Issues of KINEMA (Spring and Fall 2010)

Image from Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant, 2007). Read Alessandro's Zir's article on this film for Kinema (Spring 2010)

Film Studies For Free continues with its roundup of recent offerings from online film studies journal by catching up with the last two issues posted at Kinema: a Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media.

Lots of good stuff here, but FSFF particularly enjoyed Alessandro Zir's essay on Paranoid Park, Antonio Sanna on the connections between the Alien series of films and Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, and Des O'Rawe's study of Godard's Film Socialisme.

Spring 2010

'The Art of Creative Scriptural Extrapolation [on Celil B. De Mille's films]' by Anton Karl Kozlovic
'Reproducing the Fin-de-siècle Gothic with Techno-Gothic Vampires' by Antonio Sanna
'Film, Arts and Culture as Community Outreach Tools' by Victor S. O. Yu
'Interview with Gary Tooze' by Jan Uhdeby
'Going to the Movies in Egypt' by Mustafa Mahmoud Yousry
'The Desire for History in Lars von Trier’s Europa and Theo Angelopoulos’ The Suspended Step of the Stork' by Angelos Koutsourakis
'Non-Realism and Ontology in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park' by Alessandro Zir

Fall 2010

'The Fraternity of Metaphors: Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme' by Des O'Rawe'
'Interview with Kevin Brownlow on the Making of Winstanley' by Tony Tracy
'Targeting Alien Filmmakers in 1930s Hollywood' by J. Emmett Winn
'Woody Allen as Impossible Cassandra' by Alessandro Zir
'The Language and Genealogy of Early Spy Cinema' by Lukasz Boron
'Interview with Singapore Filmmaker Boo Junfeng' by Yvonne Ng
'The New Vicissitudes of Auteur Cinema' by Christina Stojanova

New World Picture 5: Varda, Solomon, Citron, Jacobs, Schneeman, Wisconsin Death Trip,

Image from Innocence and Despair (Phil Solomon, 2001). Experience Solomon's video at World Picture Journal 5: Sustainability

Film Studies For Free is a longstanding and ardent supporter of the online journal World Picture. Today, FSFF is thrilled to bring you news of the latest issue (no. 5) on Sustainability which has just gone online. There are plenty of wonderful film-related items, as usual, as well as some timely and important essays and interviews on sustainability from a number of other key perspectives for the Arts and Humanities.

Great work, WP!

Below, you can find the issue's  table of contents, and below that you can find the call for papers for the next World Picture conference, this time in Toronto, so do please scroll down for those.

Table of Contents

• Eugenie Brinkema Burn. Object. If.

• Tina di Carlo  Excess Sustainability, Sustainable Excess: A Dossier of Statements on Architecture and Sustainability Statements by Stefano Harney, Geoffrey West, Rem Koolhaas, Jeffrey Inaba, Bjarke Ingels, and Tomas Saraceno

• Michelle Citron in conversation with Brian Price and Meghan Sutherland The Ambiguous Archive

• Alexander García Düttmann The Life and Death of the University

• Ken Jacobs 3D is Intoxicating and Three 3D Poems: Lulu in Hollywood, Routine, The Story of a Devoted Couple

• Jennifer Johung Sustainably Dependent: Bio-Architectural Living Spaces

• Maebh Long The Hedgehog and Lord Browne: The “To Come” of the Humanities

• Ian MacKaye in conversation with Brian Price Records

• Timothy Morton Unsustaining

• Karen Pinkus and Cameron Tonkinwise Want Not: A Dialogue on Sustainability with Images

• Rebekah Rutkoff The Splatter Technique: An Interior Dialogue Between the Narrator and Carolee Schneeman

• Phil Solomon Innocence and Despair (2001): A Decade Later

• Allan Stoekl Agnès Varda and the Limits of Gleaning

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2011 World Picture Conference 
October 21-22 University of Toronto 
Lorenz Engell, Bauhaus University, Weimar Elizabeth Povinelli, Columbia University

The annual World Picture Conference gathers scholars from a range of different disciplines to address the relation between critical theory, philosophy, and aesthetics. For this year’s meeting we welcome papers on questions of distance. Such considerations might include (but are in no sense limited to):  

