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Table of Contents - Volume 42 - Special Issue 03 (Special Issue on Film and Popular Culture)  

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The Arc of National Confidence and the Birth of Film Noir, 1929–1941

PHILIP HANSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 387-414
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005501 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

“Emergent Noir”: Film Noir and the Great Depression in High Sierra (1941) and This Gun for Hire (1942)

JOEL DINERSTEIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 415-448
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005513 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Global Trauma at Home: Technology, Modernity, Deliverance

ANIL NARINE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 449-470
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005525 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

“The True Story of the Ku Klux Klan”: Defining the Klan through Film

TOM RICE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 471-488
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005537 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Pigs, Green Whiskers, and Drunken Widows: Irish Nationalists and the “Practical Censorship” of McFadden's Row of Flats in 1902 and 1903

M. ALISON KIBLER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 489-514
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005549 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

“A Chaos of Sin and Folly”: Art, Culture, and Carnival in Antebellum America

DAVID WALL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 515-535
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005550 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Obscenity, Free Speech, and “Sporting News” in 1870s America

AMANDA FRISKEN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 537-577
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005562 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Reviews

 
 

Jessica Adams, Michael P. Bibler and Cecile Accilien (eds.), Just below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the U.S. South (Charlettesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007, $22.50). Pp. 285. isbn 978 0 8139 2600 1.

LOREN SCHWENINGER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 579-580
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005574 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Jonathan Auerbach, Body Shots: Early Cinema's Incarnations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, $24.95). Pp. xii+200. isbn 978 0 520 25293 6.

CARA RODWAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 580-581
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005586 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Andrew J. Bacevich (ed.), The Long War: A New History of U.S. National Security Policy since World War II (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, £50.49). Pp. xiv+586. isbn 978 0231505864.

MARILYN B. YOUNG

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 581-582
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005598 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Jennifer J. Baker, Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, £33.50). Pp. 218. isbn 0 8018 7972 8.

PETER KNIGHT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 583-584
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005604 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Elaine Cardenas and Ellen Gorman (eds.), The Hummer: Myths and Consumer Culture (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007, £22.99/$34.95). Pp. 284. isbn 978 0 7391 1477 3.

THOMAS TURNER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 584-585
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005616 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley (eds.), Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, £25.00). Pp. 269. isbn 978 0 1992 3387 8.

ROBIN PEEL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 585-586
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005628 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Brian J. Cook, Democracy and Administration: Woodrow Wilson's Ideas and the Challenges of Public Management (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, £33.50). Pp. 262. isbn 0 8018 8522 1.

RICHAD WALL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 586-587
doi:10.1017/S002187580800563X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Bob Deans, The River Where America Began: A Journey along the James (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield,2007, $14.95). Pp. xv+319. isbn 978 0 7425 5172 5.

CATHERINE ARMSTRONG

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 587-589
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005641 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Michael W. Flamm, Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, $24.50/£16.00). Pp. 294. isbn 970 0 231 11513 1.

M. J. HEALE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 589-589
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005653 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Alan Gibson, Understanding the Founding: The Crucial Questions (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007, $29.95). Pp. 314. isbn 0 7006 1519 9.

BRIAN STEELE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 590-591
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005665 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Richard Godden, William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, £23.95/$39.50). Pp. x+264. isbn 978 0 691 13071 2.

TAYLOR HAGOOD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 592-592
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005677 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Sarah Greenough and Diane Waggoner (eds.), The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art in association with Princeton University Press, 2007, $55.00/£28.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 0 691 13368 3.

WENDY E. WARD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 593-594
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005689 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Ann Hall and Mardia Bishop, Pop Porn: Pornography in American Culture (Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007, £27.95/$49.95). Pp. 208. isbn 0 275 99920 3.

SHARIF MOWLABOCUS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 594-595
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005690 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Robert Higgs, Neither Liberty nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government (Oakland CA: The Independent Institute, 2007, $15.95). Pp. 200. isbn 1 5981 3012 9.

RUTH BLAKELY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 596-597
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005707 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Anthony Hutchison, Writing the Republic: Liberalism and Morality in American Political Fiction (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007, $45.00/£26.50). Pp. xxiii+230. isbn 978 0 231 14138 3.

STEVEN WHITFIELD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 597-598
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005719 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Paul Kelton, Epidemics and Enslavement: Biological Catastrophe in the Native Southeast 1492–1715 (Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 2007, £27.00). Pp. xxii+288. isbn 978 0 8032 2756 9.

TREVOR BURNARD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 598-599
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005720 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis (eds.), Race, Politics, and Memory: A Documentary History of the Little Rock School Crisis (Fayetteviile, University of Arkansas Press, 2007, $19.95). Pp. 242. isbn 1 55728 857 7.

A. John Kirk, Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis (Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, 2007, $19.95). Pp. 213. isbn 1 55728 851 8.

LEE SARTAIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 599-601
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005732 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Adam. B. Lowther, Americans and Asymmetric Conflict: Lebanon, Somalia and Afghanistan (London and Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007, £39.85). Pp. 256. isbn 10 0275996352, isbn 13 978 0 2759 9635 2.

ADAM QUINN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 601-602
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005744 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Christopher Malone, Between Freedom and Bondage: Race, Party, and Voting Rights in the Antebellum North (New York: Routledge, 2008, £17.99). Pp. xi+253. isbn 978 0 415 95697.

