Author Archive for: ‘Dion Kagan’

Robert J. Corber, Cold War Femme: Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema Duke University Press, 2011 ISBN 978-0-8223-4947-1 US$23.95(pb) 225pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) Cold War Femme is the third of Robert Corber’s inquiries into Cold War cultural formations and their regulatory relationship with sexuality. In the first book, In the Name of National Security: Hitchcock, Homophobia, …

Roger Hallas, Reframing Bodies: AIDS, Bearing Witness, and the Queer Moving Image. Duke University Press, 2009 ISBN 978-0-8223-4601-2 US$24.95 (pb) 336pp (Review copy supplied by Duke University Press) As HIV/AIDS reaches its third decade, the once-flourishing field of AIDS cultural criticism, an interdisciplinary amalgam of gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, film and media studies, memory and trauma studies – …

Belén Vidal, Heritage Film: Nation, Genre and Representation London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-231-16203-6 $US20 (pb) 144 pp (Review copy supplied by Wallflower Press) Belén Vidal’s recent contribution to the Wallflower Short Cuts series, which introduce concepts in film studies, is a slim but virtuosic synthesis of the debates surrounding heritage cinema, from their origins in the …