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FILMS

"Looking at Films", Stanley Kauffmann, Dialogue, Vol. 3, No.3, 1970. (en français Vol. 3, No.3, 1970)

"Cinema et caractère", Young, Dialogue, Vol. 1, No.4, 1970.

"Hitchcock", Samuels, The American Scholar, Vol. 39, No.2, Spring 1970.

"Hollywood Discovers the Revolution", Bromwich; "CineMarxism: The Joke Falls Flat (Jires, Godard)’ Eckstein; Dissent, Nov.—Dec. 1970.

"On Film, Art, and Life", Orson Welles, Dialogue Vol. 4, No.3, 1971. (en français Vol. 3, No.1, 1972)

"Small Truth, Big Lie (Costa Gravas, The Confession), Kohak, Dissent, April 1971.

"Documentary Now", Bromwich, Dissent, October 1971.

"Trash, Art, and Critics"; Bromwich, Dissent, June 1971.

"Love Stories", Samuels, The American Scholar, Vol. 41, No.1, Winter 1971—1972.

"Hyphens of the Self: Hitchcock, Truffaut", Samuels, The American Scholar, Vol. 41, No.4, Autumn 1972.

"The Context of A Clockwork Orange" Samuels, The American Scholar, Vol. 41, No.3, Summer 1972.

"Killers of the Dream (Polansky, Malick, Coppola)", Bromwich, Dissent, Fall 1974.

"Blood Orange: Violence in the Movies (Kubrick, Coppola)", Bromwich, Dissent, Summer 1972.

"How Not to Film a Novel", Samuels, The American Scholar, Vol. 42, No.1, Winter 1972—1973.

"Tampering With Reality (Bunuel, Bergman)", Samuels, The American Scholar, Vol. 42, No.3, Summer 1973.

"Angst—Pushers and Austenites (Rohmer, Didion)", Bromwich, Dissent, Spring 1973.

"Guerillas Without Ideas (Costa—Gravas)", Denby, Dissent, Fall 1973.

"Some Approaches to Life (Lucas)", Samuels, The American Scholar, Vol. 43, No.1, Winter 1973—1974.

"Films About Films", Samuels, The American Scholar, Vol. 43, No.3, Summer 1974.

"Orson Welles: une superbe démesure", Young, Dialogue Vol. 5, No.2—3, 1974.

"Hommage to François Truffaut", Bromwich, Dissent, Winter 1974.

"Moral Laziness in Nashville (Robert Altman)", Morris Dissent, Winter 1976.

"Notes sur le théâtre et le cinema", Stanley Kauffman, Dialogue, Vol. 7, No.1, 1976.

"Des mondes sur pellicule", Young, Dialogue, Vol. 7, No.2, 1976.

"The Power of Movie Criticism", Farber, The American Scholar, Vol. 45, No.3, Summer 1976.

"Films américains à l’étranger, films étrangers aux Etats-Unis", Dialogue, Vol. 8, No.3, 1977.

"Going to the Movies: Bringing it all Back Home (Vietnam War in Films)", Dickstein, Partisan Review, No.4, 1978.

"Le Cow-boy et Hollywood", Pechter, Dialogue, Vol. 9, No.4, 1978.

"Le cinéma américain ou les ambiguïtés idéologiques d’un medium de masse", Bidaud, Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines, No.6, Octobre 1978.

"Hommage à Jean Renoir", Stanley Kauffman, Dialogue, Vol. 10, No.2, 1979.

"The Unions and the Mobs (subjects in film)", Mills, Dissent, Winter 1979.

"Memories of the Vietnam War", Mills, Dissent, Summer 1979.

"The Sixteenth New York Film Festival (Altman, Truffaut, Handke, Rohmer, Lang, Fassbinder, Skolimowski, Chabrol)", Baumbach, Partisan Review, Vol. 47, No.2, 1980.

"Bad Faith of Apocalypse Now", Bromwich, Dissent, Spring 1980.

"Growing Pains (Kramer v. Kramer)", Denby, Dialogue, No.50, 4/1980.

"Masters of Illusion" Brandt, Dialogue, No.53, 3/1981.

"Male Soap Opera (Kramer v. Kramer)", Mills, Dissent, Fall 1980.

"Religious Transcendence and the Horizons of Culture: Observations on the Role of Religion in American Film", Comstock, Revue Française d’Etudes Américaines, No.12, Octobre 1981.

