MARGINALIA

Bulletin bibliographique des tudes sur les littratures et le film populaires n 90

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GNRALITS
Rappel : la rubrique intitule Gnralits prsente des ouvrages dans
lesquels on mlange les genres, les
inclassables, les tudes sur le roman et le
film daventures, lhumour et le comique,
la culture populaire en gnral, ainsi que
certaines curiosits ditoriales...

BEUTIN, Wolfgang,
Mechanismen der
Trivialliteratur:
zur
Wirkungsweise
massenhaft verbreiteter Unterhaltungslektre, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2015,
492 pages.
In einer Untersuchung von etwa 170 Romanen und
NovellenderTrivialliteraturausderZeitvon1849bis1945
werden die Mechanismen dieser Texte aufgezeigt. Die
herangezogenenWerkgruppensind:derLiebesroman,der
Frauenroman, der historische Roman, der
Gesellschaftsroman, der Abenteuerroman, der Bergroman
undderbiographischeRoman.

LITTRATURE
BESSON, Anne (dir.), Fictions mdiatiques et
rcits de genre. Pour en finir avec le
populaire, Nantes, Lucie ditions, (Potiques
comparatistes), 2016, 190 pages.
Anne Besson : introduction, p. 7
Dhieretdaujourdhui:tatdeslieuxcritique(s)
DavidPlatten:CulturalIllegitimacies:Football,Popular
MusicandCrimeFiction
JanBaetens:Labandedessine:entreformehybrideet
formelittraire,p.39.
AnneIsabelle Franois: Rcits de genre, culture
populaire et Cultural Studies: enjeux, mthodes et
perspectives,P.53
Aurlie Huz, Nicolas Perez Prada et Hlne Sellier:
Littrature et cultures mdiatiques: positionnement,
pratiquesetdynamiquesdelajeunerecherche,p.73
Questionsdemthode
Irne Langlet: Pour une potique des fictions
industrielles,p.87
Mathias Kusnierz: Le cinma de sciencefiction
amricain, entre culture populaire et objet savant.
Observationssurunobjetinterdisciplinaire,p.103
FranoisRonanDubois:Mthodesd'analyseformelledes
sriestlvises:unemiseenperspectivemtacritique,
p.117
JacquesMigozzi:Lesfictionspopulaireseuropennesau
cribledubigdataetdudistantreading:carnetdefouilles
(20082015),p.131
Descorpusredcouvrir
RuthMayer:Dejustesse.Serialspoliciers,temporalit
etgestiondelacontingence,19191926,p.143
Monica DallAsta et Federico Pagello: The Puzzling
Subject: Detective Series, Crime Serials and Trans
subjectivityasaNarrativeDevice,p.159
MarieveThrenty:Chalumeaux,espadrillesdecrpeet
escarpins. Sur la fiction mdiatique dans la presse des
annestrente.

BLANCHE, Francis, Les Penses: textes

choisis par Jean-Marie Blanche, Paris,
Cherche Midi, (Les penses), 2016, 267 pages.
Dessins de Cabu.
Sesconseilstmoignentd'unesagesseancestrale:"Sivous
nevoussentezpasbien,faitesvoussentirparunautre",ou
encore:"Pourrentrerchezvous,uneseuleadresse,lavtre
". Amusonsnous du dlire de cet hommeorchestre,
crateurdelagreffesurprise,delapolicedesnursesetdu
dpanneur d'escalopes. De belles nuits blanches en
perspective!
BODART, Joni Richards,
They Hurt, They
Scar, They Shoot, They Kill: Toxic
Characters in Young Adult Fiction, Lanham
(MD), Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016,
322 pages.
JoniRichardsBodartexaminesworksoffictionthatfeature
characters who threaten the psychological and physical
wellbeingofteensandtheirfriendsandfamilies.Arranged
in five sections that cover such topics as bullies, school
shootings,andmonstersathome,thisvolumeanalyzesthe
mostimportantandwellwrittenseriesandtitlesforteens.
BRUNEL, Sylvie & Florian Colomb de Daunant,
Crin-Blanc ou l'Invention de la Camargue:
l'oeuvre de Denys Colomb de Daunant,
Arles, Actes Sud, (Chevaux et cavaliers), 2016,
142 pages.
Denys Colomb de Daunant (Nmes 19222006) est un
crivain, pote, photographe, cinaste et manadier connu
pourtrel'inspirateuretlecoscnaristedufilmCrinBlanc
(1952)ralisparAlbertLamorisse.EnimmortalisantCrin
Blanc, il donna la Camargue son identit : celle d'un
territoire de nature sauvage o des troupeaux de petits

BOUSSAGEON, Alexandre,
Joseph Kessel:
crivain de l'aventure, Paris, ditions
Paulsen, 2015, 310 pages.
JosephKesselreutlepremiervisadeltatd'Isral,suivit
lapistedestrafiquantsdesclavesdel'AbyssinieauYmen,

chevauxblancsviventenlibertdansd'immensestendues
sales.

COLLECTIF, Srialits, dans Belphgor, no

1, 2016.
MatthieuLetourneux
Introductionlalittratureauprismedessrialits[Texte
intgral]
AlainBoillatetFranoiseRevaz
La porte souvre subitement et (voir page 12): la
bandedessineauseuildumagazine.[Texteintgral]
Notessurlespagesdecouverturedansdeuxpriodiques
francobelgesdelgeclassique
FedericoPagello
Before the Comics: On the Seriality of Graphic
NarrativesduringtheNineteenthCentury[Texteintgral]
AudeJeannerod
Pratiquessriellesdungenremdiatique:lesSalonsde
JorisKarlHuysmans[Texteintgral]
RaphalBaroni
Un feuilleton mdiatique formetil un rcit? [Texte
intgral]
StphaneBenassi
Srialit(s) et esthtique de la fiction tlvisuelle [Texte
intgral]
EffieAmilitou
DelaLittraturedutrottoirlagrandelibrairie.[Texte
intgral]
Versionsdesrialitetlgitimitdanslespacemdiatique
delaGrce,XXesicle.
KirillChekalov
HolmesaupaysdesSovietsoulecommandantPronineet
sonrevivaldesannes2000[Texteintgral]
JulianaFerreiradeMelo
GrandeHotel:
Unmagazinebrsilienproduitpartirdelapresseducur
francoitalienne[Texteintgral]
PaulBleton
Lge dor des orages dacier: extension et limites de la
guerresrialise[Texteintgral]
OlivierOdaert
Srialitetpersonnages[Texteintgral]
Duromanpopulairelabandedessine
AnneBesson
De lensemble la totalit: leffet de monde dans les
littraturesdelimaginairecontemporaines.[Texteintgral]
KlaiSndor
Pratiquessriellesdansleromanjudiciaire[Texteintgral]
LecasdeGaboriau
DanielCougnas
Naissance dun hros et dun ensemble sriels: Arsne
Lupin, Gentlemancambrioleur (19051907) [Texte
intgral]
DenisSaintAmand
Srialits tintamarresques. Du fauxfeuilleton au
dictionnaire.[Texteintgral]
AlainVaillant
Portraitdelhumoristemoderneenserialrieur. propos
dAlphonseAllais[Texteintgral]
MatthieuLetourneux
Legenrecommepratiquehistorique[Texteintgral]
VARIA

COLLECTIF, Pop Culture ! Les cultures

populaires aujourd'hui, dans Imaginaires,
no 19, 2015, EPURE, Reims, Editions et Presses
universitaires de Reims, 306 pages.
Lesculturespopulairesconstituentaujourd'huiundomaine
de recherche florissant, suscitant une production
exponentiellesurdessujetsdtudesaussidiversqueles
sries tlvises, la musique populaire (pop, punk, rap,
rock), la clbrit ou les nouveaux mdias. Cependant,
malgroupeuttrecausedelacuriositquecestudes
suscitentparfoisdanslesmdias,cetterechercheprovoque
encore a et l dans le monde universitaire, notamment
franais,rticencesouignorancedlibredautantquela
disciplinedesculturalstudiesnexistepasentantquetelle
enFrance.SousladirectiondeSylvieMikowskietYann
Philippe.
COLLECTIF, Fictions populaires, dans Le
Pardaillan, no 1, 2016.
Editorial:LeChevalierdAireVue
LesCahiersZvaco
LuceRoudierLieuxdelafictionpopulaire:lauberge
delaDevinire,locusinfabuladanslesromansdeMichel
Zvaco
Dossier:FictionsPopulaires
LouisRouillDerrirelesnomsdanslafiction
MathiasMorantaLafictionaucoeurdudroit
VivienBessiresStylistiqueetfictionpopulaire
BounthavySuvilayLafictionpopulairecommevirus
StphaneBenassiSrialit(s)etesthtiquedelafiction
populaire
CaroleRambaudLamiseenfictonlittrairedumatriau
populairesurlesscnesdeBussangetMzires
Bernard Jeannot Les comdies musicales franaises:
desfictionslittrairespourunartpopulaire
IsabelleRachelCastaRiendecommun?:varit
fdratrice,patrimoineimpalpable
FranoisSalanRmanencesmlodramatiquesdansLes
Derniers Scandales de Paris(18981900): structures et
schmas du mlodrame classique dans la sriede Jean
LouisDubutdeLaforest
FabriziodiPasqualeLepolarnoircontemporain:entre
fictionetpopulaire.Perspectivesgocritiquesetpotiques
delespacedanslaTrilogieFabioMontaledeJeanClaude
Izzo
Nicolas Roudier La fiction et son univers tendu:
lexempledeStarWars
Claire Allouche Dpenser le sauvage: une
fictionpopuliste.AproposdesRelatosSalvajes(2014)de
DamianSzifron
LesOublis
Marine Champetier de Ribes Etienne Tabourot des
Accords, lillustre inconnu du XVIe sicle franais?
RemarquessurlavirtuositlinguistiquedesTouches(1585
1588).

ValriaGuimares
LeViceChic[Texteintgral]
Faits divers et reprsentations des basfonds la Belle
poquebrsilienne
BenotTadi
Lavilledupolaramricain:imagesetexprience[Texte
intgral]
AlistairRolls,ClaraSitbonetMarieLaureVuailleBarcan
Disparitions et rapparitions, mort et renaissance: les
traductionsfantasquesdeMarcelDuhamel[Texteintgral]
IgnacioFernndezSarasola
La campaa social anticomic en la Gran Bretaa de
postguerra[Texteintgral]
BenjaminCaraco
GenseetstructuredudiscourscritiquedeJeanChristophe
Menu[Texteintgral]
EdwardOusselin
Uneboucheriepourrien:laGrandeGuerredanslesbandes
dessinesdeJacquesTardi[Texteintgral]

Constancio Arnaldo A history of race and

he(te)rosexuality in the movies : James Shigeta's Asian
Americanmalestardom/CelineParreasShimizuModel
maternity:AmyChuaandAsianAmericanmotherhood/
JuliaH.LeeYoutubemadetheTVstar:Kevjumba'sstar
appearanceontheAmazingRace/VincentPhamandKent
A.OnoDavidChoe's"Koreansgonebad":theLAriots,
comparative racialization, and branding a politics of
deviance/WendySungPartII.Makingcommunity
From the Mekong to the Merrimack and back : the
transnationalterrainsofCambodianAmericanrap/CathyJ.
SchlundVials"You'lllearnmuchaboutPakistanisfrom
listening to radio" : Pakistani radio programming in
Houston,Texas/AhmedAfzalOnlineAsianAmerican
popularculture,digitization,andmuseums/KonradNg
Asian American food blogging as racial branding :
rewritingthesearchforauthenticity/LoriKidoLopez
Picturingthepast:drawingtogetherVietnameseAmerican
transnational history / Timothy K. August Part III.
Wading in the mainstream Paradise, Hawaiian style :
touristfilmsandthemixedraceutopiasofU.S.empire/
Camilla Fojas Post9/11 global migration in Battlestar
Galactica / Leilani Nishime "Did you think when I
openedmymouth?":AsianAmericanindierockandthe
middlingnoiseofracialization/DouglasIshiiWinning
the bee : South Asians, spelling bee competitions, and
Americanracialbranding/ShilpaDavThebloodsport
of cooking : on Asian American chefs and television /
TashaOrenPartIV.Migrationandtransnationalpopular
culture Curry as code : food, race, and technology /
MadhaviMallapragadaBollywood's9/11:terrorismand
Muslim masculinities in popular Hindi cinema / Deepti
Misri Hybrid Hallyu : the African American music
traditioninKpop/CrystalS.AndersonTransnational
beautycircuits:AsianAmericanwomen,technology,and
circlecontactlenses/ LindaTrinhVoMakingwhalesout
of peacocks : virtual fashion and Asian female factory
hands/ChristopherB.PattersonFailedreturns:thequeer
BalikbayaninR.ZamoraLinmark'sLecheandGilPortes's
Miguel/Michelle/RobertDiaz.

D'AMICO, Luella (ed.), Girl's Series Fiction

and American Popular Culture, Lanham
(MD), Lexington Books, 2016, 318 pages.
Louisa May Alcott's theater of time / Marlowe Daly
Galeano Queering the Katy series: disability, emotion,
and imagination in the novels of Susan Coolidge / Eva
LupoldWorkinggirl:thevalueofgirllaborinthefive
Little Peppers book series / Christiane E. Farnan A
spectacleofgirls:L.FrankBaum,womenreporters,andthe
manbehindthescreeninearlytwentiethcenturyAmerica/
PaigeGrayNancyDrew'sshadow:TrixieBeldenanda
case for imperfection / Michael Cornelius The Bob
Whites of the BeldenWheeler detective agency: gender,
class, and race in the Trixie Belden series, 19481986 /
Carolyn Cocca Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden: girl
detectives, role models, and feminist icons / Nichole
BogaroshCherryAmes:anewwomanforthe1940s/
Linda Simon From BetsyTacy to the blog: diary
keeping,selfnarrativeandadolescentidentityinAmerican
girls'books/MeganFriddleGirlsizedviewsofhistory:
politicalconsciousnessintheAmericangirlseries/Mariko
TurkIlikesportsandyoulikeclothes,butwebothlove
babies!:problemsofidentity,voice,andindoctrinationin
the BabySitters club series / Mary Bronstein Fancy
Nancy:precociousorprecious?/LoriJohnsonandLisaL
Laurier Beyond cruel: female heroines and thirdwave
feminism in the Vampire Academy / Janine Darragh
Growingupinthe21stcentury:prettylittleliarsandtheir
prettylittledevices/GraceHalden.

MINI-DOSSIER:
CORMAC MCCARTHY
MONK, Nicholas, True and Living Prophet of
Destruction: Cormac McCarthy and Modernity, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico
Press, 2016, xviii, 278 pages.
CormacMcCarthysworksoundswarningsofimpending
apocalypse, but it also implies that redemption remains
available.NicholasMonkarguesthatMcCarthysresponse
to the modern world is more subtle and less laden with
despairthanmanyrealize,andthathisworkrepresentsan
understanding of the world that transcends the political
divisionsofrightandleft,escapesthereductivenatureof
identity politics, and looks to futures beyond the
immediatelyadjacent.

DAV, Shilpa, Leinila NISHIME & Tasha ORAN

(eds.), Global Asian American Popular
Culture, New York, New York University Press,
2016, 400 pages.
Introduction / Shilpa Dav, Leilani Nishime, and Tasha
OrenPartI.StarsandcelebritiesTransPacificflows:
globalizationandhybridityinBruceLee'sHongKongfilms
/DarylJojiMaeda"I'mthankfulforManny":Manny
Pacquiao,pugilisticnationalism,andtheFilipina/obody/

posthero, we see shifts in the conceptualization of US

individualism in the twentyfirst century, displaying
growing notions of communality, vulnerability, and class
awareness.

MUNDIK, Petra, A Bloody and Barbarous

God:
The
Metaphysics
of
Cormac
McCarthy, Albuquerque, University of New
Mexico Press, 2016, vi, 426 pages.
ABloodyandBarbarousGod investigatestherelationship
betweengnosticism,asystemofthoughtthatarguesthatthe
cosmos is evil and that the human spirit must strive for
liberation from manifest existence, and the perennial
philosophy, a study of the highest common factor in all
esotericreligions,andhowthesetraditionshaveinfluenced
the later novels of Cormac McCarthy, namely, Blood
Meridian,AllthePrettyHorses,TheCrossing,Citiesofthe
Plain,NoCountryforOldMen,andTheRoad.

VIOTTE, Michel & Nol MAUBERRET, Les Vies

de Jack London, Paris, La Martinire,
(Littrature), 2016, 256 pages.
Cetouvrage,publil'occasionducentenairedelamortde
Jack London, retrace au travers d'une iconographie
exceptionnelle, ce destin hors du commun et montre de
quellefaonsavieaventureuseinspiratoutesonoeuvre sa
jeunesse pauvre aux cts des pirates de la baie de San
Francisco,sadcouvertedugrandNordlorsdelaruevers
l'or de 1897, son exprience de grand reporter et
photographe durant la guerre russojaponaise, le
tremblement de terre de San Francisco de 1906 ou la
rvolutionmexicaine,sonengagementpourlesocialisme,
sonexplorationdesarchipelsdesmersduSudborddeson
voilier le Snark, son rve terrien sur son exploitation
agricoledelavalledeSonoma

ROUSSELL, Vincent,
La Brigandine: les
dessous d'une collection, , 2016, Alignan du
Vent, ditions Artus Films, 2017, 400 pages
[fvrier 2017].
Auseindecevastecontinentqueconstituelalittraturedite
de gare, la Brigandine (cre dans un premier temps
sous le nom de Bb Noir avant ses dmles avec la
censure)faitfiguredecollectionatypique.LanceparHenri
Veyrieren1979,ellesemblepremirevuesinscriredans
lesillagedescollectionssimilaires(Eurdif,Eroscope)et
profiterduncertainengouementpourlalittraturerotique
cette poque. Nanmoins, grce son directeur de
collection JeanClaude Hache, jeune homme douxet
cultiv,plusproccupdelittraturedebonnetenuequede
march de masse, elle va acqurir immdiatement une
identit forte et singulire.Lobjet de cet ouvrage est de
montrercomment,endpitduncahierdeschargesassez
strict(inscriptiondanslegenrepolicier,untiersdrotisme
obligatoire), les auteurs vont parvenir se librer des
carcansimpossetfairedecettecollectionunterrainde
jeu et dexprimentations, vritable carrefour de
nombreuses tendances: le nopolar, lrotisme
mancipateur,lemidiminuismeetlecinmabis(avec
des personnalits comme JeanPierre Bouyxou, Jacques
Boivin, Raphal Marongiu), la bande dessine et une
orientationpolitiqueteinteparlesidesdelinternationale
situationniste. Tout en sinscrivant de plainpied dans le
cadre de la paralittrature, la Brigandine apparat
aujourdhui commelun desderniers feuxdune certaine
contreculturenedanslesillagedemai68.

WEBER, Olivier, Jack London. L'Appel du

grand ailleurs, Paris, ditions Paulsen, 2016,
350 pages.
Autodidacte,JackLondonestl'auteurd'uneoeuvreriche,
constitue d'une cinquantaine de romans, nouvelles et
reportages,dontL'AppelsauvageetMartinEden.Fascin
parcetesprit,OlivierWeberaccompagnedesontalentde
conteurledestind'unhommequivcutsaviecommeune
aventure.

CINMA & TLVISION

AHL, Nils C. & Benjamin FAU (dir.),
Dictionnaire des sries tlvises, Paris,
Philippe Rey, 2016, 1112 pages. [2e dition]
AIRD,
Robert
&
Marc-Andr
ROBERT,
L'Imaginaire comique dans le cinma
qubcois: 1952-2014, Qubec, Septentrion,
2016, 277 pages.
BALDUCCI,
Richard,
Le
Gendarme
et
l'empereur, Saint-Tropez, Muse de la
gendarmerie eu du cinma, 2016, 40 pages.
[ScnariooriginaldeRichardBalducci critpourlasaga
desgendarmesdeSaintTropezmaisquin'apastadapt
aucinma]

TANRISEVER, Ahu, Fathers, Warriors, and

Vigilantes: Post-Heroism and the U.S.
Cultural Imaginary in the Twenty-First
Century, Heidelberg, Neckar, Universittsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, 2016, xvi, 273
pages.
Regarding 9/11 as a catalytic rather than a cataclysmic
eventforUSmasculinities,thisstudyinvitesitsreadersto
takeasecondlookattheculturallandscapeofheroismin
thenewmillennium.ThroughreadingsofcontemporaryUS
literatureandfilmcenteredonthethreemostcontroversial
heroic figures of our times fathers, warriors, and
vigilantes this bookchallenges thethesis ofan overall
post9/11whitemasculinistbacklash.Viathefigureofthe

BEAUD, Charles, La Comdie italienne,

1958-1980: les cent visages de l'Italie, La
Madeleine, LettMotif, 2016, 195 pages.
DuPigeondeMonicelli(1958)LaTerrassed'EttoreScola
(1980)sansoublierd'voquerlesfilmsprcurseursainsi
quelesoeuvresplusdiscrtesdumouvementproprement
ditilestquestionicidemettreenvidencelarichessed'un
genre proche des traditions expressives de l'Italie (la
commediadell'arteetlenoralisme)maistoutefoisattentif

auxmoeursdesescontemporainsentantquervlateurs
des volutions historiques, sociologiques et
cinmatographiquesdupays.

Paris, Fantask, (La Bibliothque des cultures

populaires), 2016, 653 pages.
Vous trouverez dans cet ouvrage une slection de 30
interviewsdecrateursetdacteursdontPatrickMcGoohan
(LePrisonnier),StephenJ.Cannell(Lagencetoutrisque,
21JumpStreet...),MarkFrost(TwinPeaks),ChrisCarter
(XFiles), Matt Groening (The Simpsons), Matthew Fox
(Lost)ouencoreDavidBenioff(GameofThrones)etde
nombreuxautresfiguresincontournablesdupetitmondede
lasrietlvise.

BENZERIK, ric,
Baron noir: saison 1,
pisodes 1-8, La Madeleine, LettMotif, 2016,
479 pages.
BROOKES, Ian (ed.), Howard Hawks: New
Perspectives, London, BFI Palgrave, 2016,
viii, 283 pages.
Pt.1HAWKS,SPACE,PLACEANDSTYLE1.in't
There Anyone Here for Love?': Space, Place and
Community in the Cinema of Howard Hawks / Adrian
Danks2.Hawks,WidescreenandVisualStyle/Harper
Cossarpt.2HAWKSANDTHEPOLITICSOFGENRE
3.Hawks'snHawksian'Biopic:SergeantYork/Jesse
Schlotterbeck4.PoisonousPicture':TheBigSleep,the
HollywoodLeftandthePostwarThriller/RobertManning
pt. 3 HAWKSIAN WESTERN 5. Hawks and the
Western / Tom Ryall 6. Gestures, Movements and
ActionsinRioBravo/SteveNealept.4HAWKSAND
GENDER 7. Travesty on Sex': Gender and
PerformanceinGentlemenPreferBlondes/EllenWright
8. Adapting to Women: Hawks, Comedy and Gender /
Jeffrey Hinkelman pt. 5 HAWKS AND MUSIC 9.
ScoringtheWest:DimitriTiomkinandHowardHawks/
Kathryn Kalinak 10. More Than Just Dance Music':
Hawks and Jazz in the 1940s / Ian Brookes pt. 6
HAWKS, ANCIENT AND MODERN 11. Red Line
7000: Fatal Disharmonies / Joe McElhaney 12.
Professionalism, the Protestant Ethic and the New Deal:
Hawksinthe1930s/MichaelJ.Andersonpt.7DARK
CIRCLES:HAWKS,WARANDAVIATION13.Dawn
Patrol:TheOnceandFutureHawks/TonyWilliams14.
IrresolvableCircularity:NarrativeClosureandNihilismin
OnlyAngelsHaveWings/DougDibbern.

CHANOINAT, Philippe,
En Compagnie des
gendarmes, Grenoble, Glnat, 2016, 63
pages. Illustrations: Da Costa.
CONIAM, Matthew, That's Me Groucho ! :
The Solo Career of Groucho Marx, Jefferson,
McFarland, 2016, vii, 177 pages.
Groucho Marxs career as a solo performer began long
beforetheMarxBrothersandlastedalmostuntiltheendof
hislife,withaseriesofcontroversialsoldoutconcertsin
his eighties. In between came several films, numerous
television and radio appearances, theater performances,
dramaticactingandwritingandhissmashhitradioandTV
quizshowYouBetYourLife(19471961).
CRAIG, Joan & Beverly F. STOUT, Theda Bara,
my
Mentor:
Under
the
Wing
of
Hollywood's First Femme fatale, Jefferson,
McFarland, 2016, xii, 211 pages.
AsmoviepatronssatindarkenedtheatersinJanuary1914,
theyweremesmerizedbyanalluringtemptresswithlong
sablehairandkohlrimmedeyes.ThedaBarathevamp,
asshewouldcometobeknownwouldsoonbeoneofthe
highestpaidfilmstarsofthe1910s,earninganunheardof
$4,000perweek,beforeretiringfromthescreenin1926.
DESBARATS, Carole, The West Wing: au
coeur
du
pouvoir,
Paris,
Presses
Universitaires de France, 2016, 182 pages.
Dixansaprssapremirediffusion,TheWestWingfigure
parmi les meilleures sries politiques, en regard d'autres,
toutfaitbrillantesetcyniques.Sansdoutesasingularit
tientelle l'alchimie qui mle autant de donnes
apparemmentnonmiscibles:desconvictionshumanistes,
une pyrotechnie verbale, des caractres attachants et
sduisantset,surtout,unehauteidedesonspectateur.

BRDERLE, Dirk & Michael SCHOTTEN, Orte

des Kinos - Auf den Spuren von Winnetou
und Games of Thrones in Kroatien,
Marburg, Schren Verlag, 2016, 160 pages.
DieserReisefhrerbringtdenLeserindiebeeindruckende
Naturkulisse,inderPierreBriceundLexBarkereinstals
Winnetou und Old Shatterhand Blutsbrderschaft
schlossen. Das handliche Buch fhrt zu Flssen und
Bergen, auf Plateaus und in die Nationalparks, in denen
deutscheKinogeschichtegeschrieben,Kmpfeausgetragen
undlegendreSchtzeverstecktwurden.
Ausfhrliche Wegbeschreibungen wechseln sich ab mit
amsanten Anekdoten ber Dreharbeiten und die
Schauspieler der alten und neuen WinnetouFilme ab.
InformationenberdennchstenBlockbusterStarWars
EpisodeVIIIoderdieErfolgsserienGameofThronesund
DieroteZora,dieebenfallsinKroatienentstanden,runden
diecineastischeReisedurcheineinzigartigesFilmlandab.

DIDELOT, Francis, Bruno Mattei: itinraire

bis, Alignan sur Vent, Artus Films, (Cinma
bis), 2016, 448 pages. Prface de Monica
Seller.
Sorte d'Ed Wood l'italienne. Bruno Mattei restera le
chantreabsolud'uncinmadlirantetdcomplex,souvent
putassier el crapoteux, mais parfois inspir et jamais
ennuyeux.Asonactif,plusde50films,touchanttousles
genres et sousgenres du cinma bis, les plus "nobles"
comme les plus crapuleux : la comdie sexy, la
nazisploitation,lefilmdenonnes, lefilmdezombies,le

CARRAZ, Alain,
Les Nouveaux feuilletonistes: ils ont rvolutionn les sries TV,

film mondo, le film de cannibales, le W.I.P., le pplum

sadique,l'rotisme,lewestern,lefilmdeguerre...Camoufl
derrire une multitude de pseudonymes dont le plus
emblmatiqueresteraVincentDawn,souventassoci
son me damne Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei est
toujours considr comme ce vilain petit camard de la
couve,cemoutonnoirducinmabis,disputantquelques
autreslestatutpeuenviablede"pireralisateurdetousles
temps".

GoldwynMayer era featuring Johnny Weissmuller and

Maureen OSullivan, to modern worldwide hits like
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes and
WaltDisneyStudiosanimatedTarzan.
GRUNERT, Andrea, Clint Eastwood, Paris,
Vendmiaire, (Dictionnaire), 2016, 251 pages.
JONES, Alan, The Frightfest Guide to
Exploitation Movies, Godalming (Surrey. UK),
FAB Press, 2016, 240 pages. Foreword: Buddy
Giovinazzo.
FromBlaxploitationandNunsploitationtoGodsploitation
andHixploitation,acclaimedcritic,broadcaster,author,and
FrightFestcodirector,AlanJonestakesawildlyillustrated
look at 200 of the most infamous, obscure and bizarre
movies ever made, blasting the electrifying truth before
yourtraumatizedeyesabouttheshockmoviestappinginto
thebasestofdesires.

DUNN, Jennifer C., Jimmie MANNING & Danielle

M. STERN (eds.), Lucky Strikes and a Three
Martini Lunch: Thinking about Television's
Mad Men, New Castle upon Tyne, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2015, xvi, 401 pages.
EL-KHOURY, Toufic, La Comdie hollywoodienne
classique
(1929-1945),
Paris,
L'Harmattan, 2016, 242 pages.
ESCHKTTER, Daniel, Amerikanische Komdie: Kino, Fersehen, Web, Berlin, Kadmos,
2016, 189 pages.

KOEBNER,
Zwischen

Thomas,
Steven
Arthouse
und

Spielberg:
Effektkino,

Stuttgart,,,Reclam Verlag, 2016, 285 pages.

GERMAIN, Stphane,
Michel Audiard:
l'encyclopdie, Paris, Hugo images, 2016,
295 pages.

MACDONALD, Sara & Andrew MOORE (eds.),

Mad Men: The Death and Redemption of
American
Democracy,
Lanham
(MD),
Lexington Books, 2016, 206 pages.
Introduction / Sara MacDonald and Andrew Moore
Freedomandthepursuitofhappiness.Madmenandthe
endofhistory/BarryCraigDonDraper'slife,hisliberty,
andhisneedforhappiness/T.D.AndersonAmerican
dreams. Mad men's selective nostalgia and uncertain
progress/JohnPaulSpiroandPeterAugustineLawler
Mastering the infinite: Mad men's poetic modernity /
MatthewD.DinanEqualityandopportunity."Justlikea
man does": gender, sexual orientation, and autonomy in
Mad men / Dave Snow Mad men's telltale heart of
racism/AmandaDipaoloRedemption.DanteandDon
DrapershareaCoke/SaraMacDonaldBetweenpastand
future: promises and forgiveness in Mad men / Andrew
Moore.

GRADY, James, Albert DAHLIA, et al., Asian

Martial Arts in Literature and Movies, Via
Media Publishing Company, 2016, 210 pages.
Detailsaboutmoviemakingareprovidedintheinterview
with producer Andre Morgan (Enter the Dragon, Walter
TexasRanger,MartialLaw,etc.),plustheinsidescoopin
the publishing and film industries in the interview with
multifaceted Curtis Wong. Actor/producer/kickboxing
championDonWilsonprovidesinsightsfrombothsidesof
thecamerainhisinterview.AmongthechaptersareAlbert
Dalias exposition of Chinas wandering martial hero
storiesthathaverootsreachingbacktwothousandyears;
ChristopherBatesexcerptfromXiangKairansTalesof
Chivalrous and Altruistic Heroes; and Olivia Moks
researchandtranslationsofsectionsofFoxVolantofthe
SnowyMountain,aLouisChasnovelof1959.Inthelatter,
Mok extricates references to dianxuethe methods of
attacking vital points. We also have fiction focusing on
JapaneseandChinesemartialtraditionsbyJohnDonohue,
Peter Graebner, John DeRose, and John Gilbeys (aka,
Robert W. Smith)each highlighting combative
experience,theoryandtechniquewithculturaltrimmings.
Interviews with Barry Eisler and Author Rosenfeld give
insight into scholar/practitioners whose published novels
containtextcoloredbytheirknowledgeofthemartialarts
andculture.

McFARLAND, Douglas & Wesley KING (eds.),

John Huston as Adaptor, Albany, State
University o New York Press, 2017, 288 pages.
Aesthetics and textuality. A passing node: The asphalt
jungle / Murray Pomerance Adapting addiction:
modernist aesthetics in Under the volcano / Douglas
McFarland Taking Gabriel at his word: narration and
Huston's The dead / Robert L. Colson On beams and
birds: John Huston's adaptation of The maltese falcon /
StevenRybinAscreenplaycentricanalysisofHuston's
Themanwhowouldbeking/Jonathanc.GlanceHistory
and social context. Proceed with the execution: casting,
convention,andthediminishmentofRoseinTheAfrican
queen / Wesley King and Douglas McFarland John
HustonandpostwarHollywood:Thenightoftheiguanain
context / R. Barton Palmer This has got to be a

GRIFFIN, Scott Tracy,

Tarzan on Film,
London, Titan Books, 2016, 224 pages.
In this authoritative volume, writer and historian Scott
TracyGriffintracesthedevelopmentofthehistorymaking
Tarzanfranchise,fromthemotionpictureindustrysearly
silents and serials, through the high point of the Metro

masterpiece:JohnHuston'smangledadaptationofThered
badgeofcourage/DaleM.PollockShadowboxinginthe
sun:fighters,theirbodies,&theirspacesinFatcity/Tom
DoreyPrizzi'shonor:greedandgenderinthebeginning
of the neoliberal era / Betty Kaklamanidou Hints of
modernism, shades of noir: Huston's Maltese falcon as
transitionaltext/AlanWoolfolkOfbordersandbandits:
The treasureof theSierra Madre/ CamillaFojas The
thingbehindthemask:period,pacing,andvisualstylein
JohnHuston'sMobydick/NathanRagainTheoryand
psychoanalysis. Huston's Freud: adapting the life of
psychoanalysis/DavidSiglerQueermovements:color,
performance,andrhythminJohnHuston'sReflectionsina
goldeneye/KyleStevensFlanneryO'Connor'ssymbolic
motifandthepsychoanalyticobjectsofJohnHuston'sWise
blood/WesleyKing.

Amblin' and Spielberg's early television work / Nigel

MorrisFindinghisvoice:experimentationandinnovation
inDuel,Thesugarlandexpress,and1941/JamesKendrick
Creating a cliffhanger: narration in the lost world:
JurassicPark/WarrenBucklandStevenSpielbergand
therhetoricofanending/MichaelWalkerTheSpielberg
gesture: performance and intensified continuity / Steven
RybinCollaborationsandintertexts.SpielbergWilliams:
symphonic cinema / Jack Sullivan Spielberg and
Kubrick/PeterKramerSpielbergandadaptation/I.Q.
Hunter"Averybrutalendofinnocence":notestowards
anappreciationofSpielberg'sfilmofEmpireofthesun/
Neil Sinyard Themes and variations. "Who am I,
David?": motherhood in Spielberg's dramas of family
dysfunction/LindaRuthWilliamsCloseencountersof
the paternal kind: Spielberg's fatherhoods / Murray
Pomerance Spielberg and Rockwell: realism and the
liberal imagination / Frederick Wasser Too brave for
foolishpride:violenceinthefilmsofStevenSpielberg/
StephenPrinceSpielberg,historyandidentity.Morality
tales?visionsofthepastinSpielberg'shistoryplays/Sarah
Barrow "Britain's secret Schindler": the impact of
Schindler's list on British media perceptions of civilian
heroes/ErinBellThe(m)oralityofmurder:Jews,food,
and Steven Spielberg's Munich / Nathan Abrams and
Gerwyn Owen You must remember this: history as
film/filmashistory/LesterD.FriedmanViolenceand
memoryinSpielberg'sLincoln/RobertBurgoyneandJohn
TraftonSpielberginthedigitalage.TheSpielbergeffects
/ Dan North Spielberg and videogames (19822010) /
GretheMitchellReception.Sharks,aliensandNazis:the
crisisoffilmcriticismandtheriseofStevenSpielberg/
Raymond J. Haberski, Jr Spielberg, fandom and the
popular appeal of his blockbuster movies / Lincoln
Geraghty Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film
director/KirstyFaircloughandAndyWillis.

MORGAN, Chris,
The Comic Galaxy of
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Twelve
Classic Episodes and the Movies They
Lampoon, Jefferson, McFarland, 2015, 180
pages.
1. NextSundayA.D.AnIntroduction 1
2. Gamera,or"Theocean:Birthplaceofalllife" 10
3. TheCrawlingEye,or"Ispywithmylittleeye" 22
4. CatalinaCaper,or"IjustmetagirlnamedCreepyGirl"
32
5. PodPeople,or"Itstinks!" 43
6. Manos:TheHandsofFate,or"Insummary,Manos,the
handsoffate" 52
7. Mitchell,or"Say,Mike,whatsizejumpsuitdoyou
wear?" 63
8. KittenwithaWhip,or"RussMeyersGoldilocks" 73
9. Laserblast,or"Theresapointwhereitstopsbeinga
movie" 84
10. MysteryScienceTheater3000:TheMovie,or"There
werentanypuppetsinthismovie" 95
11. SpaceMutiny,or"WeputourfaithinBlast
Hardcheese" 105
12. Hobgoblins,or"Canwehavealawthatinthefuture,
filmshavetobemadebyfilmmakers?" 117
13. Soultaker,or"Youredead,NancyKerrigan" 127
14. Danger:Diabolik,or"Look,Nelson,moveon.Iam."
137
15. AnIncongruouslyLongDiscussionofShortFilms
148
16. WhatDoYouThink,Sirs?AConclusion 160

RDJE, Kjetil, Images of Blood in American

Cinema: The Tingler to The Wild Bunch,
Farnham, Ashgate, 2015, xi, 200 pages.
Throughstudyingimagesofbloodinfilmfromthemid
1950s to the end of the 1960s, this pathbreaking book
exploreshowbloodasan(audio)visualcinematicelement
wentfrompredominatelyoperatingasasignifier,providing
audiences with information about a films plot and
characters, to increasingly operating in terms of affect,
potentially evoking visceral and embodied responses in
viewers.UsingfilmssuchasTheReturnofDracula,The
Tingler, Blood Feast, TwoThousandManiacs, Color Me
BloodRed,BonnieandClyde,andTheWildBunch,Rdje
takes a novel approach to film history by following one
(audio)visualelementthroughanexplorationthattraverses
establishedstandardsforfilmproductionandreception.

MOMCILOVIC, Jrme,
Prodiges d'Arnold
Schwarzenegger, Nantes, Cappricci, 2016,
253 pages.
MORRIS, Nigel (ed.), A Companion to Steven
Spielberg, Chichester (West Sussex) & Malden
(MA), John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
Introduction / Nigel Morris Industry and Agency.
Spielberg as Director, Producer, and Movie Mogul /
ThomasSchatzProducingtheSpielberg"brand"/James
Russell Narration and style. Magisterial juvenilia:

SCHOBER, Adrian & Debbie OLSON (eds.),

Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg,
Lanham (MD), Lexington Books, 2016, 294
pages.
Introduction/AdrianSchoberSpielbergandthekidult/

NoelBrownUnconditionallove,hystericalmotherhood
andthelost/possessedchild:StevenSpielberg'ssomething
evil/AdrianSchoberAmbiguousloss:thedepictionof
childabductioninSpielberg'searlyfilms/JamesKendrick
"I'llberighthere!":dealingwithemotionaltraumainand
throughE.T.theextraterrestrial/PeterKrmerChildren,
innocence and agency in the films of Steven Spielberg /
IngridE.CastroChildhood,race,andthepoliticsofdirt
inStevenSpielberg'sThecolorpurple/DebbieOlson
Betwixtandbetween:reclaimingchildhoodinHook/Jen
Baker Hooked on happy thoughts: new sincerity and
Spielberg'stroublednostalgiaformythicchildhood/Jessica
Balanzategui and Gabrielle Kristjanson Bipolar boys:
Spielberg'smanicdepressivechildren/AndrewM.Gordon
Trauma, loss, anxiety: Spielberg's missing children in
Minorityreport,JurassicParkandWaroftheworlds/Fran
PheasantKellyBodyconsciousnessandadolescencein
TheadventuresofTintin:thesecretoftheunicorn/Leonie
Rutherford.

aussibiendelasciencequedusocial.Eninterrogeantle
termemmedepolicierl'auteurprsenteetquestionne
larellesubstancedesonobjetd'tudeetsedemande,en
essence,silepolarn'aurait pasincarnunepostmodernit
avantl'heure.
CASTA, Isabelle-Rachel,
Au comble des
fictions: jeux intertextuels et rcits
policiers, Sarrebrck, ditions Universitaires
europennes, 2016, 73 pages.
Longtempsregardaveccondescendancepournepasdire
mprisparlemondedes"belleslettres",lercitpolicier
est devenu le "presque tout" du lisible contemporain;
pourquoi?ParcequedesauteurscommeGastonLerouxou
AgathaChristieontnourridetouteleurculture,detoutleur
humanisme,cesromanscriminelsdemauvaiserputation...
mais d'audience immense. Porter un regard sur les jeux
d'intertextes est tentant, et gratifiant : c'est le propos du
prsentouvrage;musiciensetpeintresdans"LeFantmede
l'Opra", le noir bijou leroussien, potes et "nursery
rhymes" faussement candides chez la "Duchesse de la
Mort" Agatha Christie, tissent un riche soustexte aux
allusions inquitantes, dont les harmoniques nous
parviennentencore.

SMITH, Jeremy, George Clooney: Anatomy

of an Actor, London & New York, Phaidon,
2016, 191 pages.
TALLY, Margaret, The Rise of the AntiHeroine in TV's Third Golden Age,
Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars,
2016, 135 pages.
VUILLAUME,
Corinne,
Johnny
Depp:
Anatomy of an Actor, London & New York,
Phaidon, 2016, 191 pages.

DALLMAN, Tino, Telling Terror in Contemporary Australian Fiction, New York, et al.,
Peter Lang, 2016, 171 pages.
After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center,
terrorismasaliterarythemehasflourishedinAustralian
literature.Thisbookexamineshowterrorismasathemehas
beenrepresentedinfiveexemplarynovelsandelaboratesa
distinctivelyAustralianapproachtothetopic.Thenovels
taken into consideration focus on strategies of
fictionalisationratherthantheactualviolenceorthethreat
ofit.Bydoingso,theauthorargues,Australianliterature
provides apowerful antidoteto thewidespread fearof a
terroristattack.

ROMANS ET FILMS
POLICIERS

HOFFMAN, Megan, Gender and Representation in British "Golden Age" Crime

Fiction, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016,
x, 206 pages.
Thisbookprovidesanoriginalandcompellinganalysisof
the ways in which British womens golden age crime
narratives negotiate the conflicting social and cultural
forces that influenced depictions of gender in popular
cultureinthe1920suntilthelate1940s.Thebookexplores
awidevarietyoftextsproducedbothbywriterswhohave
been the focus of a relatively large amount of critical
attention,suchasAgathaChristie,DorothyL.Sayersand
Margery Allingham, but also those who have received
comparatively little, such as Christianna Brand, Ngaio
Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Josephine Tey and Patricia
Wentworth. Through its original readings, this book
explores the ambivalent nature of modes of femininity
depicted in golden age crime fiction, and shows that
seemingly conservative resolutions are often attempts to
provideamodernyetsafesolutiontotheconflictsraised

LITTRATURE
BLANCHER, Marc, Polar et postmodernit,
Paris, L'Harmattan, (Sang Maudit), 2016, 682
pages.
N au coeur de la tourmente transformationnelle qui
caractriseleXixesicle,lepolarincarnelacontradiction
parexcellence.Eneffet,sesdtracteursdisentdeluiqu'il
est la fois populaire et inclassable tandis que les
aficionadosyvoientungenrerichel'infini,senourrissant

inthetexts.

dcouverte de Sherlock HOLMES et d'Hercule POIROT

(GrandeBretagne), de Philip MARLOWE, Hieronymus
BOSCH et Hannibal LECTER (tatsUnis), de Kurt
WALLANDERetMichaelBLOMKVIST(Sude),deJules
MAIGRETetM.WENS(Belgique),deSANANTONIOet
Benjamin MALAUSSNE (France), sans oublier Maud
GRAHAM,DanielDUVAL,VictorLESSARD(Qubec)et
des milliers d'autres, tous aussi passionnants... de Pat
ABBOTTAnnaZORAN.Instructifgrceentreautres
l'clairante prsentation de Norbert Spehner ,
abondammentillustr,deconsultationsimpleetagrable,
LeDtectionnaireestl'outilindispensablequimanquait
l'amateur de littrature policire pour enfin satisfaire
pleinementsapassion!
Pour chaque personnage : une notice "biographique", la
bibliographie,lesfilmset/oulessriestv,lestudes.
Note:l'ouvrageseradisponibleenEuropeenmars,mais
vouspouvezdjlecommanderenlignesurlesitedes
ditionsAlireousurAmazon.ca.
Vu la taille et le prix de l'ouvrage je n'ai pas
d'exemplaires de presse vous offrir. Prire de vous
adresserdirectementl'diteur.

LASSNER, Phyllis,
Espionage and Exile:
Fascism and Anti-Fascism in British Spy
Fiction and Film, Edinburgh, Ednburgh
University Press, 2016, vii, 245 pages.
Espionage and Exile demonstrates that from the 1930s
throughtheColdWarBritishwritersEricAmbler,Helen
MacInnes,JohnleCarre,PamelaFrankauandfilmmaker
Leslie Howard combine propaganda and popular
entertainmenttocallforresistancetopoliticaloppression.
Theirspyfictionsdeploythemesofdeceptionandbetrayal
towarnaudiencesoftheconsequencesofNaziGermany's
conquestsandlater,thefusionofFascistandCommunist
oppression. With politically charged suspense and
compelling plots and characters, these writers challenge
distinctions between villain and victim and exile and
belonging by dramatising relationships between stateless
refugees,Britishagents,andmostdramatically,betweenthe
ethicsofespionageandresponsestointernationalcrisis.
MANNION, Elizabeth (ed.), The Contemporary Irish Detective Novel, London & New
York, Palgrave Macmillan, (Crime Files), 2016,
xi, 168 pages.
Exploring the work of some of its leading writers
includingPeterTremayne,JohnConnolly,DeclanHughes,
Ken Bruen, Brian McGilloway, Stuart Neville, Tana
French, Jane Casey, and Benjamin BlackThe
ContemporaryIrishDetectiveNovel opensnewgroundin
Irishliterarycriticismandgenrestudies.
Contributors: Carol Baraniuk, Nancy Marck Cantwell,
BrianCliff,FionaCoffey,CharlotteJ.Headrick,Andrew
Kincaid,AudreyMcNamara,andShirleyPeterson.

STOUGAAR-NIELSEN, Jakob,
Scandinavian
Crime
Fiction,
London
&
New
York,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017, 256 pages.
With its bleak urban environments, psychologically
compellingheroesandsociallyengagedplots,Scandinavian
crime writing has captured the imaginations of a global
audience in the 21st century. Exploring the genre's key
themes, international impact and sociopolitical contexts,
Scandinavian Crime Fiction guides readers through such
key texts as Sjwall and Wahl's Novel of a Crime,
GunnarStaalesen'sVargVeumseries,PeterHeg's Miss
Smilla's Feeling for Snow, Henning Mankell's Wallander
books, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and TV series
suchasTheKilling.Withitsfocusonthefunctionofcrime
fiction in both reflecting and shaping the latemodern
Scandinavian welfare societies, this book is essential for
readers,viewersandfansofcontemporarycrimewriting.

A SIGNALER
Norbert Spehner
LE DTECTIONNAIRE
Dictionnaire des personnages principaux
de la littrature policire et d'espionnage
Lvis (Qc), ditions Alire, 2016, 800
pages.

TADDONIO, Anne Tanguy, Le Contrat : le

hros de srie policire, son crateur et la
ralit, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2016, 118 pages.
Adam Dalgliesh, Reginald Wexford, Kay Scarpetta, Jack
Reacher : ces quatre personnages sont des crations
littraires, hros de polars. Leurs crateurs, P.D. James,
Ruth Rendell, Patricia Cornwell et Lee Child, ont pass
beaucoupdetempsles"forger":entrevingtetcinquante
ans. En se penchant sur neuf auteurs de sries policires
anglosaxons,cetessais'interrogesurlarelationentrehros
etcrateur,entrehrosetlecteur,entreralitetfiction.

DssonapparitionauXIXesicle,lalittraturepolicirea
fascin.D'abordrcitd'nigmesetdedtection,leroman
policieravoluets'estdiversifiaufildesdcennies,tant
et si bien qu'il est d'usage maintenant de parler des
littraturespolicires.EnFrance,toutcommeauQubecet
dansl'ensembledelafrancophonie,ilnes'estjamaispubli
autantdepolars,deromansnoirsetd'espionnage.Comme
lecteur,nousavonslittralementl'embarrasduchoix.Or,
pourbienchoisirseslectures,encorefautilsavoircequi
estoffert...etc'estlqu'entreenscneLeDtectionnaire
qui prsente, la manire d'un dictionnaire, tous les
personnages rcurrents qui ont fait la rputation de la
littraturepoliciremondialeplusde2600!
Plonger dans Le Dtectionnaire , c'est partir la

ALIBIS 60
Automne 2016
Polar, Noir & Mystre

10

DraggedUpandDressedDown(J.C.Bernthal)81
"The Encyclopedic Palace of the World": Miss Lemons
FilingSystemasCabinetofCuriositiesandtheRepository
of Human Knowledge in Agatha Christies Poirot (Meg
Boulton)98
"One must actually take facts as they are": Information
ValueandInformationBehaviorintheMissMarpleNovels
(MichelleM.Kazmer)114
AndThenThereWereMany:AgathaChristieinHungarian
Translation
(BrigittaHudacsko)130
Mother of Invention: Agatha Christie, the Middlebrow
Detective Novel and Kerry Greenwoods Postcolonial
TributeSeries(JillyLippmann)145
AutobiographyinAgatha(1979):"Animaginarysolutionto
anauthenticmystery"(SarahStreet)161
Editorial:FansHavetheFinalWord(J.C.Bernthal)176

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SPCIALPERSONNAGESRCURRENTS
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2016 consacr la littrature noire, l'occasion du 20e
anniversairedesditionsAlire(Qubec)etdulancementdu
Dtectionnaire, de Norbert Spehner, ce dernier numro
prsente des fictions de Richard SteMarie, Johanne
Seymour, Andr Jacques, Jean Lemieux et JeanJacques
Pelletier. En plus des rubriques critiques habituelles, ce
numro prsente aussi une longue entrevue avec Norbert
Spehner, membre fondateur de la revue et auteur du
Dtectionnaire.
Aprsquinzeansd'existence,et60numros,Alibiscesse
sapublicationfautedesoutiendumilieu.Cecidit,le
siteinternetdelarevuevaprendrelerelaissousune
formequ'ilnousrestedterminer,avecdescritiques,
desinfos,deslistesbibliographiques,etc.
Asuivresurrevuealibis.com

BONI,
Fausto,
L'arte
poliziesca
di
Scerbanenco nell'epoca della letteratura di
massa, Varazze, PM edizioni, 2016, 592 pages.
Vladimir Giorgio Scerbanenco n Kiev en 1911, il
s'installeenItaliesixmoisetilmeurtMilanen1969.
Auteur d'une centaine de romans, de nouvelles et de
nombreux articles, il traverse aisment tous les genres
littraires.Unevraiemachinecrire,quiobtientune
gloirebrve,reconnuelafoisparlepublicetlacritique,
seulement avec les romans noirs de la fin des annes
soixante,quivoientcommeprotagonisteDucaLamberti:
un jeune mdecin expuls de l'Ordre pour avoir pratiqu
l'euthanasie et qui devient une sorte de dtective priv
travaillant avec la police de Milan. Dans ces romans
policiers, pour lapremire foisen Italie, ilne sagitpas
seulementdersoudreunepurenigme,maisilsagitplutt
de reprsenter et comprendre la sphre des souffrances
individuellesdansdepluslargesdterminationssocialesqui
psent fatalement sur la possibilit dexprimenter
rationnellementlaralit.

A PROPOS DES AUTEURS

ALDER, William,
Simenon et Maigret en
Normandie. Perspectives historiques et
sociales, Lige, Presses Universitaires de
Lige, 2016, 187 pages.
Danscelivre,BillAlderconsidrelescritsnormandsde
Simenonparrapportleurralitcontemporainepourfaire
sortirleursensauniveauducontextehistoriqueetsocial
danslequel,parlequeletpourlequelilsonttproduits.
Les rcits normands,Maigretet nonMaigrettous
confondus,sontprsents,discutsetmisenrelationavec
le reste de loeuvre simenonienne afin darriver des
conclusions dordre gnral sur leur importance dans la
littratureduvingtimesicle.

BROWN, Nancy Carpentier, The Woman who

Was Chesterton: The Life of Frances
Chesterton, Wife of English Author G. K.
Chesterton, Charlotte (NC), ACS Books, 2015,
xxviii, 266 pages. Foreword by Dale Ahlquist.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a romantic, a writer of
detectivetales,andatellerofthetruth.Hisownstoryand
thestorieshetoldarebecomingbetterandbetterknown.
Butwhathasremainedunknownisthestoryofthemost
importantpersoninhislife:hiswifeFrances.
Nancy Carpentier Brown has done incredible detective
worktouncoverthemysteryofFrances,trackingafigure
whomanagedtoleaveveryfewtracesofherself.

