Books Received

Dale, Alan. Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Darley, Andrew. Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Elsaesser, Thomas. Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Farmer, Brett. Spectacular Passions: Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000.

Gifford, Barry. Out of the Past: Adventures in Film Noir. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.

King, Debra Walker, ed. Body Politics and the Fictional Double. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Kucich, John, and Dianne F. Sadoff, ed. Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Lewis, Jon. Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Liu, Catherine. Copying Machines: Taking Notes for the Automaton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Mayne, Judith. Framed: Lesbians, Feminists, and Media Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

Merck, Mandy. In Your Face: 9 Sexual Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Meyers, Jeffrey. The Lost Weekend: Billy Wilder. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Miller, Gabriel. The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000.

Minden, Michael, and Holger Bachmann, ed. Fritz Lang'sMetropolis: Cinematic Visions of Technology and Fear. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000.

Mortimer, Barbara. Hollywood's Frontier Captives: Cultural Anxiety and the Captivity Plot in American Film. New York: Garland, 2000.

Rogoff, Irit. Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Rothman, William, and Marian Keane. Reading Cavell'sThe World Viewed: A Philosophical Perspective on Film. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2000.

Slocum, J. David, ed. Violence and American Cinema. New York: Routledge, 2001.

---. Double Indemnity: Billy Wilder. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Smith, Susan. Hitchcock: Suspense, Humour, and Tone. London: British Film Institute, 2000.

Staiger, Janet. Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

Street, Sarah. British Cinema in Documents. London: Routledge, 2000.

Wojcik-Andrews, Ian. Children's Films: History, Ideology, Pedagogy, Theory. New York: Garland, 2000.

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