- The Materiality of Media

The Lost Studio of Atlantis: Norman Bel Geddes’s Failed Revolution in Television Form

Joshua Gleich

Materiality and Meaning in Recent Projection Performance

Jonathan Walley

The Warner Archive and DVD Collecting in the New Home Video Market

Bradley Schauer

Executable Images: The Enactment and Distribution of Movies in Computer Networks

Gabriel Menotti Gonring

Dossier: Materiality and the Archive

Kit Hughes and Heather Heckman

Book Reviews

Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture by Jeffrey A. Brown

Reviewed by Chelsea McCracken

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema by Allan Cameron

Reviewed by Matt Connolly

Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire That Lost the Cultural Cold War by Kristin Roth-Ey

Reviewed by Booth Wilson

Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates edited by Adrian Johns

Reviewed by Andrew J. Bottomley

- Recontextualizing Animation, CGI, and Visual Effects

Dissecting Bambi: Multiplanar Photography, the Cel Technique, and the Flowering of Full Animation

Casey Riffel

On Styles of Theorizing Animation Styles: Stanley Cavell at the Cartoon’s Demise

Ryan Pierson

Kung Fu Panda: Animated Animal Bodies as Layered Sites of (Trans)National Identities

Hye Jean Chung

Is It Real . . . or Is It Motion Capture? The Battle to Redefine Animation in the Age of Digital Performance

Yacov Freedman

An Interview with Geoff Marslett of Swerve Pictures

The Editors

An Interview with Bob Sabiston of Flat Black Films

The Editors

Book Reviews

The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture by Rob King

Reviewed by Paul Monticone

Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood by Mark Garrett Cooper

Reviewed by Paul Monticone

Letterboxed: The Evolution of Widescreen Cinema by Harper Cossar

Reviewed by Eliot Chayt

Widescreen Worldwide edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall, and Steve Neale

Reviewed by Eliot Chayt

The New Entrepreneurs: An Institutional History of Television Anthology Writers by Jon Kraszewski

Reviewed by Joshua Gleich

Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada edited by Thomas Waugh, Michael Brendan Baker, and Ezra Winton

Reviewed by Laura Dixon

Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s edited by James Morrison

Reviewed by R. Colin Tait

- Comedy and Humor

Recombinant Comedy, Transmedial Mobility, and Viral Video

David Gurney

“The Missing Link Moment”: Web Comedy in New Media Industries

Nick Marx

Laughing Together? TV Comedy Audiences and the Laugh Track

Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore

“Have Women a Sense of Humor?” Comedy and Femininity in Early Twentieth-Century Film

Kristen Anderson Wagner

Parodying the Nation: Cross-Dressing and Vietnamese American Comedy

Lan Duong

Book Reviews

CSI by Derek Kompare

Reviewed by Myles McNutt

Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media by Isabel Molina-Guzmán

Reviewed by Eleanor Seitz

Jacques Rivette by Douglas Morrey and Alison Smith

Reviewed by Eric Dienstfrey

Virgin Territory: Representing Sexual Inexperience in Filmby Tamar Jeffers McDonald

Reviewed by Kyra Hunting

- Seeing Race: The Enduring Dilemma

Sincere Fictions: The Production Cultures of Whiteness in Late 1960s Hollywood

Eithne Quinn

Alabama Constitutional Reform in Black and White

Gina Caison

Black Man/White Machine: Will Smith Crosses Over

Lorrie Palmer

Beyond Tokenism and Tricksterism: Bobby Lee, MADtv, and the De(con)structive Impulse of Korean American Comedy

David Scott Diffrient

Revisiting Sunday Morning Apartheid: The Politics of Of Color Blindness and Racial Formation in the Harry Reid Controversy

Doug E. Julien

The Racial Politics of Disaster and Dystopia in I Am Legend

Sean Brayton

Book Reviews

- New Media in the Majority World

Hard Questions: Public Goods and the Political Economy of the New Palestinian Televisual Public Sphere

Matt Seinkiewicz

Video Games for the "Next Billion": The Launch of the Zeebo Console

Ben Aslinger

Auto-Motivations: Digital Cinema and Kiarostami's Relational Aesthetics

Scott Krzych

Korean TV Serials in the English-Language Diaspora: Translating Difference Online and Making It Racial

Brian Hu

The New Navajo Cinema: Cinema and Nation in the Indigenous Southwest

Randolph Lewis

Book Reviews

- Celebrity!