BERNTHAL, J. C. (ed.), The Ageless Agatha

Christie: Essays on the Mysteries and the
Legacy, Jefferson (NC), McFarland, 2016, vi,
185 pages.
Preface1
Introduction:MysteryandLegacy3
AgathaChristieinDialoguewithTotheLighthouse:The
ModernistArtist(MerjaMakinen)11
EnglandsPockets:ObjectsofAnxietyinChristies Post
WarNovels(RebeccaMills)29
QueerGirls,BadGirls,DeadGirls: PostWarCultureand
theModernGirl(SarahBernstein)45
"Withpractisedeyes":FeminineIdentityinTheMysterious
Mr.Quin
(CharlotteBeyer)61
"The sumptuous and the alluring": Poirots Women,

CRANFIELD, Jonathan,
Twentieth-Century
Victorian: Arthur Conan Doyle and The
Strand Magazine, 1899-1930, Edinburgh,
Edinburgh University Press, 2016, 256 pages
You know Arthur Conan Doyle as the stereotypically
'Victorian'authoroftheSherlockHolmesstorieswhich,on

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detectivenovel.FredricJamesonoffersaninterpretationof
Chandler'sworkthatreconstructsboththecontextinwhich
itwaswrittenandthesocialworldortotalityitprojects.
Chandler'sinvariablesetting,LosAngeles,appearsbothas
amicrocosmoftheUnitedStatesandaprefigurationofits
future: a megalopolis uniquely distributed by an
unpromisingnatureintoavarietyofdistinctneighborhoods
andprivateworlds.Butthisessentiallyurbanandspatial
workseemsalsotobedrawntowardsavacuum,anabsence
thatisnothingotherthandeath.WithChandler,thethriller
genrebecomesmetaphysical.

the lavishlyillustrated pages of the Strand Magazine,

captivated and defined the late nineteenthcentury
marketplaceforpopularfictionandmagazinepublishing.
This book tells the story of that relationship and the
aftermathitsenormoussuccessasauthorandpublication
soughttoshepherdtheirdeterminedlyVictorianaudience
through the problems and crises of the early twentieth
century.
GARCIA, Agustin (dir.),
Los rostros de
Lonardo Padura, Madrid, Verbum, 2016, 233
pages.
Pertenencia y gratitud / Leonardo Padura Estilo y
creacinenLeonardo Padura /FranciscoLpezSacha
Hemingwayyyo(segnLeonardo Padura)/RafaelGrillo
La nueva ciudad cubana (y/o La Habana otra) en la
novelstica negra de Leonardo Padura / Amir Valle
Pisando la cola del Conde / Michel Encinosa F La
novela de mivida, de Leonardo Padura /EnriqueSanz
ElhombrequecontabaenCubalacadadelacasaUsheren
la novela Leonardo Padura El hombre que amaba a los
perros/DoritaNouhaudLeonardo Padura :elescritor
comodetective/ManuelGarcaVerdeciaElhereje de
Mantilla/EmilianoRuizParraConfesionesdeunlectora
propsitodelanovelaElhombrequeamabalosperrosde
Leonardo Padura / Agustn Garca Marrero Entre la
palabra y la historia / Rafael Acosta de Arriba Estar
hereje : la libertad como eleccin / Rebeca Murga
LeonardoPadura:condenadoaserlibre/ElizabethMirabel
Elsoplodivino:crearunpersonaje/LeonardoPadura
Entretyyo,elcine/LucaLpezCollCronologade
las obras literarias y los premios recibidos por Leonardo
Padura Fuentes/AgustnGarcaMarrero Padura segn
pasanlosaos/CiroBianchiRoss.

LACOURBE, Roland, BOURGEOIS, Vincent,

FOOZ, Philippe & Michel SOUPART, Patrick
Quentin: du roman-problme au thriller
psychologique, Semper Aenigma, 2016, 316
pages.[Disponible sur lulu.com]
Lassociation la plus brillante et la plus prolifique du
tandem Q. Patrick alias Patrick Quentin alias Jonathan
Stagge a pris naissance en 1936 avec le duo form par
RichardWilsonWebbetHughCallinghamWheeler.Avec
unequarantainederomansetunecinquantainedenouvelles
publisjusquen1965,ilnefaitaucundoutequePatrick
Quentinfigureenbonneplaceauprsdesgrandscrateurs
du roman policier de lge dor Ellery Queen, John
Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie avant de rejoindre la
cohortedesauteursmodernesduthrillerWilliamIrish,
Charlotte Armstrong, Patricia Highsmith. Anthony
Berkeley lavait qualifi de Numro Un des crivains
amricains de romans policiers , et Anthony Boucher
disaitdeluiquiltaitlundesplusauthentiquesparmiles
grandsconcepteursdintriguesdansledomainedususpense
.EnFrancesonuvreaconnuunelargepopularitquine
sest dmentie qu laube de notre XXIme sicle. Le
tempsseraitilvenupouruneredcouverte?

GARNIER, Philippe,
Retour vers David
Goodis, Paris, La Table ronde, 2016, 368
pages.
PubliauxditionsduSeuilen1984,Goodis:Lavieen
noiretblancproposaituneautreformedenonfictionen
France.Moinsqu'unebiographie,ouqu'unlivredeplussur
lepolar,c'taitunessaisurlacultureamricainedanstous
ses tats: industriedes pulpset despaperbacks, cinma,
tlvision.Etsurtoutuneenqutesurlalittraturepopulaire
etlesimagesouclichsquilaparasitentaupoint,parfois,
de prendresa place. Plusde trenteans aprs, l'auteurse
penchedenouveausurGoodis,incorporelesdcouvertes
faitesentretemps,corrigeleserreurs,ajoutedenombreuses
illustrations, et rend compte du culte dont Goodis fait
dsormais l'objet en Amrique, notamment dans sa ville
nataledePhiladelphie.

LE CARR, John, Le Tunnel aux pigeons:

histoires de ma vie, Paris, Seuil, 2016, 360
pages. Ed. or. The Pigeon Tunnel, 2016.
Dans ce livre de mmoires indits, il relate d'une plume
aussiincisivequedrolatiqueetaveclasubtilitmoralequi
caractrisesesromanslesvnementsdontilfutletmoin.
Mais surtout John le Carr nous dvoile son parcours
d'crivainsurplusdesixdcenniesetsaquteinfatigable
del'tincellehumainequiainsuffltantdevieetdecoeur
sespersonnagesdefiction.
SAMAK, Adama, Pratiques et enjeux du
discours dans l'criture de Mongo Beti,
Saint-Denis, Connaissances et savoirs, 2016,
431 pages.
ZHU, Zhenwu, The Dan Brown Craze: An
Analysis of his Formula for Thriller Fiction,
Newscatle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars
Publishing, 2016, vii, 392 pages.
This book examines the plot, characterization, themes,
setting, codes, knowledge, institutions, and techniques in
his novels, and delivers a careful textual analysis, a
selectivedisseminationofrelevantinformationondifferent

JAMESON, Fredric, Raymond Chandler: The

Detections of Totality, London, Verso, 2016,
96 pages.
Raymond Chandler, a dazzling stylist and portrayer of
American life, holds a unique place in literary history,
straddlingbothpulpfictionandmodernism.WithTheBig
Sleep,publishedin1939,heleftanindelibleimprintonthe

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subjects,andaperceptivecomparisonbetweenBrownand
otherChineseandWesternwriters.Assuch,itshowshow
histhrillershavebeenappreciatedandstudiedinChina,and
what kinds of discoveries, challenges, controversies, and
insights have surfaced in the Chinese appreciation of
Brownsnovels.

del'ordrequeClouseauracontequelquechosedecetordre
luimme qu'il en rvle les secrets inavouables, en
souligne l'impuissance fondamentale, en incarne les
paradoxeslesplusintenables.Aucunordrenetientdebout.
Maisilfallaitqueceftlepire(donclemeilleur)deses
reprsentantsquiledmontrt.
DESMET, Maud, Confessions du cadavre:
autopsie et figures du mort dans les sries
et films policiers, Aix-en-Provence, Rouge
profond, (Raccords), 2016, 253 pages.
QuiavuLeSilencedesagneauxsesouvientdesascne
d'autopsieetdelafaondontl'odeurducadavreestdonne
"voir".QuiaplongdansSevenauradumaloublierla
visionaccablanteducorpsdelavictimedelagourmandise,
dontlespansdechairssemblentdgoulinersurlatableen
inoxargent.Etduediredelabrveprsencecadavrique
deLauraPalmerdansTivinPeaks, voguant sur les eaux
pour mieux hanter toute l'intrigue venir ? Les fictions
policires contemporaines marquent l'inconscient collectif
avec ces dpouilles parfois seulement entraperues mais
devenuesinoubliables.Laprsence/absencetantttriviale,
tanttmonstrueuse,tanttpotiquedecettefigureinsolite,
signevideautantquenoyaunarratif,estlepointculminant
dessriestlvisespolicires,desExpertsMentalisten
passant par Dexter ou plus rcemment Hannibal. Scnes
d'autopsieetrificationdel'humain,esthtisationducorps
mortenrsonanceavecl'artcontemporain,miseenscne
"genre" de la dpouille fminine, bouleversement de
certainesnormesformelleslorsquelecadavred'unproche
del'enquteurestreprsent:lesmultiplesprismesselon
lesquels la scne d'autopsie et sa figure principale, le
cadavre,peuventtreenvisagessontl'occasiondemener
unerflexionapprofondiesurnotrerelationlamortet
l'abjectdansuncontextemarquparlednietlereculdes
pratiquesfunrairestraditionnelles.

CINMA & TLVISION

BROOKES, Ian, Film noir: A Critical
Introduction,
New
York,
Bloomsbury
Academic, 2016, 304 pages.
Whatisfilmnoir?Withitsarchetypalfemmefatalesand
private eyes, its darklylit scenes, and even darker
narrativestheanswercanseemobviousenough.Butas
IanBrookesshowsinthisprobingstudy,theanswerisalot
morecomplexthanthat. This book is designed to tackle
thosecomplexitiesinacriticalintroductionthattakesinto
account the difficulties of straightforward definition and
classification. Students will benefit from an accessible
introductorytextthatisnotjustanaccountofwhatfilm
noiris,butalsoaninterrogationofthewaysinwhichthe
termcametobeappliedtoadisparategroupofAmerican
filmsofthe1940sand1950s.
COLLECTIF, Film noir: 75 Years of the
Greastest Crime Films, special issue of Life,
August 19, 2016, 96 pages.
CHANOINAT, Philippe, Je t'aurai, Fantmas,
Grenoble, Glnat, 2016, 63 pages. Illustrations; da Costa.
Personnagederomanscren1910parPierreSouvestreet
MarcelAllain,Fantmasestunefigureemblmatiquedela
culturepopulairefranaise.Desesnombreusesadaptations
aucinma,onretientsurtoutlesfilmsd'AndrHunebelle
aveclelgendaireLouisdeFunsdanslerleprincipal.
Cette trilogie est entre au panthon des comdies
populaires,dontlesdiffusionsrgulireslatlvisionsont
devenuesunvritablerendezvouspourlesfranais,toutes
gnrations confondues.En grand passionns et
connaisseursdecegenredecinma,PhilippeChanoinatet
CharlesDaCostanousrgalentunenouvellefoisavecun
recueildetexteetdecaricature,cettefoisciddi,vous
l'aurezcompris,auxfilmsFantmas!
DE SUTTER, Laurent, "Quand l'inspecteur
s'en mle", de Blake Edwards: paradoxes
sur le dsordre, Crisne (Belgique), Yellow
Now, 2016, 108 pages.
Aussi idiot, mchant, libidineux, ridicule, prtentieux et
autosatisfaitquesoitClouseau,sabizarrerieseratoujours
plus sympathique que l'apparente civilit de ceux qui
l'entourent, et qui tentent de reprsenter quelque chose
commeunenormalitcommelaloiconstitutivedumonde
danslequelletravaildupolicierestlemaintiendel'ordre.
Carc'estbienentantqu'agentdysfonctionneldumaintien

DJIGO, Sophie, L'thique du gangster au

cinma:
une
enqute
philosophique,
Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes,
(Aesthetica), 2016, 180 pages.
traverslanalysedunedizainedefilmsdesannestrente
jusquaux sries tlvises daujourdhui, Lthique du
gangsteraucinmainterrogelecharmeetlattraitquenous
prouvonspourlesgangsterslcran.Ainsi,commentle
cinmaparvientilnousfaireaimerlabjectetlobscne
dontnousnousdtournonsdanslaralit?Cepaysageet
cesquestionssontprincipalementthiques:codes,valeurs
etvertusfontpartiedeluniversdugang.
DUFOUR, Bertrand, Les Tontons flingueurs
dcrypts: les rfrences et le langage des
Tontons, Paris, ABD ditions, 2016, 406
pages.
QuelfilmfaitautantrfrencelHistoire,deCharlemagne
la guerre dAlgrie, est capable de runir Plutarque,
Sagan,ClineetBorowski,parledemusiquebaroque,des
crivainsfranaisduGrandSicle,delaporcelainedeParis
etsinspiredOrsonWellesetdAlfredHitchcock?Celivre

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proposedoncdedcortiquerlesdialoguesdesTontonspour
endcouvrirsessecretslesplusmconnus.Unemanire
originale dapprendre, de redcouvrir le parfum dune
poquepouraimerdavantageencorecefilm...

and Wongs highly original portrayal of violence, A

CompaniontoWongKarWaiisasingularexaminationof
theprestigiousfilmmakerknownaroundtheworldforthe
innovation,beauty,andpassionhebringstofilmmaking.

JAHN,
Konstantin,
Hipster,
Gangster,
Femmes fatales: eine cineastische Kulturgeschichte des Jazz, Mnchen, Text + Kritik,
2016, 304 pages.
"Hipster, Gangster, Femmes Fatales" Diese erste
deutschsprachige Darstellung des Jazz in der Filmmusik
erzhlt von verblffend modernen multimedialen
ExperimentenderStummfilmzeitundvomhedonistischen
Slapstick der Roaring Twenties, von anarchischen
Cartoons,luxurisenMusicalExzessenunddenAbgrnden
des Film noir, von den "funky" Soundtracks des
Exploitationfilms und dem frhem Actionkino.
PopkulturelleIkonenwieBettyBoopunddieBeatniks,der
"TaxiDriver"undLisaSimpsonbevlkerneineGeschichte,
die zeigt, wie tiefgreifend afroamerikanische Musik
Mentalitten,StileundGeschichtevonKinoundPopkultur
im20.Jahrhundertgeprgthat.

PETTEY, Homer B. & R. BARTON PALMER (eds.),

Film noir, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University
Press, (Traditions in American Cinema), 2016,
xiii, 225 pages. [rdition 2014]
TheNoirTurn,HomerB.Pettey
1. The Cinema of Uncertainty and the Opacity of
InformationfromLouisFeuillade'sCrimeSerialstoFilm
Noir,VickiCallahan
2.WarningShadows:GermanExpressionismandAmerican
FilmNoir,JanetBergstrom
3.HardboiledTraditionandFilmNoir,HomerB.Pettey
4.ColdWarNoir,R.BartonPalmer
5.NoiringthePitch:TheConflictedSoundtracksofOutof
thePast,TheBlueGardenia,andTheLongGoodbye,Krin
Gabbard
6.SplitScreen:Sound/MusicinTheStranger/CrissCross,
RobertMiklitsch
7.GenderandNoir,ElisabethBronfen
8.TheSubversiveShadeofBlackinFilmNoir, Charles
Scruggs
Postscript:AHistoryofOurWritingaboutFilmNoir,Alain
SilverandJamesUrsini
Selected Reading Guide to Film Noir: Book and Book
ChaptersSelectedViewingGuidetoFilmNoir

LANDAU, David, Film Noir Production: The

Whodunit of the Classic American Mystery
Film, New York, Routledge, 2017, 182 pages.
David Landaus Film NoirProduction: TheWhodunit of
the Classic American Mystery Film is a book meant for
those who like a good story, one the Noir Films always
delivered, concentrating on the characters more than
anything else. Readers will find in these pages many
behindthescenestalesoftheproductionsofcertainhard
boiledfilmclassicsandtheprimeplayersinvolvedintheir
creation, from Darryl Zanuck and Raymond Chandler to
JohnSeitzandBillyWilder.

SEVASTAKIS, Michael, Giallo Cinema and its

Folktale Roots: A Criticl Study of 10 films,
1962-1987, Jefferson (NC), McFarland, 2016,
viii, 231 pages.
TheItaliangiallofilmgenretheequivalentofthe
Americanwhodunitbutincorporatingextremeviolenceand
sexwasbasedonpopularBritishandAmericanfictionof
the30sand40s,adaptedtotheexplicitlyliberalfilmmaking
of1970sand1980sEurope.SeldomreleasedinAmerican
theaters,thesefilmswereusuallydistributedasredacted
bootlegs,awaitingdigitaltechnologytoberestoredtotheir
originalcontentandpristinevisualform.
Thisbookanalyzesthecensoredsexandviolenceofgiallo
films,findinginthemaninherentbeautyandtracingtheir
literary antecedents to the elements of the fairy tale as
described by Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp. Each
chaptercoversafilmanditsdirector,from1962to1987.
Theauthorarguesthatdespitetheirformulaicproduction
anddesignationasEurosleaze,thesefilmsareworksof
individualityandartisticvirtue.
Introduction:ACrimeWaitingtoBeCommitted
1. IntheBeginningWastheGiallo
MarioBavasLaragazzachesapevatroppo(1962)
2. AViceinCommon
Sergio Martinos Lo strano vizio della Signora Wardh
(1970)
3. Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (and Dream Your
TroublesAway)
LucioFulcisUnalucertolaconlapelledidonna(1971)

MILLER, D. A., Hidden Hitchcock, Chicago,

University of Chicago Press, 2016, 186 pages.
In Hidden Hitchcock, D. A. Miller does what seems
impossible: he discovers what has remained unseen in
Hitchcock'smovies,asecretstylethatimbueshisfilmswith
aradicalduplicity.FocusingonthreefilmsStrangersona
Train, Rope, and The Wrong Man Miller shows how
Hitchcock anticipates, even demands a "TooClose
Viewer." Dwelling within us all and vigilant even when
everything appears to be in good order, this TooClose
Viewerattemptstoseemorethanthedirectorpointsout,to
expandthespaceofthefilmandthedurationoftheviewing
experience.

NOCHIMSON, Martha P. (ed.), A Companion

to Wong Kar-wai, Oxford & Chichester, Wiley
Blackwell, 2016, 627 pages.
With25essaysthatembraceawidespectrumoftopicsand
perspectives including intertextuality, transnationality,
genderrepresentation, repetition, theuseofmusic,color,
andsound,depictionoftimeandspaceinhumanaffairs,

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4. MurderAccordingtotheGoodBook
UmbertoLenzisSetteorchideemacchiatedirosso(1972)
5. HisBlindnessIsHisSight
SergioPastoresSettesciallidisetagialla(1972)
6. NoIrisesforMissLandsbury
GiulianoCarnimeosPerchequellestranegoccedisangue
sulcorpodiJennifer?(1972)
7. JealousyasCruelastheGrave
AndreaBianchisNudeperlassassino(1975)
8. TheShadowofGuilt
AntonioBidosSolamentenero(1978)
9. ANightattheOperaWithouttheMarxBrothers
DarioArgentosOpera(1987)
10. TheReturnoftheRepressed
LambertoBavasLefotodiGioia(1987)
Conclusion: A Postscript of Sorts, Not a Requiem for a
Genre

CRITS SUR
LIMAGINAIRE

SCIENCE-FICTION
FANTASTIQUE & FANTASY

SOISTER, John T. & Henry NICOLELLA, Down

from the Attic: Rare Thrillers of the Silent
Era through the 1950s, Jefferson (NC),
McFarland, 2016, viii, 238 pages.
The 24 filmssome elusive, some easily found on
YouTubeexamined in this book all suffered critical
neglect and were prematurely stacked in the attic. The
authorsbringthembackintothelight,beginningwithDer
Tunnel(1915),aboutthebuildingofatransatlantictunnel,
and ending with The Emperors BakerThe Bakers
Emperor (1951), a bizarre Marxist take on the Golem
legend. A variety of thrillers are coveredFog (1933),
Return of the Terror (1934), Forgotten Faces (1928)
along with such scifi leaps into the future as The Sky
Ranger (1921), High Treason (1929) and Just Imagine
(1930). Early adaptations include The Man Who Laughs
(1921), The Monkeys Paw (1923), Hound of the
Baskervilles (1937)and SweeneyTodd (1928).Rarestills
and background material are included in a discussion of
Hispanicvintagehorror.Thecareerofexploitationauteur,
BudPollard(TheHorror,1933)isexamined.

LITTRATURE
ARELLANO, Jeronimo, Magical Realism and
the History of the Emotions in Latin
America, Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press
& Lanham (MD), Rowman & Littledfield, 2915,
211 pages.
MagicalRealismandtheHistoryoftheEmotionsinLatin
America rethinks the rise and fall of magical realism in
Latin America in the light of the cultural history of the
emotions,andinconversationwithcontemporarytheories
oftheaffects.
BARKAS, Michael, Magical Rings in English
Literature. From Anglo Saxon Charms to
To Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Mnchen,
Grin Verlag, 2016, 70 pages.

THAIN, Alanna Michael, Bodies in Suspense:

Time and Affect in Cinema, Minneapolis,
University of Minnesota Press, 2017, 328
pages.
Offering a new framework for understanding cinematic
suspense,BodiesinSuspensearguesthatthebodyintime
enables us to experience the temporal dimension of the
body directly. This is the first book to link two
contemporary frames of analysis: questions of cinematic
temporalityandcontemporaryaffecttheory.Thainconducts
close readings of influential suspense films by Alfred
Hitchcock,DavidLynch,ChristianMarclay,RianJohnson,
and Lou Ye, and sets forth a compelling new theory of
cinema,readingfortheproductivityofthecrimeoftime
thatstagestheduplicityofcinematicbodies.

BAYARD, Pierre, Le Titanic fera naufrage,

Paris, Les ditions de Minuit, (Paradoxe), 172
pages.
Al'imageduromancieramricainMorganRobertson,qui
raconta le naufrage du Titanic avec quatorze annes
d'avance, les crateurs semblent disposer d'un accs
privilgi vers l'avenir, qui leur permet d'anticiper les
guerres, les dictatures ou les catastrophes naturelles.
Prendrelamesuredecettecapacitprmonitoirenedevrait
pas seulement inciter leur confier des responsabilits
politiques et les associer aux recherches de la science,
mais aussi remettre en cause notre lecture des oeuvres
ainsi que notre reprsentation de l'histoire littraire et
artistique.
BRUB, Michael, The Secret Life of Stories:
from Don Quixote to Harry Potter (How
understanding intellectua disability transfroms

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the way we read), New & London, New York

University Press, 2016, 223 pages
Narrativeinformseverythingwethink,do,plan,remember,
andimagine.Wetellstoriesandwelistentostories,
gaugingtheirwellformednesswithinacoupleofyearsof
learningtowalkandtalk.Somearguethatthecapacityto
understandnarrativeisinnatetoourspecies;othersclaim
thatwhilethatmightbeso,theinventionofwritingthenre
wiredourbrains.

In The Secret Life of Stories, Michael Brub tells a

dramaticallydifferenttale,inacompellingaccountofhow
anunderstandingofintellectualdisabilitycantransformour
understanding of narrative. Instead of focusing on
characters with disabilities, he shows how ideas about
intellectualdisabilityinformanastonishinglywidearrayof
narrativestrategies,providinganewand startlingwayof
thinking through questions of time, selfreflexivity, and
motiveintheexperienceofreading.Interweavinghisown
storieswithreadingsofsuchtextsasFaulknersTheSound
andtheFury,HaddonsTheCuriousIncidentoftheDogin
theNightTime,KingstonsTheWomanWarrior,andPhilip
K.Dicks MartianTimeSlip,Brubputshistheoryinto
practice, stretching the purview of the study of
literatureandtheroleofdisabilitystudieswithinit.

BRODMAN, Barbara & James E. DOAN (eds.),

The
Supernatural
Revamped:
from
Timeworn
Legends
to
Twenty-FirstCentury Chic, Madison, Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press & Lanham (MD), Rowman &
Littlefield, 2016, 274 pages.
Thisbookisthelogicalcontinuationofaseriesofcollected
essaysexaminingtheoriginsandevolutionofmythsand
legends of the supernatural in Western and nonWestern
traditionandpopularculture.Thefirsttwovolumesofthe
series,TheUniversalVampire:OriginsandEvolutionofa
Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and
ImagesoftheModernVampire:TheHipandtheAtavistic.
(FairleighDickinsonUniversityPress,2013)focusedonthe
vampirelegend.Theessaysinthiscollectionexpandthat
scopetoincludeamulticulturalandmultigenericdiscussion
of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who interact and
cross speciesspecific boundaries with ease. Angels and
demonsarediscussedfromtheperspectiveofsupernatural
allegory, angelic ethics and supernatural heredity and
genetics. Fairies, sorcerers, witches and werewolves are
viewedfromtheperspectivesofpopularnightmaretales,
depictionsofraceandethnicity,popularpublicdiscourse
andcinematicimagery.Discussionsoftheundeadandstill
dead include images of death messengers and draugar,
zombies and vampires in literature, popular media and
Japaneseanime

BETHENCOURT, Francisco (ed.),

Utopia in
Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone African
Countries, New York, Berlin, et al., Peter Lang,
2015, vi, 312 pages.
This book studies the history, literature and culture of
Portuguesespeakingcountriesthroughthelensofutopia.
TheroleofutopiainPortugueseliteratureistheobjectof
fresh analyses ranging from Cames to Gonalo M.
Tavares, and Antnio Vieira to Jos Saramago. The
chaptersonAngolaandMozambiqueshowhownational
identityreceivedamajorboostthroughutopianliterature
Pepetelaistheanchorintheformercase,whiledanceis
usedasacrucialmetaphortorevealthetensionbetweenthe
colonialandpostcolonialgazeinthelattercase.Thevisions
ofparadiseinTupitraditionandmissionarydoctrineinform
the approach to Brazil, developed by the study of the
utopian dimension of the revolts of Canudos and
Contestado.RegionalcontrastsandthequestforBrazilian
national identity underlie the chapter on the cinema of
GlauberRochaandWalterSalles.