• Distance and mediation (technological and otherwise) 
• Distance as abstraction (or alienation, estrangement) 
• Travel Simultaneity
• Spatial allegories of distance
• Vision (as the prime sense organ of distance)
• Modes of translation
• Geopolitics (of distance)
• Distance and/as interval (distance as time, not just space) 
• Distance and unknowing/ignorance 
• Critique of proximity/propinquity 
• Ecology and distance (global footprints, carbon calculations, etc.) 
• Scale Emotion Critical distance/objectivity

Please submit proposals (250 words, plus brief bio) by June 17 to: brian.price@utoronto.ca

New Screening the Past

Image from The Portraitist/Portrecista (Ireneusz Dobrowolski, 2005),  Read Frances Guerin's essay on this film.

The developments of new digital technologies and representational forms have revived interest between photography and cinema, an interest that is both creative and critical. Independent filmmakers are availing themselves of alternative exhibition formats and spaces for their work, and moving image experimentation is now commonplace in the fields of contemporary fine art, design, music, and theatre.
     For this Special Issue of Screening the Past, guest editors Des O’Rawe and Sam Rohdie bring together a collection of original articles on the aesthetic and institutional relations between film, photography, and the visual arts, in particular writing that is attentive to cinematic forms and their recon­figuration within the contemporary visual arts.

 
As always, Film Studies For Free's little beating heart almost leapt out of its digital body at the news that a new issue of the Screening the Past journal had hit the e-stands. It's a special issue, the theme of which is Cinema/Photography: Beyond Representation (Issue 29, 2010). Below is the table of contents:

• George Kouvaros: He’s Not There: Robert Frank’s Me and My Brother.
• Lara Thompson: Monochrome Now: Digital Black and White Cinema and the Photographic Past.
• Sarinah Masukor: The Album of Everyday Life: The Photograph in the Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
• Sam Rohdie: Profils Paysans.
• Des O’Rawe: Cinema Lucida: Johan van der Keuken and the Meaning of Loss.
• Rebecca Sheehan: The Time of Sculpture: Film, Photography and Auguste Rodin.
• Frances Guerin: Film as an Archive for Photography: The Portraitist as Witness to the Holocaust.
• Ji-hoon Kim: David Claerbout’s Digital Pensive Images.

First Release

• Wheeler Winston Dixon: Beyond Characterization: Performance in 1960s Experimental Cinema.
• George Kouvaros: Our Place in the World.
• Kathy Drayton: Inspiration and Girl in a Mirror.
• Gabrielle Murray: Fact and Fiction: The Iraq War Film in Absence.

Classics and Re-runs

• Adrian Martin: Bill Henson and the Devil, Probably.
• John Conomos: Bill Henson and the Cinematic.

Networking Knowledge on Michael Mann, Lindsay Anderson, Barbara Stanwyck and much more

Will Smith as Muhammad Ali in Ali (Michael Mann, 2001) [See Vincent M Gaine's article on this and other Mann films]

From time to time, Film Studies For Free can be ever so dim. It has referred on a number of occasions in previous posts to choice items published in the online periodical Networking Knowledge: Journal of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) Post-Graduate Network (PGN). But it omitted to mention the journal in its permanent listing of Online Film and Media Studies Journals. D'oh!

Not only has FSFF now rectified this unfortunate error, but it has decided to carry out proper penance in the form of the below complete listing of direct links to all items so far published in this excellent journal, including many articles of note on film and moving image studies. Enjoy!

• Vol 3, No 1 (2010) - Table of Contents

Re-Mediated Mann:The Re-Mediation of Public Figures and Events in The Insider and Ali	PDF
Vincent M Gaine

The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson: Anderson’s Directorial Practice	PDF
Isabelle Gourdin-Sangouard

Publicising the News: Publicity and Australian Commercial Television News	PDF
Michaela Jackson

Th’ Abstract of All Faults: Antony vs. the Hegemonic Man	PDF
Rachael Kelly

Reporting Religion and Enemy Images in the Nigerian Press	PDF
Odamah Musa

Journalistic Blogs in China: Political Dissent and the Formation of a Public Sphere	PDF
Hai Tang

The Role of Media in Supporting Communication in Cultural Institutions. Case Study: Communicating Media Art	PDF
Michela Negrini