JAMES CAMPBELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 602-603
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005756 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Peter Nicholls, George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, £55.00). Pp. 240. isbn 978 0 19 921826 4.

EMMA KIMBERLY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 603-604
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005768 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Jon Roper (ed.), The United States and the Legacy of the Vietnam War (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, $69.95). Pp. 178. isbn 978 0 230 50042 6.

MARK ATWOOD LAWRENCE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 604-605
doi:10.1017/S002187580800577X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

David Ryan, Frustrated Empire: US Foreign Policy, 9/11 to Iraq (London and Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007, $60.00 cloth, $17.99 paper). Pp. vii+208. isbn 978 0 7543 2388 6, 978 0 7453 2389 3.

BEVAN SEWELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 605-607
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005781 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Susan Smulyan, Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, £23.00). Pp. 202. isbn 9780 0 8122 4020 7.

NICK HEFFERNAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 607-608
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005793 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Sarah Song, Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, £14.99). Pp. 198. isbn 978 0 5216 9759 0.

ANNA HARTNELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 608-609
doi:10.1017/S002187580800580X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Elizabeth Stephens, US Policy towards Israel: The Role of Political Culture in Defining the “Special Relationship” (East Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2006, £55.00). Pp. 339. isbn 9 781 84519097 2.

STEVE MOREWOOD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 609-610
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005811 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

Fionnghuala Sweeney, Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007, £50.00). Pp. 192. isbn 978 184631 078 2.

PETER O'NEILL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 610-611
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005823 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

David A. Zimmerman, Panic! Markets, Crises, and Crowds in American Fiction (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006, £38.50 cloth, £14.50 paper). Pp. 294. isbn 978 0 8078 3023 9, 978 0 8078 5687 1.

PETER KNIGHT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, pp 611-612
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005835 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 16 Dec 2008
 

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Round Table Melvyn Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007, $20.00). P. 608. isbn 978 0 3745 3142.

MARIO DEL PERO, DAVID RYAN, ANDERS STEPHANSON, NATALIA YEGOROVA and MELVYN LEFFLER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E48
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005999 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Jane Kamensky, The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse (New York: Viking, 2008, $29.95). Pp. 464. isbn 978 0670 018413.

JAY SEXTON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E49
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005926 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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James M. McPherson, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, $28.00). Pp. 221. isbn 0 19 531366 6.

JAMES S. HUMPHREYS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E50
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005938 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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John M. Giggie, After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875–1915 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, £41.00). Pp. xvii+315. isbn 978 0 19 530403 9.

MARK NEWMAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E51
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005896 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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James R. Holmes, Theodore Roosevelt and World Order (Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2007, $19.95). Pp. 327. isbn 978 1 57488 884 3.

ANDREW PRIEST

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E52
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005914 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Joe Street, The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2007, £39.50). Pp. xiv+229. isbn 9780 8130 3196 5.

PETER J. LING

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E53
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005963 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The Worlds of Herman Kahn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, $26.95/£17.95). Pp. 432. isbn 78 0 674 01714 6.

CAMBELL CRAIG

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E54
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005884 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Paul Spickard, Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race, and Colonialism in American History and Identity (New York and London: Routledge, 2007, £21.99/$39.95). Pp. 744. isbn-10 0 415 93593 8, isbn-13 978 0 415 93593 7.

STEPHEN R. ROBINSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E55
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005951 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Victoria Coulson, Henry James: Women and Realism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, £50.00). Pp. 240. isbn 978 0 521 87981 1.

IAN F. A. BELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E56
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005872 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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James Annesley, Fictions of Globalization: Consumption, the Market and the Contemporary American Novel (London: Continuum, 2006, £60.00). Pp. 202. isbn 0 8264 8937 0.

PETER KNIGHT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E57
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005847 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Tennessee Williams, The Traveling Companion & Other Plays, ed. Annette Saddik (New York: New Directions, 2008, $17.95). Pp. 302. isbn 978 0 8112 1708 8.

Tennessee Williams, A House Not Meant to Stand, ed. Thomas Keith (New York: New Directions, 2008, $14.95). Pp. 95. isbn 978 0 8112 1709 5.

SUE TYRRELL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E58
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005975 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Daniel Bernardi (ed.), The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (London and New York: Routledge, 2008, £16.99). Pp. 390. isbn 978 0 415 77413 0.

MAXIME CERVULLE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E59
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005859 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Bernie Cook (ed.), Thelma and Louise Live! The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007, $24.95). Pp. 211. isbn 978 0 292 71466 3.

SHELLEY COBB

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E60
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005860 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Hugh Heclo, Christianity and American Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, $25.95/£16.95). Pp. ix+299. isbn 987 0 674 02514 1.

Joseph P. Viteritti, The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Sphere (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007, $27.95/£16.95). Pp. xvi+273. isbn 987 0 691 130118.

AXEL R. SCHÄFER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E61
doi:10.1017/S0021875808005902 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Feb 2009
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Paul Pierson and Theda Skocpol (eds.), The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism (Woodstock and Princeton: Princeton University Press, £14.95). Pp. xiii+324. isbn 978 0 691 12258 8.

DEAN MCSWEENEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 42, Special Issue 03, December 2008, E62
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