COLLECTIF,
Beyond
Tolkien/Par
del
Tolkien, dans Fantasy Art and Studies, no
1, novembre 2016.
Article.LaFantasy audel de Tolkien et avec lui: de
lArbre qui cachait la Fort la Fort aux Mille
Arbres,de/byBenjaminBories
Fiction.Desidolesdavant,de/byMathieuGoux
Fiction.LaStatuedeTrilbane,de/byEliseVincent
Article.TheReturnoftheFairies:JonathanStrangeandMr
NorrellbySusannaClarke,de/byCarolineDuvezinCaubet
Fiction.Un,deux,trois,de/byFireal
Fiction.Ce(ux) quon abandonne, de/by Manuel Le
Gourrierec
Fiction.TerreNouvelle,de/byFrankCassilis
Article. Lescartes et la reprsentation spatiale dans la
Fantasy: continuit ou rupture de lhritage tolkienien ?
de/byMarionCrackower
Article.FantasybetweentheReturntotheRootsandthe
ShapingoftheFuture:theCaseofT.H.WhitesTheOnce
andFutureKing,de/byJustineBreton
Fiction.Plumesnoires,de/byCarineLiehn
Fiction.Le Festin de lArchevque, de/by Nicolas
Chapperon
Article.Perdido Street Station de China Miville:
hybridation,transfiction,de/byDenisMoreau
Fiction.LePeupleduCadran,de/byAnthonyBoulanger
Fiction.LEnfant qui jouait dans la neige en imitant des
bruitsdevoiture,de/byWeggen
Article.Beyond Light and Darkness: The Perception of
AlterityinUrbanFantasy,de/byStephanieDreier

BULAMUR,
Ayse
Naz,
Victorian
Murderesses: The Politics of Female
Violence, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2016, 176 pages.
Victorian Murderesses investigates the politics of female
violenceinThomasHardysTessofthed'Ubervilles(1891),
George Eliots Adam Bede (1859), Mary Braddons Lady
AudleysSecret(1862),andFlorenceMarryatsTheBloodof
the Vampire (1897). The controversial figure of the
murderessinthesefournovelschallengestheassumption
thatwomenareessentiallynurturingandpassiveandthat
violenceandaggressionareexclusivelymaletraits.

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Fiction.Matin,de/byChristinaHatziandreou
CUBUKCU, Feryal & Sabine PLANKA (eds.),
Tracing the Footsteps of Dwarfs: Images,
Concepts and Representations in Popular
Culture, Wrzburg, Knigshausen & Neumann,
2016, 174 pages.
F.Cubukcu/S.Planka:IntroductionR.MayDegener:
Dwellers of the Deep Darkness: the Transformation of
DwarfsfromMythologytoChildrensFantasyLiterature
E. Perfetto: TheMad andthe Marvellous:The Dwarfin
13th Century French Epic M. Reyes: On Women and
Dwarfs: Material Engagements in the Brothers Grimms
KinderundHausmrchenF.Cubukcu:Dwarvesrevisited
in The Hobbit C. Magalhaes: Challenging traditions:
TerryPratchettsdwarfsS.Planka:Rootedinthepast,
prepared for the future: Dwarfs in Cornelia Funkes
MirrorworldnovelsK.StrongHansen:StuntedGrowth:
DwarfsandtheRejectionofSexualityinthe
ArtemisFowlSeriesJ.Reiker:GlimpsesoftheHorrorof
NormalcyFemaleDwarfsinLiteratureD.Inan:The
dwarfsarebackonthejob:ExploringtheDwarfyAspects
ofHaroldPintersTheDwarfsA.Zeising:Labourasa
Minor Thing: On the Iconography of Dwarfs during the
IndustrialAge

COLLECTIF,
Utopie et anticipation, dans
Textyles, no 48, 2016 [sous la directions de
Valrie Stinon]
Edito
ValrieStinon
Prsentation[Texteintgral]
L'anticipationencontexte
ValrieStinon
Unecolebelgedelanticipation?[Texteintgral]
LaurentBazin
Altrits,altrations[Texteintgral]
LalittratureconjecturaledAlbertBailly
Variationssurl'utopie
FernandoFunari
Michauxdystopiste[Texteintgral]
LaviolencedanslimaginairesocialduVoyageenGrande
Garabagne
AtinatiMamatsashvili
LalittraturebelgesouslOccupation[Texteintgral]
Antiutopie et ralit travers le ralisme magique et le
fantastique
ClmentDessy
Delasciencefictionladystopie[Texteintgral]
LesromansdanticipationdeJacquesSternberg
Pratiquesgnriquescontemporaines
PatrickBergeron
Laviederriresoi[Texteintgral]
LemotifdelaterredsertedansMoiquinaipasconnules
hommesdeJacquelineHarpman
NausicaaDewez
Pplum,levoyagedansletempsdA.N.[Texteintgral]
ricLyse
Alain Dartevelle : fiction postmoderne et brouillage des
frontires[Texteintgral]
Mondesparalllesetuniversgraphiques
PascalLefvre
Lutopieenquestion(s)danslabandedessinefrancophone
deBelgique(19451989)[Texteintgral]
ValrieStinon
Anticipationetmondesparallles[Texteintgral]
EntretienavecBenotPeetersetFranoisSchuiten

DEMERJIAN, Louisa Mackay,

The Age of
Dystopia: One Genre, Our Fears and Our
Future, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge
Scholars , 2016, viii, 169 pages.
Thisbookexaminestherecentpopularityofthedystopian
genre in literature and film, as well as connecting
contemporarymanifestationsofdystopiatoculturaltrends
andtheimplicationsoftechnologicalandsocialchangeson
theindividualandsocietyasawhole.Dystopia,asagenre,
reflectsourgreatestfearsofwhatthefuturemightbring,
based on analysis of the present. This book connects
traditional dystopian works with their contexts and
comparesthesewithcontemporaryversions.
DEDMAN, Stephen, May the Armed Forces
Be With You: The Relationship Between
Science Fiction and the United States
Military, Jefferson (NC), McFarland, 2016, 252
pages.
Amissileshieldoflasersatellitesdreamedupbywriters
andembracedbythehighcommandispartiallycredited
withendingtheColdWar.Scifithemesandimageryare
usedtosellweaponsprograms,militaryserviceandwarsto
the public. Some science fiction creators have willingly
cooperatedwiththemilitary;othershavebeenconscripted.
Somehaveusedthegenreasaforumforprotest.Thisbook
examines the relationship between the U.S. military and
science fiction through more than 80 years of novels,
comics, films and television series, including Captain
America, Starship Troopers, The Twilight Zone, Dr.
Strangelove,StarTrek,IronMan,BilltheGalacticHero,
TheForeverWar,StarWars,Aliens,EndersGame,Space:
AboveandBeyondandOldMansWar.

COMMANDER, Michelle D.,

Afro-Atlantic
Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black
Fantastic, Durham, Duke University Press,
2016, 296 pages.
InAfroAtlanticFlightMichelleD.Commandertraceshow
postcivilrightsBlackAmericanartists,intellectuals,and
travelersenvisionliteralandfigurativeflightbacktoAfrica
asameansbywhichtohealthedispossessioncausedbythe
slavetrade.Throughethnographic,historical,literary,and
filmicanalyses,Commandershowsthewaysthatcultural
producerssuchasOctaviaButler,ThomasAllenHarris,and
Saidiya Hartman engage with speculative thought about
slavery,thespiritualrealm,andAfrica,therebystructuring
theimaginarythatpropelsfuturereturnflights.

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DENT, Jonathan, Sinister Histories: Gothic

Novels and Representations of the Past
from Horace Walpole to Mary Wollstonecraft, Manchester, Manchester University
Press, 2016, 272 pages.
Sinister histories is the first book to offer a detailed
exploration of the Gothic's response to Enlightenment
historiography.Ituncovershithertoneglectedrelationships
betweenfictionandprominentworksofeighteenthcentury
history, locating the Gothic novel in a range of new
interdisciplinarycontexts. Drawingonideasfromliterary
studies, history, politics and philosophy, the book
demonstrates the extent to which historical works
influencedandshapedGothicfictionfromthe1760stothe
early nineteenth century. Through a series of detailed
readings of texts from The Castle of Otranto (1764) to
Maria,orTheWrongsofWoman (1798),thisbookoffers
analternativeaccountoftheGothic'sdevelopmentanda
sustainedrevaluationofthecreativelegaciesoftheFrench
Revolution.

Fontaine de pirre, 2016, 398 pages. [3e dition

mise jour]
C.G. Jung utilise l'expression chemin d'individuation
pourdcrireleprocessusquipousseuntreserapprocher
desoncentre,delatotalitpsychique,duSoi.Ilserfre
laracinetymologiquedumot:individuvientde
individuusquisignifienondivis,unifi.Loinde
tout individualisme, l'individu est donc celui qui tend
devenirUN,raliserlatotalit.Surlabasedecontesde
provenances trs diverses Espagne, Perse, Albanie,
Turkestan,Autriche,l'auteureamplifieetclairecethme
qu'ellemetenparallleaveclesymbolismealchimiqueet
celuidesrves.
GLEICK, James, Time Travel: A History, New
York, Pantheon Books, 2016, 352 pages.
Thestorybeginsattheturnofthepreviouscentury,with
theyoungH.G.Wellswritingandrewritingthefantastic
tale that became his first book and an international
sensation:TheTimeMachine.Itwasanerawhenahostof
forces was converging to transmute the human
understanding of time, some philosophical and some
technological:theelectrictelegraph,thesteamrailroad,the
discovery of buried civilizations, and the perfection of
clocks.JamesGleicktrackstheevolutionoftimetravelas
anideathatbecomespartofcontemporaryculturefrom
MarcelProustto DoctorWho, fromJorgeLuisBorgesto
Woody Allen. He investigates the inevitable looping
paradoxesandexaminestheporousboundarybetweenpulp
fiction and modern physics. Finally, he delves into a
temporal shift that is unsettling our own moment: the
instantaneouswiredworld,withitsallconsumingpresent
andvanishingfuture.

DUNN, L. Kerr (ed.), Mysterious Medecine:

The Doctor-Scientists Tales of Hawthorne
and Poe, Kent (Ohio), The Kent State
University Press, 2016, , 275 pages.
NathanielHawthorneandEdgarAllanPoeweremastersof
mystery and fantasy, but they also engaged real
controversies surrounding individual health, health care
practice, and biomedical research in nineteenthcentury
America. During this volatile era, when mesmerists,
phrenologists, and other pseudoscientists reigned and
regular physicians were just beginning to consolidate
power,HawthorneandPoeprovidedimportantcritiquesof
experimentalandoftenhaphazardsystemsofcare,aswell
asinsightsintotheevolvingunderstandingofmentaland
physicalpathologies.

GRIFFIN, Miranda, Transforming Tales:

Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval
French Literature, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2015, xi, 270 pages.
TransformingTalesisthefirstbookinEnglishtoexplorein
detailtheimportanceofideasofmetamorphosisinFrench
literaturefromthetwelfthtothefifteenthcenturies. This
book'spurposeistwofold:ittracesaseriesoffigures(the
werewolf, the snakewoman, the nymph, the magician,
amongstothers)astheyaretransformedwithinindividual
texts;anditalsoexaminesthewayinwhichthestoriesof
transformation themselves become rewritten during the
courseoftheMiddleAges.

FIEROBE, Claude, Les Ombres du fantastique: fictions d'Irlande, Dinan, Terre de

brume, (Terres fantastiques: essai), 2016, 211
pages.
Le XIXe sicle est la priode fondatrice du fantastique
irlandais qui demeure une force vive de la fiction
contemporaine : les plus grands auteurs puisent dans les
ressources du gothique de la tradition. De son ct,
Joyceestpourbeaucoupd'entreeuxcommelespectredu
pre , et les mythes anciens trouvent une nouvelle vie
(errance,pactedmoniaque).Enfouidanslesol,lepassest
rveill,etcerevenantvientassurerlacontinuitde
l'histoire sous de nouveaux avatars, pour le meilleur (le
vagabond),oupourlepire(lespculateurimmobilier).Les
traumatismes majeurs (la Famine, l'Exil) s'expriment en
d'angoissantespopesindividuellesoucollectives,sousle
ciel svre de l'irlande ou de l'Atlantique. L'autre et le
doublefissurentleprsentetlevampireprendleshabitsdu
perversdansununiversurbainsouventmconnaissable.

HAMEN, Susan E.,

Science Fiction,
Minneapolis (MN), Abdo Pub., (Essential
Literary Genres), 2017, 112 pages
ThistitleexaminesthegenreofsciencefictioninKindred,
A Wrinkle in Time,1984, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy,andThe5thWave.Itfeaturesfouranalysispapers
that consider science fiction, each using different critical
lenses,writingtechniques,oraspectsofthegenre.Critical
thinking questions, sidebars highlighting and explaining
eachthesisandargument,andotherpossibleapproachesfor
analysishelpstudentsunderstandthemechanicsofessay
writing.

FRANZ, Marie-Louise von,

L'individuation
dans les contes de fes, Ville d'Avray, La

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utopianlocusinthelightofracialtheoriesattachedtothe
country'snationalframework.Inparticular,itinvestigates
thewaysinwhichfivenineteenthcenturytravellersdefine
their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland
during the Victorian period, during which European
nationalismemergesasanideaofparamountimportance.
Owingtothegradualcontemplationofthisperipheralword
as the cradle of the Germanic nations, Victorian travel
writersendeavouredtoreconstructtheimageofIcelandin
accordance with the racial theoretical framework that
underlay the nineteenthcentury British nationbuilding
agenda.

HASSLER-FOREST, Dan,
Science Fiction,
Fantasy, and Politics. Transmedia WorldBuilding Beyond Capitalism, Lanham (MD),
Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 240 pages.
FromTolkiento StarTrek andfrom GameofThrones to
The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres
offer us complex and immersive environments beyond
capitalism.Thesepopularstoryworldsoffervaluabletools
foranticapitalisttheoryandpractice.BuildingonHardtand
Negris concept of Empire as a way of understanding
globalization, ScienceFiction,FantasyandPolitics shows
howpopularfantasticfictionhasthepotentialofoffering
morethanamomentaryescapefromcapitalistrealismin
theageofmediaconvergenceandparticipatoryculture.
HELDUSER,
Urte,
Imaginationen
des
Monstrsen: Wissen, Literatur und Poetik
der "Missgeburt", 1600-1835, Gttingen,
Wallstein Verlag, 2016, 431 pages.
Im Zentrum der Studie stehen Texte von Shakespeare,
Gottsched, Wieland, Wezel, Jean Paul, Brentano und
GrressowieE.T.A.HoffmannundTieck.

KEARS, Carl & James PAZ (eds.), Medieval

Science Fiction, London, King's College
London, Center for Late Antique & Medieval
Studies, 2016, 304 pages.
This volume brings two areas of study that have
traditionallybeenkeptapartintoexplosivecontact.Forthe
firsttime,itdrawsthehistoricalliteraturesandculturesof
theMiddleAgesintotheorbitofmodernsciencefiction,
aligningthecosmologies,technologiesandwondersofthe
past with visions of the future. The essays it contains
consider where, how and why "science" and "fiction"
interact in medieval literature; they explore the ways in
whichworksofmodernsciencefictionilluminatemedieval
counterparts; and they also identify the presence and
absenceofthemedievalpastinsciencefictionhistoryand
criticism.FromthescienceandfictionsofBeowulftothe
medieval and postmedieval appearances of the Green
ChildrenofWoolpit;fromtimetravelinthelegendofthe
Seven Sleepers to the medievalism of Star Trek; from
manmademarvelsinmedievalmanuscriptstotheblurring
ofmedievalmagicandfuturistictechnologyintalesofthe
dyingearth,thechaptersrepeatedlyrethinkthesimplistic
divides that have been set up between modern and pre
moderntexts.Theyuncoverstrikingresonancesacrosstime
andspacewhilealsorevealinghowarguablythetwomost
populargenresoftoday,sciencefictionandfantasy,have
beenconstructedaroundconceptions,andmisconceptions,
oftheMiddleAges.

HOWE, Jan Niklas,

Monstrositt: Abweichungen in Literatur und Wissenschaften
des 19. Jahrhunderts, Berlin, De Gruyter,
2016, viii, 232 pages.
The study examines the parallel emergence of a new
paradigm of deviation in literature and science. From
Hoffmann and Poe to Henry James, from medical
teratologyandearlypsychiatrytothetheoryofevolution,
thebooktracesthedevelopmentofamoderndialecticof
thedefigurationandrefigurationofmonstrousforms.
ISAACSON, Nathaniel, Celestial Empire: The
Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction,
Middletown (Conn.), Wesleyan University Press,
2017,
Challenging assumptions about science fictions Western
origins,NathanielIsaacsontracesthedevelopmentofthe
genre in China, from the late Qing Dynasty through the
NewCultureMovement.Throughcarefulexaminationofa
widerangeofvisualandprintmediaincludinghistorical
accounts of the institutionalization of science, pictorial
representationsoftechnologicalinnovations,andanumber
of novels and short storiesIsaacson makes a case for
understanding Chinese science fiction as a product of
colonialmodernity.

LECOUTEUX, Claude, Les Monstres dans la

littrature allemande du Moyen ge:
contribution l'tude du merveilleux
mdival, Besanon, ditions la Vlva,
(Littrature), 2016, 762 pages.
Divis en trois grands ensembles, le livre de Claude
Lecouteux est une encyclopdiecomplte des monstres
dans la littrature allemande du Moyen ge. Dans la
premiregrande partie, lauteur semploie faire la
synthse de ces tres. La seconde consiste dresser la
monographie de chaque monstre grce aux donnes
recueillies.Latroisimepartieprsentecescraturesdans
leurcontexteetcompltelesdeuxprcdentesparties.

JACHIMOWICZ, Aneta, Alina KUZBORSKA &

Dirk H. STEINHOFF (dir.), Imaginationen des
Endes, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang Edition,
2015, 484 pages.
KASSIS, Dimitrios,
Icelandic Utopia in
Victorian Travel Literature, Newcastle upon
Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016,
150 pages.
This book focuses on Iceland as a nineteenthcentury

LEVIN, Sean Lee, Crossovers Expanded (vol.

1), Meteor House (UK), 2016, 4210 pages.
Foreword: Win Scott Eckert.

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CriticshavedescribedtheglobalSevenYearsWarasthe
"crucible" from which the Gothic genre emerged in the
eighteenth century. Since then, the Gothic has been a
privileged mode for representing violence and extreme
emotions and situations. Covering the period from the
AmericanCivilWartotheWaronTerror,thiscollection
examines how the Gothic has provided writers an
indispensable toolbox for narrating, critiquing, and
representingrealandfictionalwars.
Ghosts from the Battlefields: A Short Historical
Introduction to the War Gothic Steffen Hantke and
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet Part 1: Cinema 1. "The red
thirst is on this nation": Vampiric Hauntings and the
American Civil War Leigh M. McLennon 2. Gustav
Hasfords Gothic Poetics of Demystification Agnieszka
SoltysikMonnet3.HauntedJunglesofHorrorandTrauma:
ElementsoftheGothicinVietnameseandAmericanWar
Fiction John Armstrong Part 2: Visual Culture 4. Evil
ThingsinRobesofSorrow:AlbertPinkhamRydersWar
Gothic JaymeYahr 5.MasteringNature:WarGothicand
theMonstrousAnthropoceneHansStaatsPart3:Cinema
6.TroubledbyMemories:TheWorldWarIIVeteranas
a,GothicFigureinWilliamWylersTheBestYearsofOur
Lives (1947) Steffen Hantke 7. Snow Nazis Must Die:
Gothic Tropes and Hollywood Genrefication in
Nazisploitation Ben Kooyman 8. "Ah, you lose you in
there?: Gothic American Masculinities, Specters of
Vietnam and Becoming Monstrous in Southern Comfort
Glen Donnar Part 4: Gaming 9. "You Are Not In
Control": Spec Ops: The Line and the Banality of War
StevenHolmes10.VirtualWarandtheNaziZombieGothic
in Call of Duty Johan Hglund 11. Beast of America:
RevolutionandMonstrosityin BioShockInfinite Gwyneth
Peaty Part 5: Young Adult Culture 12. Operation
Horcrux: Harry Potters War Narrative in a Post9/11
Context Kylee HartmanWarren 13.The Gothicization of
World War II as a Source of Cultural SelfReflection in
MissPeregrinesHomeforPeculiarChildren and Hollow
CityAgataZarzycka14.ConqueringtheFrontierGothicin
RedDawnKarenRenner

LEVIN, Sean Lee, Crossovers Expanded (vol.

2), Meteor House (UK), 2016, 446 pages.
Foreword William Patrick Maynard.
MAGEE, Richard M., The Haunted Muse:
Gothic
and
Sentiment
in
American
Literature, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2016, 142 pages.
InmanyGothicstories,theauthorsimaginetheirliterary
creations as children who have been transformed by
malignantforces,muchasthePuritansof1692fearedthat
thedevilwastransformingtheiractualchildren.Thehome
intheGothicstorybecomesawarpedversionofthesacred
domesticspaceofsentimentalliterature,andittransforms
fromrefugetoplaceofterror.Theauthorsexaminedhere
include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Rose
Terry Cooke, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Shirley Jackson,
StephenKing,andIraLevin.
McCONNELL, Justine, Ancient Greek Myth in
World
Fiction,
since
1989,
London,
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, x, 273 pages.
Introduction/JustineMcConnellFromanthropophagyto
allegory and back: a study of classical myth and the
Braziliannovel/PatriceRankineIbrahimalKoni'sLost
oasisasAtlantisandhisdemonasTyphon/WilliamM.
HutchinsGreekmythandmythmakinginWitiIhimaera's
The matriarch (1986) and The dream swimmer (1997) /
SimonPerrisWar,religionandtragedy:therevoltofthe
muckersinLuizAntoniodeAssisBrasil'sVideiradecristal
/ Sofia Frade Translating myths, translating fictions /
Lorna Hardwick Echoes of ancient Greek myths in
Murakami Haruki's novels and in other works of
contemporaryJapaneseliterature/GiorgioAmitrano"It's
allinthegame":Greekmythandthewire/AdamGanz
WritinganewIrishodyssey:TheresaKishkan'sAmanina
distant field / Fiona Macintosh The minotaur on the
Russianinternet:ViktorPelevin'sHelmetofhorror/Anna
LjunggrenDiagnosis:overdosestatus:criticalodysseys
inBernhardSchlink'sDieHeimkehr/SebastianMatzner
NarcissusandtheFuries:mythanddocufictioninJonathan
Littell's The kindly ones / Edith Hall Philhellenic
imperialismandtheinventionoftheclassicalpast:twenty
firstcenturyreimaginingsofOdysseusintheGreekwar
for independence / Efrossini Spentzou The "Poem of
force" in Australia: David Malouf, Ransom and Chloe
Hooper,Thetallman/MargaretReynoldsYoungfemale
heroesfromSophoclestothetwentyfirstcentury/Helen
Eastman Generation Telemachus: Dinaw Mengestu's
Howtoreadtheair/JustineMcConnell.

PUNTER, David, The Gothic Condition:

Terror, History and The Psyche, Wales,
University of Wales Press, 2016, 268 pages.
Thisbookbringstogetherfourteenofthemostambitious
andthoughtprovokingrecentessaysbyDavidPunter,who
hasbeenwritingontheGothicforoverthirtyyears.Punter
addresses developments in Gothic writing and Gothic
criticismsincethemideighteenthcentury,byisolatingand
discussingspecificthemesandscenariosthathaveremained
relevant to literary and philosophical discussion and by
paying close attention to the motifs, figures, and
recurrences that loom large in twentyfirstcentury
engagementswiththeGothic.Demonstratinganastounding
breadthoferuditionbyascholaratthetopofhisfield,The
GothicCondition bothengagesdeeplywithGothichistory
andexaminesourcontinuingfascinationwithGothictropes
the vampire, the zombie, the phantom, and the living
dead.

MONNET, Agnielszka & Steffen HANTKE (eds.),

War Gothic in Literature and Culture, New
York & London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Group, 2016, xxv, 264 pages.
InthecontextofthecurrentexplosionofinterestinGothic
literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary
collectionofessaysexploresforthefirsttimetherichand
longstanding relationship between war and the Gothic.

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fracturedclassicismsinthepreRaphaelitesandVictorian
illustration/GenevieveS.GessertClassicalantiquityand
the timeless horrors of H.P. Lovecraft / Robinson Peter
KrmerFalsemedievalism&otherancientfantasies
Ancient underworlds in J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit /
BenjaminEldonStevensC.S.Lewis'sThevoyageofthe
"Dawn Treader" and Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Jeff
WinkleAtimeforfantasy:retellingApuleiusininC.S.
Lewis'sTillwehavefaces/MarcusFolchChildrenand
(other) ancient monsters The classical pantheon in
children'sfantasyliterature/SarahAnnesBrownOrestes
&thehalfbloodprince:ghostsofAeschylusintheHarry
Potterseries/BrettM.RogersFilthyharpiesandfictive
knowledge in Philip Pullman's Dark materials trilogy /
Antonia Syson Girls in bears' clothing in Greek
mythologyandDisney/Pixar'sbrave/ElizabethManwell
(Post)modern fantasies of antiquity Fantasies of
Mimnermos in Anne Carson's "The brainsex paintings"
(Plainwater) / SashaMae Eccleston Aeneas' American
newworldinJoGraham'sBlackships/JenniferA.Rea
Genre, mimesis, and Virgilian intertext in George R.R.
Martin'sAsongoficeandfire/AyeletHaimsonLushkov.

RIBAS-CASASAYAS, Alberto & Amanda L.

PETERSEN (eds.),
Espectros: Ghostly
Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic
Narratives, Bucknell University Press &
Lanham (MD), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 270
pages.
Introduction:theoriesoftheghostinatranshispaniccontext
Ghostlyencounters:hauntedhistories. The museum of
memory:spectralpresencesandmetaphoricremembering/
MeganCorbinThebrightfutureoftheghost:memoryin
theworkofJavierMarasIsabelCuadoThespectrality
ofpoliticalviolence:exhumingGuatemala'shauntedpastin
Tanya MariaBarrientos's Familyresemblance andSylvia
Sellers's When the ground turns in its sleep / Susana S.
MartnezThepersistenceofviolence:traumaashaunting.
Apparitions and absence: spectrality in contemporary
novelsofthedisappeared/KarenWooleyMartinThe
literalizationoftrauma'sspecterandtheproblematizationof
time in Aparecidos / Charles StGeorges Phantom
children: spectral presences and the violent past in two
filmsofcontemporarySpain/SarahThomasFoginstead
of land: spectral topographies of disappearance in
Colombia'srecentliteratureandfilm/JulianaMartnez
Stillimages:thelivingandthedead.Framingandfeeling
immigration:hauntingvisualityandalterityinRamitode
Hierbabuena / N. Michelle Murray Memento Mori:
photographyandnarrativeinCristinaRiveraGarza'sNadie
meverllorar/MartaSierraInvisiblehands:spectersof
themarketeconomy.Cubagua'sghosts/JuanPabloLlupi
Portraits of the walking dead: transgressing genres and
(in)visibledemographicsinMauriceEcheverraMaradel
Carmen/CaaJimnezHauntingcapitalism:Biutiful,the
specter, and fantasies of the global market / Victoria L.
GarrettandEdwardM.Chauca.

