Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 22:44:34 +0100
Subject: Scope: New Edition
From: Mark Jancovich <jancovichw-AT-innotts.co.uk>


Scope's new articles, book and film review and conference reports can be
accessed via the link to the Institute of Film Studies below. Also included
is a special issue on Asian Cinema.

CONTENTS

ARTICLES

"Did You Ever Eat Tasty Wheat?": Baudrillard and The Matrix, By William
Merrin

How queer is L'Air de Paris? -- Marcel Carné and queer authorship, By
Alexander Dhoest

The Terror Tale: Urban Legends and the Slasher Film, By Mikel J. Koven

Why Call them "Cult Movies"? American Independent Filmmaking and the
Counterculture in the 1960s, By Mark Shiel
Articles Archive

BOOK REVIEWS

African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze, By Olivier Barlet, A Review by
Martin Stollery

An Argentine Passion: María Luisa Bemberg and her Films, Edited by John
King, Sheila Whitaker and Rosa Bosch, A Review by Bernard McGuirk

Anatomy of Film, Third Edition, By Bernard F. Dick, A Review by Bob Rehak

Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese
Animation, By Susan J. Napier, A Review by Jay McRoy

The Bare Facts Video Guide, By Craig Hosoda, A Review by Rebecca D. Feasey

Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era, By Janet Staiger, A
Review by Brett Mills

Britain and the American Cinema, By Tom Ryall, A Review by Sarah Street

Celluloid Indians, By Jacqueline Kilpatrick, A Review by Ragan Rhyne

Close Up: Iranian Cinema Past, Present and Future, By Hamid Dabashi, A
Review by Lina Khatib

The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, By Warren Buckland, A Review by Tico Romao

The Documentary Film Movement: An Anthology, Edited by Ian Aitken, A Review
by John W. Campbell

Fan Cultures, By Matt Hills, A Review by Lincoln Geraghty

Film Music: Critical Approaches, Edited by K. J. Donnelly, A Review by
Annette Davison

Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music,
By Anahid Kassabian, A Review by David Sanjek

Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences, Edited by
Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby, A Review by Stephen Harper

How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia: Language,
History, Theory. (Third Edition, Completely Revised and Expanded), By James
Monaco. A Review by Stacy Gillis

Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies, By Chris
Holmlund, A Review by Rebecca Janicker

Korean Broadcasting Institute Report 2001, By Korean Broadcasting Institute,
A Review by Jeongmee Kim

Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies, Edited by Matthew Tinkcom
and Amy Villarejo, A Review by David Inglis

The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century, Edited by David W.
Ellwood, A Review by Lincoln Geraghty

New Documentary: A Critical Introduction, By Stella Bruzzi, A Review by
Heather Nunn

New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision, Edited by John
Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka and Stuart Cunningham, A Review by Ragan Rhyne

The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, Edited by Brian McFarlane, Geoff
Mayer and Ina Bertrand, A Review by Julia Hammett-Jamart

Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology, By Jay Ruby, A
Review by David Murray

Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema, By Mike Wayne, A Review by
Martin Stollery

Post-War Cinema and Modernity: A Film Reader, Edited by John Orr and Olga
Taxidou, A Review by Richard Armstrong

Reading Hollywood: Spaces and Meanings in American Film, By Deborah Thomas,
A Review by Sarah Heaton

Retrovisions: Reinventing the Past in Film and Fiction, Edited by Deborah
Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, and Imelda Whelehan, A Review by Lincoln Geraghty

Scriptwriting for the Screen, By Charlie Moritz, and A Poetics for
Screenwriters, By Lance Lee, A Review by Cynthia Baron

A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film, By Tanya
Krzywinska, A Review by Brigid Cherry

Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster, By Geoff
King, A Review by Marlon Kuzmick

Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body
as Evidence, By Sarah E. Chinn, A Review by Richard H. King

Television: An International History, Edited by Anthony Smith and Associate
Editor, Richard Paterson, A Review by Michael Curtin

Understanding Disney, By Janet Wasko, A Review by Paul Grainge

Writing for Radio, By Vincent McInerney, A Review by Martin Shingler

FILM REVIEWS

After the Rain, A Review by Shulamit Almog

Animal Farm, A Review by Chris Wiley

Bend It Like Beckham, A Review by Debnita Chakravarti

Gebürtig, A Review by Eva Kuttenberg

The Lawless Heart, A Review by Lisa Rull

Monsters, Inc., and Ice Age, A Review Essay by Rebecca Farley

Resident Evil, A Review by Bob Rehak

Storytelling, A Review by William DeGenaro

Sweet Sweetback's Baad Assss Song, A Review by Dennis Chester

The Company Man, A Review by Valerie Holliday

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Review by Irene Morra

Threads, A Review by Paul Binnion

The 49th Sydney Film Festival, 7-21 June 2002, A Review Essay by Maria San
Filippo

Videodrome, A Review by Polona Petek

Windtalkers, A Review by Elizabeth Abele

SPECIAL EDITION: ASIAN CINEMA

Introduction, by Julian Stringer, Guest Editor

New Kids on the Street: The Pan-Asian Youth Film, An Article by David Desser

A Zhong, A Review by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley

Across a Gold Prairie, A Review by Sachiko Shikoda

Ah Kam, A Review by Andrew Willis

Buddha Blessed America, A Review by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D.
Rawnsley

Dandelion, A Review by Sanghee Lee, Translated by Jeongmee Kim

East Palace, West Palace, A Review by Jeongmee Kim

Floating Life, A Review by Hsiao-Pin Chang

Green Fish, A Review by Jeeyoung Shin

Home and the World, A Review by Subrata K. Mitra

The Indian Tomb, A Review by Richard J. Aldrich

Murmur of Youth, A Review by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley

Nation and Kingship in the Films of His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk, King of
Cambodia: My Village at Sunset and The Heir of a Vanquished Secessionist, A
Review Essay by Caroline Hughes

A Page of Madness, A Review by Rayna Denison

Princess Mononoke, A Review by Sachiko Shikoda

The Rite of Love and Death, A Review by Julian Stringer

Salaryman or Iron Man?: Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, A
Review Essay by Tsung-yi Michelle Huang

Fidelity and Betrayal: Adapting Novel into Film in a Political-Commercial
Context - The Strangers in Beijing, A Review by Hei Ma

Three Seasons, A Review by Roopa Chauhan

Tropical Fish, A Review by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley

Xiu-Xiu the Sent Down Girl, A Review by Xiaoling Zhang

CONFERENCE REPORTS

Film in American Studies 2002, The British Association for American Studies
Annual Conference, University of Oxford, 5-8 April 2002, A Report by Jude
Davies

>From Literature to Film and Back, The NEMLA's Thirty-Third Annual
Convention, April 11-14, 2002, Toronto, Canada, A Report by Michelle E.
Moore

The Long Revolution?, Media in Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence,
May 10-12, 2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, A
Report by Anita Biressi

-- 
Prof. Mark Jancovich
Director, the Institute of Film Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, NG7 2RD
United Kingdom
Tel: 0115 951 4250
Fax: 0115 951 4270
email: m.jancovich-AT-nottingham.ac.uk
URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film




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