Walter Metz's Academic Publications

This is the archive of academic articles written by Walter Metz.  Please click below to see .pdf files of the articles as they were originally published.  You'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open these files.

Book Chapters

• "Consuming The Graduate: A Postfeminist Analysis of Mother, Laurel Canyon, and Moonlight Mile." Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
• "Breaking the Cycle: Die Another Day, Postcolonialism, and the James Bond Film Series." Engaging Film Criticism: Film History and Contemporary American Cinema. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
• "John Waters Goes to Hollywood: A Poststructural Authorship Study." Authorship and Film. Eds. David A. Gerstner and Janet Staiger. New York and London: Routledge, 2003.
• "What Went Wrong?: The American Avant-Garde Cinema of the 1960s." The Sixties. Ed. Paul Monaco. The History of American Cinema Series. New York: Scribners and Sons, 2000. 231-260.

Journal Articles

• "Atomic Animals: Toward the Re-invention of Natural History and Science Filmmaking." IM: Interactive Media. 2. [2006]. 1-12.
• "The Cold War's 'undigested apple dumpling': Imaging Moby-Dick in 1956 and 2001." Literature/Film Quarterly. 32.3 [July 2004]. 222-228.
• "Have You Written a Ford, Lately?: Gender, Genre, and the Film Adaptations of Dorothy Johnson's Western Literature." Literature/Film Quarterly. 31.3 [Summer 2003]. 209-221.
• "Zola(r) Energy: On the Film Adaptations of Emile Zola's La Bete humaine." Interdisciplinary Humanities. 19.1-2 [2002]. 87-105.
• "From Jean-Paul Belmondo to Stan Brakhage: Romanticism and Intertextuality in Irma Vep and Les Miserables." Film Criticism. 27.1 [Fall 2002]. 66-83.
• "A Very Notorious Ranch Indeed: Fritz Lang, Allegory, and the Holocaust." Journal of Contemporary Thought.  13 [Summer 2001]. 71-86.
• "Signifying Nothing?: Martin Ritt’s The Sound and the Fury (1959) as Deconstructive Adaptation." Literature/Film Quarterly. 72.1 [1999]. 21-31.
• "Genre Theory and The Shining." Film Criticism. 22.1 [Fall 1997]. 38-61.
• " 'Another being we have created called us' : Point-of-view, Melancholia, and the Joking Unconscious in The Bridges of Madison County." The Velvet Light Trap. 39. [Spring 1997]. 66-83.
• "‘Keep the Coffee Hot, Hugo’: Nuclear Trauma in Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat (1953)." Film Criticism. 21.3 [Spring 1997]. 43-65.
• "Pomp(ous) Sirk-umstance: Intertextuality, Adaptation, and All That Heaven Allows." Journal of Film and Video. 45.4 [Winter 1993]. 3-21.

Encyclopedia Entries

• The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film. Eds. John C. Tibbetts and James M. Welsh. New York: Facts on File, 1998.
  • Barry Lyndon
  • La Bete humaine
  • The Big Heat
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • The Bridges of Madison County
  • The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
  • The Wizard of Oz

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This page was last updated on October 11, 2004.

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Walter Metz, Department of Media and Theatre Arts, Montana State University--Bozeman