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  • Media and Theater
Special Section: English Journal 83.1 (Jan. 1994): 27-58. Media in the Middle.
Asher, Sandy. "Life, Live Theater, and the Lively Classroom." ALAN Review 21.3 (Spring 1994): 2-8. Advice on obtaining plays and performing them. G.A.
Bacchilega, Cristina. "Domestic Uses of the Fairy Tale." Literature & Hawaii's Children: Stories as Bridges to Many Realms. Ed. Judith Kellogg and Jesse Crisler. Honolulu: U of Hawaii at Manoa, 1994. 37-44. Discusses 2 recent musicals, Into the Woods and Once Upon One Time. G.A.
Brown, Julia, ed. The Chronicle of the Movies. New York: Crescent, 1991. 448 p. illus. $19.99. Review William Strong, Popular Culture in Libraries 1.4 (1993): 129. "A visual compendium of facts and statistics" from the beginning of the talkies up to the 1990s. Authoritative, but a coffee table book. G.A.
Carr, Jo. "Producing Audiobooks: How Do They Do It?" Horn Book 70.2 (March/April 1994): 181-85. How Listening library produced The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander and Recorded Books produced The Hobbit. G.A. [End Page 88]
Cawley, John, and Jim Korkis. The Encyclopedia of Cartoon Superstars from A to (Almost) Z. Las Vegas: Pioneer, 1990. Illus. 221 p. Paper $14.95. Review B. Lee Cooper, Popular Culture in Libraries 2.1(1994): 126-28. Cooper gives high marks to the illustration and the organizational techniques in this Pioneer series and also recommends Scott Nance's Bloodsuckers: Vampires at the Movies, 1992 (149 p., paper $14.95). G.A.
Clover, Carol. Men, Women and Chainsaws. London: BFI. 260 p. ISBN 0-85170-331-3. £25; paper £11.95. Essay review Robert Potts, "Screening Polymorphous Perversity," TLS 22 April 1994: 18-19. Potts points out that the audience for slasher films is now primarily adolescent (and even younger) and that they are marketed to that audience. Clover argues that the male spectator's position is masochistic and has interesting things to say about androgyny, city-country clashes, and rape-revenge narratives. G.A.
Collins, Jim, Hilary Radner, and Ava Preacher Collins, eds. Film Theory Goes to the Movies. London: Routledge. 297 p. ISBN 0-415-9075-3. £35. Essay review Robert Potts, "Screening Polymorphous Perversity," TLS 22 April 1994:18-19. Potts discusses only one "thoroughly entertaining and iconoclastic" essay in this collection, by Jeffrey Sconce, because he draws attention to "the absolute disjunction between the tastes of middle-aged film critics and teenage audiences." G.A.
Douglas, Susan J. Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. New York: Times, 1994. Illus. 340 p. $23. Review Michiko Kakutani, "A Feminist Studies Portrayals of Women," New York Times 14 June 1994: B3. Analyzes popular songs, sitcoms, news stories, movies, and ads, looking at both mass culture's impact on feminism and the reverse. Much of the material covered, from the mid-'60s on, is part of children's culture. G.A.
Dozier, Lynne. "Dances with Wolves. Lessons from Loo Ten Tant's Journal." English Journal 83.1 (Jan. 1994): 34-38. Using the movie Dances with Wolves to approach written texts with a ninth grade class in a school with a 50% minority population. G.A.
Fehlman, Richard. H. "Teaching Film in the 1990s." English Journal 83.1 (Jan. 1994): 39-46. Fehlman integrates the study of film into his English classes, using semiotics, narratology, reader-response and reception theory, deconstruction, intertextuality, and cultural context. G.A.
Foster, Harold M. "Film and the Young Adult Novel." ALAN Review 21.3 (Spring 1994): 14-17. Addresses the teenage film market, including some successful adaptations of YA novels; warns that when badly done films can "sabotage the book." G.A.
Grebe, CoraLee. "Tarot Card Symbolism in the Star Wars Films." Mythlore 76, 20.2 (Spring 1994): 27-31. Primarily on Tarot; touches on Campbell and Jung and the use of universal symbols. G.A.
Harmetz, Aljean. "Playing the Child, But Not for Laughs." New York Times 24 April 1994: 13, 16. On new child and teen actors. In 1993 children were the central or pivotal character in nearly 30 movies. "Directors want real" in stories in which children have a hard time of it. G.A.
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