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Books for Review Summer 2023

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IAMHIST received copies of the following books and is looking for reviewers (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television). If you are interested, please send a message (mentioning the full title of the book and your postal address) to Ciara Chambers (ciarachambers3@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 also note that some books may still be available from previous lists.

Anderson, Lisa M. Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape. Bloomsbury, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Brady, Martin. The Cinema of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Legenda, 2023.
Dootson, Kirsty Sinclair. The Rainbow’s Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity. Paul Mellon Centre, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Engelen, Leen, and Roel Vande Winkel, eds. Thematic Issue: ‘Cultures of Spectacle.’ Journal of Belgian History, 2023.
Fuke, Oliver, ed. Films of Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen. British Film Institute, 2022.
Goscilo, Helena. Singing a Different Tune: The Slavic Film Musical. Academic Studies Press, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Jensen, Helle Strandgaard. Selling Sesame Street: A Transnational History. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Kuhn, Annette. Exploring Cinema Memo. Argyll Publishing, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Plummer, Adam. The British Trauma Film: Psychoanalysis and Popular British Cinema in the Immediate Aftermath of the Second World War. Bloomsbury, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Pomerance, Murray. Color It True: Impressions of Cinema. Bloomsbury, 2022.
Rains, Stephanie. Advertising and Consumer Culture in Ireland, 1922-1962. Bloomsbury, 2022.
Ray, Robert B., and Christian Keathley. All the President’s Men. Bloomsbury, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Rebhandl, Bert. Jean-Luc Godard: The Permanent Revolutionary. University of Wisconsin Pres, 2023.
Russell, Catherine. The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck. University of Illinois Press, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Shepperd, Josh. Shadow of the New Deal. University of Illinois Press, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Waller, Gregory A. Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences. University of California Press, 2023. Already assigned for review.
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Books for Review Spring 2023

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IAMHIST received copies of the following books and is looking for reviewers (Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television). If you are interested, please send a message (mentioning the full title of the book and your postal address) to Ciara Chambers (ciarachambers3@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 also note that some books may still be available from previous lists.

Anselmo, Diana W. A Queer Way of Feeling: Girl Fans and Personal Archives of Early Hollywood. University of California Press, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Barber, Susan. The Australian Film Revival: 1979s, 1980s and Beyond. Bloomsbury, 2023.
Boswell, Matthew. Virtual Holocaust Memory. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Bricca, Jacob. How Documentaries Work. Oxford University Pres, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Callahan, Dan. Barbara Stanwyck: The Miracle Woman. University Press of Mississippi, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Dear, Michael. Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands Through Film. University of California Press, 2023.
Elsaket, Ifdal, Daniel Biltereyst, and Philippe Meers, eds. Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches. Bloomsbury, 2022.
Feller, Gavin. Eternity in the Ether: A Mormon Media History. University of Illinois Press, 2022. Already assigned for review.
Ferriss, Suzanne. Lost in Translation. British Film Institute, 2023. Already assigned for review.
First, Joshua. Ukrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw. Bloomsbury, 2022.
Halbout, Grégoire. Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945. Bloomsbury, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Klinger, Barbara. Immortal Films: Casablanca and the Afterlife of a Hollywood Classic. University of California Press, 2022. Already assigned for review.
Lenk, Sabine, and Natalija Majsova, eds. Faith in a Beam of Light: Magic Lantern and Belief in Western Europe, 1860-1940. Brepols, 2022. Already assigned for review.
Luckhurst, Tim. Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People. Bloomsbury, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Ma, Yuxin. Colonial Tactics and Everyday Life: Workers of the Manchuria Film Association. University of Wisconsin Pres, 2022.
McDonald, Kathryn, and Hugh Chignell, eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Radio. Bloomsbury, 2023. Already assigned for review.
McGrath, Jason. Chinese Film. University of Minnesota Press, 2023.  Already assigned for review.
McLane, Betsy A. A New History of Documentary Film. Bloomsbury, 2022. Already assigned for review.
Moraly, Yehuda. Dream Projects in Theatre, Novels and Films. Sussex University Press, 2021. Already assigned for review.
Palmer, Landon. Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardome. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Papadopoulou, Frantzeska, Louise Wallenberg, Maaret Koskinen, and Tytti Soila. Now About All These Women in the Swedish Film Industry. Bloomsbury, 2023.
Rankin, Cortland. Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York. Routledge, 2022. Already assigned for review.
Sergi, Gianluca, and Gary Rydstrom. The Endless End of Cinema: A History of Crisis and Survival in Hollywood. Bloomsbury, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Sipiora, Phillip. Ida Lupino, Filmmaker. Bloomsbury, 2023. Already assigned for review.
Stam, Robert. Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze: Transnational Imaginaries, Media Aesthetics, and Social Thought. Bloomsbury, 2022.
Teughels, Nelleke, and Kaat Wils, eds. Learning with Light and Shadows: Educational Lantern and Film Projection, 1860-1990. Brepols, 2022. Already assigned for review.
Vice, Sue. Claude Lanzmann‘s ’Shoah’ Outtakes. Bloomsbury, 2023.
Zryd, Michael. Hollis Frampton: Navigating the Infinite Cinema. Columbia University Press, 2023. Already assigned for review.
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Books for Review Winter 2023

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Brubeck, Darius. Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-60. Intellect, 2021.

DeCelles, Naomi. Recollecting Lotte Eisner: Cinema, Exile, and the Archive. University of California Press, 2022.

Fletcher, Tony. Before the Paris Fire: Projecting the Cinematograph in London from 1889-4th May 1897. Local History Publications, 2022. Already assigned for review.

Gillespie, William. Hitler Youth Quex: A Guide for the English-speaking Reader. German Films Dot Net, 2022. Already assigned for review.

Lescher, Mary E. The Disney Animation Renaissance: Behind the Glass at the Florida Studio. University of Illinois Press, 2022. Already assigned for review.

Leteux, Christine. Continental Films: French Cinema under German Control. University of Wisconsin Press, 2022.

Norén, Fredrik, Emil Stjernholm, and C. Claire Thomsen, eds. Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Olsson, Jan. The Life and Afterlife of Swedish Biograph from Commercial Circulation to Archival Practices. University of Wisconsin Press, 2022.

Rossell, Deac. Chronology of the Birth of Cinema 1833-1896. JOHN LIBBEY PUBLISHING, 2022. Already assigned for review.

Siddique, Salma. Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit (1940-1960). Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Stewart, Garrett. Streisand: The Mirror of Difference. Wayne State University Press, 2022. Already assigned for review.

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