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Part I. Woman as inter/national sign -- "You've been in my life so long I can't remember anything else" : into the labyrinth with Ripley and the alien / Pamela Church Gibson -- Warrior marks : global womanism's neo-colonial discourse in a multicultural context / Inderphal Grewal and Karen Kaplan -- "Daddy, where's the FBI warning?" : constructing the video spectator / Ina Rae Hark -- Romance and/as tourism : heritage whiteness and the (inter)national imaginary in the new woman's film / Diane Negra -- Race as spectacle, feminism as alibi : representing the civil rights era in the 1990s / Sharon Willis -- Part II. New constellation stars -- Judy on the net : Judy Garland fandon and "the gay thing" revisited / Steven Cohan -- Jackie Chan and the black connection / Gina Marchetti -- Stardom and serial fantasies : Thomas Harris's Hannibal / Linda Mizejewski -- Learning from Bruce Lee : pedagogy and political correctness in martial arts cinema / Meaghan Morris -- "Waas sappening?" : narrative structure and iconography in Born in East L.A. / Chon A Noriega -- Part III. Moving desires -- The voice of pornography : tracking the subject through the sonic spaces of gay male moving image pornography / Rich Cante and Angelo Restivo -- Nostalgia of the new wave : structure in Wong Kar-wai's Happy together / Rey Chow -- Mario Lanza and the "fourth world" / Marcia Landy -- Devouring creation : cannibalism, sodomy, and the scene of analysis in Suddenly, last summer / Kevin Ohi -- Queer Bollywood, or "I'm the player, you're the naive one" : patterns of sexual subversion in recent Indian popular cinema / Thomas Waugh -- Part IV. Production notes -- Cinema studies doesn't matter; or, I know what you did last semester / Toby Miller -- 12 monkeys, postmodernism, and the urban : toward a new method / Matthew Ruben -- Terminator technology : Hollywood, history, and technology / Paul Smith -- "Compulsory" viewing for every citizen : Mr. Smith and the rhetoric of reception / Eric Smoodin -- Standardizing professionalism and showmanship : the performance of motion picture projectionists during the early sync-sound era / Steve Wurtzler -- States of emergency / Patricia R. Zimmerman. |