Dana Polan

Biographic Data

ID191399
NAMEDana Polan
GIVEN NAMESDana
FAMILY NAMEPolan
SIGNATUREPOLAN D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS56
TOTAL CITATIONS19
AUTHOR COUNT56
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX3

  • Bodies of Digital Celebrity

    Sharrona Pearl, S A Pearl et al.ARTICLEPublic Culture2015Cited by: 1

    This afterword traces how the varied essays in this issue offer new theorizations of celebrity, extend the analysis of celebrity to new channels for its dissemination, and expand on the very kinds of personalities who are-or who in the electronic age can suddenly become-celebrities. There are through-lines among the essays (such as the interplay of amateur and professional or the tension between top-down and bottom-up processes of celebrity makin…

  • Hollywood Follies of 1938

    Open AccessDana PolanARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2013

    Hollywood Follies of 1938 Dana Polan (bio) Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures’ Greatest Year. By Catherine Jurca. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. x + 272 pp. $65.00 (cloth). $26.95 (paper). A small anecdote . . . in the weeks leading up to writing this review, I carried Catherine Jurca’s book with me in my everyday forays around New York City. Thus I had it with me when I popped into the local Italian fresh-pasta shop that is one of …

  • The Sopranos

    Dana PolanBOOKSopranos2009Cited by: 7References: 4

    In its original run on HBO, The Sopranos mattered, and it matters still,” Dana Polan asserts early in this analysis of the hit show, in which he sets out to clarify the impact and importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry contexts. A renowned film and TV scholar, Polan combines a close and extended reading of the show itself—and of select episodes and scenes—with broader attention to the social landscape with which it is in…

  • J ulia C hild by Laura Shapiro

    Dana PolanARTICLEFood Culture & Society2008

  • Film reviews

    Dana Polan, Tim Palmer et al.ARTICLEFilm International2003

    About Scmidt USA 2002 2 Godard The Man With the Movie Camera 2 Watkins

  • Film reviews

    Michael Tapper, Eija Niskanen et al.ARTICLEFilm International2003

    Fascinating Fascism Hero Ying xiong China 2002 An Actor's Revenge Yukinojo henge Japan 1962 DVD United Kingdom 2002 Bob le Flambeur France 1955 DVD USA 2002 La Commune (Paris 1871) France 2001 DVD France, 2002 Hearts and Minds USA 1974 DVD USA 2002 The Killers 2 The Killers USA 1946 The Killers USA 1964 DVD USA 2002 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp United Kingdom 1943 DVD USA 2002 Solaris 2 Solaris Solyaris USSR 1972 DVD USA 2002 Solaris USA 2…

  • Inexact Science: "Complexity and Contradiction in Roland Barthes's "Classic Semiology

    Dana Polan, Dana B PolanARTICLEYale journal of criticism/ The…2001

    In an early short text from 1955, Roland Barthes addresses the question "Suis-je marxiste?" ("Am I Marxist?") in response to a conservative critic's challenge to him to announce his political allegiances. Barthes's reaction to the question is virulent: "What business is it of his [Jean Guerin's]? Ordinarily, this sort of question only interests McCarthyists. . . . Yes, I know, it would be more reassuring if one could catalog writers according to …

  • The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses

    Open AccessLaura U Marks, Dana PolanBOOKSkin of the Film2000

    Memories that evoke the physical awareness of touch, smell, and bodily presence can be vital links to home for people living in diaspora from their culture of origin. How can filmmakers working between cultures use cinema, a visual medium, to transmit that physical sense of place and culture? In The Skin of the Film Laura U. Marks offers an answer, building on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and others to explain how and why intercultural cinema r…

  • Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture

    Dana Polan, Jean-Philippe Mathy et al.REVIEWSubStance1996

    Fast Cars, Clean Bodies examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s when France shifted rapidly from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one. In this analysis of a startling cultural transformation Kristin Ross finds the contradictions of the period embedded in its various commodities and cultural artifacts -- automobiles, washing machines, women's magazines, f…

  • Academia and the Luster of Capital

    Dana Polan, Sande CohenARTICLEPoetics Today1995

  • Last Intellectual, Lapsed Intellectual: The Ends of Edmund Wilson

    Dana Polan, Edmund Wilson et al.ARTICLEboundary 21994

  • Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction

    Dana Polan, Larry MccafferyARTICLEPoetics Today1993

  • Strange Weather: Culture, Science and Technology in the Age of Limits

    Dana Polan, Andrew Ro et al.ARTICLESubStance1993

  • Susan Sontag: The Elegiac Modernist

    Dana Polan, Sohnya Sayre et al.ARTICLESubStance1993

    Introduction 1. Biographical Noyes 2. Key Terms 3. The Two Novels: The Benefactor and Death Kit 4. The Burden of the Aesthetic 5. Thought Commemorated Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

  • Les Cahiers du cinema: Histoire d'une revue, Volume 1: A l'assaut du cinema, 1951-1959

    Dana Polan, Antoine De BaecqueARTICLESubStance1992

  • Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, and Practice

    Dana Polan, Julie Thompson KleinARTICLEPoetics Today1992

  • Roland Barthes

    Dana Polan, Jean-Louis CalvetARTICLESubStance1992

  • Physics as a Calling: Discipline and Practice in the Konigsberg Seminar for Physics

    Dana Polan, Kathryn Olesko et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1992

  • Rethinking Art History: Meditations on a Coy Science

    Dana Polan, Donald PreziosiARTICLEPoetics Today1992

  • The Decline of the German Mandarins: The German Academic Community, 1890-1933

    Dana Polan, Fritz RingerREVIEWPoetics Today1992

  • Theory/Pedagogy/Politics: Texts for Change

    Dana Polan, Donald Morton et al.ARTICLEPoetics Today1992

  • Ecrits de jeunesse

    Dana Polan, Jean-Paul Sartre et al.ARTICLESubStance1992Cited by: 2

  • History in Perspective, Perspective in History: A Commentary on L'Origine de la perspective by Hubert Damisch

    Dana PolanARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…1990

    Research Article| September 01 1990 History in Perspective, Perspective in History: A Commentary on L'Origine de la perspective by Hubert Damisch Dana Polan Dana Polan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (3 (24)): 88–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-3_24-88 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Em…

  • History in the Battle of Voices

    Dana PolanARTICLECamera Obscura Feminism Culture…1990

    Other| January 01 1990 History in the Battle of Voices Dana Polan Dana Polan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1990) 8 (1 (22)): 130–137. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-1_22-130 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Dana Polan; History in the Battle of Voices. Camera Obscura 1 January 1990; 8 (1 (22)): 130–137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-8-1_22-130 Download…

  • The Public's Fear, or Media as Monster in Habermas, Negt, and Kluge. Jurgen Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

    Dana Polan, Jürgen HabermasARTICLESocial Text1990

    Dana Polan, The Public's Fear, or Media as Monster in Habermas, Negt, and Kluge. Jürgen Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, Social Text, No. 25/26 (1990), pp. 260-266