• Vol 2, No 1 (2009) -MeCCSA PGN Conference 2008 -Table of Contents

Activism, Resistance and Online Presence

Digital vs Material: the Everyday Construction of Mediated Political Action	Abstract PDF
Veronica Barassi

Igorots in the Blogosphere: Claiming Spaces, Re-constructing Identities	Abstract PDF
Liezel C. Longboan

Blogging in China: Freedom of Expression vs Political Censorship in Sexual and Satirical Blogs	Abstract PDF
Hai Thang

The Press and the Political Process

Scottish Press Coverage of UK General Elections after Devolution: the 2001 and 2005 Campaigns	Abstract PDF
Marina Dekavalla

Women and the Media

“Focus on the Housewife”: the BBC and the Post-war Woman, 1945-1955	Abstract PDF
Kristin Skoog

The Representation of Motherhood in Post-socialist Chinese Cinema	Abstract PDF
Huili Hao

Theorising Film

‘We’re on Flashdrive or CD-ROM’: Disassembly and Deletion in the Digital Noir of Collateral	Abstract PDF
Vincent M. Gaine

Indeterminate Film-thinking and Interpretation	Abstract PDF
Jimmy Billingham

Audiences and Fans

Underworld vs the World of Darkness: Players and Filmgoers Respond to a Legal Battle	Abstract PDF
Rachel Mizsei Ward

Wots Not Queer: the Search for Sexual Representation in Audience Research	Abstract PDF
Craig Haslop

Screen Icons

From Below to Above the Title: the Construction of the Star Image of Barbara Stanwyck, 1930-1935	Abstract PDF
Linda Berkvens

The Iconography of Mark Antony	Abstract PDF
Rachael Kelly

Locating Media Productions

Representing National Culture, Values and Identity in the Brazilian Television Mini-series	Abstract PDF
Niall Brennan

‘I Will Survive’: Forty Years of Amber Films and the Evolution of Regional Film Policy	Abstract PDF
Paul O'Reilly

Place, Communication, Translation

Read My Voice: Expressing Silence and Sound in Text-messages	Abstract PDF
Agnieszka Knaś

The Medium is Global, the Content is not: Translating Commercial Websites	Abstract PDF
Yvonne Lee

• Vol 1, No 2 (2007) - MeCCSA PGN Conference 2007 -Table of Contents

Branding, Advertising and Corporate Cultures

Steve Jobs: the human logo	Abstract PDF
Chloe Peacock

Interpersonal Communication Competence in SME Internationalization	Abstract PDF
Pipsa Purhonen

Design for Screen

One Form, Many Letters: Fluid and transient letterforms in screen-based typographic artefacts	Abstract PDF
Barbara Brownie

Fan Culture and Online Audiences

Dressing up as Vampires: Virtual vamps - negotiating female identity in cyberspace	Abstract PDF
Maria Mellins

Film and Theatre

The Playwright as Filmmaker: History, Theory and Practice	Abstract PDF
Othniel Smith

Imperialism and Globalisation

The evolution of Hollywood's representation of Arabs before 9/11: the relationship between political events and the notion of 'Otherness'	Abstract PDF
Sulaiman Arti

Popular Culture

"Little Englander" : Fawlty Towers - A textual analysis of nationalistic ideology	Abstract PDF
Matthew Bartley

Public Service Broadcasting and Radio

Reducing the difference between citizens and consumers: a critical discourse analysis of the Communications White Paper 2000	Abstract PDF
Simon Dawes

Reporting the Conflict

The Ideology of Objectivity: Constructs of Language in the Popular Press of Early Twentieth-Century Britain	Abstract PDF
Claudia Heske

Explaining Media Frames of Contested Foreign Conflicts: Irish National ‘Opinion Leader’ Newspapers’ Frames of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (July 2000 to July 2004)	Abstract PDF
Mary O'Regan

Sexual Representations in Cinema

The Killer Father and the Final Mother: Womb-Envy in The Cell	Abstract PDF
Shweta Sharma

Still Image

Photojournalism as a Creator of Values: otherness in Sámi representations	Abstract PDF
Heli Lehtela

Uses of Music and Sound in Film

Music, identity, and oblivion	Abstract PDF
Gerry Moorey

• Vol 1, No 1 (2007) -Minding the Gap: Reflections on Media Practice & Theory -Table of Contents

