Issue 20 of Screening the past. An international, refereed electronic journal of visual media and history:  http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast is now online.      

Issue 20 articles:

Deborah Allison,
Novelty title sequences and self-reflexivity in classical Hollywood 
cinema.

Keith Beattie,
 From city symphony to global city film: Documentary display and the 
corporeal.

David Scott Diffrient,
Alternate futures, contradictory pasts: Forking paths and cubist 
narratives in contemporary film.

Tiziana Ferrero-Regis,
Open City, Rossellini and neorealism: Sixty years on.

Tim Groves,
Entranced: Affective mimesis and cinematic identification.

Cathy Hope and Adam Dickerson,
'Ill-will with the trade': The Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals 
(1959-1964).

Cathy Hope and Adam Dickerson,
'Separating the Sheep from the Goats': The Sydney and Melbourne Film 
Festivals (1965-1972).

Adrian Martin,
Ticket to ride: Claire Denis and the cinema of the body.

Myra Mendible,
Sexy señoritas and other imperial fantasies: US foreign policy, 
domestic fictions, and the Latina body.

Daniel Reynaud,
The effectiveness of Australian film propaganda for the war effort 
1914-1918.

Margit Rohringer,
The biographical approach to history or the subjectivity of the past: 
A case study of Intervista (Anri Sala, 1998).

William D. Routt,
Misprision (note version).

Anne Rutherford,
Garin Nugroho: Didong, cinema and the embodiment of politics in 
cultural form.

Reviews

Deborah Allison reviews Jean Cocteau.

Richard Armstrong reviews Icons of grief: Val Lewton's Home Front 
pictures.

Neil Bather reviews The Blade Runner experience: The legacy of a 
science fiction classic.

Greg Battye reviews Neo-Baroque aesthetics and contemporary 
entertainment.
                               
Merv Bendle reviews The parallax view.
                               
Ina Bertrand reviews The Barry McKenzie movies.

Ina Bertrand reviews Policing Cinema: Movies and censorship in early 
twentieth-century America.

Ina Bertrand reviews Sheep and the Australian cinema.

Jodi Brooks reviews The last "Darky": Bert Williams, black-on-black 
minstrelsy, and the African diaspora.

Tom Conley reviews Film fables.

Colin Crisp reviews Alain Resnais and Maurice Pialat.

Colin Crisp reviews The cinema of France.

Jeannette Delamoir reviews J. P. McGowan: Biography of a Hollywood 
pioneer.

Anna Dzenis reviews Film performance: From achievement to appreciation.

Laurie N Ede reviews Gore Vidal's America.

Laurie N Ede reviews Hollywood behind the Wall. The cinema of East 
Germany.

David Ehrenstein reviews How to be an intellectual in the age of tv: 
The lessons of Gore Vidal.

Mark Finn reviews Lara Croft: Cyber heroine.

Freda Freiberg reviews Imitation of life.

Mas Generis reviews Cinephilia: movies, love and memory.

Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith reviews Ether: The nothing that 
connects everything.

Heather Heckman reviews The first lady of Hollywood: A biography of 
Louella Parsons.

Jan-Christopher Horak reviews Blackout: World War II and the origins 
of film noir.

Jan-Christopher Horak reviews Shadows, specters, shards: Making 
history in avant-garde film.

Andrew Horton reviews Film remakes.

D.B. Jones reviews Hitchcock and twentieth century cinema.

Harriet Margolis reviews Re-takes: Postcoloniality and foreign film 
languages.

Ben McCann reviews The office.

Anne McLaren reviews China on screen: Cinema and nation.

Susan Napier reviews 100 Anime.

Leonie Naughton reviews Herr Lubitsch goes to Hollywood. German and 
American film after World War 1.

David Neo reviews Contemporary Asian cinema: Popular culture in a 
global frame.

Tim O'Farrell reviews The Direct Cinema of David and Albert Maysles.

Jaime S. Ong reviews Incongruous entertainment: Camp, cultural value 
and the MGM musical.

Michael Paris reviews Citizen spy: Television, espionage, and cold 
war culture.

Violetta Petrova reviews Unsettling scores: German film, music, and 
ideology.

Kerstin Pilz reviews Big screen Rome.

Dana Polan reviews Silent film sound.

Murray Pomerance reviews Hitchcock's cryptonymies.

Paul Ramaeker reviews Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the 
contemporary Hollywood blockbuster.

Thomas Redwood reviews Mute dreams, blind owls and dispersed 
knowledges: Persian poesis in the transnational circuitry.

Daniel Ross reviews 10.

Gerald Sim reviews Historical dictionary of Australian and New 
Zealand cinema.

Rick Thompson reviews Backstory 4: Interviews with screenwriters of 
the 1970s and 1980s.

Sue Turnbull reviews Buffy the vampire slayer, Why Buffy matters: The 
art of Buffy the vampire slayer and Reading Angel: The tv spin-off 
with a soul.

Mike Walsh reviews The big show: British cinema culture in the Great 
War 1914-1918.

Saige Walton reviews Virtual voyages: Cinema and travel.

June Werrett reviews Surrealism and cinema


Issue 21 will be a special Issue on Cinema/Theatre. Guest editors for 
that issue, to be uploaded in May 2007, will be Des O'Rawe and Sam 
Rohdie
                    



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