Performing/Representing Male Bonds: Issue 2 of INMEDIA

Screencap from The Matrix (Larry and Andy Wachowski, 1999). Read Marianne Kac-Vergne 's article Losing Visibility? The Rise and Fall of Hypermasculinity in Science Fiction Films on the images of masculinity offered up by this and other scifi films.

Film Studies for Free let its readers know, early last year, of InMedia, a great online French Journal, in English, of Media and Media Representations in the English-Speaking World. Its first issue treated  Global Film and Television Industries Today.

Issue 2 on Performing/Representing Male Bonds has also been published recently and its contents, many of which are film related, are linked to below.

InMedia, Issue 2, 2012: Performing/Representing Male Bonds
Edited by Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski, Claire Hélie and Pierre-Antoine Pellerin

• Performing/Representing Male Bonds Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski, Claire Hélie and Pierre-Antoine Pellerin
• Losing Visibility? The Rise and Fall of Hypermasculinity in Science Fiction Films Marianne Kac-Vergne
• The Reluctant Patriarch: The Emergence of Lads and Lad Mags in the 1990s Nick Growse
• Seducing Women to Assess Each Other: Male Hierarchies within the Seduction Community Mélanie Gourarier
• Midlife Pop Masculinities in the Here and Now Chris Tinker

Varia

• British Party Election Broadcasts (2001, 2005 and 2010): Ideological Framing, Storytelling, Individualisation David Haigron

Bibliographical Essay

• ‘Locus of Control’: A Selective Review of Disney Theme Parks Thibaut Clément

Interview

• At the Crossroads of Media, Media Critique, and the Critique of Media critics – An Interview with Serge Halimi, Editor-in-Chief of Le Monde Diplomatique Serge Halimi and Christine Larrazet

Critical Perspective

• Social Cognition Divina Frau-Meigs

Conference and Seminar Reviews

• Offshore Processes: International Perspectives on Australian Film and Television Oliver Haag
• The Translation and Reception of Multilingual Films Samuel Bréan and Jean-François Cornu
• Contemporary Screen Narratives Fabrice Lyczba
• Internet Studies in Europe Mathieu O'Neil
• Cinema and the Crossing of Frontiers, 16th SERCIA Conference Julie Assouly and Marianne Kac-Vergne

Book Reviews

• Delphine Letort Violaine Roussel, Art vs War : les Artistes américains contre la guerre en Irak Paris : Presses de Sciences Po, 2011, 314 p.
• Elsa Grassy Kathleen Franz and Susan Smulyan (eds), Major Problems in American Popular Culture
• Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011, 496 p.
• Estelle Epinoux Carol MacKeogh, Díóg O’Connell, Documentary in a Changing State: Ireland since the 1990s Cork: Cork University Press, 2012, 176 p.
• Delphine Letort Brian A. Monahan, The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11 New York & London: New York University Press, 2010, 221 p.

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