Volume VIII, Number 1, Spring 2012

Editors: Réka M. Cristian & Zoltán Dragon
Guest Editors' Introduction
Essays
- "On the Visual Dimension of Sympathy in Thomas Jefferson’s Moral Philosophy" by Zoltán Vajda
- "The Uses of Architecture as a Metaphor for the Critique of American Culture – Henry James’ The American Scene and Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens" by Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
- "American Identification: A New Approach to Film Scoring" by Gergely Hubai
- "The Transmediality of the Self: Desubstantiation, Fantasy and Terror in and through Adrienne Kennedy’s Characters" by Attila Kiss
- "The Interplay of Film and Theatre in Adrienne Kennedy’s A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White" by Gabriella Tóth
- "Images of the American Suburbia" by Lívia Szélpál
- "Trans-culturing Jane Austen: The Mollywood Adaptation of Pride and Prejudice" by Irén Annus
- "Blinded by the Desk Lamp: Object Values and Consumerism in Pixar Animations" by Nóra Borthaiser
- "The Effect of Information Society on the Representation of Femmes Fatales in American Visual Culture" by Zsófia Anna Tóth
- "Changing Media of Enchantment: Tracking the Transition from Verbal to Visual Nonsense in Tim Burton’s Cinematic Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland" by Anna Kérchy
- "Becoming the New Socialite? Facebook, Transmedia and Storytelling in the Age of New Media" by Zsolt Kelemen
Reviews
- "Reshaping Unsafe Spaces: A Review of Angela C. Pao's No Safe Spaces: Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater" by Márta Ótott
- "Looking Underneath the Surface: A Review of Vincent J. Hausmann’s Cinema, Technologies of Visibility and the Reanimation of Desire" by Zsuzsanna Tóth
- "The Power of Monstrosity: Review of Ruth Bienstock Anolik's (ed.) Demons of the Body and the Mind" by Attila Mócza
- "Between Two Stools: A review of Negotiations: An International Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies 1 (March 2011)" by Péter Kristóf Makai
Cover graphics © by Mihály Orodán
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