Dear All

*Scope*'s new book reviews, film reviews and conference reports are now available online at:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/index.htm

Here is the list of contents:

Book Reviews:

A Long Hard Look at Psycho, By Raymond Durgnat. A Review by Frances Pheasant-Kelly

Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema, By Lalitha Gopalan. A Review by Oindrila Mukherjee

Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America, Edited by Peter Knight. A Review by Christopher H. Smith

Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory, By Annette Kuhn. A Review by Paul Grainge

Film: An Introduction (Second Edition), By William H. Phillips. A Review by Warren Buckland

Global Hollywood, Edited by Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell. A Review by Daniel Chamberlain

Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy, By Peter Stanfield. A Review by Sean Griffin

Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema, By David Foster. A Review by Karen Anijar and Nicole Teyechea

Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, Edited by Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines and Charles Musser. A Review by Celeste-Marie Bernier

Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis, By Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland. A Review by Eugenie Brinkema

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: The Dialectics of a Filmmaker, By Paul A. Schroede

Questioning African Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers, By Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike. A Review by Ambrose Uchenunu

Film Reviews

Bringing Down the House, A Review by Rebecca Janicker

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, A Review by Natalie Wilson-Clift

Hulk, A Review by Bob Rehak

Irréversible, A Review by Eugenie Brinkema

Laurel Canyon, A Review by Michael Keating

The Magdalene Sisters, A Review by Brian Gibson

Playtime, A Review by Jerome de Groot

The Recruit, A Review by Ross Thompson

Spider, Videodrome, A Review Essay by Wayne Egers

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Review by Greg Jericho

X2, A Review by Rayna Denison

Conference Reports

Active Heroines Study Day, John Moores University, Liverpool in partnership with The Association for Research in Popular Fiction, 14 February 2004, A Report by Kerry Gough

The Wicker Man: Rituals, Readings and Reactions -- An Interdisciplinary Conference, Dumfries, 14-15 July 2003, A Report by Mikel J. Koven

Breaking the Boundaries in Television Historiography: Historical Research and the Television Archive, University of Reading, 9 January 2004, A Report by Jamie Medhurst

MeCCSA, The University of Sussex, Brighton, 19-21 st December 2003, A Report by Rayna Denison

best

Julian

Dr. Julian Stringer
Lecturer, Institute of Film Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
England

Tel: +44 (0) 115 951 4846
Fax: + 44 (0) 115 951 4270
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film


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