FILM & HISTORY:
An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies
www.filmandhistory.org

Volume 33.1 (2003)

General Introduction
by Peter C. Rollins 1

Introduction to Special Issue: THE WEST IN FILM, TELEVISION
       AND HISTORY  6
by Deborah Carmichael

Cimarron: The New Western History in 1931
by J. E. Smyth  9

The "Ache for Home" in Anthony Mann's Devil's Doorway (1950)
by Joanna Hearne    18

Rewriting High Noon: Transformations in American Popular Political Culture
During the Cold War
by Matthew Costello 30

Dead Men Walking: Consumption and Agency in the Western
by Loren Quiring    41

Historical Discourse and American Identity in Westerns since the Reagan
Administration
by Alexandra Keller 47

The Future of The West Wing: Discussions on H-PCAACA  Listserv
by Peter Rollins    55


FILM REVIEWS

Bridget Jones's Diary
by Cara Ann Lane    64

Bowling for Columbine
by Patrick Finn 65

Ghosts of Attica and Investigation of a Flame: A Documentary Portrait of the
Catonsville Nine
by James C. Giesen  66

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) & The Lord of the Rings: The
Two Towers (2002)
by Marc Oxoby   67

Zinat: One Special Day
by Deborah Hutton   69

The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It (2000)
by Timothy Stewart-Winter   70


BOOK REVIEWS

Chris Costello with Raymond Strait. Lou's on First.
Cooper Square Press, 2000.
by Robert Cirasa    73

Michael C. C. Adams. Echoes of War: A Thousand Years of Military History in
Popular Culture.
The University Press of Kentucky, 2002.
by Robert Fyne  75

Kevin L. Stoehr, editor. Film and Knowledge: Essays on the Integration of
Images and Ideas.
McFarland, 2002.
by David Lancaster  76

John Saunders. The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey Short Cuts
Series 7.
London: Wallflower, 2001.
by Jason Vest   77

Robert Brent Toplin. Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood.
University Press of Kansas, 2002.
by Robert Fyne  78

Richard Armstrong. Billy Wilder: American Film Realist.
McFarland, 2000.
by Harvey Young 79

Tom Stempel. American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing.
The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
by Ron Briley   80

Stephen Keane. Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe.
London: Wallflower, 2001.
by Lisa Ossian  82

William Pencak. The Films of Derek Jarman.
McFarland, 2002.
by David Lancaster  83

Kristin Thompson. Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical
Narrative Technique.
Harvard University Press, 1999.
by Robert Sickels   84

Charles P. Mitchell. The Hitler Filmography: Worldwide Feature Film and
Television Miniseries
    Portrayals, 1940 through 2000.
McFarland, 2002.
by Robert Fyne  84

Jonathan Munby. Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster from
Little Caesar to
    Touch of Evil.
University of Chicago Press, 1999.
by Robert Sickels   85

Diane Negra. Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Stardom.
Routledge, 2001.
by Jack Carroll 86

Chuck Berg and Tom Erskine. The Encyclopedia of Orson Welles.
Checkmark Books, 2001.
by Hugh S. Manon    87

George Alexander. Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk About the Magic
of Cinema.
Harlem Moon/Broadway Books, 2003.
by Keith Orlando Hilton

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