Chinese Muslims, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Representation in Hui Microfilms
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Afterlife and Reclamation: Rodney King, Black Trauma, and the Televisual Archive of Self in Celebrity Rehab
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Stardom, Cinephilia, and the Affective Contours of Bollywood’s Soft Power in China
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The Ethnographic Pastoral Re-imagined: Embodiment and Inhabitation in Aboio and Sweetgrass
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Domestic Advice and Its Shadowy Double: Domestic Satire in At Home with Amy Sedaris
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Is Kingdom Hearts a JRPG? The Racialized Labor of a Japanese Anti-auteur’s Disney-Licensed Videogame
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Legitimate Transgression: Home Video Culture and Screen Translation(s) in the Late Soviet Union
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Neurotic Stars and Spellbound Viewers: Louis Bisch and Psychoanalytic Film Theory in Silent-Era Photoplay
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62.5, 2022-2023
“As the Cyber World Turns”: Web Soaps and the History of TV Storytelling Online
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“Anyone Can Wear the Mask”: The Marginalization of Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Archives in Blue: Visual Registers for the Police Siege and Surveillance of Jaguar Productions in the 1970s
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Remediating Antebellum Laughter: Sheppard Lee, Bert Williams, and the Subversion of Blackface in Get Out
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Surviving “Certain Death”: Narrational Reliability in American Motion Picture Serial Cliffhangers of the Golden Age
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A Diachronic, Scale-Flexible, Relational, Perspectival Operation: In Defense of (Always-Reforming) Medium Specificity
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A Rural Georgia for White Men, Like Brian Kemp: The Midcentury Films and Nontheatrical Legacy of Georgia Agricultural Extension
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Happy Trees in a Black Box: Elevated Escapism as Comfort Television in The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross
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61.5, 2022
Looking Back, Thinking Forward: A Digital Humanities Assessment of Equity, Diversity, and Representation in Twenty Years of Publishing in Cinema Journal and JCMS
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"What’s Happened to Chorus Girls?": Domesticity and the Postwar Backstage Musical
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Cultural Programming and the Early History of HBO’s Signature Style, 1978–1988
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Franchising the Past: Transmedia Historiography, Cultural Memory Management, and the Fanboy Historian
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Altered States: Psychedelic Experimental Cinema as Border Crossing in Bruce Conner’s LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS
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Retroframing the Future: Digital De-aging Technologies in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
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60.5, 2021
Selling Sonic Girlhood: Feminizing Indie Rock through Music Supervision on MTV's Awkward
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Reach Out and Watch Someone: Televisuality, Gender, and the Short Life of the Picturephone
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The Bonneville Power Administration Film Archives: Ecologies of Infrastructural Media from 1939 to the Present
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Re-imagining a Queer Indigenous Past: Affective Archives and Minor Gestures in the Sámi Documentary Sparrooabbán
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Female Desire, Pop Rock, and the Tiananmen Generation: The Synergy of Sexual and Political Revolutions in the Banned Chinese-German Film Summer Palace (2006)
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Unique Doubles: Ornamental Sisters and Dual Roles in the Transitional Era Cinema
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