RUICKBIE, Leo,
The Impossible Zoo: An
Encyclopedia of Fabulous Beasts and
Mythical Monsters, Robinson, 2016, 272 p.
SALAPERINEN, Olento,
A Field Guide to
Fantastical Beasts: An Atlas of Fabulous
Creatures, Enchanted Beings, and Magical
Monsters, New York, Sterling Publishing,
2016, 192 pages.
SIMKINS, Jennifer,
The Science Fiction
Mythmakers:
Religion,
Science
and
Philosophy in Wells, Clarke, Dick and
Herbert, Jefferson (NC), McFarland, 2016, 200
pages.
Aliterarygenrethatpervades21stcenturypopularculture,
science fiction creates mythologies that make statements
about humanitys place in the universe and embody an
intersectionofscience,religionandphilosophy.
This book considers the significance of this confluence
throughanexaminationofmythsinthewritingsofH.G.
Wells,ArthurC.Clarke,PhilipK.DickandFrankHerbert.
Presentingfreshinsightsintotheirworks,theauthorbrings
tolightthetendencyofsciencefictionnarrativestoreaffirm
spiritualmyths.

RIORDAN, Rick, Hotel Valhalla: Guide to the

Norse Worlds, New York, Disney/Hyperion,
2016, 176 pages.
This"who'swho"guidetothegods,goddesses,andother
importantfiguresofNorsemythologywascommissioned
byHelgi,who,aftermorethanamillenniumasmanagerof
Hotel Valhalla, became fed up with answering the same
questions from newly deceased heroes at checkin. The
profiles provide essential stats, interviews, and personal
reflections so you can identify the gods and avoid those
awkward introductions. Handy facts about other beings
roundoutthisgototome.You'llneverseeRatatoskasa
cutelittlerodentorconfuseadwarfwithanelfeveragain!

STEINHAUER, Eric W., Bcher und Vampire:

Vampyrologie als Lektre, Essen, Adson
Fecit Verlag, 2016, 120 pages.

ROGERS, Brett M. & Benjamin ELDON STEVENS

(eds.),
Classical Tradition in Modern
Fantasy, New York, Oxford University Press,
2017, 384 pages.

STREET, Suan Castillo & Charles L. CROW, The

Palgrave Handbook of the Southern
Gothic, London & New York, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016, xvi, 505 pages.
This book examines Southern Gothic a term that
describes some of the finest works of the American
Imagination. But whatdo Southernand Gothicmean,

Fantasiesofantiquity/BrettM.Rogers,BenjaminEldon
StevensClassicalapparitionsin(pre)modernfantasy
Classical epic and the poetics of modern fantasy / Jesse
WeinerTheorizingfantasy:enchantment,parody,andthe
classical tradition / Cecilie Flugt The mirror crack'd:

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andhowaretheyrelated?Traditionallyseenasdrawingon
thetragedyofslaveryandloss,SouthernGothicisnowa
richer, more complex subject. Thirtyfive distinguished
scholarsexploretheSouthernGothic,underthecategories
ofPoeandhisLegacy;SpaceandPlace;Race;Genderand
Sexuality;andMonstersandVoodoo.Theessaysexamine
slaveryandthelawsthatsupportedit,andstoriesofslaves
whorebelledandthosewhoescaped.Alsopresentarethe
oftenneglectedissuesoftheNativeAmericanpresencein
theSouth,socioeconomicclass,thedistinctionsamongthe
several regions of the South, samesex relationships, and
norms of gendered behaviour. This handbook covers not
onlyiconicfiguresofSouthernliteraturebutalsootherless
wellknownwriters,andexaminesgothicimageryinfilm
andincontemporarytelevisionprogrammessuchas True
BloodandTrueDetective.

http://www.revue-solaris.com/

child standing in the place of the human species,

coordinating its safe passage into the future through the
promise of one more generation. Yet, she contends, the
childfigureemergesboundtotheveryforcesofnonhuman
vitalityhewasforgedtocontain.
TIDHAR, Lavie & Shimon ADAF, Art & War:
Poetry, Pulp and Politics in Israel,
Repeater, Watkins Media, 2016, 300 pages.
Shimon Adaf and Lavie Tidhar are two of Israels most
subversiveandpoliticallyoutspokenwriters. Growingup
onoppositesidesoftheIsraeli spectrumTidharinthe
northofIsraelintheZionist,socialistKibbutz;Adaffrom
afamilyofreligiousMizrahiJewslivinginSderotthe
two nevertheless shared a love of books, and were
especially drawn to the strange visions and outrageous
sensibilities of the science fiction that was available in
Hebrew.In ArtandWar,theyengageinadialoguethat
covers their approach to writing the fantastic, as they
question how to write about Israel and Palestine, about
Judaism,abouttheHolocaust,aboutchildhoodsandtheir
end.

SHELDON, Rebekah, The Child to Come. Life

after the Human Catastrophe, Minneapolis,
University of Minnesota Press, 2016, 195
pages.
Sheldonexploresrepresentationsofthisperilousfutureand
thenewfigurationsofthechildthathaveariseninresponse
toit.Analyzingcatastrophediscoursefromthe1960stothe
presentbooks by Joanna Russ, Margaret Atwood, and
Cormac McCarthy; films and television series including
Southland Tales, Battlestar Galactica, and Children of
Men;andpopularenvironmentalismSheldonfindsthe

SOLARIS

SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES

Vol. 43, no 2, no. 129
July 2016
http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/

Lanthologie permanente des littratures

de limaginaire
no 200, automne 2016, 240 pages.
42 ans d'ge et 200 numros !
je suis fier de ma progniture: de la revue,
cre en 1974, et de ma fille Laurine dont
l'illustration de couverture sert
d'inspiration aux textes de fiction du
numro !

The 2015 SFS Symposium:

Retrofuturism
RobLatham.Introduction
ArthurB.Evans.AnachronisminEarlyFrenchFuturistic
Fiction
RachelHaywoodFerreira.HowLatinAmericaSavedthe
WorldandOtherForgottenFutures
PaweFrelik. GazingBackinWonder:VisualMegatexts
andForgottenOculariesinScienceFiction
ARTICLES
PatrickWhitmarsh.ImagineYoureaMachine:Narrative
Systems in Peter Wattss
Blindsight and
Echopraxia
AndrewRose.TheUnknowableNow:PassionateScience
and Transformative Politics in Kim Stanley Robinsons
ScienceintheCapitalTrilogy
PaulMountfort.TheIChingandPhilipK.DicksTheMan
intheHighCastle
Gerry Canavan. A Dread Mystery, Compelling
Adoration:OlafStapledon,StarMaker,andTotality
Cameron AwkwardRich. The Fiction of Ethnography in

Des textes de fiction ric Gauthier, Ariane

Glinas, Yves Meynard, Hugues Morin, Francine
Pellletier, Daniel Sernine, Mario Tessier, jeanLouis Trudel et lisabeth Vonarburg.
Un article de Mario Tessier: Reconstruisez la
civilisation vous-mme" [les Carnets du
Futurible]
+ les rubriques habituelles : Sci-nma, de
Christian
Sauv
[en
ligne
www.revuesolaris.com], les Littranautes, Genevive
Blouin, Pierre-Luc Lafrance
et les lectures
critiques de Mathieu Ars, Pierre-Alexandre
Bonin et Jose Lepire,
Avec des illustrations de Laurine
(couverture), et de Suzanne Morel.

Spehner

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WOLFENZON, Carolyn,
Muerte de utopia:
historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la
novela latinoamericana, Lima, IEP Instituto
de Estudios Peruanos, 2016, 304 pages.
LosautoresanalizadosporCarolynWolfenzon(Antoniodi
Benedetto, Reinaldo Arenas, Carmen Boullosa, Enrique
Rosas Paravicino y Abel Posse) se valen del espacio
imaginadodelaisla,ellugarantihistricoporexcelencia,
para situar all sus ficciones. Sin embargo, dan un giro
bruscoymsqueescpticosobreelotroelementoclavedel
topos isleo, tanto en la novela moderna como en la
premoderna: descreen de la utopa y, con frecuencia,
ironizansobrelaideamismadelprogreso.

CharlottePerkinsGilmansHerland
REVIEWESSAYS
Arthur B. Evans. Surrealism and Science Fiction:
ParkinsonsFuturesofSurrealismandSurrealism,Science
FictionandComics
DavidHiggins.ComingtoTermswithSF:Lathams The
OxfordHandbookofScienceFiction
Rob Latham. Weaponizing the Imagination: Colignons
Rocket States, Fannings Death Rays and the Popular
Media, Cases Calling Dr. Strangelove, Edwardss The
AtomicBombinJapaneseCinema,Oramuss GraveNew
World,andMcGrathsDeepEnds
Vol. 43, no 23, no. 120
November 2016
http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/

A PROPOS DES AUTEURS

ABBRUGIATTI,
Le Vertige selon Calvino,
Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de
Provence, (Textuelles. Univers littraires),
2016, 208 pages.

SPECIAL ISSUE
INDIAN SF
EditedbyJoanGordon
ARTICLES
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. On the Mythologerm:
KalpavigyanandtheQuestionofImperialScience
Anwesha Maity. Estrangement, History, and Aesthetic
Relish:AReadingofPremendraMitrasManuDwadosh
SamiAhmadKhan.TheOthersinIndiasOtherFutures
SuparnoBanerjee.CrossingtheBorder:TheDepictionof
IndiainIanMcDonaldsRiverofGodsandCyberabadDay
EricD.Smith.UniversalLoveandPlanetaryOntologyin
VandanaSinghsOfLoveandOtherMonsters
Malisa Kurtz. Alternate Cuts: Interview with Vandana
Singh
REVIEWESSAYS
Veronica Hollinger. Some Real Mothers ...: Revised
edition of Bammers Feminism and Utopianism in the
1970s
Amy Ransom. Playing Dice with the Universe:
Meillassouxs AfterFinitude,TheNumberandtheSiren,
andScienceFictionandExtroScienceFiction
Sherryl Vint. Possibilities for a ScienceFiction Cinema:
Boulds Solaris,Butlers EternalSunshineoftheSpotless
Mind, Conollys The Thing, Forshaws The War of the
Worlds, Kermodes Silent Running, Krmers Dr.
Strangelove, Le Blanc/Odells Akira, Luckhursts Alien,
McAuleysBrazil,NewmansQuatermassandthePit,and
WilsonsTheyLive.

BAST, Florian, Of Bodies, Communities, and

Voices: Agency in Writings by Ocatvia
Butler, Heidelberg, Carl-Winter Verlag, 2015,
238 pages.
BHAR, Roland & Annick LOUIS (dir.), Lire
Borges aujourd'hui: autour de Ficciones et
El hacedor, Paris, ditions rue d'Ulm, 2016,
167 pages.
BEAUCHEMIN, Mlanie, Le Dsir monstrueux
dans les rcits d'Anne Hbert, Montral,
Triptyque, 2016, 199 pages.
CARRUTHERS, Leo, Tolkien et la religion.
Comme une lampe invisible, Paris, Presses
de l'Universit Paris-Sorbonne, (Essais), 2016,
312 pages.
CHANCE, Jane,
Tolkien, Self and Other:
"This Queer Creature", New York, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016, 265 pages,
CHTEL, Laurent,
William Beckford: The
Elusive Orientalist, Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2016, xvi, 248 pages.

VARVARO, Alberto & Laura MINERVINI,

Il
fantastico nella letteratura medievale: il
caso della Francia, Bologna, Il mulino, 2016,
144 pages.

COLLECTIF, Aldous Huxley, dans Otrante, no

40, dcembre 2016.
COLLECTIF, Harry Potter: adaptations et
interprtations,
dans
Mlanges
de
sciences religieuses, vol. 72, no 2, 2016.
Numo prsent par Anne-Frdrique MochelCaballero.

VOIGHT, Eckert, et al., (eds.),

Dystopia,
Science Fiction, Post-Apocalypse: Classic New Tendencies - Model Interpretations,
Trier, WVT, 2015, 430 pages.

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Provence, 2016, 139 pages.

DAVIDSEN, Markus Altena, Tolkien Spirituality: Constructing Belief and Tradition in

Fiction-Based Religion, Berlin, New York, et
al., De Gruyter, 2017, 35o pages.

GIUDICELLI, Xavier,
Portraits de Dorian
Gray. Le texte, le livre, l'image, Paris,
Presses universitaire de Paris-Sorbonne, 2016,
404 pages.

DAY, David, The Battles of Tolkien, Vacaville

(CA), Bounty Books, 2016, 256 pages.

GLOGE, Andreas,
Tolkiens Der Herr der
Ringe: Ursprung - Symbolik - Einfluss,
Books on Demand, 2016, 156 pages.

DYER, Justin Buckley & Micah J. WATSON,

C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural
Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2016, ix, 160 pages.

GODFEY, Emelyne, Utopias and Dystopias in

the Fiction of H.G. Wells and William
Morris: Landscapes and Space, New York,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 290 pages.

EDWARDS, Ronald W.,

The Edge of
Evolution: Animality, Inhumanity, and
Doctor Moreau, New York & Oxford, Oxford
University Press, 2016, xv, 274 pages,

GUAY, Patrick, Jacques Spitz: le mythe de

l'humain, Bordeaux, Presses de l'Universit de
Bordeaux, 2016, 220 pages.

EILMANN, Julian, J.R.R. Tolkien - Romantiker und Lyriker, Essen, Oldib Verlag, 2016,
528 pages.

IWANITZKY, Nikolaus,
The Reception of
J.R.R. Tolkien's Work in Song Lyrics,
Hamburg, Dr. Kovac Verlag, 2016, 256 pages.

ERFURTH, Christine,
Erzhlverfahren des
Phantastischen in Werken von Fritz Rudolf
Fries, Heidelberg, Universittsverlag Winter,
2016, 255 pages.

KILLEEN,
Jarlath
&
Valeria
CAVALLI,
"Inspiring a Mysterious Terror". 200 Years
of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Collections :
New York, et al., Peter Lang, (Reimagining
Ireland), 2016, 250 pages.

ESTERHAZY, Fanny,
Arno Schmidt: eine
Bildbiographie, [einfhrenden Texten von
Bernd Rauschenbach], Berlin Suhrkamp Verlag,
2016, 453 pages.

KLENE, milie,
Jean Potocki: l'homme
l'preuve du relatif, Montpellier, Presses
universitaires de la Mditerrane, 2016, 429
pages.
KLINGENBEG, Patricia N.& Fernando ZULLORUIZ (eds.),
New Readins of Silvina
Ocampo, Woodbridge (UK), Tamesis, 2016,
264 pages.

TIENNE, Jean-Louis, Jean Ray - Thomas

Owen, correspondancs littraires, Valencienne,
Presses universitaires de Valenciennes, (Textes
en contexte), 2016, 302 pages.

KORT, Wesley A., Reading C.S. Lewis: A

Commentary, Oxford & New York, Oxford
University Press, 2015, 312 pages.

FLEIG, Horst, Literarischer Vampirismus:

Klingemanns "Nachtwarten von Bonaventura", Berlin, De Gruyter, 2016, 320 pages.

KYLE, Arnold, The Divine Madness of Philip

K. Dick, New York & Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2016, ix, 234 pages.

FRANKLIN, Ruth, Shirley Jackson: A Rather

Haunted Life, New York, Liveright, 2016, 624
pages.

LACHMAN, Gary, Beyond the Robot: The

Life and Work of Colin Wilson, New York,
Tarcher/Perigee, 2016, 416 pages.

FREY, Hans, J. G. Ballard: Science Fiction

als Paradoxon, Berlin, Memoranda, (SF
Personality, no 25), 2016, 417 pages.

LETHEM, Jonathan & Pamela JACKSON (textes

runis par) , L'Exgse de Philip K. Dick,
vol. 1, Paris, J'ai lu, (Nouveaux Millnaires),
2016, 768 pages.

GARTH, Todd S., Pariah in the Desert: The

Heroic and the Monstrous in Horacio
Quiroga, Bucknell University Press & Lanham
(MD), Rowman Littlefield, 2016, 250 pages.

LOPEZ, Jorge Garcia, Borges, la visita del

dios, Valencia, Tirant Humanidades, 2016, 486
pages.

GAULTIER, Maud (dir.), Borges dans le texte,

Aix-en-Provence, Presses universitaires de

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MARRO, Frdrique, La Croises des genres

dans l'oeuvre de Barbey d'Aurevilly:
critures
romanesques,
critique
et
pistolaire,
1851-1865,
Paris,
Honor
Champion, 2016, 576 pages.

WEIDNER, Chad, The Green Ghost: William

Burroughs and the Ecological Mind,
Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press,
2016, ix, 200 pages.
WHITMAN, Sarah Helen, Edgar Poe et ses
critiques, Paris, ditions Allia, 2016, 80 pages.

MARSDEN, George M., C. S. Lewis's Mere

Christianity: A Biography, Princeton (NJ),
Princeton University Press, (Lives of Great
Religious Books), 2016, 280 pages.

WILSON, Maer, The Other Side of Philip K.

Dick: A Tale of Two Friends, CreateSpace
Independent Publishing Platform, 2016, 254
pages. Foreword: Tim Powers.

MUNOZ, Brian, Des Robots et des hommes.

Les Androdes rvent-ils de moutons
lectriques ?, BOD (Books on Demand),
2016, 84 pages.

ZINOS-AMARO, Alvaro,
Travelers of the
Worlds:
Conversations
with
Robert
Silverberg, Kent (WA), Fairwood Press, 2016,
280 pages.

NICOLAY, Theresa Freda, Tolkien and the

Modernists: Literary Responses to the
Dark New Days of the 20th Century,
Jefferson (NC), McFarland, 2014, vii, 93 pages.
ORSINI, Franois,
Barbey d'Aurevilly, le
satanisme et le fantastique: deux tudes,
Milon-la-Chapelle, ditions Le Fanal, 2016, 164
pages.
PAQUOT, Thierry, Lettres Thomas More
sur son utopie, Paris, La Dcouverte, (Cahiers
libres) 2016, 160 pages.

CINMA & TLVISION

POOLE, Scott W.,

In the Mountains of
Madness: The Life and Extraordinary
Afterlife of H.P Lovecraft, Berkeley (CA),
Soft Skull Press, 2016, 320 pages.

BALAJI, Murali (ed.), Thinking Dead: What

The Zombie Apocalypse Means, Lanham
(MD), Lexington Books, 2013, 268 pages.
In The Thinking Dead: What the Zombie Apocalypse
Means, edited by Murali Balaji, scholars ask why our
culture has becomes so fascinated by the zombie
apocalypse.Essaysaddressthisquestionfromarangeof
theoreticalperspectivesthattieourconsumptionofzombies
to larger narratives of race, gender, sexuality, politics,
economicsandtheendoftheworld.ThinkingDeadbrings
together an array of media and cultural studies scholars
whose contributions to understanding our obsession with
zombies will far outlast the current trends of zombie
popularity.

SCHNEIDEWIND, Friedhelm,
Das neue
grosse Tolkien-Lexikon, St. Ingbert, ConteVerlag, 2016, 800 pages.
SHIPPEY, Tom,
J.R.R.Tolkien, auteur du
sicle, Paris, ditions Bragelonne, (Essais),
2016, 544 pages.
SMITH, Andrew (ed.),
The Cambridge
Companion to Frankenstein, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2016, 288 pages.
SOULS, Dominique (avec Florence Traisnel)
(dir.), Antoine Volodine et la constellation
"post-exotique", Villeneuve d'Ascq, Presses
universitaires du Septentrion, 2016, 237 pages.

Introduction:thinkingdead:ourobsessionwiththeundead
anditsimplications/MuraliBalajiZombiesastheother
andourselves.Perfectstrangers:thezombieimaginaryand
thelogicofrepresentation/GordonCoonfieldThesocial
dead:howourzombiebaggagethreatenstodragusintothe
cryptsofourpast/AngelaCirucci"Fightthedead,fear
the living": zombie apocalypse or libertarian paradise? /

TIBBETTS, John C., The Gothic Worlds of

Peter Straub, Jefferson (NC), McFarland,
2016, 260 pages.

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JenniferM.Proffitt,RichTemplinSimulatingzombiesin
popularcultureandmedia/PatrickHamiltonThezombie
apocalypse and social, technological and psychological
space.Returntodarkness:representationsofAfricainA
residentevil5/HanliGeyserSameasiteverwas:savior
narrativesandthelogicsofsurvivalinThewalkingdead/
MartinaBaldwin,MarkMcCarthyThezombiemonster's
evolution to empty undead signifier / Ryan Lizardi
GothicmonsterandChineseculturalidentity:analysisof
The note of ghoul / Meijiadai Bai Zombies and the
modern American family: surviving the destruction of
traditionalsocietyinZombieland/CassieOzogLeaveit
all behind: the postapocalyptical renunciation of
technologyinThewalkingdead/AliciaKozmaSpace
junk and the second event: the cosmic meaning of the
zombie apocalypse / Barry Vacker Eating the undead:
consumption and cultural industries. The necropolitics of
the apocalypse: queer zombies in the cinema of Bruce
Labruce/ArnauRoigXxxombies:economiesofdesire
and disgust / Steve Jones Teen movies and summit
entertainment'sconstructionofWarmbodies/CateBuckley
Eating the dead: AMC's use of synergy to cultivate
zombieconsumption/MuraliBalaji.

in True Blood, Twilight and Other

Contemporary
Narratives,
New
York,
Springer International, 2016, 119 pages.
The figure of the vampire has captured the popular
imaginationtoanunprecedentedextentsincetheturnofthe
millennium. The philosopher Ren Girard associates the
sacredwithacommunalviolencethatsacredritualcontrols
and contains. As traditional formations of the sacred
fragment, the vampire comes to embody and enact this
sacredviolencethroughcomplexbloodbondsthatrelate
thevampiretothehumaninwhollynewwaysinthenew
millennium.
CHRISTIAN, Roger,
Cinema Alchemist:
Designing Star Wars & Alien: How I Built
the Lightsaber and Won an Oscar: A
Memoir, London, Titan Books, 2016, 360
pages.
COLLECTIF, Science Fiction: 100 Years of
Great Movies, dans Life, June 24 2016, 96
pages.
COLLECTIF, Alien: toutes les archives, Paris,
Huginn & Muninn, 2015, 316 pages. Contient
un entretien avec Sigourney Weaver.

BARRETT Michle & Duncan, Star Trek: The

Human Frontier, New York, Routledge, 2016,
324 pages.
ThisbookchartsthedevelopingStarTrekstoryfromthe
1960sthroughtothepresentday.Althoughthecorevalues
andprogressivepoliticsoftheseriesearliestepisodeshave
remainedattheheartofStarTrekthroughouthalfacentury,
inotherwaysthestoryittellshasshiftedwiththetimes.
While The Original Series and The Next Generation
showedafaithinscienceandrationalism,andinabenign
liberalleadership,withDeepSpaceNineandVoyagerthat
modernorderbegantodecline,asreligion,mentalillness
andfragmentedidentitiestookhold.
Nowfullyrevisedandupdatedtoincludetheprequelseries
Enterprise and the current reboot film series, this new
second edition of Star Trek: The Human Frontier
published to coincide with Star Treks golden jubilee
celebrationsaddressestheseissuesinarangeofcultural
contexts, and draws together an unusual combination of
expertise.WrittentoappealtoboththetrueTrekkerand
thosewhodontknowStarTrekfromStarWars,thebook
explores and explains the ideas and ideals behind a
remarkableculturalphenomenon.

COLLINS, Brian W., Horror Movie A Day: The

Book, Fright Club Publishing, 2016, 596 pages.
COTTE, Olivier,
Dark Vador vs Monsieur
Spock: Star Wars contre Star Trek:
dpartagez les deux plus grands sagas de
la SF, Malakoff, Dunod, 2016, 221 pages.

