Scope's New Book and Film Reviews are now online and can be reached via the
link below.

Book Reviews

The American Film Musical, By Rick Altman, and Genre and Hollywood, By Steve
Neale, A Review by Timothy Connelly

Television: A Reader, Edited by Edward Buscombe, A Review by Dianne Carr

Cinematic Political Thought: Narrating Race, Nation and Gender, By Michael
J. Shapiro, A Review by George S. Larke

Feminisms, Edited by Sandra Kemp and Judith Squires, A Review by Sharon Lin
Tay

Feminist Discourse and Spanish Cinema: Sight Unseen, By Susan
Martin-Márquez, A Review by Kathleen M. Vernon

Film Art: An Introduction, By David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, A Review
by Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.

Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon, By Alexander Doty, A Review by
Harry Benshoff

Imagenation: Popular Images of Genetics, By José Van Dijck, A Review by
Aylish Wood

Material Culture in the Social World: Values, Activities, Lifestyles, By Tim
Dant, and Consuming Environments: Television and
Commercial Culture, By Mike Budd, Steve Craig and Clay Steinman, A Review by
Rory Drummond

Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond, Edited by Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell,
A Review by Annette Davison

Nursery Realms: Children in the Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and
Horror, Edited by Gary Westfahl and George
Slusser, A Review by Bridget M. Marshall

A Passion for Films: Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque Française, By
Richard Roud, A Review by Sachiko Shikoda

Taxi Driver, By Amy Taubin, A Review by Jo Eadie

Film Reviews

Mars Attacks! and ID4 - Independence Day, A Review Essay by Harry M.
Benshoff

Before Night Falls, A Review by A. Mary Murphy

The Blair Witch Project, A Review by Deneka MacDonald

The Contender, A Review by Elizabeth Abele

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, A Review by Brian Baker

The Last September, A Review by Shirley Peterson

Mansfield Park, A Review by Irene Morra

The Ninth Gate, A Review by Kara L. Andersen

The Other, A Review by Lina Khatib

Shower, A Review by Daniel Friedman

Mark

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Dr Mark Jancovich
Senior Lecturer and Director of the Institute of Film Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Phone: 0115 951 4250
Fax: 0115 951 4270
Email: [log in to unmask]
Institute URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film

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