Books for review – Spring 2018

IAMHIST received copies of the following books and is looking for reviewers (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television). If you are interested, just send a message (mentioning the full title of the book) to the associate and book review editor for North America, Katharina Niemeyer : iamhistreviews@gmail.com. It would help if you could tell us a bit about your own research and expertise and/or why you are interested in reviewing this title. Please do also communicate your full postal address in case the book is still available for review.

Barefoot, Guy. Trash Cinema: The Lure of the Low. Columbia University Press, 2017. Already assigned for review

Bondanella, Peter, and Federico Pacchioni. A History of Italian Cinema. 2nd ed. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017. Already assigned for review

Denison, Rayna, ed. Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli’s Monster Princess. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2018.

Dobson, Nichola. Norman McLaren. Between the Frames. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2018.

Friedman, Seth. Are You Watching Closely?: Cultural Paranoia, New Technologies, and the Contemporary Hollywood Misdirection Film. SUNY Press, 2017.

Fronc, Jennifer. Monitoring the Movies: The Fight Over Film Censorship in Early Twentieth-century Urban America. University of Texas Press, 2017. Already assigned for review

Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn H. Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy. Univ of California Press, 2017. Already assigned for review

Glick, Joshua. Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977. Univ of California Press, 2018.

Gorfinkel, Elena. Lewd Looks: American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Already assigned for review

Haltof, Marek. Screening Auschwitz: Wanda Jakubowska’s The Last Stage and the Politics of Commemoration. Northwestern University Press, 2018. Already assigned for review

Harlap, Itay. Television Drama in Israel: Identities in Post-TV Culture. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017.

Herzog, Werner, Martje Herzog, and Alan Greenberg. Scenarios: Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Johnson, Keith Leslie. Jan Svankmajer. University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Klika, D. T. Situation Comedy, Character, and Psychoanalysis: On the Couch with Lucy, Basil, and Kimmie. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2018.

Leigh, Jacob. The Late Films of Claude Chabrol: Genre, Visual Expressionism and Narrational Ambiguity. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017.

Long, Christian. The imaginary geography of Hollywood cinema 1960-2000. Intellect Books, 2017. Already assigned for review

Raw, Laurence. Six Turkish Filmmakers. University of Wisconsin Pres, 2017.

Rawlings, Roger. Ripping England!: Postwar British Satire from Ealing to the Goons. SUNY Press, 2017. Already assigned for review

Ripley, Mark. A Search for Belonging: The Mexican Cinema of Luis Buñuel. Columbia University Press, 2017.

Roberts, Robin. Subversive Spirits: The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture. University Press of Mississippi, 2018.

Roquet, Paul. Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Already assigned for review

Samer, Roxanne, and William Whittington, eds. Spectatorship: Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media. University of Texas Press, 2017. Already assigned for review

Shuster, Martin. New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Sonnevend, Julia. Stories without borders: The Berlin Wall and the making of a global iconic event. Oxford University Press, 2016. Already assigned for review

Souch, Irina. Popular Tropes of Identity in Contemporary Russian Television and Film. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017.

Stoeltje, Rachael, ed. Sustainable Audiovisual Collections Through Collaboration: Proceedings of the 2016 Joint Technical Symposium. Indiana University Press, 2017. Already assigned for review

Wagner, Kristen Anderson. Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film. Wayne State University Press, 2018. Already assigned for review

Wright, Julie Lobalzo. Crossover Stardom: Popular Male Music Stars in American Cinema. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2017. Already assigned for review

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