"Bigger Thomas Reconsidered: Native Son, Film and King Kong", Hellenbrand, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 6, No.1, Spring 1983.

"If Thine Eyes Offend Thee ... Psycho and the Art of Infection", New Literary History, Vol. 15, No.3, Spring 1984.

"Silent Movies and the Deaf Community", Schuchman, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 17, No.4, Spring 84.

"Westering of the Spirit: Wordsworth Out West", McGillis, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 18, No.2, Fall 1984.

"Vaudefilm: Its Contribution to a Moviegoing America Marsh, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 7, No.3, Fall 1984.

"Reaganizing Hollywood", Mills, Dissent, Spring 1984.

"Predicting Success of Theatrical Movies: An Empirical Study", Litman, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 16, No.4, Spring 1983.

"Woody Allen: Illusion and Reality", Adams, Dissent, Vol. 32, No.4, Fall 1985.

"Vaudefilm: Its Contribution to Moviegoing America Marsh, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 18, No.4, Spring 1985.

"Hal in 2001: A Space Odyssey: The Lover Sings His Song", Boylan, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 18, No.4, Spring 1985.

SPECIAL ISSUE: The Moving Image
The Power of Movies, Carroll;
A Whole Technology of Dyeing: A Note on Ideology and the Apparatus of the Chromatic Moving Image, Winston;
Keeping Faith: Indian Film and Its World, Dhondy;
The Filming of Art, Wechsler;
Innovation and Repetition: Between Modern and Post— Modern Aesthetics, Umberto Eco;
     Daedalus, Vol. 114, N04, Fall 1985.

"Woody Allen’s Search for Self", Schapiro, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 19, No.4, Spring 1986.

"Shoah and the Machinery of Death", Dickstein, Partisan Review, Vol. 53, No.1, 1986.

"American Politics on Film", Thompson, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 20, No.1, Summer 1986.

"Platoon: Of Heroes and Demons", Adams, Dissent, Summer 1987.

"Money For Nothin’ and the Charts for Free: Rock and the Movies", Romanowski and Denisoff, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 21, No.3, Winter 1987.

"The Female Alien: Pulp Science Fiction’s Legacy to Feminists", Roberts, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 21 No.2, Fall 1987.

"The Battle of the Big Mamas: Feminism and the Alienation of Women (in Alien)", Jeffords, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 10, No.3, Fall 1987.

"Financing a College Chair in FDR’s America: A Tale of Film Star Money, Higher Education, and New Deal Politics", Arthur, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 11, No.4, Winter 1988.

"Watching the Skies; Hollywood, the 1950s, and the Soviet Threat", Smoodin, Journal of American Culture Vol. 11, No.2, Summer 1988.

"She Lost It at the Movies (Movie critic, Pauline Kael)", Podhoretz, The American Scholar, Vol. 58, No.1, Winter 1989.

"The Pentagon’s Top Guns: Movies and Music", Journal of American Culture, Vol. 12, No.3, Fall 1989.

"Screen Wars : The Battle for Vietnam", Adams, Dissent, Winter 1990.

"The Torment of D.W. Griffith", Lynn, The American Scholar, Spring 1990.

"The Routinazation of Film Criticism", Travis, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 23, No.4, Spring 90.

"On Thrills and Kills: Sadomasochism in the Movies" Gitlin, Dissent, Spring 1991.

"The Great—Teacher Myth", Heilman, The American Scholar, Vol. 60, N03, Summer 1991. (Dead Poet’s Society)

"The Impersonal Enunciation, or the Site of Film", New Literary History, Vol. 22, N03, Summer 1991.

"The Image of the Ballet Artist in Popular Films’’, McLean, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 25, N01, Summer 1991.

"Western Films and their Legends (special issue on the American West)", Journal of American Culture, Vol. 14, N02, Summer 1991.

"Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye: Marlowe in the Me Decade", Ferncase, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 25, N02, Fall 1991.

"The Payne Fund Reports: A Discussion of their Content, Public Reaction, and Affect on the Motion Picture Industry, 1930—1940", Jarvis, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 25, N02, Fall 1991.

"Looking Without Seeing (film-making history)", Carney, Partisan Review, Vol. 58, N04, 1991.

"Canada Lee: Black Actor in Non-traditional Roles’’, Gill, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 25, N03, Winter 1991.

"A Nervous Theory: The Troubling Gaze of Psychoanalysis in Media Studies", Saper, Diacritics, Vol. 21, N04., Winter 1991.

"Kulturkritik or Anti-Americanism? The Reception of Recent Popular American Cinema in West Germany, with Special Focus on Platoon", Helt, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 25, N03, Winter 1991.

"Preston Sturges: The Wizard of Hollywood", Pinck, The American Scholar, Vol. 61, N03, Summer 1992.

"African Cinema", Wagner and Ondobo, Dissent, Summer 1992.

"The Changing Image of the Soviets in the Bond Saga: From Bond—Villains to ‘Acceptable Role Partners’", Price, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 26, N01, Summer 1992.

"Paint It Black: Rock Music and Vietnam War Film", Reitinger, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 15, N03 Fall 1992.

"Jews and Blacks in Hollywood", Quart, Dissent, Fall 1992.

"Sex, Lawrence, and Videotape", Semeiks, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 25, N04, Spring 1992.

"The Anthropological Gaze and the Touristic Siting of Chinese America", Moy, Modern Drama, Vol. 35, No.1, March 1992.

"Star Wars, Star Wars, and American Political Culture ", Meyer, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 26, N02, Fall 1992.

"Within and Without the Walls: Film in Eastern Europe", Biro, Dissent, Winter 1993.

"The Bearer of the Gaze in Ridley Scott’s Thelma and Louise", Putnam, Western American Literature, Vol. 27, N04, February 1993.

"An Unfilable Conclusion: Joyce Carol Oates at the Movies", Daly, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 23, N03, Winter 1989.

"Fatal Attraction" 9 essays, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 26, N03, Winter 1992.

"Postmodern Gay Dionysus: Dr. Frank N. Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show)", Aviram, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 26, N03, Winter 1992.

"From Outcast to Cliche: How Film Shaped, Warped, and Developed the Image of the Vietnam Veteran, 1967—1990", Katzman, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 16, N01, Spring 1993.

"A Demented Man For All Seasons", Monaco, Dissent, Summer 1993.

"Born in East L.A.: Cheech as the Chicano Moses", Tafoya, Journal of Popular Culture", Vol. 26, N04, Spring 1993.

"Melville at the Movies: New Images of Moby Dick", Weiner, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 16, N02, Summer 1993.

"Limonadovy Joe: or, The Western in Czechslovakia", Branscomb, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 27, N01, Summer 1993.

"Skunk Hour in Hollywood (Sleepless in Seattle and Indecent Proposal)", Monaco, Dissent, Fall 1993.

"Filming Ghosts: French Cinema and the Algerian War", Hill, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. 38, N03, Autumn 1992.

"Chinese Popular Film Criticism", Jianqiang, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 27, N02, Fall 1993.

"JFK as Jesus: The Politics of Myth in Phil Och’s ‘Crucifixion’ (on Oliver Stone’s JFK)", Niemi, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 16, N04, Winter 93.

"Recurring Cultural Patterns: Werner Herzog’ s Film ‘Every Man for Himself and God Against All, The Enigma of Caspar Hauser’", Gerulaitis, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 22, N04, Spring 1989.

"Schindler’s List", Kurzweil, Partisan Review, Vol. 61, 2/1994.

"The Virtue of Violence: Dimensions of Development in Walter Hill’s The Warriors", Roth, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 24, N03, Winter 1990.

"‘The Subversive Edge’: Paris is Burning, Social Critique, and the Limits of Subjective Agency", Harper, Diacritics, Vol. 24, N0 2—3, Summer—Fall 1994.

"A Modern Cinderella" (Pretty Woman), Kelley, Journal of American Culture, Vol. 17, N01, Spring 1994.

"Objecting to Objectification: Re—Viewing the Feminine in The Silence of the Lambs", Garrett;
"The Anoedipal Mythos of Batman and Catwornan (Batman Returns)", Orr;
"Cross-Cultural Appropriation: Seven Wolves and Its American Sources (Levels of Imitation in Popular Chinese Cinema)", Phillips;
     Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.27, N04, Spring 1994.

"‘A Breed Apart’: Hollywood, Racial Stereotyping, and the Promise of Revisionism in The Last of the Mohicans", Edgerton, Journal of American Culture, Vol.17, N02, Summer 1994.