EBERL Jason T. & Kevin S. DECKER (eds.),

The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy:
You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned,
Chichester, West Sussex, Wiley Blackwell,
2016, x, 324 pages.
EpisodeI:thephilosophicalmenace.Theplatonicparadox
of Darth Plagueis : how could a sith lord be wise? /
TerranceMacMullanYouareaskingmetoberational:
stoicphilosophyandtheJediorder/MattHummelThe
Jedi knights of faith : Anakin, Luke, and Soren
(Kierkegaard) / William A. Lindenmuth Anakin and
Achilles:scarsofnihilism/DonAdamsDarktimes:the
end of the republic and the beginning of Chinese
philosophy/KevinS.DeckerEpisodeII:attackofthe
morals.ChasingKevinSmith:wasitimmoralfortherebel
alliancetodestroyDeathStarII?/CharlesC.Camosy
TheballadofBobaFett:mercenaryagencyandamoralism
inwar/DavidLaRoccaHowguiltyisJarJarBinks?/
NicolasMichaudKnowthedarkside:atheodicyofthe
force/JasonT.EberlEpisodeIII:revengeofthealliance
Like my father before me : loss and redemption of
fatherhood inStar Wars/ CharlesTaliaferro andAnnika

BEAUJOUAN, Nicolas, Le Rveil de la force:

graphics,
l'univers
dcrypt
en
infographie, Vanves, Hachette Heroes, 2016,
63 pages. [Pour jeunes]
BERGSTROM, Suicide Squad: Behind the
Scenes with The Worst Heroes Ever, New
York, Harper/Design, 2016, 176 pages.
CHAPLIN,
Susan,
The
Postmillennial
Vampire: Power, Sacrifice and Simulation

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TaylorBeckThefriendsofaJedi:friendship,family,
andcivicdutyinagalaxyatwar/GregLittmannLight
side,darkside,andswitchingsides:loyaltyandbetrayalin
StarWars/DanielMalloyGuardiansandtyrantsinthe
republicsofStarWarsandPlato/AdamBarkmanandKyle
Alkema Episode IV : a new hermeneutic Pregnant
PadmeandslaveLeia:StarWarsfemalerolemodels/Cole
BowmanDocilebodiesandaviscousforce:fearofthe
flesh in return of the Jedi / Jennifer L. McMahon Of
battledroidsandzillobeasts:moralstatusintheStarWars
galaxy / James M. Okapal Episode V : metaphysics
strikes back Why the force must have a dark side /
GeorgeA.DunnWhatisitliketobeaJedi?:alifeinthe
force / Marek McGann Never tell me the odds : an
inquiry concerning Jedi understanding / Andrew
ZimmermanJonesEpisodeVI:returnofthenonhuman
Mindlessphilosophersandoverweightglobsofgrease:
aredroidscapableofthought?/DanBurkettCanChewie
speak? : Wittgenstein and the philosophy of language /
Rhiannon Grantand MyfanwyReynolds Can thezillo
beaststrikeback?:cloning,deextinction,andthespecies
problem/LeonardFinkelmanEpisodeVII:thefandom
awakens In that time in a galaxy far, far away : epic
mythunderstandingsandmythappropriationinStarWars/
JohnThompsonStarWars,emotions,andtheparadoxof
fiction/LanceBelluominiThemindofbluesnaggletooth
:theintentionalstance,vintageStarWarsactionfigures,
and the origins of religion / Dennis Knepp Gospel,
gossip,andGhent:howshouldweunderstandthenewStar
Wars?/RoyT.CookandNathanKellen.

where": River's unmappable body in the Firefly/Serenity

verse/LisaPerdigao"ThisiswhereIam,ain'taplaceof
wishes":kyriarchyandthepreservationofpowerinbetter
days / Samira Nadkarni Politics of loss: the historical
world,"therightthingtodo",andautopiancommunityin
Firefly/DennisSobolevSpeakingChinese:musicand
theexoticinFirefly/S.AndrewGranade"Wheredoes
anystorybegin?":bookchaptersandWhedonversechoices
/DeanA.KowalskiLightingoutfortheblack:Firefly
andthesuspicionofgovernancestructures/AndrewHowe
"They couldn't let us profit, it wouldn't be civilized":
economicmodalitiesandcoreperipheryrelationshipsinthe
political economy of Fireflyserenity / Howard Kahm
The future isn't so shiny: Blade runner, Firefly, and the
effectsofAmericanconsumerisminmodernChina/Tara
Prescott.
GROSS, Edward & Mark A. ALTMAN,
The
Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years;
from The Next Generation to J. J. Abrams
[The
Complete,
Uncensored,
and
Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek,
New York, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's
Press, 2016, 864 pages.
GUILLAUD, Lauric & Philippe MARLIN (dir.),
Imaginaire et maonnerie, Paris, Les
ditions de l'Oeil du Sphinx, (Les tudes du
docteur Armitage), 2016, 129 pages.
Port d'abord par la culture antique, puis par la culture
mdivale, l'imaginaire maonnique a t nourri
d'sotrisme et de traditions spiritualistes, avant de
remobiliserl'imaginationsymboliquel'redesLumires
etderinssufflerdusacrl'redu"dsenchantementdu
monde". L'Ordre maonnique fait pleinement partie du
champdel'tudesocialecollectiveetdelarechercheen
scienceshumaines.L'imaginairemaonniqueadpassle
cadredel'institutiondelaFMpourimprgnerlemonde
socialetartistique,toutenvhiculantnombred'idesnobles
oustimulantes,maisaussidenombreuxfantasmes.C'estce
quececolloqueproposed'tudieravec:
Laurent Buchholtzer, Le complot Maonnique contre le
Trneetl'Autel
BernardFontaine,DeLoTaxilauxIlluminati
GeorgesBertin,ImaginaireMaonniqueetChevalerie
Patrizia d'Andrea, La FrancMaonnerie au Fminin
aperusromanesques
Richard Lescure, Voyages Initiatiques dans l'oeuvre de
JulesVerne
Gilles Menegaldo, sotrisme, Occultisme et Fantastique
dansl'oeuvredeH.P.Lovecraft
LauricGuillaud,ConanDoyle,spiritualisteetFrancmaon

FARIN, Michael, Loy ARNOLD & Hans SCHMID

(dir.),
Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des
Grauens, Mnchen, Belleville, 2016, 380
pages.
NOSFERATU aus dem Jahre 1921 ist das erste
Meisterwerk des Horrorfilms und einer der berhmtesten
deutschen Stummfilme. Im Zentrum des Buches steht
MurnausKlassiker,darberhinausschildertderBanddie
GeschichtedesVampir/NosferatuMythosab1431bis2000
(Bilder, Gemlde, Fotos, Gedichte, Theaterstcke und
Verfilmungen).
GASCHLER, Peter M.,
Das PhantastikFilmjahr 2016: Kino, TV, DVD, Serien,
Dokus, Plettenberg, Complett-Verlag, 2016,
414 pages.
GOODRUM, Michael & Philip SMITH (ed.),
Firefly Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon,s
Classic Series, Lanham (MD), Rowman &
Littlefield, 2016, 226 pages.
Introduction/MichaelGoodrum&PhilipSmithFirefly
and the space western: frontier fiction on fastforward /
JohnWills"Amanofhonorinadenofthieves":war
veterans in Firefly and serenity / David Budgen "See
what's inside": understanding the reavers' posthuman
identityandroleinFireflyandserenity/GarethHadyk
Delodder & Laura Chilcoat At the "corner of no and

GULLIAS, Aaron, The Paranormal and the

Paranoid: Conspirational Science Fiction
Television,
Lanham
(MD),
Rowman
&
Littlefield, 2015, 196 pages
Toward the end of the twentieth century, science fiction
television took a dark turn. Series like The XFiles,

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Reflectionist Horror and the 'Snuffumentary' Xavier

Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University,
UK)Chapter 8: Why Did They Film It? : Faux Snuff in
ContemporaryUSCinemaShaunKimber(Bournemouth
University, UK) Chpater 9: Cinema as Snuff: Auteurist
Metasnuff and the Murderous Gaze from German
ExpressionismtoShadowoftheVampireLindaBadley
(MiddleTennesseeStateUniversity,USA)Chapter10:The
BunnyGame:LiveArtandFilmGenreKarolinaGrushka
(AberystwythUniversity,UK)PartIIISnuff,Affectand
SelfhoodChapter11:TheAffectiveRealityofSnuff
Misha Kavka (University of Auckland, New
Zealand)Chapter12:AffectandtheEthicsofSnuffinthe
Films of the New Extremism Tina Kendall (Anglia
Ruskin University, UK)Chapter 13: A View to a Kill:
Perspectives on PseudoSnuff and Self Steve Jones
(Northumbria University, UK)Part IV Snuff in the
Twentyfirst Century: Circulation, Consumption and
Regulation Chapter 14: Watching Snuff: Online
Reactionstothe'3Guys1Hammer'InternetShockVideo
IainRobertSmith(RoehamptonUniversityofLondon,UK)
Chapter15:ExtremePornographyandtheWiderPoliticsof
Snuff Clarissa Smith (University of Sunderland, UK)
Chapter16:TheThreatofSnuffJulianPetley(Brunel
University,UK)BibliographySelectfilmographyIndex.

Millennium,and DarkSkies wovemenacingtechnologies,

paranormalforces,andshadowygovernmentagenciesinto
complextalesofcorruptionandcoverups.Mindcontrol,
alien abductions, secret government laboratories, and
implacablemeninblackmovedfromthefringestothe
mainstream of American culture, making weekly
appearancesinlivingroomseverywhere.Otherseriesthat
playedonfearsofnewtechnologiessuchasvirtualreality
setthestageforunfamiliarkindsofexploitation,while
Dark Angel offered glimpses of a nearfuture wasteland
devastatedbyatechnologicalcatastrophe.
In The Paranormal and the Paranoid: Conspiratorial
ScienceFictionTelevision,AaronJohnGulyasexploresthe
themesthatpermeatedanddefinedsciencefictiontelevision
attheturnofthemillennium.Theauthortracestherootsof
thisphenomenoninanearliergenerationofseriesincluding
The Invaders, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and Project
U.F.O.andexamineshowchangesintheculturallandscape
ledtotheproliferationofthesetypesofshows.Thisbook
delves intothe internalmythology ofshows like TheX
Files,resurrectsnowforgottenserieslike WildPalms and
VR.5, and provides an important glimpse into American
cultureatthecloseofthetwentiethcentur
HIDALGO, Pablo, Star Wars Propaganda: A
History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy,
New York, Harper Design, 2016, 112 pages.

JONES, Alan, Dario Argento: the Man, The

Myths and the Magic, Godalming (Surrey,
UK), FAB Press, 2016, 408 pages.

JACKSON, Neil, Shaun KIMBER, Johnny

WALKER & Thomas Joseph WATSON (eds.),
Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media, new
York, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, xvi, 320
pages.
ForewordDavidKerekes(ownerofHeadpressandauthor
of Killing For Culture)Introduction: The Cultural
Mythology of the Snuff Movie, Past and Present Neil
Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK), Shaun Kimber
(Bournemouth University, UK), Johnny Walker
(NorthumbriaUniversity,UK),andThomasJosephWatson
(Northumbria University, UK)Part I The Genesis and
PersistenceofSnuff:CrossCulturalContextsandCritical
ReactionsChapter1:UnfoundFootageandUnfounded
Rumours: The Manson Murders and the Persistence of
Snuff Mark Jones & Gerry Carlin (University of
Wolverhampton, UK)Chapter 2: A Murder Mystery in
BlackandBlue:AstraVideoandtheMarketingofSnuffin
the UK Mark McKenna (University of Sunderland,
UK)Chapter 3: From Snuff to the South: Transcultural
ReceptionsoftheItalianCannibalCycleXavierMendik
(UniversityofBrighton,UK)andNicoloGallio(University
of Bologna, Italy)Chapter 4: Animal Snuff: The Critical
ReceptionofWeekendandCannibalHolocaustSimon
Hobbs (University of Portsmouth, UK)Part II Reel to
Real?:MythsofSnuffinProductionandPerformance
Chapter5:TheSnuffFilmmakerinRealistHorrorNeil
Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK)Chapter 6: Home
Made:FacesofDeathandTracesofNostalgiainRecent
Amateur Horror Johnny Walker (Northumbria
University, UK)Chapter 7: It Was All Real, All of It:

KEEN, Helen,
The Science of Game of
Thrones, London, Coronet, 2016, 272 pages.
Amythbusting,mindblowing,jawdroppingandfunfilled
expeditionthroughtheworldofGameofThrones
KORD, T. S., Little Horrors: How Cinema's
Evil Children Play on Our Guilt, Jefferson
(NC), McFarland & Company, 2016, 200 pages.
Zombies,werewolvesandchainsawwieldingmaniacsare
triedandtruestaplesofhorrorfilms.Butnonecanmatch
thevisceraldreadevokedbyachildwithaninnocentface
and a diabolical stare. Cinemas evil children attack our
cherished ideas of innocence and our innocent bystander
statusastheaudience.Agoodhorrorfilmisascaryridea
devilchildmovieisaguilttrip.
LABROUSSE, Fabrice & Francis SCHALL, Star
Wars dcrypt: de George Lucas Walt
Disney, Paris, Bartillat, 2015, 639 pages.
LANGLEY,
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Psychology: A Madman with a Box, New
York, Sterling, 2016, 336 pages.
Dans la mme srie, chez le mme diteur et
du mme auteur:
Batman and Psychology: A Dark and
Stormy Knight, 2012, 337 pages.
Games of Thrones Psychology: the Mind is
Dark and Full of Terrors, 2016, 304 pages.
The Walking Dead Psychology: Psych of

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the Living Dead, 2015, 286 pages

Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the
Mind, 2015, 320 pages
Captain America vs. Iron Man : Freedom,
Security, Psychology, 2016, 192 pages.
Wonder Woman Psychology: Lassoing the
Truth, 2017, 320 pages
Star Trek Psychology: The Mental Fontier,
2017, 272 pages.

Future, New York, Harper Design, 2016, nvle

version mise jour, augmente, 2 volumes,
1056 pages.
OLSON, Debbie (ed.), The Child in PostApocalyptic
Cinema,
Lanham
(MD),
Lexington Books, 2016, 244 pages.
"This edited collection brings childhood studies into an
important conversation with a dominant genre of recent
years: postapocalyptic cinema. Olson unites a group of
international scholars who examine some expected films
(The Road and The Children of Men), but also some
unexpectedones(TheOmegaMan,IAmLegend,Dawnof
the Dead, and Daybreakers). The result is a diverse and
fascinating examination of how, as Olson puts it, the
Child . . . defines the lost past/present and becomes a
motivational,almostsacredimagetospuronreclamationof
the future." (Karen J. Renner, Northern Arizona
University)

LEITNER, Florian,
Medienhorror: Mediale
Angst im Film, Mnchen, Wilhelm Fink verlag,
2016, 336 pages.
LE MAY, John, The Big Book of Japanese
Giant Monster Movies [Vol. 1: 1954-1980],
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform,
2016, 272 pages.
MARIE, Arnaud, CHRISTEL, Benoit & Pierre
MAGNE, The Walking Dead: guide de survie
conceptuel, Aix-en-Provence, Rouge Profond,
(Debords), 2016, 150 pages.
TheWalkingDead.Unsuccsplantaireavecdesrecords
daudience plus de 17 millions de tlspectateurs aux
EtatsUnis.Cettesrienousfascineetnoustientenhaleine
parce quelle traite notre plus grande hantise. Toute son
histoire s'inscrit au point prcis o commence et finit le
tempsdeshommes:lemomentpostapocalyptique.[...]
Cettesrieestpreetsouventdouloureuse.Elleneposepas
d'autresproblmesquelesntresmaislesposeautrement
en cassant le monde qui nous offrait ses solutions de
fortune.Elletablitainsiunenouvelledistancefocaleavec
toutcequenousavonsbti.C'estl'intgralitdesrapports
humains qu'elle intime de rinventer. A la faon propre
d'une srie, coup de flashs philosophiques, elle nous
contraint penser. Aucun dogmatisme, nulle volont de
fonder oulgitimer. Cet essaisera votreguide desurvie
conceptueldansunmondecatastroph.

PAPIEAU, Isabelle, Il y avait des fois, La

Belle et la bte...Ralit et magie
l'italienne, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2016, 188
pages.
Enprenantcommematriaulesdeuxversionsinitialesde
La Belle et la Bte datant du XVIIIme sicle, puis en
tudiantsesadaptations(filmd'animation,longsmtrages,
albumsdebandesdessines,ballets,comdiesmusicales...),
IsabellePAPIEAUdresseunetonnanteanalyselittraire.
Devenuintemporeletanthologique,cecontetypecontient
nanmoins un grand nombre d'aspects relativement
mconnus.Notammentsesracinesitaliennes.
PELOSATO, Alain, Cinma fantastique et de
SF: essais et donnes pour une histoire du
cinma fantastique, 1895-2015, Givors,
Sfm ditions, les ditions de SFmag, 2016, 495
pages.
PELOSATO, Alain, Sries TV fantastiques SF
Policier, CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Platform, (Les Guides des sries TV de SF),
2016, 64 pages

McDOWELL, John C.,

Identity Politics in
George Luca's Star Wars Films, Jefferson
(NC), McFarland, 2016, xi, 196 pages.
A considerable body of scholarship on the sixpart Star
Wars series argues (unconvincingly) that the franchise
promotedneoconservatisminAmericanculturefromthe
late1970sonward.ButthereismuchinLucasgrandspace
operatosuggestsomethingmoreideologicallycomplexis
goingon.Thisbookchallengestheviewofthesagaasan
unambiguously violent text exemplifying reactionary
politics, and discusses the films identity politics with
regardtoraceandgender.

PORT, Andreas, Grindhouse Lounge...Als die

Spaghetti-Zombies die Welt auffressen
Books on Demand, 2016, 116 pages.
POWER, Aidan & Delia GONZALEZ DE REUFELS
(dir.),
Science-Fiction Kino als auidovisueller
Entwurf
von
Geschichte(n),
Rume und Klngen, Berlin, Bertz und
Fischer, 2016, 216 pages.

MURGUIA, Salvador (ed.), The Encyclopedia

of Japanese Horror Film, Lanham (MD),
Rowman & Littlefiled, 2016, 422 pages.

RICHARDS, Justin & George MANN, The

Whoniverse: An Untold History of the
Universe, New York, Harper Design, 2016, 320
pages.

OKUDA,
Michael,
The
Star
Trek,
Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the

RICKELS, Laurence A., The Psycho Records,

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is dispersed among multiple genres and constantly in

conversationwithglobalcinematicforms,shedemonstrates
that it is an especially malleable impulse that routinely
pushesHindifilmintonewformalandstylisticterritories.
Senalsoarguesthatgenderisaparticularlyaccommodating
stage on which the supernatural rehearses its most basic
compulsions;thus,theinterfacebetweengenderandgenre
provides an exceptionally productive lens into Hindi
cinema's negotiation of the modern and the global.
HauntingBollywood revealsthatthesupernatural'sunruly
energies continually resist containment, even as they
partake of and sometimes subvert Hindi cinema's most
enduring pleasures, from songs and stars to myth and
melodrama.

New York, Wallflower Press, 2016, x, 232

pages.
The Psycho Records follows the influence of the primal
showerscenewithinsubsequentslasherandsplatterfilms.
AmericansoldiersreturningfromWorldWarIIwerecalled
"psychos" if they exhibited mental illness. Robert Bloch
andAlfredHitchcockturnedthetermintoacatchallphrase
for a range of psychotic and psychopathic symptoms or
dispositions. They transferred a war disorder to the
American heartland. Drawing on his experience with
Germanfilm,Hitchcockpackedinsidehisshowerstallthe
essenceofschauer,theGermancognatemeaning"horror."
Later serial horror film production has posttraumatically
flashed back to Hitchcock's shower scene. In the end,
though,thisbookarguestheeffectistherapeuticallyfinite.
This extensive case study summons the genealogical
readings of philosopher and psychoanalyst Laurence
Rickels. The book opens not with another reading of
Hitchcock's 1960 film but with an evaluation of various
updatestovampirismovertheyears.Itconcludeswitha
closelookattheriseofdemonicandinfernaltendenciesin
horror movies since the 1990s and the problem of the
psychoasourmostuncannydoubleinclosequarters.

WEBER, Johannes,
"Like some Damned
Juggermaut" : the Proto-Filmic Monstrosity of late Victorian Figures, Bamberg,
University of Bamberg Press, 2015, 477 pages.
Theeponymousheroesof"StrangeCaseofDrJekylland
MrHyde","ThePictureofDorianGray"and"Dracula"are
knowntomostthroughthemediumoffilm.Thesenovels
were adaptedearly onin thehistory ofthe mediumand
havebeenrevisitedbyfilmmakerscountlesstimes.This
bookaskswhytheyhadsuchalastingresonanceinfilm.
Throughitsnumerouscasestudies,thismonographisable
toshowthatfilmhistorycanbetoldasahistoryofthe
representationofthehumanbody.Itfeaturesdiscussionsof
films as diverse as "Der Januskopf", "Nosferatu",
"Vampyr","LeTestamentduDocteurCordelier","Altered
States","DorianGrayimSpiegelderBoulevardpresse"and
"BramStokersDracula".

RIGGS, Ransom, Miss Peregrine's Journal

for Peculiar Children, Philadelphia, Quirk
Books, 2016, 192 pages
SCHAEFER, Jerome P.,
An Edgy Realism:
Film Theorical Encounters with Dogma 95,
new French Extremity, and the Shaky-Cam
Horror Film, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 2015, 163 pages.
Similartothewayinwhichthenewwavesofthe1960sand
1970shadbeencharacterizedbynewformsofcinematic
realism, cinema since the turn of the millennium has
pointedintothedirectionofanew,edgyrealism.Artfilm
movements such as Dogma 95 and the New French
Extremity,aswellasshakycamhorrorfilmslikeTheBlair
WitchProjectandParanormalActivity,provideevidenceof
thefactthattheproliferationofthedigitalsincethe1990s
has profoundly changed not only contemporary media
cultureandthesocialroleoffilm,asseen,forexample,in
the caseof amateurfilm andthe phenomenonof mobile
reportinganditsdistributionviaYouTubeandthelike,but
alsonotionsofrealismandauthenticity.

WEST, Alexandra, Films of the New French

Extremity: Visceral Horror and National
identity, Jefferson (NC), McFarland, 2016, x,
205 pages.
ThefilmsoftheNewFrenchExtremityhavebeenreviled
bycriticsbutadoredbyfansandfilmmakers.Knownfor
graphically brutal depictions of sex and violence, the
subgenreemergedfromtheFrencharthousesceneinthe
late 1990s and became a cult phenomenon, eventually
mergingintothehorrorgenrewhereitbecameassociated
withAmericantortureporn.DecidedlyFrenchinflavor,the
filmsseektorevealthedarksideofFrenchsociety.This
bookprovidesanindepthstudyofNewFrenchExtremity,
focusing on such films as Trouble Every Day (2001),
Irreversible (2002), Twentynine Palms (2003), High
Tension(2003)andMartyrs(2008).Theauthorexploresthe
social implications of cinematic cruelty presented not as
"violentfilms"butas"filmsaboutviolence."

SEN, Meheli, Haunting Bollywood: Gender,

Genre, and the Supernatural in Hindi
Commercial Cinema, Austin, University of
Texas Press, 2017, 292 pages.
FromGothicghostfilmsofthe1950stosnakefilmsofthe
1970sand1980stotoday'sgloballyinfluencedzombieand
vampirefilms,MeheliSendelvesintowhatthesupernatural
is and the varied modalities through which it raises
questionsoffilmform,history,modernity,andgenderin
SouthAsianpubliccultures.Arguingthatthesupernatural

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methodologicalpathwaysandframeworks.
BARASCH RUBINSTEIN, Emanuela, Mephisto
in the Third Reich: Literary Representations of Evil in Nazi Germany, Berlin, De
Gruyter, 2015, viii, 170 pages.
BEAUPR, Nicolas (dir.), crivains en guerre,
14-18: "Nous sommes des machines
oublier", Paris, Gallimard, 2016, 159 pages.
BGHIN, Cyril, Les Sentiers de la gloire,
Stanley Kubrick, Paris, Centre National du
cinma et de l'image anime [Cahiers du
cinma],(Lycens et apprentis du cinma),
2015, 20 pages.
BIONDI, Marino,
Tempi di uccidere: la
Grande Guerra: letteratura e storiografia.
Arezzo, Edizioni Helicon, 2015, 566 pages.

ALAVI, Bettina (dir.), Zwangsmigration im

Film: der Zweite Welkrieg in deutscher,
polnischer und tschechischen Spiegelung,
Heidelberg, Mattes, 2015, 230 pages.

BLOCK, Marcelline & Barry NEVIN (eds.),

French Cinema and the Great War:
Remembrance and Representation, Lanham
(MD), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, xxvi, 180
pages.
French Cinema and the Great War: Remembrance and
Representation provides the first booklength study of
WorldWarIasitisfeaturedinFrenchcinema,fromthe
silenteratocontemporaryfilms.Presentedinthreethematic
sectionsRecording and Remembering the Great War,
WomenattheFront,andInterrogatingCommemoration
theessaysinthisvolumeexplorethewaysinwhichFrench
film contributes to the restoration and modification of
memories of the war. Films such as La Grande
Illusion,King of Hearts, A Very Long Engagement, and
Joyeux Noel are among those discussed in the volumes
examination of the various ways in which film mediates
personalandcollectivememoriesofthiscriticalhistorical
event.

ALFU,
Les
Tueurs
de
boches:
les
romanciers populaires dans la Grande
Guerre: panorama du roman populaire de
guerre, Amiens, Encrage, 2016, 2 volumes
brochs ensemble, 790 pages.
Les crivains qui ont le plus crit pendant la Premire
Guerre mondiale sur la guerre ellemme sont les
romanciers populaires. Rares sont ceux, parmi les plus
connusdeleurtempscommeparmilesplusmodestes,qui
n'ontpasmisleurtalentauservicedelapatrie.Certains
n'ont,durantplusdequatreans,fournilapresseouaux
collections fasciculaires que des romans de guerre,
commeArnouldGalopinouGastonLeroux;d'autresenont
aussicritstoutencontinuantproposerd'autresuvres,
telJeandeLaHireouMauriceLeblanc.Maislenombrede
romansdeguerrepopulaireestimpressionnantetilest
lgitimed'enfairel'inventaireetl'analysel'heureol'on
commmorelecentenairedelaGrandeGuerre.

BOUTET, Marjolaine (dir.), Guerres en sries

(1): sries et guerre contre la terreur, dans
TV/Series, no 9, 2016.
Cenumroexploredefaontransdisciplinairecommentles
sriesamricainesontreprsentlesmultiplesaspectsdela
lutte contre le terrorisme et ses consquences militaires,
politiques,moralesetsocialesdepuisle11septembre2001.
https://tvseries.revues.org[pourvoirlesommaire]

ANDERSON, George Parker (ed.), Novelists

on the American Civil War, Farmington Hills
(Mich.), Cengage Learning, 2016, xxiii, 432
pages.
BAKOGIANNI, Anastasia & Valerie M. HOPE
(eds.),
War as Spectacle: Ancient and
Modern Perspectives on the Display of
Armed Conflict, London & New York,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, xiv, 454 pages.
WarasSpectacleexaminesthedisplayofarmedconflictin
classicalantiquityanditsimpactinthemodernworld.The
contributorsaddressthefollowingquestions:howandwhy
was war conceptualized as a spectacle in our surviving
ancientGreekandLatinsources?Howhasthisviewofwar
been adapted in postclassical contexts and to what
purpose?Thiscollectionofessaysengageswiththemotif
of war as spectacle through a variety of theoretical and

BRANACH-KALLAS, Anna & Nelly STREHLAU

(eds.), Re-Imagining the First World War:
New perspectives in Anglophone Literature and Culture, Newcastle upon Tyne,
Cambridge Scholars, 2015, xviii, 393 pages.
BOYLE, Brenda M. (ed.), The Vietnam War:
Topics in Contemporary North American
Literature, London & New York, Bloomsbury ,

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les diffrentes guerres plus ou moins imaginaires quil

racontadansdiversromanspublisentre1889et1915.Un
genrelittrairedontilestindniablementlechampion.
Rappel: le no 71-72, dirig par Daniel
Compre, avait dj pour thme: La Grande
Guerre du soldat populaire, t-automne 2015,
352 pages.

2015, xvi, 205 pages.

BOYLE, Brenda M. & Jeehyun LIM (eds.),
Looking Back on the Vietnam War :
Twenty-first Century Perspectives, New
Brunswick ; New Jersey : Rutgers University
Press, (War Culture), 2016], 224 pages.
Introduction:lookingbackattheVietnamWar/BrendaM.
BoyleandJeehyunLimVietnameserefugeesandInternet
memorials:whendoeswarendandwhogetstodecide?/
YenLEspirituBroken,butnotforsaken:disabledSouth
Vietnamese veterans in Vietnam and the Vietnamese
diaspora/QuanTueTranWhatisVietnameseAmerican
literature? / Viet Thanh Nguyen Viet Nam and the
diaspora:absence,presence,andthearchive/LanDuong
Liberalhumanitarianismandpostcoldwarculturalpolitics:
thecaseofLeLyHayslip/JeehyunLimAnnHui'sboat
people:documentingVietnameserefugeesinHongKong/
Vinh Nguyen The deep black hole: Vietnam in the
memories of Australian veterans and refugees / Robert
Mason and Leonie Jones Missing bodies and
homecomingspirits/HeonikKwonAgentorange:toxic
chemical,narrativeofsuffering,metaphorforwar/Diane
Niblack Fox Reseeing Cambodia and recollecting the
Nam:avertiginouscritiqueofthemilitarysublime/Cathy
J. SchlundVials Naturalizing war: the stories we tell
abouttheVietnamWar/BrendaM.Boyle.

