Dear All The new issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies - issue 3 (new series) - has just been published (at http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/issue.php?issue=3 ). The table of contents is reproduced below. All issues of Scope published between 1999 and 2004 are now available in the journal's Archive (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/scopearchive/index.htm). SCOPE: AN ONLINE JOURNAL OF FILM STUDIES - Issue 3 (November 2005) Articles The Mark of Cain: Blood Simple and The Man Who Wasn't There Paul Coughlin Disembodied Stars and the Cultural Meanings of Princess Mononoke's Soundscape Rayna Denison Encapsulated Noir: Hybrid Genres and Social Mobility in Alex Proyas' Dark City Steffen Hantke Anti-Theatre on Film Temenuga Trifonova Book Reviews Production Design: Architects of the Screen, By Jane Barnwell & Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema By Wheeler Winston Dixon Reviewer: Kevin Hunt Contemporary World Television, By John Sinclair and Graeme Turner (eds>) & The Television History Book Edited by Michele Hilmes Reviewer: Dan Leopard Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and Visual Culture, By Shawn Michelle Smith Reviewer: David A Gerstner Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema, By Timothy Shary Reviewer: Geoff Lealand Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media, By Lester D. Friedman (ed.) Reviewer: Frances Pheasant-Kelly The Audience Studies Reader, By Will Brooker and Deborah Jermyn (eds.) Reviewer: Kerry Gough Screen Traffic: Movies, Multiplexes, and Global Culture, By Charles R. Acland & SuburbiaNation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film By Robert Beuka Reviewer: Sarah Heaton Simone Signoret. The Star as Cultural Sign, By Susan Hayward & The French Cinema Book Edited by Michael Temple and Michael Witt Reviewer: Cristina Johnston Coming Attractions: Reading American Movie Trailers, By Lisa Kernan Reviewer: Deborah Allison 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 Transatlantic Crossings: British Feature Films in the USA, By Sarah Street & British Cinema of the 1950s: A Celebration Edited by Ian MacKillop and Neil Sinyard Reviewer: Peter Hutchings Jacking in to the Matrix Franchise: Cultural Reception and Interpretation, By Matthew Kapell and William G. Doty (eds.) & Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society By Danny Fingeroth Reviewer: Elizabeth Rosen The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930 to 1960, By Larry Ceplair and Robert Englund & Blacklisted: The Film Lover's Guide to the Hollywood Blacklist By Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner & Joseph Losey (British Film Makers Series) By By Colin Gardner Reviewer: Graham Barnfield Film Reviews Batman Begins Reviewer: Michael Duffy 3-Iron Reviewer: Jia Jun War of the Worlds Reviewer: Ian London Kinsey & Secret History: Kinsey's Paedophiles Reviewer: Jonathan A. Cullum Madagascar Reviewer: Jo Eadie Russkoe [Things Russian] Reviewer: Andrei Rogatchevski Conference Reports MeCCSA and AMPE Joint Annual Conference. 5- 7 January 2005, University of Lincoln Reporter: Serena Formica EastEnders 20th Anniversary: Inventing the Modern Soap Conference. 19 February 2005, University of Westminster, London. Reporter: Charles Jason Lee The School of Sound Conference. 30 March - 2 April 2005, South Bank Centre, London Reporter: Roy Perkins Society for Cinema & Media Studies, March 31 - April 3, 2005, Institute of Education, University of London, UK Reporter: Rayna Denison & Liza Palmer Pornography's Not About: On Pornography, Obscenity, & Spectacle, April 7-9, 2005, The University of Western Ontario Reporter: Gregory Brophy best Julian Dr. Julian Stringer 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. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]