Volume X, Number 1, Spring 2014
Guest editor: Judit Karácsonyi
Essays
- "Switching It On/Off: Emotional Performativity and Melodrama in The Vampire Diaries" by Malin Lidström Brock
- "Voices and Voicing in Maxine Hong Kingston’s “The Woman Warrior”" by Andreia-Irina Suciu
- "Black Theatre and Propaganda: Amiri Baraka’s Adherence to the Negro Problem and Defense of the Question of Labor" by Samy Azouz
- "American Studies and Film: From Blind Spot to Symbiosis" by Réka M. Cristian
- "Fictions and Realities: On the margins of Barbara Loden’s Wanda & Nathalie Léger’s Supplément à la vie de Barbara Loden" by Judit Karácsonyi
- "Film Noir and the Homoerotic Subtext in Gilda" by Rita Kaszás
- "'Catching the Bad Guy is Only Part of it': The Human Body and the Foucauldian Medical Gaze in Bones" by Lilla Farmasi
- "Animated Noir: Investigating Walt Disney’s Female Characters of the 1940s and 1950s" by Emma Bálint
- "Rethinking the Sublime: Is There an Aesthetics of Terrorism?" by Jon Roberts
Reviews
- "Péter Gaál-Szabó's “Ah done been tuh de horizon and back”: Zora Neale Hurston's Cultural Spaces in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah's Gourd Vine" by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
- "Scapegoats, Masks and Passing. Review of Ákos Attila Seress: Amerikai tragédiák: szerep, személyiség és kirekesztés Tennessee Williams drámáiban" by Márta Ótott
- "(Re)Inventing The Great Gatsby" by Zsuzsa Sütő
- "'The Evidence Lies': Review of Lindsay Steenberg’s Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science" by Lilla Farmasi
Cover image © by Máté Mészáros