COLLECTIF, Imaginaires de guerre et autres

conflits, dans Carnets, revue lectonique
d'tudes franaises, IIe srie, no 5,
novembre 2015.
Introduction
Paul Bleton: Guerre d'outrefiction ? Guerre en rcit
(France,19812001)MarcQuaghebeur:Jeunescrivains
durantlapremireoccupationallemandedelaBelgique
IrneLanglet:Guerresdufutur,conflitsduprsent.
MarieHlneLarochelle:Lacommunautmonstrueuse:
cueils et postulats Mathieu Dijoux : Mal fou arda
nerbona.Laviolencepique:unimaginaireambigu
Olivier Wicky: Guerre totale et guerre sacre : les
mtamorphosesdelaGrandeGuerredansLaChansonde
VauxDouaumontGuillaumeGomot:UnesecondeTroie.
AndromaquedeRacineoulartderefairelaguerre
ArsneBlkain:QuandonrefuseonditnondAhmadou
Kourouma.Unelectureidentitairedesoriginesdelaguerre
deCtedIvoire.StphanieChifflet:Reprsentationsdes
rbellionsdespatriotesdansleslittraturesqubcoiseet
franaiseduXIXesicle:LouisFrchetteetJulesVerne
PascaleMontresor:Lhybris,vecteurdhrosation?
GkeBayindirGoularasAyeBetlNuholu:Laguerre,
la mmoire et les rcits de vie Alexia Gassin Andre
Makine, tmoin intemporel de la guerre en Russie
sovitique.LaurenceBoudart:Rsurrection:unespace
littrairepourl'imaginaireentempsdeguerre
Augustin Voegele: Les deux corps de Jules Romains :
crirelaguerrequandonnel'apasfaite.ChantalDhennin:
Lon Bocquet (18761954), guerre et littrature Agns
CousindeRavel:Imaginairesdeguerre.ClaudeSimonet
PascalQuignard:duvculcritureVanessaAuroy:De
loubli la reconnaissance : Le rcit de guerre mis en
imagesdansLaNueve.LesespagnolsquiontlibrParis,
dePacoRoca

CASTON, Victor & Silke-Maria WEINECK (eds.),

Our
Ancient
Wars:
Rethinking
War
through the Classics, Ann Arbor, University of
Michigan Press, 2016, 296 pages
CHAPEAU, Vincent,
Sur la route de La
Grande Vadrouille: les coulisses du
tournage, Paris, Hors Collection, 2016, 139
pages.
COLLECTIF, Tagung Der Krieg und die
Frauen. Geschlecht und Populre Literatur
im Ersten Weltkrieg, Mnster, Waxmann,
2016, 316 pages.
COLLECTIF, Les Guerres du Capitaine
Danrit, dans Le Rocambole, deuxime srie,
no 74, printemps 2016.[Sous la direction de
Daniel Compre et de Marie Palewska], 174
pages.
Si,danslaralitetdepuislongtempsilseproduit
des guerres entre les humains, il se publie aussi depuis
longtempsmoinslongtemps,certainementdesrcitsde
guerresimaginaires(voirenparticulierI.F.Clarke, Voices
ProphesyingWar).Laguerre,seloncertains,seraitliela
nature humaine. La guerre seraitelle lavenir de
lhomme? Il est sr que les romans qui annoncent des
avenirsinquitantsnemanquentpas.
Le Capitaine Danrit pensaitil que ses romans o il
imaginaitdesguerresfutures,allaient,unjour,seraliser?
Fautederpondrecettequestion,notredossierprsente

CUNNINGHAM, Douglas A. & John C. NELSON

(eds.),
A Companion to the War Film,
Malden (MA), John Wiley & Sons, 2016, 472
pages.
Introduction01"Hearing"theMusicinWarFilmsRobert
Eberwein 02 Antilochus's Burden: The CrisisCatharsis
Rhetoric of Bereavement Messages David Ryan 03 War
Films in an Age of War and Cinema John Garofolo 04
Exploring War Horror's Narrative Punch in Spielberg's
Munich and Saving Private Ryan Sandra Singer 05 The
Service Tragicomedy: From Woody Allen to Full Metal
Jacket Matthew Sorrento 06 The Wartime American
WomanonFilm:HomeFrontSoldierJeanineBasinger07
"Conspiracy of Silence": The Containment of Military
WomeninWorldWarIINewsreelsandShortFilmsAnna

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Froula08FilmingaNuclearState:TheUSAF'sLookout
MountainLaboratoryKevinHamiltonandNedO'Gorman
09 The Gendered Remembrance of JapaneseAmerican
Internment:ComeSeetheParadiseandSnowFallingon
Cedars Yuki Obayashi 10 "The Angels of Bataan and
Corregidor": Representing Nurses in the Pacific Theater
Debra WhiteStanley 11 In the Exigency of a National
Cause:Bollywood'sResponsestotheKargilWarKaustav
BakshiandRamitSamaddar12TransnationalAlgerianWar
CinemaRevisited:ComicReliefinMerzakAllouache'sBab
elouedCityandBabelOuedChristaJones13FiftyYears
Hence:TheForgottenWarRememberedinSouthKorean
and American Cinema John Nelson 14 Dresden (2006):
Marketing the Bombing of Dresden in Germany, Great
Britain,andtheUnitedStatesLindaR.Robertson15How
to Recognize a War Movie: The Contemporary Science
Fiction Blockbuster as Military Recruitment Film Tanine
Allison16MakingCitizensoutofSoldiers:Rearmingthe
IndividualinPaulMay's08/15MarkGagnon17Thoseat
Home Also Serve: Women's Television and Embedded
Military Realism in Army Wives (Lifetime, 20062014)
Mary Elizabeth Haralovich 18 Generation Kill: The
InvasionofIraqAsSeenonHBODeborahL.Jaramillo19
"TiKToKontheClock,butthePartyDon'tStop,No":The
ParodicMilitaryDanceVideoonYouTubeLeahShafer20
Kuwaiting for Godot: The Absurd Theatre of War in
JarheadCasonMurphy21TheMeaningoftheSoldier:In
theYearofthePigandHeartsandMindsLauraBrowder
22 Why We (Shouldn't) Fight: The DoubleOptic of the
War Documentary Kris Fallon 23 A War for Everyone:
Strategic Ambiguity in the Homefront War Drama Dan
Hassoun24IsThereSuchaThingasanAntiwarFilm?
Agnieszka Soltysik 25 Through a Soldier's Eyes:
Stereoscopic Gazing in Operation Homecoming: Writing
theWartimeExperienceKellyWilzIndex.

conflit.Siunepartied'entreeuxrestetrsinfluenceparle
cinmahollywoodien,endpitdelaRvolutionde1979et
delacondamnationdel'AmriquecommeGrandSatan,
uneautrecherchelaborerungenrespcifiquel'Iran,en
cohrenceavecl'idologiedelajeuneRpubliqueislamique
etavecl'imaginaireshi'itedumartyre.
DODMAN, Trevor, Shell Shock, Memory, and
the Novel in the Wake of World War I, New
York, Cambridge University Press, 2015, ix,
244 pages.
ELSAESSER,
Thomas
&Michael
WEDEL,
Krper, Tod und Technik: Metamorphosen
des
Kriegsfilms,
Konstanz,
Konstanz
Universty Press & Padeborn, Fink verlag, 2016,
152 pages.
In prgnanten Einzelanalysen spannen die Autoren einen
BogenvonFrancisFordCoppolasApocalypseNow(1979)
berStevenSpielbergsSavingPrivateRyan(1998)bishin
zu aktuellen Beispielen des Genres, um die sthetischen
PrmissenundkulturellenResonanzendiesesWandelsbis
in die Gegenwart hinein offenzulegen. Wie gehen
Kriegsfilme mit Geschichte und traumatischen
gesellschaftlichenEreignissenum?Inwiefernspiegeltsich
in ihnen die neue Qualitt asymmetrischer militrischer
AntagonismenineinerglobalisiertenWelt?Wasschlielich
sagensiebereineKulturaus,diesichindiesenFilmen
Instrumente schafft, um die tdliche Gewalt moderner
Militrtechnik,dieGrenzenundEntgrenzungensubjektiven
KrperempfindenssthetischauszutestenaufderSeiteder
auf der Leinwand handelnden und leidenden Figuren
ebensowieaufderderZuschauerimKino?
EWERS, Heins-Heino, et al., (dirs.), Erster
Weltkrieg: Kindheit, Jugend und Literatur,
Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2016, 356
pages.

DECKER, Todd R., Hymns for the Fallen:

Combat Movie Music and Sound after
Vietnam,
Oakland
(CA),
University
of
California Press, 2017, 274 pages.
Consideringlandmarkmoviessuchas Apocalypse Now,
Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Black Hawk
Down,TheHurtLocker,andAmericanSniperaswellas
lesserknownfilms,ToddDeckershowshowthedomainof
sound,anexperientiallyrichandculturallyresonantaspect
ofthecinema,notonlyinvokestherealitiesofwar,butalso
shapestheAmericanaudiencesengagementwithsoldiers
and veterans as fleshandblood representatives of the
nation.

GOSCILO, Helena & Margaret B., Fade from

Red: The Cold War Ex-Enemy in Russian
and American Film, 1990-2005, Washington
D.C., New Academia Publishing, 2014, x, 417
pages.
GORDON, Marsha,
Film is like a Battleground : Sam Fuller's War Movies, New
York, Oxford University Press, 2017, 328
pages.
After establishing the roots of Fuller's cinematographic
schoolinginthetrenchesduringWorldWarII,including
carefulconsiderationofhis16mmfootageofaNazicamp
attheendofthatwar,FilmisLikeaBattlegroundexplores
Fuller's first forays into hot war representation in
HollywoodwiththepioneeringKoreanconflictfilms The
SteelHelmet (1951)and FixedBayonets (1951).Thispair
of films introduced Fuller to his first runins with the
AmericanpoliticalmachinewhentheytriggeredbothFBI
andDepartmentofDefenseinvestigationsintohispolitical

DEVICTOR, Agns, Images, combattants et

martyrs: la guerre Iran-Irak vue par le
cinma iranien, Paris, Karthala, 2015, 487
pages.
Pour comprendre les enjeux historiques, politiques et
idologiquesdecetteguerre,maisaussicommentelleat
mene et vcue au quotidien par les combattants et les
citoyens iraniens, Agns Devictor analyse l'tonnante
production de films de guerre tourns en Iran durant le

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sympathiesandaffiliations.Fuller'scoldwarfilmsPickup
onSouthStreet (1953)and,thoughitveersintohotwar
territory,HellandHighWater(1954)areFuller'sresponses
tothepoliticalpressureshehadnowpersonallyexperienced
andresented.AchapteronFuller'srepresentationofpre
Americaninvasion Vietnam in China Gate (1957)
alongsidehisunrealizedVietnamwarscreenplay,TheRifle
(ca. late 1960s), illustrates the degree to which Fuller's
representation of war and nation shifted even as he
continuedtoprobewar'simpossiblecontradictions.
FilmisLikeaBattlegroundwouldbeincompletewithouta
thoroughexplorationofthefilmsdepictingthewarFuller
personallyexperiencedandspentalifetimecontemplating,
WWII.Verboten!(1959),Merrill'sMarauder's(1962),and
TheBigRedOne(1980)demonstrateFuller'srepresentation
ofamorallyjustifiablewar.Fuller's1959CBStelevision
pilotDogfaceoffers a glimpse at one of Fuller's failed
attempts to bring his WWII story into American living
rooms. The book concludes with a chapter about a
documentaryfilmmadelateinthedirector'slifethatreturns
Fuller to the actual site of the Nazi's Falkenau camp, at
whichhediscusseshisexperiencesthereandthatpowerful,
unforgettablefootageheshotinthespringof1945.

LaROCCA, David, The Philosophy of War

Films, Lexington, University Press of Kentucky,
2014, 529 pages.
Introduction: war films andtheineffability of war /David
LaRocca The aesthetics of war on screen. War and
representation / Fredric Jameson War pictures: digital
surveillancefromforeigntheatertohomelandsecurityfront
/GarrettStewartLensesinto war:digitalvritinIraq
war films / Stacey Peebles Beyond panopticism: the
biopoliticallabor of surveillanceand war incontemporary
film / Joshua Gooch Seeing soldiers, seeing persons:
Wittgenstein,filmtheory,andCharlieChaplin'sShoulder
arms / Burke Hilsabeck War as condition of self
formationandselfdissolution.Apocalypsewithin:thewar
epic as crisis of selfidentity / Garry l. Hagberg The
violatedbody:affectiveexperienceandsomaticintensityin
Zero dark thirty / Robert Burgoyne "All in war with
time": medium as meditation in Sherman's march /
LawrenceF.RhuThepowerofmemoryandthememory
ofpower:warsandgravesinWesternsandJidaigeki/Inger
S. B. Brodey The ethical tribulations of war. The
ubiquitous absence of the enemy in contemporary Israeli
war films /HolgerPtzschGeneralPattonandPrivate
Ryan:theconflictingreality of war and films about war /
AndrewFialaThework of artintheage of embedded
journalism:fictionversusdepictioninZerodarkthirty/K.
l. Evans War, nature, and the absolute. Vernacular
metaphysicsonTerrenceMalick'sThethinredline/Robert
PippinWaranditsfictionalrecoveryonscreen:narrative
managementofdeathinThebigredoneandThethinred
line / Elisabeth Bronfen "Profoundly unreconciled to
nature":ecstatictruthandthehumanisticsublimeinWerner
Herzog'swarfilms/DavidLaRocca.

GREENBAUM, Andrea, The Tropes of War:

Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture,
New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 70 pages.
HOMAN, Sidney & Hernan VERA, Hitler in the
Movies: Finding der Fhrer on Film,
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press & Lanham
(MD), Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, 148 pages.
HOWELL, Jennifer,
The Algerian War in
French-Language
Comics:
Postcolonial
Memory, History, and Subjectivity, Lanham,
(MD), Lexington Books, xxxvi, 2015, 223
pages.

MACKENZIE, S. P., The Battle of Britain on

Screen: The Few in British Film and
Television, London, Bloomsbury Academic,
2016, 192 pages.

HUTCHINSON, Coleman (ed.), A History of

American Civil War Literature, New York,
Cambridge University Press, 2016, 357 pages.
IANNONE, Luigi (dir.), Ernst Jnger, Chieti
Silfanelli, 2015, 514 pages.
JACQUET, Michel, Guerre d'Algrie: la
dernire scance, Chinon, Anovi, 2015, 138
pages.
KAPPELHOFF, Hermann, Genre und Gemeinsinn: Hollywood zwischen Krieg und
Demokratie, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2016, 420
pages.
LACEY, Karen, A Class Apart; The Military
Man in French and British Fiction, 17401789, Oxford, et al., Peter Lang, 2016, 244
pages.

This new, updated edition of The Battle of Britain on

Screen examines in depth the origins, development and
receptionofthemajordramaticscreenrepresentationsof
'TheFew'intheBattleofBritainproducedoverthepast75

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years.PaulMacKenzieexploresbothcontinuityandchange
in the presentation of a wartime event that acquired and
retainsnearmythicaldimensionsinpopularconsciousness
andhasbeenrepresentedmanytimesinfeaturefilmsand
televisiondramas.

EmmaShortSectionI:WritingwarChurchill'swar
horse:children'sliteratureandthepleasuresofwar/Paul
Stevens "Flying the flag" : Arturo Rossato's fantasy
novel,L'aeroplanodiGirandolino/LindsayMyersOn
theItalianfront:SalvatorGotta'sPiccoloAlpino(1926)/
FrancescaOrestanoA"revolutionary"war?:girlswriting
girls in America's St. Nicholas Magazine / Andrea
McKenzieWar,theblackdiaspora,andanticolonialist
journalism : the cae of Our boys and girls / Katharine
Capshaw Germanic power and Uncle Sam's orders :
immigrantexperienceoftheFirstWorldWarinSwedish
American writings for youth / Agnieszka Stasiewicz
BiekowskaSectionII:Propagandaandexperience
Lives of girls and young women in Germany during the
FirstWorldWar/AndrewDonson"Theeasternglow
wherethebigsonsgo":ArnoldWilson,CliftonCollege,
andtheFirstWorldWar/BarbaraCookeAustraliaand
wartime chorography : showing and telling the story of
home/RosemaryRossJohnstonThebuildingofboysfor
war:themilitarizationofboys'workintheCanadianand
AmericanYMCAs/JonathanWeier"Asalesmansoldier
for Uncle Sam" : images of childhood in US food
conservation,19141919/JustinNordstromSectionIII:
EducationandplayFunandmilitarygames:thewarin
Germanpicturebooks,19141915/EmerO'Sullivan"A
verycruelthing":Canadianchildren,theFirstWorldWar,
and the Grain grower's guide / Kristine Moruzi "How
merrily the battle rages" : props for makebelieve in the
Edwardiannursery/RosieKennedy"Playingsoldiers?":
war,boys,andtheBritishtoyindustry/RachelDuffett
Section IV : Activism Girl volunteers : empowerment
through stories / Margaret R. Higonnet Scouting for
rebels:NaFiannaireannandpreparationforthecoming
war,19091918/MarnieHayAchild'sarmyofmillions:
theAmericanJuniorRedCross/BrandenLittle"Leagues
oflove"and"columncomrades":children'sresponsesto
warinlateVictorianandEdwardianEngland/SinPooley
Afterword : Prophesying war : the hidden agendas of
children'sliterature,19001914...and2015/PeterHunt.

LIVECCI, Nicolas,
L'toile jaune et le
manteau rouge: une tude de La Liste de
Schindler,
Bruxelles,
Les
Impressions
nouvelles, 2016, 170 pages.
MALKANI, Guillaume,
L'Idal de Jean
Lartguy, Versailles, Via Romana, 2016, 135
pages. Prface d'Hubert Le Roux.
MASON, Richard & Jaroslaw SUCHOPLES
(eds.), Representations of War in Films and
Novels, Frankfurt am Main, et al., Peter Lang,
2015, 257 pages.
Thisbookdiscussesdifferentaspectsofthecinematicand
literary representationof war. Thepapers inthis volume
considertherolesofwarfilmsandwarnovelsinremaking
historicalmemories, theinfluenceoffilmsandnovelsas
social media and debate their roles as instruments of
propagandaandmystification.Thebookisorganizedalong
chronological and geographical lines, looking first at the
FirstandSecondWorldWarsinEurope;thenthePacific
War;theVietnamWar;andespionageandpropagandain
theColdWarandPostColdWar.
MATHESON, Sue, The Westerns and War
Films of John Ford, Lanham (MD), Rowman &
Littlefield, 2016, 378 pages.
MEIERHOFER, Christian (ed.), Materialschlachten: der Erste Weltkrieg und seine
Darstellungsressourcen
in
Literatur,
Publizistik und populren Medien, 18991929, Gttingen, V & R unipress, 2015, 504
pages.

PIETTE, Adam,
Companion to
and American
University Press,

NGUYEN, Viet Thanh, Nothing Never Dies:

Vietnam and the Memory of War,
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2016,
374 pages.
Fromakaleidoscopeofculturalformsnovels,memoirs,
cemeteries, monuments, films, photography, museum
exhibits,videogames,souvenirs,andmoreNothingEver
Dies bringsacomprehensivevisionofthewarintosharp
focus.

et al., (eds.),
Edinburgh
Twentieth-Century British
War Literature, Edinburgh
2016, 590 pages.

PRKSE, Uwe, In Stahlgewittern oder als

berlaufer zur Natur ? [Ernst Jngers
Erlebnis und Wilhelm Lehmanns Deserteur und
Luftmensch im Ersten Weltkrieg, Mainz, Akad.
der Wiss. und der Literatur, 2015, 31 pages.
PUGET, Clment,
Verdun, le cinma,
l'vnement, Paris, Nouveau Monde ditions,
(Histoire et cinma), 2016, 543 pages.
Verdun,une"preuve"?Quiendouterait!Lecinmade
cettebatailleestnpendantl'affrontementde1916,anne
des premires autorisations de tournage de l'Arme
franaise sur le front. Les premires images animes de
l'vnement"Verdun"sontdoncdesfilmsmilitaires.Ds

PAUL, Lissa, Rosemary ROSS JOHNSTON &

Emma SHORT (eds.), Children's Literature
and Culture of the First World War, New
York, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016,
xviii, 347 pages.
Foreword:Allunknownsoldiersnow/MichaelMorpurgo
Introduction:Children'sliteratureandcultureoftheFirst
World War / Lissa Paul, Rosemary Ross Johnston, and

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1917,lecinmadefictioncommercialprendlerelaisdu
Service Cinmatographique de l'Arme. Avec Verdun tel
quelepoilul'avcu(1927),labatailles'exposedansles
rcits films, mlant archives et documents de fiction.
L'auteurmetainsienavantlarencontreproblmatiqueentre
" histoire prive et grande Histoire ". S'appuyant sur les
travaux de Georges Duby, Paul Ricoeur ou Michel de
Certeau,ilfaitlalumiresurlesproductionsfilmiquesqui
ontconvoqulaguerre.Lesannes1930donnentl'occasion
aucinmadetmoignerdelabataille(LaGrandeIllusion).
Si,danslasecondemoitiduXXesicle,Verdunsemble
avoirdsertlechampmmorieletl'crandecinma,son
incessantersurrectionnecomblepastouteslestranches
delammoire.

SMYTH, J. S., From here to Eternity, London,

BFI, (BFI Film Classics), 2015, 112 pages.
SCHAROLD, Irmgard (dir.),
La Guerre
d'indpendance
algrienne

l'cran,
Wrzburg, Knigshausen & Neumann, 2016,
217 pages.
I. Scharold: Introduction E. Arend: Des guerres de
mmoire cinmatographiques autour de la guerre
dIndpendanceaucinmafrancoalgrienV.Domberg:
La guerre dAlgrie dans le cinma algrien et franco
algrien: reprsentations, exclusions, changements I.
Scharold:Guerreettorturefacelacensure:Lepetitsoldat
(1960/62)deJeanLucGodardM.Wei:AlainResnais:
Muriel ou le temps dun retour (1963). Fragments du
refoulement de la guerre dAlgrie A. Keilhauer:
Lintricationentremmoirecollectiveettravaildemmoire
personnelledansLaNoubadesfemmesduMontChenoua
(1978) dAssia Djebar D. DahanFeucht: Le coup de
Sirocco (1979): une perspective juive B. Burtscher
Bechter:Delahonte lHonneur. Monpreceharki
(2003) de Dalila Kerchouche et Harkis (2006) dAlain
TasmaB.MertzBaumgartner:17octobre1961Vers
une polyphonie des mmoires: Jean Tasma Nuit Noire
(2005)C.Ruhe:Lesilenceaprslaguerreesttoujoursla
guerreLammoiredelaguerredAlgrieentreamnsie
ethypermnsie

RAU, Petra (ed.),

Long Shadows: The
Second World War in British Fiction and
Film, Evanston (IL), Northwestern University
Press, 2016, vii, 309 pages.
Long shadows and blind spots / Petra Rau Escaping
1945:popularfictionandtheendoftheWar/GillPlain
"RemembertheTorrin":positioninginwhichweserve/
RichardFarmer"Drinkinganddrinkingandscreaming":
wartime sociality in Patrick Hamilton's The slaves of
solitude/ElunedSummersBremnerFacingthefuture:
childreninpostwarBritain/AllanHepburn"Weshall
nevermakeahomeofthis":ElizabethTaylor'spostwar
reconstructionfiction/PaulaDerdiger"Someoneshould
putitonrecord":StormJamesonand"witnessliterature"/
Elizabeth Maslen Postwar espionage fiction : memory
andFascisminemergencystatethinking/AdamPiette
"Knowledgeoftheworkingofbombs":thestrategicair
offensiveinrhetoricandfiction/PetraRau"Abomb
madeofwords" :letterwritinginfictionsoftheSecond
WorldWar/VictoriaStewart"Hewishedtodefenda
country that wasn't his" : British subjects/British
servicemeninZadieSmith'sWhiteteethandAndreaLevy's
Small island / Michael Perfect The Nazis in Britain :
representationsofthewartimeoccupationoftheChannel
Islands/SueViceDress, women's Holocaust survivor
memoirs, and the "thoughtful" work of Linda Grant /
MargaretD.Stetz.

SCHNEIDER, Thomas F. (dir.), Auszeiten vom

Ttem: Remarques Im Westen nichts
neues, der Weg zurck und die Verfilmung
von Arch of Triumph, Gttingen, V & R
unipress, 2016, 191 pages.
TRAVERS, Steven, Coppola's Monster Film:
The Making of Apocalypse Now, Jefferson
(NC), McFarland, 2016, 240 pages.
In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford
CoppolawenttothePhilippinestofilm ApocalypseNow.
He scrapped much of the original script, a jingoistic
narrative of U.S. Special Forces winning an unwinnable
war. Harvey Keitel, originally cast in the lead role, was
firedandreplacedbyMartinSheen,whohadaheartattack.
An overweight Marlon Brando, paid a huge salary, did
morephilosophizingthanacting.Itrainedalmosteveryday
and a hurricane wiped out the set. The Philippine
government promised the use of helicopters but diverted
them at the last minute to fight communist and Muslim
separatists.Coppolafilmedforfouryearswithnoendingin
thescript.Theshootthreatenedtobethebiggestdisasterin
moviehistory.ProvidingadetailedsnapshotofAmerican
cinemaduringtheVietnamWar,thisbooktellsthestoryof
howApocalypseNow becameoneofthegreatfilmsofall
time.

ROIG RECHOU, Blanca Ana (ed.),

The
Reprsentations of Spanish Civil War in
European Children's Literature, Frankfurt
am Main, et al., Peter Lang, 2014, 303 pages.
ROMANA ANDREOTTI, Francesca, Simona
MANCINI, et al., (dir.), Letteratura e grande
guerra, Pisa, Fabrizio Serra editore, 2015, 119
pages.
SCHUFF, Jochen & Martin SEEL (dir.),
Erzhlungen
und
Gegenerzhlungen:
Terror
in
Krieg
im
Kino
des
21
Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt, Campus Verlag,
2016, 304 pages.

THEETEN, Griet,
La Grande Guerre
revisite: 14-18 dans le roman franais
contemporain, Genve, Librairie Droz, 2015,
401 pages.

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slinging, laconic white male heroes who emphasize

individualism, violence, and an idiosyncratic form of
justice.Thisidealizedmasculinityhasbeenfusedwithideas
of national identity and character. Masculinities in
Literature of the American West examines how
contemporaryliteraryWesternspushbackagainstthecoded
image of the Western hero, exposing pervasive anxieties
aboutwhatitmeansto"actlikeaman."

VANCHERI, Luc, La Grande illusion: le

muse imaginaire de Jean Renoir: essai
d'iconologie,
Villeneuve
d'Ascq,
Presses
universitaires du Septentrion, 2015, 130 pages.
ZIMNIAK, Pawel,
Grosser Krieg kleiner
Leute: Perspektivierungen des Ersten
Weltkriegs in der polnische Literatur
1914-1920, Gttingen, V & R unipress, 2016,
222 pages.

COWARD, John M., Indians Illustrated: The

Image of Native Americans in the Pictorial
Press, Urbana, University of Illinois Press,
2016, 256 pages.
After1850,Americansswarmedtotakeinaraftofnew
illustratedjournalsandpapers.Engravingsanddrawingsof
"buckskinned braves" and "Indian princesses" proved an
immenselypopularattractionforconsumersofpublications
like Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's
Weekly.InIndiansIllustrated,JohnM.Cowardchartsa
social and cultural history of Native American
illustrationsromantic, violent, racist, peaceful, and
otherwiseintheheydayoftheAmericanpictorialpress.

WESTERNS
LITTRATURE - CINMA - TV - BD

FERREIRA, Francisco, L'Homme qui tua

Liberty Valence, Paris, Centre National du
Cinma [Cahiers du Cinma], (Lycens et
apprentis), 2016, 20 pages.
FRYE, Steven, The Cambridge Companion
to the Literature of the American West,
New York, Cambridge University Press, 2016,
286 pages.

CAUDILLAN, Edward & Paul ASHDOWN,

Inventing Custer: The Making of an
American Legend, Laham (MD), Rowman &
Littlefield, 2015, 388 pages.
CustersLastStandremainsoneofthemosticonicevents
inAmericanhistoryandculture.HadCusterprevailedat
the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been
noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper
headlines.Indefeat,howevertacticallyinconsequentialin
the larger conflict, Custer became legend. In Inventing
Custer: The Making of an American Legend, Edward
Caudill and Paul Ashdown bridge the gap between the
Custer who lived and the one weve immortalized and
mythologized into legend. While too many books about
CustertreattheCivilWarperiodonlyasapreludetothe
Little Bighorn, Caudill and Ashdown present him as a
productoftheCivilWar,ReconstructionEra,andthePlains
Indian Wars. They explain how Custer became mythic,
shaped by the press and changing sentiments toward
AmericanIndians,andshowthemanywaysthemythhas
evolvedandwillcontinuetoevolveastheUnitedStates
continuestochange.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Steven

Frye; 2. Transnational Wests: the literature of Spanish
exploration M. Carmen GomezGalisteo; 3. Western folk
traditions:fromcolonizationtoMarkTwainandtheSan
FranciscoCircleJohnDudley;4.Settlement,promise,and
catastropheinthemiddleregionsDanielWorden;5.Gender
andtheliteratureofexpansionCathrynHalverson;6.The
American West and the literature of environmental
consciousnessSusanKollin;7.Californiainlatesettlement
Pierre Lagayette; 8. The West in modern verse Gioia
Woods; 9. Noir fiction and the Western city Lee Clark
Mitchell;10.TheWesternandfilmStaceyPeebles;11.The
Native American Renaissance Nicholas Monk; 12.
Chicana/oliteratureintheWestRafaelPerezTorres;13.
Mestiza consciousness of La Frontera/Borderlands in
SandraCisnerosandHelenaMariaViramontesLindaRader
Overman;14.TheWestandtheAsianAmericanexperience
Marguerite Nguyen; 15. AfricanAmerican literature and
theearlyWestEricGardner;16.WallaceStegnerandthe
literatureofhistoricalmemoryRobertThacker;17.Cormac
McCarthy:narrativesandbordersStevenFrye.

COOPER, Lydia, Masculinities in Literature

of the American West, New York, Palgrave
Macmillan, 2016, 197 pages.
TheWesterngenreprovidesthemostwidelyrecognized,
iconic images of masculinity in the United States gun

GREEN, Paul,
Encyclopedia of Weird
Westerns:
Supernatural
and
Science
Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics,
Films, Television and Games, Jefferson
(NC), McFarland, 2016, vi, 313 pages. Intr. by

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West. This book surveys the most iconic and influential

Westerns, examines Hollywood stars and their political
stripes and reveals the familiar Westerns tropeswhich
became elements in popular action, science fiction and
horrorfilms.ThisthensetsthestagefortheWesternrevival
ofthe1990sandaperiodofreinvention inthe21stcentury.

Cynthia J. Miller.
Fromautomatonstozombies,manyelementsoffantasyand
sciencefictionhavebeencrosspollinatedwiththeWestern
moviegenre.Initssecondedition,thisencyclopediaofthe
WeirdWesternincludesmanynewentriescoveringfilm,
television, animation, novels, pulp fiction, short stories,
comic books, graphic novels and video and roleplaying
games.CategoriesincludeWeird,WeirdMenace,Science
Fiction,Space,SteampunkandRomanceWesterns.

MATHESON, Sue, The Westerns and War

Films of John Ford, Lanham (MD), Rowman &
Littlefield, 2016, xxi, 339 pages.
Introduction A career man Early days in the
Hollywoodwest:fromStraightshootingtoTheironhorse
TheheroicWest:fromThreebadmentoDrumsalong
theMohawkNotforselfbutforcountry:fromSaluteto
SubmarinepatrolInthenavy:TheBattleofMidway
War stories: They were expendable Critiquing combat
culture: Fort Apache Keeping the faith: She wore a
yellowribbonThewarathome:RioGrandeVeterans'
affairs: The searchers A house divided: The horse
soldiersThenatureofone'sservice:SergeantRutledge
Deconstructing the legend: The man who shot Liberty
ValanceQuestionsofjustconduct:CheyenneAutumn
Aftermath.

HAMILTON, Emma, Masculinities in American Western Films: A Hyper-Linear

History, New Yorl, Peter Lang, 2016, 280
pages.
ThestudyoffersafreshexplorationofAmericanWestern
films made in the 1950s and 1960s, arguing that many
Westerns of this period rely on the postCivil War on
screenpasttomakesenseofthetumultuousexperiencesof
theperiod,tovariouseffect.Thefilmsespeciallytapinto
the ways in which national economic, political,
technologicalandsocialchangesimpacttheperformanceof
hegemonicmasculinities.Thesefilmsprovideinsightinto
thewaysinwhichmasculinitiesareperformedandgender
crisesareexpressed,exploredandresolved.

McVEIGH, Stephen (ed.), 9/11 and the

American Western: The Significance of the
Frontier in the War on Terror, London,
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, 192 pages.

HILGER, Michael, Native Americans in the

Movies: Portrayals from Silent Films to the
Present, Lanham (MD), Rowman & Littlefield,
2016, 452 pages.
InNativeAmericansintheMovies:PortrayalsfromSilent
FilmstothePresent,MichaelHilgersurveysmorethana
centuryofcinema.Drawinguponhispreviouswork,From
SavagetoNobleman,Hilgerpresentsathoroughrevisionof
theearliervolume.Theintroductorymaterialhasnotonly
been revised with updated information and examples but
alsoaddsdiscussionsofrepresentativefilmsproducedsince
themid1990s.Noworganizedalphabetically,theentrieson
individualfilmscoverallrelevantworksmadeoverthepast
century, and each entry contains much more information
thanthoseintheearlierbook.

PETIT, Alain, 20 ans de western europen,

Alignan du vent, ditions Artus Films, 2015,
330 pages.
L'intgraledes5cahiersmythiquesconstituantlapremire
tude franaise sur le genre. Premire tude srieuse en
langue franaise voue la dcouverte dun genre
cinmatographiquealorsvilipendparlacritique,20Ans
de Western Europen navait, en son temps, intress
aucun diteur. Afin de conserver intact le caractre
vintagedecetravail,rienna tmodifiducaractre
artisanaldelamaquetteetdelateneurdutexte.Lesphotos
ont quand mme t reproduites de haute qualit quand
elles n'taient que des photocopies dans les fanzines
originaux.Embelliparuneimpressionprofessionnelle,20
ansdeWesternEuropenestdoncaujourdhuiaccessible
tous les fans du genre qui, on le sait, sont dsormais
lgion.

HOFMAN, Peter,
Karl May und sein
Evangelium: theologischer versuch ber
Camouflage und Hermeneutik, Paderborn,
Ferdinand Schningh, 2016, 192 pages.
MADDREY, Joseph, b the Quick, The Dead and
the Revived: The Many Lives of of the
Western Films, Jefferson (NC), McFarland,
2016, vi, 198 pages.
Forwellmorethanacentury,Westernfilmshaveembodied
the United States most fundamental doctrine
expansionismanddepicted,inauniquelyAmericanway,
thearchetypalbattlebetweengoodandevil.Westernsalso
depictacountrydefinedandredefinedbycomplexcrises.
WorldWarIItransformedthegenreaswellasthenations
identity. Since then, Hollywood filmmakers have been
fightingAmericasideologicalwarsonscreenbytranslating
moderndaypoliticsintothetimelessmythologyoftheOld

POTTS, Matthew L., Cormac McCarthy and

the Signs of Sacrament: Literature,
Theology and the Moral Stories, New York &
London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, vii, 224
pages.
ROYOT, Daniel,
James Fenimore Cooper,
The Last of the Mohicans, Neuilly, Atlante,
(Clefs concours. Anglais-littrature), 2016, 155
pages.
ROSMONI, Marc,

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Mditations westernoso-

phiques, Mulhouse, Mdiapop, (Sublime),

2015, 216 pages.
Clint Eastwood et Machiavel ; Kant et Le Train sifflera
troisfois;WittgensteinetSamPeckinpah;SpinozaetLe
Fils du dsert ; Paul Ricoeur et Dead Man ; Django et
Platon
Cest partir de ces rapprochements que Marc Rosmini
nous montre quune attention prcise porte au western
constitue une voie privilgie vers la rflexion
philosophique.Laconnaissancedesoi,linterprtation,le
bienetlemal,levraietlefaux,laralitetlesimulacre,la
violenceetledroit:toutescesnotionssontinterrogesdans
cetessaistimulant,quientrecroiseconstammentlanalyse
conceptuelleetlalecturedequelquessquencesparmiles
plusmmorablesdelhistoireducinma.

SEYDOR, Paul,
The Authentic Death &
Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and
Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of
Peckinpah's Last Western Film, Evanston
(Ill.), Northwestern University Press, 2015, xxi,
384 pages.
TEO, Stephen, Eastern Westerns: Film and
Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood, New
York, Routledge, 2016, 284 pages.
The western, oneof Hollywoodsgreat filmgenres, has,
surprisingly,enjoyedarevivalrecentlyinAsiaandinother
parts of the world, whilst at the same time declining in
America.Althoughthewesternisoftenseenasanexample
ofAmericanculturaldominance,thisbookchallengesthis
view.ItconsidersthewesternfromanAsianperspective,
exploringwhytheriseofAsianwesternshascomeabout,
andexamininghowitsaesthetics,stylesandpoliticshave
evolvedasaresult.ItanalysesspecificAsianWesternsas
wellasWesternsmadeelsewhere,includinginAustralia,
Europe,andHollywood,todemonstratehowtheseemploy
Asianphilosophicalandmythicalideasandvaluesystems.
Thebookconcludesthatthewesternisagenrewhichis
truly global, and not one that that is purely intrinsic to
America.

SCHFER, Karl (dir.), Karl May - 140 Jahre

Medienstar - 1875-2015, Radebeul, Karl May
Gesellschaft, 2015, 86 pages.
SCHARNHORST, Gary, Owen Wister and the
West, Norman (Okla.), University of Oklahoma
Press, 2015, 244 pages.
STODDART, Scott F. (ed.), The New Western:
Critical Essays on the Genre since 9/11,
Jefferson (NC), McFarland, 2016, x, 256 pages.
Introduction1
PartI.FamiliarLandscapes
"BuiltFordTough":The"Sincerity"ofJohnFordandthe
PersistenceoftheAmericanWestern(ArthurRedding)10
"Itwasjustified":VisceralViolenceintheNewTelevision
WesternDeadwood,HellonWheelsandJustified(Patrick
Condliffe)19
PartII.NewWesternsinDialogue
"FoolingaroundwithPapaspistol":AvengingPatriarchy
inTrueGrit(JennaHunnef)40
Coen, Coen on the Range: Rooster Cogburn(s) and
DomesticSpace(JosephS.Walker)62
The Beginning and the End: Gay Representations in
BrokebackMountainand3:10toYuma(VincentPiturro)8
Brokeback Mountain Queering the "Legend": Historical
HegemonyandMasculineMemory(ScottF.Stoddart)95
PartIII.NewFrontiers
ThePost9/11Mohecan:AvatarandtheTransformationof
the"ManifestApology"(AndrewHowe)116
Security or Freedom: Joss Whedons Science Fiction
Westerns,FireflyandSerenity(J.P.C.Brown)137
Sixguns and the Shadowless Kick: Mythmaking and
Generic Hybridization in Westerns and Martial Arts
Fantasies(FontaineLien)159
PartIV.NewVisions
Reclaiming Past, Resisting Progression: Existential
Tensions in Rockstars Red Dead Redemption (Michael
Samuel)172
AlexCoxandtheHybridWestern(MatthewSorrento)188
TheVerticalFrontier:AmirNaderisVegasandtheEndof
AmericanDreamAfter9/11(MarcoGrosoli)207
EpilogueNewVisions/NewVistas:ChristopherNolans
BatmanTrilogyandtheNewWestern(ScottF.Stoddart)

WOOD, Daniel Davis. Frontier Justice in the

Novels of James Fenimore Cooper and
Cormac McCarthy, Newcastle upon Tyne,
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, 257
pages.
JamesFenimoreCooperandCormacMcCarthyaretwoof
themostcelebratedandinfluentialwritersoftheAmerican
West.Bothhavewrittenpowerfulnarrativesthatfocuson
the disappearance of the nineteenth century frontier, and
bothshowaninterestinthedramaticwaysinwhichthe
frontiergaveshapetoAmericanculture.Butisitpossible
thatthekinshipbetweenthesetwowritersextendsbeyond
simplysharinganinterestinthissubject?Teasingoutthe
implications of the recurrent allusions to Cooper's
Leatherstocking Tales in the pages of McCarthys
Southwesternnovels,thisbookfindsCooperandMcCarthy
engagedinacomplexlegalandethicaldialoguedespitethe
centuriesthatseparatetheirlivesandtheirwork.Theresult
oftheirdialogueisaprovocative,nuancedanalysisofthe
effectsofthefrontierontheAmericanjusticesystemand,
forbothwriters,anexpressionofalarmattheviolationof
theprinciplesuponwhichthesystemwasestablished.

BANDES
DESSINES
UNE SLECTION

ABEL, Julia & Christian KLEIN (eds.), Comics

and Graphic Novels: eine Einfhrung,

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Suttgart, Metzler Verlag, 2016, xii, 328 pages.

Suttgart, Reclam Verlag, 2016, 100 pages.

DAROWSKI, Joseph (ed.), The Ages of the
Incredible Hulk: Essays on the Green
Goliath in Changing Times, Jefferson (NC),
McFarland, viii, 2016, 212 pages.
DAROWSKI, Joseph (ed.), The Ages of Iron
Man: Essays on the Armored Avenger in
Changing Times, Jefferson (NC), McFarland,
2015, viii, 227 pages.
ECKSTEIN, Kristin, Shojo Manga: TextbildVerhltnisse und Narrationsstrategien im
japanischen und deutschen Manga fr
Mdchen,
Heidelberg,
Universittsverlag
Winter, 2016, 272 pages.
FNDLING, Jrg,
Astrix: 100 Seiten,
Stuttgart, Reclam Verlag, 2016, 100 pages.
FRANKEL, Valerie Estelle (ed.), The Comics of
Joss Whedon: Critical Essays, Jefferson
(NC), McFarland,, 2015, viii, 247 pages.

ATALLAH. Marc & Alain BOILLAT, BD-US: les

Comics vus par l'Europe, Gollion (Suisse),
Infolio, 2016
Cetouvragerunitdesspcialistesdeltudedelabande
dessinequiproposentunesriedclairagessurlamanire
dontlesproductionsculturelleseuropennesontdiffus,
exploit,reformuloudtournlimaginaireetlelangage
descomicsvenusdoutreAtlantique.Lapprocheseveut
comparative,interculturelleetintermdiale:leschercheurs
abordentautantEdgarP.Jacobsoulesrcentsalbumsde
Serge Lehman que les sries TV de science fiction
britanniquesoulesfilmsdAlainResnais, et interroge la
rception et les rappropriations de motifs et genres
populaires situs au croisement dinfluences et de
rfrences diverses. La production amricaine est ainsi
discute dans toute sa richesse, des superhros
lunderground, travers des (re)lectures proposes en
Europe.

MINI-DOSSIER
HERG - TINTIN

AYAKANA, Carolene & Ian Hague (eds.),

Representing Multiculturalism in Comics
and Graphic Novels, New York, Routledge,
2015, xiii, 269 pages.
BABIC, Annessa Ann (ed.),
Comics as
History, Comics as Literature: Role of the
Comic Book in Scholaship, Society and
Entertainment, Madison, Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press [2014] & Lanham (MD),
Rowman & Littlefields, 2016, 272 pages.
BAJAC-CARTER, Maja, Norman JONES & Bob
BATCHELOR (eds.),
Heroines of Comic
Books and Literature: Portrayals in
Popular Culture, Lanham (MD), Rowman
Littlefield, 2016, 274 pages.
BRAUN, Alexander & Max HOLLEIN (dir.),
Pioniere
des
Comic:
eine
andere
AvantGarde, Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 7
Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2016,
267 pages.
BLACK, James Eric, Walt Kelly and Pogo:
The Art of the Political Swamp, Jefferson
(NC), McFarland, 2016, viii, 257 pages.
Foreword by Mark Burstein.
COLLECTIF, Gotlieb: l'inventeur de la BD
adulte, dans L'Express: hors-srie, 2016,
120 pages.
COLLECTIF, La BD au fminin, dans
Alternatives francophones, vo 1, no 9,
2016.
COLLECTIF, L'Histoire secrte de Lucky
Luke, dans Lire - Hors-Srie, no 22, 2016.
CURTI, Robert, Diabolika: Supercriminals,
Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe
the Italian Cinema, Midnight Marquee Press,
2016, 264 pages.
DATH, Dietmar, Superhelden: 100 Seiten,

ALGOUD, Albert, Dictionnaire amoureux de

Tintin, Paris, Plon, (Dictionnaire amoureux
de...), 2016, 800 pages.
BADOT, tienne,
La Cl alchimique de
l'oeuvre d'Herg, La Pierre Philosophale,
2016, 508 pages.
COLLECTIF, Herg, Paris, ditions de la
Runion des Muses Nationaux & ditions
Moulinsart, 2016, 304 pages.
COLLECTIF, Herg, dans revue Dada, no 123,
2016.
LESOUF, Bruno (dir.), La Saga du journal
Tintin: de 1946 1988, hros, rves,
humour et aventures, dans Paris-Match
Hors-Srie, 2014, 111 pages.
MARICQ, Dominique,
Herg, Tintin &
compagnie, Paris, Gallimard, (Dcouvertes
Gallimard), 2016, 64 pages.
MASSON, Pierre, On a march sur la terre:
essai sur les voyages de Tintin, Paris,
Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2016, 130
pages.
MRAND, Patrick, Les Moyens de transport
et de communication dans l'oeuvre
d'Herg, Pars, Spia., 2016, 96 pages.
NATTIEZ, Renaud, Le Dictionnaire Tintin,
Paris, Champion, 2017. [ paratre]
PASAMONIK, Didier, et al., L'Affaire Tintin au
Congo, Actuabd.com, (Chronique de la BD),
2016, 218 pages.
PEETERS, Benot,
Herg, Fils de Tintin,
Paris, Flammarion, (Grandes biographies),
2016, 528 pages.

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PESSIS, Jacques, Herg - Leblanc: l'histoire

du journal des Jeunes de 7 77 ans,
Neufchteau (Belgique), ditions Weyrich,
2016, 136 pages.
PONTIER, Jean-Marc,
Herg, la part du
lecteur, Montrouge, PLG, (Mmoire vive),
2015, 112 pages.
RABU, Emmanuel & Jochen GERNER,
RG:
renseignements
gnraux:
lecture
chromatique des aventures de Tintin,
1929-1976, Paris, L'Association, 2016, 120
pages.
STERCKX,
Pierre,
Tintin:
Herg's
Masterpiece, New York, Rizzoli International
Pub., 2015, 238 pages.
TISSERON, Serge,
Tintin et le secret
d'Herg, Paris, Hors Collection, 2016, 174
pages.

JAVET, David & Mathieu PELLET, Les Mangas,

ditions ActuSf, 2016, 96 pages.
JEFFERSON, Rob,
Behind the Cape: The
Ultimate Comic Hero, Miami, Mango, (Comics
Exlained), 2016, 150 pages.
KUTCH, Lynn M. (ed.), Novel Perspectives
on German-Language Comics Studies:
History, Pedagogy, Theory, Lanham (MD),
Lexington Books, 2016, 300 pages.
LEMAY, Sylvain,
Du Chiendent dans le
Printemps: Une saison dans la bande
dessines qubcoise, Montral Mem9ire,
2016, 160 pages.
LePrintempsdelabandedessinequbcoise(19681975)
quidbuteaveclespublicationsdugroupeChiendentest
considr,parlesthoriciens,commeunerenaissancepour
laproductionnationaleduneuvimeart.Limportancequi
lui est accorde dans les crits thoriques en tmoigne.
Maiscettereconnaissanceadequoitonnerlorsquevientle
tempsdesepenchersurlaproductiondeChiendent:aucun
album na t dit, peine une quarantaine de pages
publies,sixmoisdexistenceetquatrecrateursquinont
plus jamais touch la bande dessine aprs 1974. Il
semble que la renomme de ce groupe soit inversement
proportionnelle la quantit doeuvres laisses la
postrit.PrsdecinquanteansaprscePrintemps,deux
faitsnoussemblentparadoxaux:linfluencedugroupedu
ChiendentlintrieurdecePrintempsetlimportancede
cettesaisonlintrieurdelhistoiredelabandedessine
qubcoise. Ce livre prsente donc les oeuvres du
Chiendenttoutensintressantcettepriodetraversle
prismedumtadiscourssurlabandedessinequbcoise.

GEAMAN, Kristen L. (ed.), Dick Grayson, Boy

Wonder; Scholars and Creators on 75
Years of Robin, Nightwing and Batman,
Jefferson (NC), McFarland, 2015, 260 pages.
GOODRUN, Michael D.,
Superheroes and
American Self Image: from War to
Watergate,
Farnham
(Surrey),
Ashgate
Publishing, 2016, x, 247 pages.
GORDON, Neta,
A Tour of Fabletown:
Patterns and Plots in Bill Willingham's
Fables, Jefferson (NC), McFarland, 2016, viii,
200 pages.
GREENE, Darragh & Kate RODDY (eds.), Grant
Morrison and the Superhero Renaissance:
Critical Essays, Jefferson (NC), McFarland,
2015, viii, 241 pages.
HADWAY, Katherine, For Better or Worse:
The Comic Art of Lynn Johnston, Ontario,
Art Gallery & Fredericton, Goose Lane Editions,
2015, 192 pages.
HESCHER, Achim, Reading Graphic Novels:
Genre and Narration, Berlin, De Gruyter,
2016, viii, 219 pages.
HUARD, Pierre, La Parodie dans la bande
dessine
franco-belge.
Critique
ou
esthtique ?, Montral, Presses de l'Universit
du Qubec, 2016, 272 pages.

LENK, Hartmuth E. H. & Elina SUOMELAHRMA (dir.), Sprache im Comic, Helsinki,

Socit Nophilologique de Helsinki, 2016, 244
pages.
MARTINE, Tristan (dir.), Le Moyen ge en
bande dessine, Paris, ditions Karthala,
(Collection Esprit BD), 2016, 373 pages.
MICHAUD, Nicolas (ed.), Batman, Superman
and Philosophy: Badass or Boy Scout ?,
Chicago, Open Court, 2016, 289 pages.
MEHTA, Bibita & Pia MUKHERJI (eds.),
Postcolonial
Comics:
Texts,
Events,
identities, New York & London, Routledge,
2015, viii, 235 pages.
MICKWITZ, Nina,
Documentary Comics:
Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age,
New Yok, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 187 pages.
MURRAY,
Christopher,
The
British
Superhero, Jackson, University Press of
Mississippi, 2017, 240 pages.
NAYAR, Pramod K.,
The Indian Graphic
Novel: Nation, History and Critique, Oxford,
London, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2016, xvi, 212 pages.

HUBIER, Sbastien & DOMINGUEZ LEIVA,

Antonio,
Schtroumpfologies,
Neuilly-les
Dijons, ditions du Murmure, 2016, 96 pages.
Uneanalysedel'universdesSchtroumpfs:l'organisationde
l'espaceyestfondsurdefortesoppositionsentreiciet
ailleurs, entre assimilation et exclusion, qui facilite le
gommage des tensions sociales, raciales, sexuelles et
politiques. Les solutions imaginaires sont labores pour
contrerlesproblmesrelsetl'logedel'ordrepallieles
vicissitudesdelaralit.

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PEARSON, Roberta & William URICCHIO (eds.),

Many More Lives of the Batman, New York,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, vi, 240 pages.
PESSIS, Jacques, Gnration Pilote, Paris,
ditions Chronique, 2015, 159 pages.
REVAZ, Franoise, Alain BOILLA, et alii., Case,
Strip, Action. Les Feuilletons en bandes
dessines dans les magazines pour la
jeunesse (1946-1959), Gollion (Suisse),
Infolio, 2016, 248 pages.
ROBERT, Pascal (dir.),
Bande dessine
numrique, Paris, CNRS ditions, (Les
Essentiels d'Herms), 2016, 252 pages.
TOMBLAINE, Philippe,
La Seconde Guerre
mondiale
dans
la
bande
dessine,
Montrouge, PLG, (Mmoire vive), 2015, 279
pages.

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