Screening The Past Issue 26, La Trobe universityıs screen studies journal,
is now online at http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/
This special issue entitled Early Europe springs from the Medievalism in
Contemporary Media symposium held at the University of Woollongong in
October 2008. The papers represented here represent a significant
contribution to the study of medievalism in film and more broadly in popular
culture.
First Release Articles: Early Europe:
* Louise DıArcens, Screening Early Europe: Premodern Projections.
* Adrian Martin, The Long Path Back: Medievalsim and Film.
* Stephanie Trigg, Transparent Walls, Stained Glass and Cinematic
Medievalism.
* Anke Bernau, Suspended Animation: Myth, Memory and History in Beowulf.
* Sylvia Kershaw and Laurie Ormond, ³We are the Monsters Now.² The Genre
Medievalism of Robert Zemeckisı Beowulf.
* Robert Sinnerbrink, From Mythic History to Cinematic Poetry: Terrence
Malickıs The New World Viewed.
* Helen Dell, Music for Myth and Fantasy in the Arthurian Films.
* Narelle Campbell, Medieval Reimaginings: Female Knights in Childrenıs
Television.
* Louise DıArcens, Iraq, the Prequel(s): Historicising Military Occupation
and Withrdrawal in Kingdom of Heaven and 300.
* Christina Loong, Reel Medici Monsters? The Medici: Godfathers of the
Renaissance Reassessed.
* Laura Ginters, ³A Continuous Return²: Tristan and Isolde, Wagner,
Hollywood and Bill Viola.
* Raul Ruiz, Three Thrusts at Excalibur (trans. Adrian Martin)
First Release Articles:
* Adrian Danks, Fishing from the Same Stream: The New Iranian Cinema,
Close-Up and the ³Film-on-film² Genre.
* Peter Limbrick, Playing Empire: Settler Masculinities, Adventure and
Merian C. Cooperıs The Four Feathers (U.S. 1929)
* Lesley Speed, Strike Me Lucky, Social Difference and Consumer Culture in
Roy Reneıs Only Film.
Australian Film Culture:
Ina Bertrand, Some Early History of the Austrlian Film Institute: A Memoir
of the 1970s.
Deane Williams, ³The Circulation of Ideas²: An Interview with Tom OıRegan.
Deane Williams, Shifts and Interventions:Cultural Materialism and Australian
Film History.
Book Reviews:
*Ina Bertrand reviews Raymond Longfordıs The Sentimental Bloke: the restored
version, Madman/NFSA/ATOM, 2009
*Ina Bertrand reviews Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley (ed), Hollywood in the
neighbourhood: historical case studies of local moviegoing,
*Nathalie Brillon reviews Jane Mills, Loving and Hating Hollywood: Reframing
Global and Local Cinemas.
*Adam Broinowski reviews Sabine Nessel, Winfried Pauleit, Christine Rüffert
(eds), Wort und Fleisch: Kino swischen Text und Körper.
*Rachael Cameron reviews André Gaudreault, From Plato to Lumière. Narration
and Monstration in Literature and Cinema,
*Ryan Cook reviews Matthew H. Bernstein, Screening a Lynching
*Maura Edmond reviews Jacob Smith, Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media
*Victor Fan reviews Pak Tong Cheuk, Hong Kong New Wave Cinema (1978-2000).
*Mike Fleming reviews The Encyclopedia of British Film (Third Edition)
*Freda Freiberg reviews Alexander Jacoby, A Critical Handbook of Japanese
Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day, and Aaron Gerow, A
Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan,
*Gin Che Tong reviews Brooke Erin Duffy and Joseph Turow (eds),Key Readings
in Media Today: Mass Communication in Contexts.
*Frances Guerin reviews Kristen Whissel, Picturing American Modernity:
Traffic, Technology, and the Silent Cinema
*Alexandra Heller Nicholas reviews Barry Curtis, Dark Places: The Haunted
House in Film.
*Jan-Christopher Horak reviews Rob King, The Fun Factory. The Keystone Film
Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
*Irene Javors reviews Joe McElhaney, Albert Maysles.
*D.B.Jones reviews Phillip Gillett, Movie Greats: A Critical Study of
Classical Cinema.
*Harry Kirchner reviews Steven Maras, Screenwriting: History, Theory and
Practice.
*Roger Macy reviews Bert Cardullo, Out of Asia: The Films of Akira Kurosawa,
Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami, and Zhang Yimou: Essays and Interviews.
*Harriet Margolis reviews Deb Verhoeven, Jane Campion
*Harriet Margolis reviews Gönül Dönmez-Colin, Turkish Cinema: Identity,
Distance and Belonging.
*Craig Martin reviews Tony Shaw, Hollywoodıs Cold War.
*Josh Nelson reviews Roger Ebert Scorsese by Ebert
*Violeta Politoff reviews Joanna Page, Crisis and capitalism in Contemporary
Argentine Cinema'
*Thomas Redwood reviews Michel Ciment, Film World: Interviews with Cinemaıs
Leading Directors
*Christopher Rowe reviews Jane Stadler with Kelly McWilliam, Screen Media:
Analysing Film and Television.
*Kirsten Stevens reviews Dina Iordanova with Ragan Rhyne (eds.), Film
Festival Yearbook 1: the festival circuit.
*Jay Thompson reviews Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal, eds. Creative Nation:
Australian Cinema and Cultural Studies Reader.
*Mike Walsh reviews Michael Ingham, Johnnie To Kei-fungıs PTU
*Mike Walsh reviews Joe McElhaney editor, Vincente Minnelli: The Art of
Entertainment
*Mike Walsh reviews Catherine Russell, The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and
Japanese Modernity.
*Tony Williams reviews Stella Hockenhull, Neo-Romantic Landscapes: An
Aesthetic Approach to the Films of Powell and Pressburger.
*Janice Yu reviews Jane Blocker, Seeing Witness: Visuality and the Ethics of
Testimony.
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