Film & History Special Issue arriving to subscribers this week.... (htttp://h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis) Television as Historian Part I 30:1 (March, 2000) The Editor's Reflections and Reports. Peter C. Rollins 1 Television as Historian: An Introduction by Special Editor, Gary Edgerton 7 [Discusses six principles of historiography when it deals with television as a witness and interpreter of the past and agent of collective memory.] Television as Historian, Part I Loafing in the Garden of Knowledge: History TV and Popular Memory. Steve Anderson 14 [Discussed: You Are There; Star Trek; Quantum Leap; Meeting of Minds; Dark Skies; brX-Files as they go against the design of historians] Indy & Dr. Mike: Is Boy to Global World History as Woman is to Domestic National Myth? 24 Mimi White [Discussed: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman as contrasts] Profiles in Courage: Televisual History on the New Frontier. 38 Daniel Marcus [Discussed: Book version, film version of Profiles in Courage; New Frontier mind-set; Drew's Primary as documentary; the blend of history and entertainment] Connections and Differences: Spatial Dimensions of Television History. Michael Curtin 50 [Global Village; 1964 Olympic games; Walt Rostow and his famous "Stages of Economic Growth; Chicago as broadcast center and rivalry with NYC; third-world struggles with global communications] Television Reviews In the 20th Century:A Look at the Millennium through the Eyes of Some of Hollywood's Most Noted Directors: Robert Zemeckis' Smoking, Drinking and Drugging in the 20th Century: In Pursuit of Happiness. Jennifer L. Tebbe 67 Norman Jewison's Comedy in the 20th Century: Funny is Money. Marc Oxoby 69 Gregory Nava's On the American Dream in the 20th Century: The American Tapestry. Hannu Salmi 70 Barry Levinson's Yesterday's Tomorrows. T.V. Reed 71 Karl Marx goes West: Three Westerns from the East: The Sons of Great Bear (1966); Chingachcook, The Great Snake (1967); Apache (1973). Jochen Wierich 73 American Photography: A Century of Images. Richard N. Masteller 74 New York: A Documentary Film (1999). Gary R. Edgerton 76 Dear Home: Letters from World War II. Philip J. Landon 79 Sex Sells: The History Channel's History of Sex. Leesa Rittelmann 80 Book Reviews Mike Malloy. Lee Van Cleef: A Biographical, Film and Television Reference. Jay Kent Lorenz 82 Gregory William Mank. Women in Horror Films, 1930s and Women in Horror Films, 1940s. Wendy Donat 83 Jeffrey Ruoff and Kenneth Ruoff. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On. Michael S. Shull 84 Jun Xing. Asian America Through the Lens: History, Representations & Identity. Cindy Wong 85 John Leverence. And the Winner Is .... Patrick H. Griffin 86 Michael E. Birdwell. Celluloid Soldiers: Warner Bros.'s Campaign Against Nazism. Robert Fyne 87 Alan G. Fetrow. Feature Films, 1950-1959: A United States Filmography. Michael S. Shull 88 Donald R. Stevens, ed. Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Edward J. Gallagher 89 Eugene Jackson. Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson. William Mullin 90 _______________________________________________ Full subscription information and other matters of interest are available on the Film & History web site: http://h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu