Australasian Journal of American Studies

Year 2007

• Vol.26, No.1, July 2007

• Vol.26, No.2, December 2007

July 2007

Articles

DAVID KELLY
The Irish Films of Martin Scorsese [1-16]

JAN PILDITCH
Immigrant America in the Urban Stories of Willa Cather [17-29]

Review Essays

BRAHAM DABSCHECK
An American Hero: Curt Flood and his Struggle Against Organized Baseball [30-40]

IAN TYRRELL
Confronting the ‘E’ Word: American Empire and Transnational History [41-53]

JOAN KIRKBY
De Tocqueville Lite? [54-63]

Conversations

CASSANDRA ATHERTON
‘My History is a Tile in a Mosaic’: An Interview with Historian Jim Cullen [64-72]

Teaching American Studies
TEACHING HOLLYWOOD FILM

STEPHEN ROBERTSON
Introduction [94]

MICHELLE LANGFORD
The Hollywood System [95-109]

Book Reviews

DENNIS PHILLIPS
Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq [73-75]

STUART MACINTYRE
Ian Tyrrell, Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970 [75-78]

STEPHEN ROBERTSON
Marcy S. Sacks, Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City [78-80]

TREVOR BURNARD
David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History [80-83]

FIONA PAISLEY
Katherine Ellinghaus, Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States of America and Australia [83-85]

IAN BRAILSFORD
Jeffrey M. Hornstein, A Nation of Realtors® A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class [85-87]

JOHN SALMOND
Adam Fairclough, A Class of their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South [87-89]

BRAHAM DABSCHECK
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer [89-91]

DAVID GOODMAN
Alan L. Heil, Jr., Voice of America – A History [92-93]

December 2007

Articles

DANIEL FAZIO
Censorship in the Korean War: Press—Military Relations, June 1950—January, 1951 [1-19]

ROBIN VEDER
Mother-Love for Plant Children: Sentimental Pastoralism and Nineteenth Century Parlour Gardening [20-34]

ANTHONY ASHBOLT
‘Go Ask Alice? : Remembering the Summer of Love Forty Years On [35-47]

NOAH JED RISEMAN
‘Regardless of History’?: Re-assessing the Navajo Codetalkers of World War II  [48-73]

JENNIFER FROST
‘Good Riddance to Bad Company’: Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Gossip, and the Campaign Against Charlie Chaplin, 1940-1952 [74-88]

Teaching American Studies
TEACHING HOLLYWOOD FILM II

STEPHEN ROBERTSON
Introduction  [134-35]

JOY MCENTEE
Introducing Double Vision, or Does the ‘Threshold Concept’ Account for How Students Learn About the Hollywood Film? [135-151]

Review Essays

DENNIS PHILLIPS
The Tragedy of American Diplomacy: A Tribute to the Legacy of William Appleman Williams [89-98]

Book Reviews

TREVOR BURNARD
Michael A McDonnell, The Politics of War: Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia  [99-101]

ELLEN CHANIN
Steven Biel, American Gothic: A Life of America’s Most Famous Paintings;
T. J. Clark, The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing  [102-104]

BRIAN EDWARDS
Andrew Delbanco,  Melville: His World  and Work [104-6]

DOUGLAS CRAIG,
Godfrey Hodgson, Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand Man: The Life of Colonel Edward House  [107-109]

JULIA L. FOULKES
Veve A Clark & Sara E. Johnson, eds., Kaiso!: Writings by and about Katherine Dunham [110-11]

SARAH GLEESON-WHITE
Leigh Anne Duck, The Nation’s Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation and U.S. Nationalism [112-13]

HAZEL SMITH
Daisy Fried, My brother is getting arrested again 
Malena Morling, Astoria [114-18]

GALINA MYERS
Robert Cook, Troubled  Commemoration: the American Civil War Centennial, 1961-65  [119120]

JAN PILDITCH
Cynthia M. Kennedy, Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston’s Urban Slave Society  [121-22]

MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL
Ned Blackhawk, Violence over the Land:  Indians and Empires in the Early American West    [123-25]

SAM LEBOVIC
Robert W. Rydell & Rob Kroes, Buffalo Bill in Bologna: the Americanization of the World, 1869- 1922   [126 -28]

HARRIET MARGOLIS
Amelie Hastie, Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection and Film History  [128-29]

DAVID PALMER
David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years  [130-33]