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Published twice each year, Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a non-profit, peer-reviewed journal affiliated with the American Historical Association and hosted by Lawrence University since 2012. It has been published continuously since 1971.
Film & History welcomes article-length manuscripts of 4,000-7,000 words on the following topics:
- The effect of historical events on films, genres, or cultural & aesthetic standards
- The effect of films or film genres on historical or cultural events
- The aesthetic or rhetorical construction of history itself, as rendered in film
- The aesthetic premises or consequences of film-related media in historical context
- Use of motion pictures, television, and related media in the classroom
- The history, holdings, and current status of film and television archives
- New or controversial ways of presenting history in film and television
- Reviews of books and video/films and broadcasts addressing important themes or events
See filmandhistory.org for details.
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Volume 47, Number 2, Winter 2017Table of Contents
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View All Bad Little Movies When They Die Go to Ralph Spence: The Silent Era’s Most Famous Title Writer
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View From The Manchurian Candidate to Zero Dark Thirty: Reading the CIA’s History of Torture through Hollywood Thrillers
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View Speaking Truths With Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary by Bill Nichols (review)
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View Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America by Alison Griffiths (review)
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View Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II by Colin Gunckel (review)
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View The Laughing Dead: The Horror-Comedy Film from Bride of Frankenstein to Zombieland ed. by Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper (review)
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View Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties by Michael D. Dwyer (review)
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View Selling the Silver Bullet: The Lone Ranger & Transmedia Brand Licensing by Avi Santo (review)
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View Captain America, Masculinity, and Violence: The Evolution of a National Icon by J. Richard Stevens (review)
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View The Poitier Effect: Racial Melodrama and Fantasies of Reconciliation by Sharon Willis (review)
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| ISSN | 1548-9922 |
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| Print ISSN | 0360-3695 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2017-12-27 |
| Open Access | No |



