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  • General Introduction
  • Loren PQ Baybrook, Editor-in-Chief

This issue opens with two fascinating articles, from Alison McKee and Brian Crim. McKee looks at how films from the 1940s, particularly That Hamilton Woman, challenged assumptions about the way history, as a function of masculine order, actually operates. Crim, by contrast, looks at how Starship Troopers, a deceptively layered science-fiction movie, is, both in its underlying ideology and in its nervous critique of it, rooted in the history of fascism. Each article offers an insightful and aesthetically sensitive analysis of a central film, while connecting it to larger historical issues. The other articles, guest edited by Rob Prince, address films depicting or invoking the classical era; please see his introduction in Section II.

Finally, our biennial conference, to be held November 11-14, 2010, at The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA), will feature keynote speaker Laura Mulvey, Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Visual and Other Pleasures and Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image. We hope to see you there. Please see our Web site (www.filmandhistory.org) for additional information.

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