Cinema Journal Annotated Index to Volume 43

Brady, Jacqueline.
"Cultivating Critical Eyes: Teaching 9-11 through Video and Cinema." In Focus: Teaching 9/11. 43.2 (winter 2004): 96-99.

Broe, Dennis.
"Fox and Its Friends: Global Commodification and the New Cold War." In Focus: The Media and the New Cold War. 43.4 (summer 2004): 97-101.

Broe, Dennis, ed.
In Focus: The Media and the New Cold War. 43.4 (summer 2004): 96-136.

Burch, Noël.
"Complicity." In Focus: The Media and the New Cold War. 43.4 (summer 2004): 132-35.

Carini, Susan M.
"Love's Labors Almost Lost: Managing Crisis during the Reign of I Love Lucy." 43.1 (fall 2003): 44-62.

This article presents new research material on how Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz managed their public personas during the run of I Love Lucy (1951-57). It also marks a first effort to analyze the effect of the "Red" scare on Ball and to assess her FBI file—an intriguing collection of primary material that, curiously, seems to have been assembled by a Lucy worshiper.

Castonguay, James.
"Conglomeration, New Media, and the Cultural Production of the "War on Terror." In Focus: The Media and the New Cold War. 43.4 (summer 2004): 102-8.

Chan, Kenneth.
"The Global Return of the Wu Xia Pian (Chinese Sword-Fighting Movie): Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." 43.4 (summer 2004): 3-17.

In examining the way Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon grapples with cultural identity and Chineseness, this essay considers Lee's construction of an image of "China" in the film, as well as its feminist possibilities. These readings reveal Lee's conflicted critique of traditional Chinese cultural centrism and patriarchal hegemony.

Dittmar, Linda.
"Fending Off the Barbarians: Agit-Media and the Middle East." In Focus: The Media and the New Cold War. 43.4 (summer 2004): 108-14.

Dixon, Wheeler Winston.
"Teaching Film after 9/11." In Focus: Teaching 9/11. 43.2 (winter 2004): 115-18.

Ellis, Jack C.
"The Society for Cinema Studies: A Personal Recollection of the Early Days." 43.1 (fall 2003): 105-12.

Everett, Anna.
"Click This: From Analog Dreams to Digital Realities." In Focus: What Is Cinema? What Is Cinema Journal? 43.3 (spring 2004): 93-98.

Fischer, Lucy.
"'Dancing through the Minefield': Passion, Pedagogy, Politics, and Production in The Tango Lesson." 43.3 (spring 2004): 42-58.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of Sally Potter's The Tango Lesson (1997), viewing it as a highly theoretical and pedagogical work of feminist film theory. While creating a modernist narrative concerning her real-life adventures in learning the tango and falling in love with her dance instructor, Potter simultaneously touches on such complex issues as female authorship, sexual representation, the politics of romantic pleasure, the history of the film musical, and the cultural and gendered legacy of ballroom dancing.

Gardner, William O.
"New Perceptions: Kinugasa Teinosuke's Films and Japanese Modernism." 43.3 (spring 2004): 59-78.

This essay offers a reading of Kinugasa Teinosuke's independent silent films as responses to the traumatic experience of twentieth-century modernity. Of particular interest are the global and local intertexts in A Page of Madness and Crossways, their connections to the literary criticism of the shinkankakuha, or New Perception school, and the centrality of sensory perception in Kinugasa's work.

Giroux, Henry A.
"Pedagogy, Film, and the Responsibility of Intellectuals." In Focus: Teaching 9/11. 43.2 (winter 2004): 119-26.

Grant. Barry Keith.
"Diversity or Dilution? Thoughts on Film Studies and the SCMS." In Focus: What Is Cinema? What Is Cinema Journal? 43.3 (spring 2004): 88-91.

Grodal, Torben.
"Love and Desire in the Cinema." 43.2 (winter 2004): 26-46.

The essay compares romantic films with pornographic films and argues that the former focus on the establishment of personalized, exclusive relations—bonds of love—whereas the latter focus on anonymous desire. In addition, the article examines the evolutionary roots of love and desire and compares the explanatory...