New Issue of Screening the Past

Image from The Party (Blake Edwards, 1968). Read Charles Barr's article on this film, reprinted in issue 30 of Screening the Past

Film Studies For Free rushes you news, via Adrian Martin, that not only has Screening the Past, that wonderful, A* rated, online journal of screen history, theory and criticism, posted its latest issue, but it has changed URL, and is in the process of upgrading its website.

All the new contents are listed below. FSFF hasn't read everything yet, but is enjoying STP's tributes to Blake Edwards, as well as the Open Access reprint of Chris Berry's wonderful essay China’s New “Women’s Cinema”.

First Release

• “The China Film”: Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Hollywood
• Tokens of Exchange, or The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Lover: Marginal Asian Characters in 1920s Australian Cinema
• Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O’Hara
• Two Channels, Two Truths: Reporting the Iraq War in Control Room
• ‘Give It a Go You Apes’: Relations Between the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, and the Early Australian Film Industry (1954–1970)

Tribute to Blake Edwards

• Introduction to Reprints of Two Essays on Blake Edwards
• Detecting, Defecting and Whistling in the Dark: The Films of Blake Edwards
• “Crazy World Full of Crazy Contradictions”, Blake Edwards’ Victor/Victoria
• On Blake Edwards
• The Bitter Essence of Blake Edwards
• Sophisticated Naturalism
• Ridicule and Panic: On Blake Edwards
• Blake Edwards, Switch, and the Price of a New Man
• Topping the Topper: Blake Edwards
• Strange Bodies: On The Great Race
• The Party
• You Can’t Keep A Good Auteur Down / Cruel To Be Kind
• The Party

Classics and Re-runs

• China’s New “Women’s Cinema”

Reviews

• Ford At Fox Part 3b
• Films by Gordon Ball (dvd review)
• Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Maitland McDonagh
• Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince, Mark A. Vieira
• Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier, Homay King
• Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre, James Kendrick
• The Last Silent Picture Show: Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s, William M. Drew
• New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves, Darcy Paquet
• Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents, Tom Kemper
• British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade, Laurel Forster and Sue Harper (eds)
• Casablanca: Movies and Memory, Marc Augé (Translated and with an Afteword by Tom Conley)
• English Filming, English Writing, Jefferson Hunter
• Calling All Cars: Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing, Kathleen Battles
• The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia, James M. Welsh, Gene D. Phillips, and Rodney F. Hill (eds)
• Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory – Visible Man and The Spirit of Film, (Edited by Erica Carter, Translated by Rodney Livingstone)
• Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s, Patrice Petro (ed.)
• Wake in Fright, Tina Kaufman
• Neo-Noir, Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre, and Greg Tuck (eds.).
• Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel, Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis (eds.)
• On Michael Haneke, Brian Price and John David Rhodes (editors)