Hi, Issue 11 of Screening the past is now available for reading online. This issue, edited by Ina Bertrand features a number of articles dealing with early film / culture adaptations in Asia. As always we are interested in responses to the articles in this issue and are hoping to generate debate about the issues raised. And as always all past articles are available throught the archive on the site. This issue also marks an innovation for the journal: the implementation of a "Friends of screening the past" scheme. It has always been our intention to make our journal available to anyone with access to the World Wide Web, and for this reason we do not charge subscriptions. However we still operate in a material world in which we do have financial expenses which must be defrayed. Our solution: a voluntary subscription. You can find out more by clicking on the "Friends of Screening the past" buttons at various locations on the site. If you believe that the journal provides a good service and if you are willing and able to make some contribution to the continuation of the service please donate to "Friends of Screening the past". Highlights of issue 11 are the following articles and reviews: __Articles__ Dancing shadows of film exhibition: Taiwan and the Japanese influence, by Jeanne Deslandes. Xiqu and Dianying: the interaction between traditional theatre and Chinese cinema by Wenwei Du. Comprehensive connections: the film industry, the theatre and the state in the early Japanese cinema by Freda Freiberg . One print in the age of mechanical reproduction: film industry and culture in 1910s Japan by Aaron Gerow. Yingxi (shadow play): the initial Chinese conception about film by Jubin Hu. Close encounters of the generic kind: a case study in Thai sci-fi by Adam Knee. Hong Kong cinema in the 1930s: docility, social hygiene, pleasure-seeking & the consolidation of the film industry by Linda Lai. Animation in Asia: appropriation, reinterpretation, and adoption or adaptation by John A. Lent. National cinema and the beginning of film history in/of Bangladesh by Zakir Raju. __Reviews__ Chris Berry reviews Jerome Silbergeld, China into film:frames of reference in contemporary Chinese cinema. Jodi Brooks reviews Jonathan Crary, Suspensions of perception: attention, spectacle, and modern culture. Gene Brown reviews Louis and Alan Gordon, American Chronicle: year by year through the twentieth century. Paul Coughlin reviews Christopher Frayling, Sergio Leone: something to do with death. Colin Crisp reviews Naomi Greene, Landscapes of loss: the national past in postwar French Cinema. Leanne Downing reviews Gaye Poole, Reel meals, set meals: food in film and theatre. Helen Grace reviews David MacDougall, Transcultural cinema. Tim Groves reviews Katherine A. Fowkes, Giving up the ghost: spirits, ghosts, and angels in mainstream comedy films. Lisa Gye reviews Peter Lunenfeld, Snap to grid: a user's guide to digital arts, media and culture. Wendy Haslem reviews Mark A. Vieira, Sin in soft focus pre-code Hollywood. Eleanor Hogan reviews Harriet Margolis (ed.), Jane Campion's The piano. Jan-Christopher Horak reviews Klaus Kreimeier, The Ufa story. a history of Germany's greatest film company, 1918-1945. Adam Knee reviews Martin Rubin, Thrillers and Jonathan Munby, Public enemies, public heroes: screening the gangster from Little Caesar to Touch of evil Arthur Lindley reviews Donald Richie, The Films of Akira Kurosawa. Harriet Margolis reviews Tania Modleski, Old wives' tales: feminist re-visions of film and other fictions. Harriet Margolis reviews Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink (eds.), The cinema book. Margaret Nixon reviews John Ellis, Seeing things: television in the age of uncertainty. Jane Roscoe, reviews Barry Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski (eds), Documenting the documentary: close readings of documentary film and video. Jeff Smith, reviews Philip Brophy (ed.), Cinesonic: cinema and the sound of music. Brian Yecies reviews Cynthia Erb, Tracking King Kong: a Hollywood icon in world culture. --- Our next issue will be a special "director issue" edited by Adrian Martin, and will be on-line in March 2001. P. --- Dr Peter Hughes Co-editor, Screening the past http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu