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Volume 16 | 2020 | International Cinema in the Space Between: The Long Decade of the 1930s
1media/Paramount Studios screenshot_Introduction header image.jpgmedia/Paramount Studios screenshot_Introduction header image.jpgmedia/Paramount Studios screenshot_Introduction header image.jpg2020-11-19T11:20:15-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092International Cinema in the Space Between: The Long Decade of the 1930s | Introduction10image_header2023-04-06T08:21:30-07:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Benny Goodman Orchestra Screenshot_header image for sound.pngmedia/Benny Goodman Orchestra Screenshot_header image for sound.pngmedia/Benny Goodman Orchestra Screenshot_header image for sound.png2020-11-19T09:56:45-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092The Sound Revolution: The Medium Re-Born | Introduction7image_header2021-03-02T10:55:45-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Benny Goodman Orchestra Screenshot_header image for sound.pngmedia/Benny Goodman Orchestra Screenshot_header image for sound.pngmedia/Benny Goodman Orchestra Screenshot_header image for sound.png2020-11-19T10:09:30-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Synchronized Sound Technology and the British Musical Film in the 1930s13image_header2021-03-11T06:45:31-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Republicans Fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Volume 16 2020 Leftist Header Image. Screenshot by Alexis Pogolreskin..jpgmedia/Republicans Fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Volume 16 2020 Leftist Header Image. Screenshot by Alexis Pogolreskin..jpgmedia/Republicans Fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Volume 16 2020 Leftist Header Image. Screenshot by Alexis Pogolreskin..jpg2021-02-25T08:58:07-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Politicizing Cinema: Defining It on the Left | Introduction5image_header2021-03-02T10:57:21-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Republicans Fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Volume 16 2020 Leftist Header Image. Screenshot by Alexis Pogolreskin..jpgmedia/Republicans Fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Volume 16 2020 Leftist Header Image. Screenshot by Alexis Pogolreskin..jpgmedia/Republicans Fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Volume 16 2020 Leftist Header Image. Screenshot by Alexis Pogolreskin..jpg2021-02-28T08:21:03-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Little Magazines, Postwar Internationalism, and the Construction of World Cinema13image_header2021-02-28T11:23:43-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Republicans Fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Volume 16 2020 Leftist Header Image. Screenshot by Alexis Pogolreskin..jpgmedia/Republicans Fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Volume 16 2020 Leftist Header Image. Screenshot by Alexis Pogolreskin..jpgmedia/Republicans Fighting in the Spanish Civil War. Volume 16 2020 Leftist Header Image. Screenshot by Alexis Pogolreskin..jpg2021-02-28T11:32:08-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Mateo Santos and the Documentary of Occupation: "Cine Social" in the Spanish Anarchist Revolution9image_header2021-03-04T07:48:56-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Potsdamerplatz3.jpgmedia/Potsdamerplatz3.jpgmedia/Potsdamerplatz3.jpg2021-02-25T09:11:28-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Cinema as a Stage: A Conservative Approach to the Medium | Introduction6image_header2021-03-06T12:02:13-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Potsdamerplatz3.jpgmedia/Potsdamerplatz3.jpgmedia/Potsdamerplatz3.jpg2020-11-18T12:21:28-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092“My Wife’s Not My Wife, She’s My Daughter”: Relocating A Bill of Divorcement from Stage to Screen22image_header2021-03-01T15:10:53-08:00divorce / eugenics / theatre / film adaptation / Clemence DaneNicole FlynnClemence Dane’s hit West End play A Bill of Divorcement (1921) was adapted into a successful Hollywood film from RKO Studios, a 1932 David O. Selznick production directed by George Cukor and starring John Barrymore and Katharine Hepburn in her screen debut. This essay argues that the combination of the text’s formal, geographic, and temporal relocation from one medium to another shifts the message of the text, emphasizing different aspects of its content and thereby reconfiguring its meaning for a new audience. An analysis of the social norms, notions of inheritance, sickness and health, marriage and family and, in particular, the treatment of eugenics in the two versions of the texts, elucidate the shifts in their historical contexts and imagined audiences.Nicole Flynn2020Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Holocaust header image.jpgmedia/Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Holocaust header image.jpgmedia/Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Holocaust header image.jpg2021-02-25T09:37:08-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Cinema and the Creation of Holocaust Memory | Introduction7image_header2021-03-06T12:03:02-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Holocaust header image.jpgmedia/Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Holocaust header image.jpgmedia/Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Holocaust header image.jpg2021-02-28T21:31:44-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Kristallnacht on Film: From Reportage to Reenactments, 1938–194819image_header2021-03-04T07:12:10-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Holocaust header image.jpgmedia/Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Holocaust header image.jpgmedia/Kristallnacht Night of Broken Glass Holocaust header image.jpg2021-02-28T18:19:04-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092The Cinematic Haunting of British World War II Memory: Genghis Cohn15image_header2021-03-01T15:56:40-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Shin Fig 2.jpgmedia/Shin Fig 2.jpgmedia/Shin Fig 2.jpg2021-03-01T20:00:23-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Book Review | The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race3image_header2021-03-01T20:15:50-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Shin Fig 2.jpgmedia/Shin Fig 2.jpgmedia/Shin Fig 2.jpg2021-03-01T20:30:35-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Book Review | Rural Modernity in Britain: A Critical Intervention4image_header2021-03-10T06:30:18-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/Shin Fig 2.jpgmedia/Shin Fig 2.jpgmedia/Shin Fig 2.jpg2021-03-01T21:29:26-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Book Review | A History of 1930s British