Reclaiming the Freak: Michael Jackson and the Spectacle of Identity

Racquel J. Gates

Hannah Montana's Bare, Unprotected Back: Miley Cyrus's Vanity Fair Outing

James Kincaid

Stardom, Celebrity, and the Money Form

Barry King

Underexposed Overexposure: One Night in Paris

Minette Hillyer

Slumdog Celebrities

Priya Jaikumar

Star Testing: The Emerging Politics of Celebrity Gossip

Julie A. Wilson

Toxic: The Implosion of Britney Spears's Star Image

Moya Luckett

Tom Cruise, the "Couch Incident," and the Limits of Public Elation

Michael DeAngelis

Populist Celebrity in the Election Campaigns of Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger

A. Freya Thimsen

Dragging Oscar

Fernando Delgado

Brangelina: The Fertile Valley of Celebrity

Diane Negra

Death on Display: Reifying Stardom through Hollywood's Dark Tourism

Linda Levitt

Rihanna's Closed Eyes

Sarah Projansky

Dreaming a Dream: Susan Boyle and Celebrity Culture

Su Holmes

The Pregnant Man

Judith Halberstam

Book Reviews

- Failures, Flops, and False Starts

Claiming the Found: Archive Footage and Documentary Practice

(preface by Vance Kepley, Jr.)

Hollywood Party, Jimmy Durante, and the Cultural Politics of Coherence

Allen Larson

A Virtual Failure: Evaluating the Success of Nintendo's Virtual Boy

Steven Boyer

Convergent Consortia: Format Battles in High Definition

Bryan Sebok

StarCraft Fan Craft: Game Mods, Ownership, and Totally Incomplete Conversions

Derek Johnson

Public Service Broadcasting and the Failure of Political Representation

Kyle Conway

Dossier: Perspectives on Failure

The Editors

- Censorship and Regulation

Media Effects and the Subjectification of Film Regulation

Theresa Cronin

The Hindu Right and the Politics of Censorship: Three Case Studies of Policing Hindi Cinema, 1992-2002

Nandana Bose

Exemplary Consumer-Citizens and Protective State Stewards: How Reformers Shaped Censorship Outcomes Regarding The Untouchables

Laura Cook Kenna

Slashings and Subtitles: Romanian Media Piracy, Censorship, and Translation

Tessa Dwyer and Ioana Uricaru

Censorship, Regulation, and Media Policy in the Twenty-First Century: A Roundtable on Critical Approaches

The Editors

Book Reviews

- Media Spaces and Architectures

Film in Air: Airspace, In-Flight Entertainment, and NonTheatrical Distribution

Stephen Groening

Your Favorite Stars, Live On Our Screens: Media Culture, Queer Publics, and Commercial Space

Hollis Griffin

In the Flesh: Space and Embodiment in the Pornographic Peep Show Arcade

Amy Herzog

Photo Essay: Urban Iconography and the Technological Grotesque

Anna McCarthy

The Good Side of the Ghetto: Visualizing Black Brooklyn 1968–1971

Devorah Heitner

Dossier: Media Space in Perspective

The Editors

An Interview with Emily Thompson

Nick Marx and Danny Kimball

- Remakes and Adaptations

"Beam Me up, Omer": Transnational Media Flow and the Cultural Politics of the Turkish Star Trek Remake

Iain Robert Smith

Remaking and the Film Trilogy: Whit Stillman's Authorial Triptych

Claire Perkins

Somewhere in Time: Utopia and the Return of Superman

Matt Yockey

The Concessions of Nat Turner

by Christopher Sieving

An Interview with Richard Linklater