SCREENING THE PAST ISSUE 30 http://screeningthepast.com/ (Note the new url) FIRST RELEASE ARTICLES "The China Film" Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Hollywood - Jane Park Tokens of Exchange, or The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and the Lover: Marginal Asian characters - Olivia Khoo "Working within the system. An Interview with Gerry O'Hara." - Wheeler Winston Dixon Two Channels,Two Truths: Reporting the Iraq war in Control Room - Ursula Boser 'Give it a go, you apes': Relations between the Sydney and Melbourne Film festivals, and the early Australian Film Industry (1954- 1970) - Cathy Hope and Adam Dickerson TRIBUTE TO BLAKE EDWARDS Introduction to Reprints of Two essays on Blake Edwards - Peter Lehman and William Luhr Detecting, Defecting and Whistling in the Dark: The Films of Blake Edwards - Peter Lehman and William Luhr "Crazy world full of crazy contradictions", Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria - Peter Lehman and William Luhr "On Blake Edwards" - Myron Meisel The Bitter Essence of Blake Edwards - Andrew Sarris Sophisticated Naturalism - Jean-Francois Hauduroy Blake Edwards, Switch and the Price of a New Man - Adrian Martin Topping the Topper: Blake Edwards - Raffaele Caputo Strange Bodies: On The Great Race - Serge Daney The Party - Charles Barr You Can't Keep a Good Auteur Down/Cruel to be Kind - Dave Kehr The Party - Kimberly Limbergs Classics and Re-Runs China "New Women's Cinema" - Chris Berry Reviews Ford at Fox Part 3B - Bill Routt Films by Gordon Bail (dvd review) - Wheeler Winston Dixon Alexia Kannas reviews Maitland McDonagh's Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento Anthony McKenna reviews Mark Vieira's Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince Belinda Smaill reviews Homay King's Lost in Translation, Orientalism, Cinema and the Enigmatic Signifier Craig Frost reviews James Kendrick's Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre Jan-Christopher Horak reviews William M. Drew's The Last Silent Picture Show: Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s. Emily Ashman reviews Darcy Parquet's New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves James Lyons reviews Tom Kemper's Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents Kevin Flanagan reviews Laurel Forster & Sue Harper (eds.) British Culture and Society in the 1970s Lan Xuan Le reviews Mark Auge's Casablanca: Movies and Memory Michael Fleming reviews Jefferson Hunter's English Filming, English Writing Sue Turnbull reviews Kathleen Batties' Calling all Cars: Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing Tony Fonseca reviews James M. Welsh, Gene D. Phillps & Rodney F. Hill (ed.) The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia Tyson Namow reviews Bela Balazs: Early Film Theory - Visible Man and The Spirit of Film Wheeler Winston Dixon reviews Patrice Petro (ed.) Idols of Modernity: Movie stars of the 1920s Gabrielle Murray reviews Tina Kaufman's Wake in Fright Tony Williams reviews Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre & Greg Tuck (eds.) Neo-Noir Kathleen Loock reviews Carolyn Jess-Cook and Con Verevis' Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel Josh Nelson reviews Brian Price and John David Rhodes (eds) On Michael Haneke ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html