Dear Screen-L subscribers, SCREENING THE PAST Issue 21 is now online. http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/index.html Special issue on Cinema/Theatre: Beyond Adaptation Uploaded Friday, 20 July 2007 Guest Editors: Sam Rohdie and Des O'Rawe First release Des O'Rawe, Introduction: Cinema/Theatre: Beyond Adaptation. Charles Leary, The Return Home: John Cassavetes's Love Streams. Sam Rohdie, Jacques Rivette: Va Savoir. Des O'Rawe, Inviolable Attachments: Takeshi Kitano's Dolls. Richard Rushton, Douglas Sirk's Theatres of Imitation. Sean Redmond and Matt Wagner, The Eye of the Beckettian Present. Donna Peberdy, Tongue-Tied: Film and Theatre Voices in David Mamet's Oleanna. Reviews Chris Berry reviews Taiwan film directors: A treasure island. Ina Bertrand reviews Americanizing the movies and "movie mad" audiences: 1910-1914. Ina Bertrand reviews The tread of a white man's foot: Australian Pacific colonialism and the cinema, 1925-62. Colin Crisp reviews Cahiers du Cinéma presents The Hollywood Interviews. Colin Crisp reviews European cinema: face to face with Hollywood. Colin Crisp reviews Film propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World war II cinema. Tom Crosbie reviews Hollywood and the culture elite: How the movies became American. Jeannette Delamoir reviews Ghosts: Death's double and the phenomenon of theatre. Anna Dzenis reviews Postcards from the cinema. Tony Fonseca reviews Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, democracy, and working people in American film. Mas Generis reviews History goes to the movies: studying history on film. Heather Heckman reviews The musical as drama. Roger Hillman reviews Depth of field: Stanley Kubrick film, and the uses of history. D.B. Jones reviews Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11: How one film divided a nation. D.B. Jones reviews Jean-Luc Godard. Martin Manning reviews Gaming: Essays on algorithmic culture. Harriet Margolis reviews Adventures of a Hollywood secretary: Her private letters from inside the studios of the 1920s. Benjamin McCann reviews Citizen Spielberg. Violetta Petrova reviews Redrawing the map: The new European cinema. Leland Poague reviews Alfred Hitchcock. Daniel Ross reviews Feelings are facts: A life. David Sanjek reviews Cinema and modernity. David Sanjek reviews Pretend we're dead. Capitalist monsters in American pop culture. Andrew Spicer reviews Manly Arts: Masculinity and nation in early American cinema. Sharon Lin Tay reviews Deleuze, cinema and national identity: narrative time in national contexts. Rick Thompson reviews Tunes for 'Toons: Music and the Hollywood cartoon. Mike Walsh reviews An amorous history of the silver screen: Shanghai cinema, 1896-1937. Mike Walsh reviews Chasing dragons: an introduction to the martial arts film. Saige Walton reviews The cinema dreams its rivals: Media fantasy films from radio to the Internet. Matt Wanat reviews American cinema of the 1940s: Themes and variations. Matt Wanat reviews This wounded cinema, this wounded life: violence and utopia in the films of Sam Peckinpah. June Werrett reviews Hollywood romantic comedy: states of the union, 1934-65. Response/Letter to the Editor Michael J. Fischer responds to Thomas Redwood's review of: Michael M. J. Fischer, Mute dreams, blind owls and dispersed knowledges: Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry. Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2004. This review was published in Issue 20. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu