Dear All *Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies* is currently celebrating its fifth year of continuous publication. In order to mark this occasion, we have relaunched the journal with a new look web site and numbered issues (Issue no. 1 New Series, Feb 2005 - all previous issues now available in our Archive.) As before, the journal remains available through the web site of the Institute of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. However, *Scope* now has a new URL - http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk The new site will continue to be updated over the coming months as we add links and expand our newly-installed search engine to include all archived issues. We hope our readers and contributors will approve of these changes and will find the new design and layout both attractive and easy to use. Our guidelines for submission have also been amended. We now consider articles of between 5000-7500 words, and encourage the submission of extended book and film reviews (i.e. essays of between 2000-3500 words.) In addition, each year we will commission reviews of three major annual conferences - MeCCSA (Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association), Screen (University of Glasgow), and SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) - and consider reports on other conferences of interest to readers. Here is the list of contents of Issue 1 (Feb 2005): Articles 'Danger! Danger! Danger!' or When Animals Might Attack: Adventure Activism and Wildlife Film and Television Mark L. Berrettini 'Just the lemon next to the pie': Apocalypse, History and the Limits of Myth in Big Wednesday (1978) Joan Ormrod The Persona of Se7en Jason Scott Transformative Soundscapes: Innovating De Forest Phonofilms Talkies in Australia Brian Yecies Book Reviews Crash Cultures -- Modernity, Mediation and the Material, By Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant (eds.) Reviewer: Jon Baldwin Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive, By Valerie Orpen Reviewer: Martin Stollery Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939, By Colin Crisp Reviewer: Susan Hayward Hitchcock's Films Revisited: Revised Edition, By Robin Wood Reviewer: Frances Pheasant-Kelly Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, By Jon Lewis Reviewer: Alex Naylor Jean-Jacques Beineix, By Phil Powrie Reviewer: Devona Mallory Mouse Morality -- The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film, By Annalee R. Ward Reviewer: Jon Baldwin Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950, By John Trumphour Reviewer: Douglas Gomery The Cinema of Emir Kusturica: Notes from the Underground, By Goran Gocic Reviewer: William A. Martin The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway, By Alexander Graf Reviewer: Tim Grünewald The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall and Resurrection, By Janna Jones & The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption By Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire, with Sarah Stubbings Reviewer: Ina Rae Hark The Whisper of Leaves, By Craig Smith Reviewer: Kenneth R. Morefield Underground U.S.A: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon, By Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider (eds.), with Foreword by Lloyd Kaufman Reviewer: Rebecca Feasey Young and Innocent?: The Cinema in Britain 1896-1930, By Andrew Higson (ed.) Reviewer: Jessica Brent Film Reviews An Affair (Jeon-Sa) & Happy End (Hae-P'i-En-Teu) Reviewer: Teo Kia Choong The Passion of the Christ Reviewer: Brian Gibson Ma vraie vie ą Rouen Reviewer: Florian Grandena The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Reviewer: Alice Mills Elephant Reviewer: Elizabeth Rosen Capturing the Friedmans Reviewer: Deborah Shaller Finįle Festival of Czech Film, Plzen, Czech Republic 29 March - 4 April 2004 Reviewer: David Sorfa Gerry Reviewer: Dan Stefik Cabin Fever Reviewer: Ross Thompson Sylvia Reviewer: Diane R. Wiener Conference Reports British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, 15-18 April 2004, Manchester Metropolitan University Reporter: Catherine Mills Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 4-7, 2004, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, USA Reporter: Liza Palmer Interrogating Post-Feminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture, The University of East Anglia, 2-3 April 2004 Reporter: Rebecca Feasey Journeys Across Media (JAM) forum, 23 April 2004, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading Reporter: Iris Luppa best Julian Dr. Julian Stringer Co-Ordinating Editor, *Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies* Institute of Film and Television 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 This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. 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