Literature4image_header2021-03-10T06:32:22-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/image001.jpgmedia/image001.jpgmedia/hut6girls_big.jpg2017-12-09T10:54:52-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092“Now you’re one of us”: Postwar Surveillance in Billy Wilder’s A Foreign AffairJennifer Poulos Nesbitt12image_header2021-03-02T08:59:09-08:002017Billy Wilder / A Foreign Affair / World War II / postwar Germany / surveillance / exileEnglishThis essay examines Billy Wilder’s film A Foreign Affair (1948) in the context of Germany’s political, ethical, and cinematic reconstruction after World War II. It argues that the film is set apart from other films of the immediate postwar era by its unsettling ambivalence and also by its thorough meditation on surveillance as a political activity, artistic strategy, and tool for existential investigation. Through its espionage plot, its hybrid and meta-cinematic approach to genre, and its production history, A Foreign Affair suggests that surveillance is both the activity that most characterizes daily life in postwar Germany as well as the fundamental practice of postwar filmmaking and film viewing as the world tries to process and move beyond the horrific events of the recent past. Wilder’s position as exile-surveyor, moreover, combined with the spy thriller tropes of the film, reveal the instability and ambivalence of the immediate postwar period in Europe in a way that was not always visible in more propagandistic or didactic films.Paula Derdiger2017Janine UtellPaula DerdigerThis essay examines Billy Wilder’s film A Foreign Affair (1948) in the context of Germany’s political, ethical, and cinematic reconstruction after World War II. It argues that the film is set apart from other films of the immediate postwar era by its unsettling ambivalence and also by its thorough meditation on surveillance as a political activity, artistic strategy, and tool for existential investigation. Through its espionage plot, its hybrid and meta-cinematic approach to genre, and its production history, A Foreign Affair suggests that surveillance is both the activity that most characterizes daily life in postwar Germany as well as the fundamental practice of postwar filmmaking and film viewing as the world tries to process and move beyond the horrific events of the recent past. Wilder’s position as exile-surveyor, moreover, combined with the spy thriller tropes of the film, reveal the instability and ambivalence of the immediate postwar period in Europe in a way that was not always visible in more propagandistic or didactic films.1551-9309Phyllis Lassner; Will MayJennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/image001.jpgmedia/image001.jpgmedia/hut6girls_big.jpg2017-11-23T20:04:41-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Book Review | Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and FilmJennifer Poulos Nesbitt4image_header2017-12-09T21:52:45-08:00Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and FilmEnglish2017Janine Utell131551-9309Phyllis Lassner; Will MayEspionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and FilmJennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/220px-thumbnail.jpgmedia/220px-thumbnail.jpgmedia/Frank Newbould Poster.jpg2019-12-29T13:42:46-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Book Review | Long Shadows: The Second World War in British Fiction and FilmJennifer Poulos Nesbitt4image_header2021-03-02T09:04:55-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/image001.jpgmedia/image001.jpgmedia/hut6girls_big.jpg2017-12-09T10:54:52-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092“Now you’re one of us”: Postwar Surveillance in Billy Wilder’s A Foreign Affair12image_header2021-03-02T08:59:09-08:002017Billy Wilder / A Foreign Affair / World War II / postwar Germany / surveillance / exileEnglishThis essay examines Billy Wilder’s film A Foreign Affair (1948) in the context of Germany’s political, ethical, and cinematic reconstruction after World War II. It argues that the film is set apart from other films of the immediate postwar era by its unsettling ambivalence and also by its thorough meditation on surveillance as a political activity, artistic strategy, and tool for existential investigation. Through its espionage plot, its hybrid and meta-cinematic approach to genre, and its production history, A Foreign Affair suggests that surveillance is both the activity that most characterizes daily life in postwar Germany as well as the fundamental practice of postwar filmmaking and film viewing as the world tries to process and move beyond the horrific events of the recent past. Wilder’s position as exile-surveyor, moreover, combined with the spy thriller tropes of the film, reveal the instability and ambivalence of the immediate postwar period in Europe in a way that was not always visible in more propagandistic or didactic films.Paula Derdiger2017Janine UtellPaula DerdigerThis essay examines Billy Wilder’s film A Foreign Affair (1948) in the context of Germany’s political, ethical, and cinematic reconstruction after World War II. It argues that the film is set apart from other films of the immediate postwar era by its unsettling ambivalence and also by its thorough meditation on surveillance as a political activity, artistic strategy, and tool for existential investigation. Through its espionage plot, its hybrid and meta-cinematic approach to genre, and its production history, A Foreign Affair suggests that surveillance is both the activity that most characterizes daily life in postwar Germany as well as the fundamental practice of postwar filmmaking and film viewing as the world tries to process and move beyond the horrific events of the recent past. Wilder’s position as exile-surveyor, moreover, combined with the spy thriller tropes of the film, reveal the instability and ambivalence of the immediate postwar period in Europe in a way that was not always visible in more propagandistic or didactic films.1551-9309Phyllis Lassner; Will MayJennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/image001.jpgmedia/image001.jpgmedia/hut6girls_big.jpg2017-11-23T20:04:41-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Book Review | Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and Film4image_header2017-12-09T21:52:45-08:00Espionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and FilmEnglish2017Janine Utell131551-9309Phyllis Lassner; Will MayEspionage and Exile: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy Fiction and FilmJennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092
1media/220px-thumbnail.jpgmedia/220px-thumbnail.jpgmedia/Frank Newbould Poster.jpg2019-12-29T13:42:46-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092Book Review | Long Shadows: The Second World War in British Fiction and Film4image_header2021-03-02T09:04:55-08:00Jennifer Poulos Nesbitt62bc3cb599d3c15be3205b879d3578d58552b092