The Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award

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2010
Constructing the image of the Mexican Revolution : cinema and the archive by Zusana M. Pick

2009
Heartland TV : prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity by Victoria Johnson

2008
Laughing mad : the black comic persona in post-soul America by Bambi Haggins
The virtual window : from Alberti to Microsoft by Anne Friedberg (honorable mention)

2007
Convergence culture : where old and new media collide by Henry Jenkins
Migrating to the movies :  cinema and Black urban modernity by Jacqueline Stewart (honorable mention)

2006
Babes in tomorrowland : Walt Disney and the making of the American child, 1930-1960 by Nicholas Sammond
Rerun nation : how repeats invented American television by Derek Kompare (honorable mention)

2005
Lesbian rule : cultural criticism and the value of desire by Amy Villarejo
Film noir and the spaces of modernity by Edward Dimenberg (honorable mention)
Policing cinema : movies and censorship in early-twentieth-century America by Lee Grieveson (honorable mention)

2004
The Imperial screen : Japanese film culture in the Fifteen years’ war, 1931-1945 by Peter B. High

2003
Wondrous difference : cinema, anthropology, & turn-of-the-century visual culture by Alison Griffiths

2002
Fire & desire : mixed-race movies in the silent era by Jane Gaines

2001
Weimar cinema and after : Germany's historical imaginary by Thomas Elsaesser
Screening culture, viewing politics : an ethnography of television, womanhood, and nation in postcolonial India by Purnima Mankekar

2000
Film/genre by Rick Altman
Home movies and other necessary fictions by Michelle Citron (honorable mention)
More than night : film noir in its contexts by James Naremore (honorable mention)

1999
Freaks talk back : tabloid talk shows and sexual nonconformity by Joshua Gamson
The talkies : America's transition to sound, 1926-1931 by Donald Crafton (honorable mention)
Virtualities : television, media art, and cyberculture by Margaret Morse (honorable mention)
Edison Motion Pictures, 1809-1900 : an annotated filmography by Charles Musser (honorable mention)

1998
Main Street amusements : movies and commercial entertainment in a Southern city, 1896-1930 by Gregory A. Waller
The third eye : race, cinema, and ethnographic spectacle by Fatima Tobin Roby
Parallel tracks : the railroad and silent cinema by Lynne Kirby (honorable mention)
Hard to imagine : gay male eroticism in photography and film from their beginnings to Stonewall by Thomas Waugh (honorable mention)

1995
Streetwalking on a ruined map : cultural theory and the city films of Elvira Notari by Guliano Bruno

1992
Narrative comprehension and film by Edward Branigan

1991
Contested culture : the image, the voice, and the law by Jane Gaines

1990
The emergence of cinema : the American screen to 1907 by Charles Musser
The transformation of cinema, 1907-1915 by Eileen Bowser
An evening's entertainment : the age of the silent feature picture, 1915-1923 by Richard Kozarski

1989
New German cinema : a history by Thomas Elsaesser