Below are Scope's new book and film reviews and conference reports. They can be accessed free via the link to the institute below. *Book Reviews* Aliens R Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema, Edited by Ziauddin Sardar and Sean Cubitt. A Review by Lincoln Geraghty The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway, By Slavoj Zizek. A Review by Suh-Young Catherine Kim Bertrand Blier, By Sue Harris. A Review by Will Higbee Canadian National Cinema: Ideology, Difference, and Representation, By Christopher E. Gittings, and Quebec National Cinema, By Bill Marshall, A Review by Catherine M. Munroe Comedy Is A Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies, By Alan Dale. A Review by Hsiao-Pin Chang Conversations with Wilder, By Cameron Crowe. A Review by Richard Armstrong Culture: Reinventing the Social Sciences, By Mark J Smith, Studying Culture: A Practical Introduction, By Judy Giles and Tim Middleton, and Subject, Society and Culture, By Roy Boyne, A Review by Nick Couldry The Danish Directors: Dialogues on a Contemporary National Cinema, By Mette Hjort and Ib Bondebjerg. Trans. Mette Hjort. A Review by Andrew Nestingen Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy, By Ariella Azoulay, Trans. Ruvik Danieli Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema, By Murray Smith, Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film: Film as an Emotion Machine, By Ed S. Tan and Moving Pictures: A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition, By Torben Grodal, A Review by Tico Romao Film Editing: History, Theory and Practice, By Don Fairservice, Film Production Theory, Jean-Pierre Geuens, A Review by Mike Wayne Gender, Politics and Communication, Edited by Annabelle Sreberny and Liesbet Van Zoonen. A Review by Mike Chopra-Gant Global Hollywood, By Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria and Richard Maxwell and At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World, By Esther C. M. Yau and Sanshô Dayû, By Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh, A Review by Rayna Denison Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail, By Peter Stanfield, A Review by Ron Wilson The Language of New Media, By Lev Manovich, and Visual Digital Culture: Surface Play and Spectacle in New Media Genres, By Andrew Darley, A Review by Bob Rehak Laughing Out Loud: Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay, By Andrew Horton, A Review by Hsiao-Pin Chang Promised Lands: Cinema, Geography, Modernism, By Sam Rohdie, A Review by Josh Stenger Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies, Edited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King, A Review by Rebecca D. Feasey Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s, By James Chapman, A Review by Lincoln Geraghty Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic, By Rachel O. Moore, A Review by Jeff Power Science Fiction Film, By J. P. Telotte, A Review by Lincoln Geraghty The Seeing Century: Film, Vision, and Identity, Edited by Wendy Everett, A Review by Rebecca Amato Thelma & Louise, By Marita Sturken and The New Avengers: Feminism, Femininity, and the Rape-Revenge Cycle, By Jacinda Read, A Review by Claire Sisco King Theories of the New Media: A Historical Perspective, Edited by John Thornton Caldwell, A Review by Herman Wasserman Violence and American Cinema, Edited by J. David Slocum, and The Tarantinian Ethics, By Fred Bottling and Scott Wilson, A Review by Todd Onderdonk The Western Genre: From Lordsburg to Big Whiskey, By John Saunders, A Review by Ron Wilson *Film Reviews* 28 Days Later, A Review by Elizabeth Rosen Australian Science Fiction Film Festival, May/June 2002, A Review Essay by Polona Petek Bloody Sunday, A Review by Michael Keating The Bourne Identity, A Review by Ross Thompson Cinema du Reel: The 24th International Festival of Ethnographic and Sociologic Films, 18 March 2002, A Review by Ruth and Archie Perlmutter Eight Legged Freaks, A Review by Fergus Cooper Insomnia, A Review by Jerome De Groot Minority Report, A Review by Keith McDonald My Voyage in Italy (Il mio viaggio in Italia), A Review by David Martin-Jones The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste), A Review by Christopher R. Trogan Red Dragon, A Review by Kendall Phillips The Road to Perdition, A Review by Pamela Ezell Secret Ballot (Raye Makhfi), A Review by Lina Khatib Signs, A Review by Jonathan Cullum The Wedding Planner, A Review by Elizabeth Hale *Conference Reports* In the Frame - Fleetingly: revisiting Kracauer, Siegfried Kracauer, University of Birmingham September 13-14 2002, A Report by Janet Harbord Lucky Him!: The Importance of Being Arthur: Representations of Men and Masculinity, 1954-1963, University of Surrey, Roehampton, 13-14 July 2002, A Report by John Young Reading the News: Audience Responses to September 11th Media Coverage, After September 11: TV News and Transnational Audiences, An International Symposium, Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research London, England, 9-11 September 2002, A Report by Matthew Adams Trading Culture and Change for the Global Menu, Trading Culture: A Conference Exploring the "Indigenous" and the "Exportable" in Film and Television Culture, 18th-20th July 2002, Showroom Cinema, Sheffield, UK, A Report by Sarah Perks Rethinking the Cinematic World, "World Cinemas: Identity, Culture, Politics", University of Leeds, 25-27 June 2002, A Report by Rob Rix Mark -- 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: [log in to unmask] URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html