Sound and Image: Alternative Methods of Research and Presentation

Summary of Panel Presentations	Abstract PDF
Dr Charlotte Crofts

'High Definitions': Articulating Media Practice As Research	Abstract PDF
Dr Charlotte Crofts

Video Diary Making as a Research Method: Just Another Jargon of Authenticity?	Abstract PDF
Tony Dowmunt

Bringing Work Back to School: Professional Experience in Media Research

Dilemmas of Ethnographic Research: The Practitioner/Academic’s Quandary	Abstract PDF
Somnath Batabyal

A Return to the ‘Big’ Discourse : Interviewing History Documentary-Makers	Abstract PDF
Dafydd Sills-Jones

Theoretical Models in Mass Media Practice: Perspectives from the West

Introduction	Abstract PDF
Line Thomsen

Do Journalists know how to listen and should they be taught how to? Some thoughts on contemporary interviewing practices.	Abstract PDF
Gavin Rees

‘Documents of Ordinariness – The BBC Video Nation Project’	Abstract PDF
Jo Henderson

Daily or Diary? Towards a New Profile in e-Journalism	Abstract PDF
Cristina Perales, Mon Rodríguez

A Shield for Whom? First Amendment Implications of a Federal Shield Law	Abstract PDF
Patrice Holderbach

Theoretical Models in Mass Media Practice: Perspectives from the Developing World

Introduction	Abstract PDF
Venkata Vemuri

Journalism and Political Democracy in Brazil	Abstract PDF
Dr Carolina Matos

‘Reporting Back’: Al Jazeera English	Abstract PDF
Nina Bigalke

Grounds for Development: Media Development Practice and Theory in Post-Conflict Afghanistan	Abstract PDF
Sarah Kamal

Understanding the Complexity of Journalistic Practices: the Case of Xinhua	Abstract PDF
Dr Xin Xin

Double Vocations: Media Practice and Theory

Introduction	Abstract PDF
Dafydd Sills-Jones

Media Corporatism: Whither Journalistic Values?	Abstract PDF
George Nyabuga

Lots more links to film studies journals to celebrate Open Access Week!

Open Access Week, a global event now entering its fourth year, is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

“Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

Open Access (OA) has the potential to maximize research investments, increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship. Research funding agencies, academic institutions, researchers and scientists, teachers, students, and members of the general public are supporting a move towards Open Access in increasing numbers every year. Open Access Week is a key opportunity for all members of the community to take action to keep this momentum moving forward.  

It's International Open Access Week this week, and while every week is Open Access Week at Film Studies For Free, this website decided to celebrate this special week of events by flagging up the work of an individual who can rightfully claim to be one of the most hard-working supporters of this important cause: Jan Szczepanski.

FSFF was recently contacted by Jan, a librarian from Sweden who has been a collector of freely accessible scholarly e-journals since the end of the 1990's. He has been responsible for gathering the longest ever lists of links to (multilingual) Open Access scholarly journals titles, mostly in humanities and the social sciences, many of which you can access through the embedded document below (also see here).

FSFF hasn't yet fully cross-checked Jan's list with its own list of English-language online Film and Media Studies Journals (permanently accessible from the table of contents in the right-hand sidebar), but will do so as soon as possible in order to add notable items it hasn't yet come across.

FSFF has set up the document below so that you can immediately scroll down through the Film titles, from page 107. But you can also perform a search for 'Masskommunikation' to scroll automatically to page 491 for lots of Media Studies titles.

Thanks so much to Jan for getting in touch and especially for all his hard work in assembling this monumental list.

8.999 Open Access Journals. New, expanded list, December 2009

100 (Plus) Online Film and Media Journals of Note

Image from Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)

Film Studies For Free has enlisted the inimitable indexical services of Travis Bickle to flag up the very rough location of a permanent sidebar link to a handy new page at this blog. (Helpful hint: Travis is currently aiming a little high or low, depending on where this entry sites itself in your browser)...

It's a page where FSFF 's adventurous readers -- perhaps, also, ones with lots of time on their hands -- can find a copious listing of Online Film and Media Studies Journals.

This list of direct links to openly accessible journals and periodical websites will be assiduously maintained and excitedly added to over the coming months and years, so be sure to bookmark it for future use.