"At the Movies" (on director Martin Scorsese), Dickstein, Partisan Review, Vol.61, N04, Fall 1994.

"Dramatizing the Failure to Jump the Culture/Nature Gap: The Films of Peter Greenaway", Gras, New Literary History, Vol.26, N01, Winter 1995.

"Women, Subjectivity, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Humanism in Feminist Film Theory", Knight, New Literary History, Vol.26, N01, Winter 1995.

"The Movie Maker as Historian: Conversations with Ken Burns" (a documentary filmmaker), Thelen, The Journal of American History, Vol.81, N03, December 1994.

"Rewriting Western Myths in Clint Eastwood’s New ‘Old Western’" (on his film Unforgiven), Engel, Western American Literature, Vol.29, N03, Fall 1994.

"Encounters in Camera: Autobiography as Interaction," Egan, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol.40, N03, Fall 1994.

"The Terminator: Changes in Critical Evaluations of Cultural Productions", Friedman;
"Silver Screen, Shadow Play: The Tradition of the Wa yang Kulit in The Year of Living Dangerously", Campbell;
       Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.28, N01, Summer 1994.

Le sacré de la famille selon Hollywood", Cieutat, RANAM (Recherches Anglaises et Américaines), N0VIII, 1974.

"The Filming of Art", Wechsler, Daedalus, Vol.114, N04, Fall 1985.

"Terminating the Postmodern: Masculinity and Pomophobia" (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Byers, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol.41, N01, Spring 1995.

"Not Just Another Pretty Victim: The Incest Survivor and the Media" (on the film Final Analysis), Curtis-Webber, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.28, N04, Spring 1995.

"Hard to Swallow: Indigestible Narratives of Lesbian Sexuality", Hoogland, (Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon), Modern Fiction Studies, Vol.41, N03-4, Fall—Winter 1995.

"Authority in the Valley: TVA in Wild River and the Popular Media, 1930-1940", Black;
"Prelude to World War II: Racial Unity and the Hollywood Indian", Aleiss;
     Journal of American Culture, Vol.18, N02, Summer 1995.
"After the Rescue: The Searchers, the Audience and Prime Cut (1972)" (on the "fate of the ‘rescued’ female captive"), Eckstein;
"Reproducing Reproductive Discourse: Optical Technologies in The Silent Scream and Eclipse of Reason" (two anti—abortion films), Givner;
      Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.28, N03, Winter 1994.

"History Re—Membered: Forrest Gump, Postfeminist Masculinity, and the Burial of Counterculture", Byers, Modern Fiction Studies, Vol.42, No.2, Summer 1996.

"How Gays Lost It At the Movies", Kirp, Dissent, Winter 1996.

"Godzilla/ Gojiro: Evolution of the Nuclear Metaphor Anisfield;
"‘All This For Us’: The Songs in Thelma and Louise", Healey;
     Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.29, N03, Winter 1995.

"The Feminine En—Gendering of Film Consumption and Film Technology in Popular Girls’ Serial Novels 1914—1931", Inness, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 29, N03, Winter 1995.

"Notes on Representation and the Nonfiction Film", Guzzetti, New Literary History, Vol.27, N02, Spring 1996.

"‘Is This Going to be Another Bug—Hunt?’: S-F Tradition Versus Biology—As—destiny in James Cameron’s Aliens", Blackmore, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.29, N04, Spring 1996.

"Decency and Muck: The Visions of John Sayles and Oliver Stone", Packer, Dissent, Summer 1997.

"The Atomic Scientist, Science Fiction Films, and Paranoia: The Day the Earth Stood Still, This Island Earth, and Killers from Space", Hendershot, Journal of American Culture, Vol.20, N01, Spring 1997.

"The Wrath of Ahab or, Herman Melville Meets Gene Roddenberry" (on how the Star Trek universe borrows from 19th-century American literature), Hinds, Journal of American Culture, Vol.20, N01, Spring 1997.

"The Values of Fantasy: Indian Popular Cinema through Western Scripts", Nayar, Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.31, N01, Summer 1997.

"Terror Translated into Comedy: The Popular Music Metamorphosis of Film and Television Horror, 1956-1991, Cooper, Journal of American Culture, Vol.20, N03, Fall 1997.

"Chicano Ethnicity, Cultural Hybridity, and the Mestizo Voice" (on Giant), Pérez-Torres, American Literature, Vol.70, N01, March 1998.

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