Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Issue 40.2: "Visions of Science and Technology: Part 2"

Introduction:
Part 2 of “Visions of Science and Technology”
Cynthia J. Miller, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Loren P.Q. Baybrook

Lost in Space:
Technology and Turbulence in Futuristic Cinema of the 1950s
Andrew Huebner

I, Clone:
How Cloning is (Mis)Portrayed in Contemporary Cinema
Jason Eberl

Surrealisme Sous-l’Eau:
Science and Surrealism in the Early Films and Writings of Jean Painleve
Lauren Fretz

Science Fiction as “True-Life Adventure”:
Disney and the Case of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
J.P. Telotte

A Natural and Artificial Homeland:
East German Science-Fiction Film Responds to Kubrick and Tarkovsky
Sonja Fritzsche

Book Reviews:

Robert Burgoyne.
Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History
Reviewer: Paul M. Cohen

Emma Hanna.
The Great War on the Small Screen
Reviewer: Robert Fyne

Barry Monahan.
Ireland’s Theatre on Film: Style, Stories and the National Stage on Screen
Reviewer: Timothy X. Troy

M.B.B. Biskupski.
Hollywood’s War with Poland, 1939-1945
Reviewer: John M. Grondelski

Pamela Grace.
The Religious Film: Christianity and the Hagiopic
and
Peter E. Dans.
Christians in the Movies
Reviewer: Robert W. Matson

Amy Herzog.
Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same: The Musical Moment in Film
Reviewer: Julie McQuinn

Jamie Miller.
Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin
Reviewer: James H. Krukones

Vinzenz Hediger & Patrick Vonderau, Eds.
Films that Work: Industrial Film and Productivity of Media
Reviewer: Tony Osborne

Toby Talbot.
The New Yorker Theater and Other Scenes from a Life at the Movies
Reviewer: Jerald Podair

Film Reviews:

Frost/Nixon
Reviewer: Jim Welsh

They Killed Sister Dorothy
Reviewer: Lawrence Mastroni

Twisted: A Balloonamentary
Reviewer: A. Bowdoin Van Riper

The Unseen Alistair Cooke
Reviewer: Tony Osborne

A Class Apart
Reviewer: Rob Prince

The Greatest Silence
Reviewer: Karen A. Ritzenhoff

The World of Peter Sellers
Reviewer: John C. Tibbetts

The Axe of Wandsbek (Das Beil von Wandsbek)
Reviewer: Scott Weiss

Malls R Us
Reviewer: William A. Pelz

Taken for a Ride
Reviewer: Sara Sullivan

A Massacre Foretold
Reviewer: Helen Webb

Oswald’s Ghost
Reviewer: Mathew J. Bartkowiak

Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem
Reviewer: Jeremy Kuzmarov