Thrillingly, FSFF will very soon be adding further pages, housing equally essential Film Studies information. And, as usual, it won't be backward about coming forward about those...

Journal of the Moving Image: Indian and South Asian cinema and media studies

Image from Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (Anil Sharma, 2001). 

For more on this film, read "Beyond Partition: The Political Horizons of Contemporary Indian and Korean War Films" by Bhaskar Sarkar

Film Studies For Free just came across a really good e-journal that it hadn't bumped into before: Journal of the Moving Image, an annual publication of the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. 

It was launched in print format in 1999, but its print and online versions now co-exist. As its mission statement puts it,

JMI seeks to represent critical work on the state of contemporary screen cultures. There are many regions in the world with large viewing populations, often with vast production infrastructures for film and television; but corresponding institutions or forums for critical engagement with such audio-visual regimes are still highly inadequate. JMI seeks to address a broad set of issues ranging from formal properties of the moving image to the social foundation of its production, transmission and reception. There will be a special focus on India and South Asia, and on issues of transnational media transactions, but we would like to offer a wider range of discussion on film and television from various parts of the world made from different perspectives.

FSFF wanted to share its contents with you promptly, so direct links to all items so far online are pasted in below, with the most recent issue first. The first three issues of JMI are also being prepared for online publication. 

There are some excellent items here (you might try out Ravi Vasudevan's The Meanings of ‘Bollywood’ just for starters). So FSFF heartily recommends that you subscribe to JMI ready for its next issue in December. 

(Also, please check out, if you haven't yet, FSFF's own related entry: "Bollywood" for Beginners and Beyond: Introductions to Popular Hindi Cinema Studies)

JMI, Number 8, December, 2009

• Editorial Note

• Preserving Film (on Film) in a Digital Age Josef Lindner

• Together against the Mafia: Godard, Scorsese, Bit Torrent Sebastian Lutgert

• Cinema’s Floating Point Matt Hanson

• Of Jesters, Clowns and Pranksters: YouTube and the Condition of Collaborative Authorship Nishant Shah

• Photoshop Landscapes: Digital Mediations and Bollywood Cities Madhija Mukherjee

• Special Feature Conjunction and Flow: The Gendered Temporalities of (Media) Disasters Kumkum Sangari

JMI, Number 7, December, 2008

• Editorial Note

• Querying the ‘Traditional’ Roots of Silent Cinema in Asia  Kaushik Bhaumik

• Beyond Partition: The Political Horizons of Contemporary Indian and Korean War Films Bhaskar Sarkar

• The Subject of Representation in Korean Cinema: Two Limit Cases  Earl Jackson, Jr.

• Meet John Doe’s Order: Piracy, Temporality and the Question of Asia  Lawrence Liang

• Missing in the Original: Twin Dragons Remade in India S.V. Srinivas

• Theorizing New Asian Cinemas: Problems of the Historicist Approach Manas Ghosh

• Student Paper New Urban Spaces: Films of Tsai Ming-liang Michelle Baitali Bhowmik

• Special Feature The Meanings of ‘Bollywood’ Ravi Vasudevan

JMI, Number 6, December, 2007

• Editorial Note

• An Aesthetic for Film Sound in India? Ashish Rajadhyaksha

• Communication and Signification: Voice in the Cinema M. Madhava Prasad

• Early Indian Talkies: Voice, Performance and Aura Madhuja Mukherjee

•  Musical Contests: Reflections on Musical Values in Popular Film Amlan Das Gupta

• Speaking through Troubled Times Moinak Biswas

• Seeing through the Sound: Certain Tendencies of the Soundtrack in Satyajit Ray's Films of the 1970s Anindya Sengupta

• Student Papers Sound Memories: In Search of Lost Sounds in Indian Cinema Budhaditya Chattopadhyay and  Sound of Horror: Sound and Dread in Hindi Cinema Shubham Roy Choudhury

• Special Feature  Space, Interiority and Affect in Charulata and Ghare Baire Supriya Chaudhuri

JMI, Number 5, December, 2006

• Editorial Note

• The Curious Case of Bombay’s Hindi Cinema: The Career of Indigenous ‘Exhibition’ Capital Ashish Rajadhyaksha

