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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

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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

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