November 11, 2001

To: Friends of Film & History
     (www.filmandhistory.org)

From: Peter Rollins, Editor

Subj:  Volume 31.2 coming out next week

    Film &  History: An  Interdisciplinary Journal of Film
        and Television Studies.   31.2

    www.filmandhistory.org

    The second issue for the year deals with THE COLD WAR
with the following topics considered in a cultural context of the
struggle:

    British Cinema and the Cold War
    Hollywood Orientalism in the 1950s
    ABC-TV's COMBAT as Cold War Document
    Network as a Cold War statement
    Subversion of the Cold War Consensus in
        Dr. Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate,
            and Planet of the Apes.
    Cold War Space Epics and US-Soviet Relations

      Also featured are the following:

Description of a Media Preservation Course

Film Reviews of THE ROCKEFELLERS, MULE SKINNER BLUES,
    CINEMA VERITE, THE EDINBURGH FILM FESTIVAL,
    KEN BURNS' JAZZ, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU,
    PEARL HARBOR

Book Reviews of texts about JOHN FORD, TELEVISION AS
    HISTORIAN, AUDIENCE STUDIES, DALTON TRUMBO,
    BRITISH FILM COMEDY, SOVIET CINEMA, ABRAHAM
    LINCOLN IN FILM, PARODY AS A GENRE, WOODY
    ALLEN, KING ARTHUR ON FILM, CENSORSHIP
    DURING THE STUDIO ERA.

It is still possible to receive the two issues of 2001.  Go to
the web site and register by PayPal over the Internet and
we will add you to the list.

Full information on this issue and on others is at the web site:

    www.filmandhistory.org

Hope you are interested.  Phil Landon and his authors have done
a wonderful job with this issue and the previous one as well.  See
the web site for full details.

Peter Rollins


Peter C. Rollins
Editor-in-Chief
Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and TV Studies
(Web site: www.filmandhistory.org)
RR 3 Box 80
Cleveland, OK 74020
(918)243-7637 and fax 5995
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Comments: Individual subscription information on the web site
as well as information and FAQ's about the CD-ROMs. There are
also discussion items and essays on Saving Private Ryan, Amistad,
CNN's Cold War, and a host of other topics. The Table of Contents
for the last thirty years is there as well. The last two issues dealt with
Television as Historian (Vols. 30.1 and 30.2).

Next conference is in November, 2002, a year from this
Fall, on The American West(s) in Film, Television, and History
at the Kansas City Marriott, Country Club Plaza--just a few blocks
from the Nelson Art Gallery, a major institution and just next door
to the Kansas City Arts Institute. We are looking for energetic
people to serve as Area Chairs and will put a list of existing and
available Area Chair topics on the web site this summer.

www.filmandhistory.org

During the Fall of 2002, we will have panels at the Puebla, Mexico meeting
of the PCA/ACA. Please contact our panel organizer, James Yates, for
details and visit the Mexico web site for lots of information on the place,
the
meeting, the amenities. Direct flights from Houston to Puebla at discount
prices.
www.udlap.mx/congress

Most sessions will be on the campus of the Universidad de las Americas
(UDLA), a school resembling San Diego State U or other Southern
California campuses.

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