• Acceleration and Conflicts: Comments on the Cinematic Object in the 1990s and After Jeebesh Bagchi

• Persistence of the Feudal: Star and Film Form in Post 1970s Telugu Cinema S V Srinivas

• Mourning and Blood-Ties: Macbeth in Mumbai Moinak Biswas

• Live(li)ness and Network Publics in Post-Liberalization Indian Popular Films Abhijit Roy

• Memories of Development: The Fantastic Non-Presence of Kolkata in Post-Liberalization Bangla Cinema Sovan Tarafder

• The Middle Class: Consuming and Consumed: The Romance of Bombay Cinema Neha Chadha

JMI, Number 4, November, 2005

• Editorial Note

• The Apparatus and its Constituencies: On India’s Encounters with Television Abhijit Roy

• Panoramas of Asia and the Electronic Hearth: Michael Palin’s Connections John Hutnyk 

• The Subjects of News Television M. Madhava Prasad

• Kyunki Main Bhi Kabhi Tulsi Thi : Opening and Using the Black Box of Primetime Telereality Ipsita Chanda

• Media Trials and Courtroom Tribulations : The Battle of Images, Words and Shadows in the 13 December Case Suddhabrata Sengupta

• Television, Nationalism and Indian Cricket in the Era of Global Media Manas Ghosh

• Development (without) Communication: Viewing Doordarshan Methodologically Dipankar Sinha

• 'Reading' Television: Towards a Definition of Audio-Visual Literacy Nilanjana Gupta

• Remote Control Nationalism: Media politics in Guyana Atticus Narrain

Cinema Journal

Ethel Waters in Pinky (Elia Kazan, 1949). 

(For a good study of Waters' work in this film see Brian Herrera's blogpost on the actress)

On and on and on it goes...


Film Studies For Free continues its dogged exploration of the legions of free sample issues of subscription only journals. Lots more posts on that coming up over the next weeks, months, years... 

But today's post flags up the online free sample issue of one of the best film studies journals in the world, the organ of the US based Society of Cinema and Media Studies

Cinema Journal is a periodical to which academics in many anglophone countries frequently have automatic access, that is, if they are lucky enough to be able to use well-funded university libraries, or to be individual members of SCMS (as FSFF's author is proud and fortunate enough to be).

This post, then, is dedicated to just about everyone else, in other words, to those who probably make up the majority of FSFF's international readership.

Cinema Journal

46, Number 1, Fall 2006 


CONTENTS

• John Nichols, Countering Censorship: Edgar Dale and the Film Appreciation Movement [Access article in HTML] [Access article in PDF]
  Abstract:
  
  In 1933 Ohio State University education professor Edgar Dale published How to Appreciate Motion Pictures for use in high school film appreciation classes. Configuring the adolescent as a reformer, Dale's text offered an alternative to the Production Code's stark theory of film reception, which predicated censorship on immature film viewers.

• Margaret T. McGehee, Disturbing the Peace: Lost Boundaries, Pinky, and Censorship in Atlanta, Georgia, 1949-1952
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  Abstract:
  
  This article investigates the reasons behind Atlanta film censor Christine Smith's 1949 banning of Lost Boundaries (Alfred Werker) and her approval, with cuts, of Pinky (Elia Kazan), examining in particular the representations of segregation and integration in each film, the studio support behind the films, and the characterization of Pinky as a "woman's picture."

• John Sedgwick, Cinemagoing in Portsmouth during the 1930s
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  Abstract:
  
  This paper uses the recently discovered box-office ledger of the first-run cinema the Regent in Portsmouth, U.K., to test the POPSTAT methodology for measuring film popularity in the general absence of such data. In order to do this a dataset of the film programs of all twenty-one cinemas screening films in the city in 1934 has been constructed from which a clear picture of film distribution and popularity emerges.

• Melanie Williams,"The most explosive object to hit Britain since the V2!": The British Films of Hardy Kruger and Anglo-German Relations during the 1950s
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  Abstract:
  
  
  This article investigates the brief British career of the German actor Hardy Kruger during the 1950s. It examines his popularity with British audiences, focusing on his appeal to younger cinemagoers, especially women. It also discusses how his star persona and screen performances reflected wider tensions in contemporary Anglo-German relations.