{"title":"SHOCKING CINEMA OF THE 70S. Eds. Xavier Mendik and Julian Petley. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 326 pp. £76.50/$95 hardback","authors":"Milo Farragher-Hanks","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2226029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2226029","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138794261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BLACK WOMEN AND THE CHANGING TELEVISION LANDSCAPE By Lisa M. Anderson. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 165 pp. $20.65 paperback","authors":"Heather Duerre Humann","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2226030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2226030","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138714312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All the (West)World’s a Stage: HBO’s Westworld as Metatext—Intertextuality, Genre, Seriality, Format","authors":"S. A. Wilder","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2259056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2259056","url":null,"abstract":"With roots in an earlier film about well-heeled human guests in an android-populated theme park modeled after an Old West experience, Westworld is a recent offering in HBO’s ongoing pursuit of qual...","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138714291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reframing the Dowager: Nostalgia in Downton Abbey","authors":"Janelle Pötzsch","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2263141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2263141","url":null,"abstract":"The popular and immensely successful British TV-series Downton Abbey (2010–2015) has been interpreted alternately as an escapist fantasy or as a retrogressive text which performs the ideological wo...","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138794264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melancholic Grief and the Psychic Experience of Reproductive Loss in Emma Tammi’s The Wind (2018)","authors":"Mariliis Elizabeth Holzmann","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2263140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2263140","url":null,"abstract":"Horror films directed by women are uniquely suited to problematize the psychic experience of reproductive loss. This article analyzes Emma Tammi’s The Wind (2018) to understand how the film’s horri...","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138714294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SCREENING CHARLES DICKENS: A SURVEY OF FILM AND TELEVISION ADAPTATIONS. By William Farina. McFarland, 2022. 235 pp including index. $39.95 paper.","authors":"Valerie H. Pennanen","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2226036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2226036","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138714301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"BLOOD ON THE LENS: TRAUMA AND ANXIETY IN AMERICAN FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR CINEMA. By Shellie McMurdo. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 256 pp. $110.00 hardcover and ebook.","authors":"Alissa Burger","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2209466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2209466","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Vol. 51, No. 2, 2023)","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"6 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Guns Go in the Cookie Jar”: Parody, Nostalgia, and the Post-Hardware Heroine","authors":"Aleksander Szaranski","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2190077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2190077","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>The post-hardware heroine is argued to be the latest revision of action heroines since the 1990s, emerging into a parodic postmodern paradigm that recalls compensatory reactions exhibited by the “beefcake” cinema of the 1980s that is inextricably caught up in nostalgia and desire. For Yvonne Tasker, muscular, built male bodies the likes of Schwarzenegger and Stallone are reactions to a then-new male encounter with the cinematic gaze, while Scott Bukatman argues they are reactions to technology and the rising posthuman. Post-hardware heroines, as such, are not only imbued with a nostalgia for the hardware heroines that first subverted male action roles of the 1990s, but actively parody the iterative history from which they appear in a fashion evocative of the waning postmodern moment. Contemporary action films <i>Atomic Blonde</i> (2017)<i>, Anna</i> (stylized <i>ANИA</i>, 2019)<i>, Gunpowder Milkshake</i> (2021), and <i>Jolt</i> (2021) are argued to mark the emergence of the post-hardware heroine and represent the new parodic paradigm in which they operate. By transgressing and subverting narrative roles occupied by gendered performances, these films look toward an action cinema that blurs the boundaries of gender and leaves behind the visual pleasures of the body.</p>","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"6 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measures of Success: Competing Masculinities in Cobra Kai","authors":"Stevie K. Seibert Desjarlais","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2190075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2190075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>Netflix’s reboot series <i>Cobra Kai</i> (2018–present) depicts an intergenerational negotiation of masculinities as the men from the original <i>Karate Kid</i> mentor Gen Z students. Reagan-era masculine norms and measures of manhood are tested by the teens as they face twenty-first-century challenges. Static performances of masculinity fail to meet the demands of new situations; thus, the mentors and the teens alike seek flexibility instead of a winner-takes-all approach.</p>","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"7 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a Civil Society: Bernarr Cooper and the Bureau of Mass Communications of the New York State Education Department","authors":"Jeffrey S. Reznick","doi":"10.1080/01956051.2023.2190076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2023.2190076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Abstract</b></p><p>Bernarr Cooper (1912–1999) led the Bureau of Mass Communications of the New York State Education Department from 1962 to 1982. During its heyday—roughly between 1970 and 1980—the Bureau produced or coproduced more than 1,500 educational programs, distributed widely to public schools and libraries across the state of New York. This article draws the story of Cooper and the Bureau out of the annals of New York State history, making it meaningful to the interrelated histories of mass communication, popular television, education, and public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":44169,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM AND TELEVISION","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}