Dear All *Scope* issue 8 (June 2007) has just been published at http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/issue.php?issue=8. The table of contents is reproduced below. All issues of the journal published between 1999-2004 are now available in our searchable Archive (http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/archive.php). From issue 9 (October 2007), the journal will change its name to *Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies*. Submissions on all aspect of Film Studies and Television Studies are welcome. Please consult our Submission Guidelines (http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/submission.php) before sending material to *Scope*. best Julian Stringer *SCOPE: AN ONLINE JOURNAL OF FILM STUDIES* 8 (June 2007) ARTICLES Narrative and Mediatized Memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Carolyn Jess-Cooke Victimhood, Protest, and Agency in Contemporary Mizrahi Films in Israel Yaron Shemer Code Unknown: European Identity in Cinema Temenuga Trifonova The Matrix and the Subversion of Wu xia: Reasserting the Hollywood Ideological Hegemony Tim Iles BOOK REVIEWS Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film By James Chapman Reviewer: Jack Newsinger Convergence Culture: When Old and New Media Collide By Henry Jenkins & Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture By Henry Jenkins Reviewer: Jonathan Gray Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 By Nicholas Sammond Reviewer: Janice Kelly Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (Short Cuts Series) By Mark Bould & Dames in the Driver's Seat: Rereading Film Noir By Jans B. Wager Reviewer: Alison Peirse Signs of Life: Medicine and Cinema By Graeme Harper and Andrew Moore (eds.) Reviewer: Pramod K. Nayar The French New Wave: An Artistic School By Michel Marie (translated by Richard Neupert) Reviewer: Mark Bould New Korean Cinema By Chi-Yun Shin & Julian Stringer (eds.) Reviewer: Daniel Martin Pop Fiction: The Song in Cinema By Steve Lannin and Mathew Caley (eds.) Reviewer: Louise O'Riordan Screening Québec: Québécois Moving Images, National Identity and the Public Sphere By Scott MacKenzie Reviewer: Josh Anchors Stray Dog of Anime: The Films of Mamoru Oshii By Brian Ruh & A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film Isolde Standish Reviewer: Timothy Iles The Politics of Contemporary European Cinema. Histories, Borders, Diasporas By Mike Wayne & Dickens and the Dream of Cinema By Grahame Smith Reviewer: Thorsten Carstensen Why Buffy Matters: The Art of Buffy the Vampire Slayer By Rhonda Wilcox & Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan By Lorna Jowett & The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy By Milly Williamson Reviewer: Sarah Artt Teen Movies: American Youth on Screen (Short Cuts Series) By Timothy Shary & Children, Cinema & Censorship: From Dracula to the Dead End Kids By Sarah J. Smith Reviewer: Richard Harrison Documentary: The Margins of Reality By Paul Ward Reviewer: Dave Rolinson Dogville vs. Hollywood By Jake Horsley Reviewer: Adam Atkinson Selling Television: British Television in the Global Market Place By Jeanette Steemers Reviewer: Sara Steinke Les Diaboliques (French Film Guides) By Susan Hayward Reviewer: Alison Peirse Women Screenwriters Today: Their Lives and Words By Marsha McCreadie Reviewer: Daniel Gritten FILM REVIEWS Wolf Creek Reviewer: James Rose North County Reviewer: Sabine Hikel Lost in Translation Reviewer: Dave Hastings Flushed Away Reviewer: Alice Mills Alpha Dog Reviewer: Devorah Macdonald Blood Diamond Reviewer: Rebecca Beirne CONFERENCE REPORTS Cinematicity 1895: Before and After, The University of Essex, 24-25 March, 2006 Reporter: Paul Elliott Hollywood and the Culture Wars, De Montfort University, 1 March 2007 Reporter: Alec Charles Marketing the Movies: Promotion, Advertising and Film Studies, Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick, 24 February 2007 Reporter: Catherine Wheatley MeCCSA with AMPE Joint Annual Conference 2007, Coventry University, 10-12 January, 2007 Reporter: Frances Eames 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. ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org