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Media Screen Roundup – May 2013

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, & published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye.

This month’s Roundup contains horror, science fiction and comic strip heroes: from Broderick’s Now a Terrifying Motion Picture!, and Albright’s Regional Horror Films 1958-1900, to discussion of Battlestar Gallactica in Guttfeld’s (Re)vision of History in Language and Fiction and Ginn’s The Sex is out of this World. The comic strip heroes are represented by Batman, with two books – Collinson’s Holy Franchise, Batman! and Vaz’s history of the Batmobile – and by Spiderman in Peaslee’s  Web-spinning Heroics.

Fans are represented in Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom by Louisa Ellen Stein and Kristina Busse which discusses the BBC series, and in an article, Resisting the Romance: “Shipping” and the Discourse of Genre Uniqueness in Doctor Who Fandom. Previous Roundups have included other fans articles including Fan Activists and the Politics of Race in The Last Airbender and Cynthia Miller’s ‘Rocketman’ TV Series and Their Fans.

Michael Syrimis has a great title in his work on early Italian cinema – The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod which traces the encounters of writers and intellectuals with the cinema. Early French cinema is represented by Richard Abel and Kenneth Garner’s chapter on French censorship in Goldstein’s Out of Sight: Political Censorship of the Visual Arts in Nineteenth-Century France.

And finally, Brown et al’s Color and the Moving Image which contains 18 chapters on the history, theory, and aesthetics of colour film.

Media Screen Roundup (May 2013) IHR-BUFVC (213Kb PDF)

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