Apologies for cross-posting: Iconics (ISSN 1345-4447), the international edition of the journal of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences, has come out with its 5th issue (2000) featuring articles in English and German on Japanese and world cinema, photography, and digital images. Contents: - In the Realm of the Fairies: Early Cinema Between Attraction and Narration (Frank KESSLER) -"The Way We Were": Michael Balcon and Alfred Hitchcock in British Cinema (TAKEUCHI Keiko) -Since You Went Away, World War II, and Classical Hollywood's Discourse of Entertainment (KITAMURA Hiroshi) - $B+C (Ber den Einflu $B%! (B der Deutschen Wochenschau auf die japanischen Nihon Ny $B[T (B u w $B3I (Brend des zweiten Weltkrieges (OKUMURA Masaru) How Are Japanese Wartime Newsreels Reliable Academic Sources?: The Perspective of Socio-cultural Anthropology (HARA Mariko) The Bomb, Japanese Aesthetic Traditions, and Japan's Most Important Film: Gojira (Jerome F. SHAPIRO) The Boys in the Hoods: Glossing the Urban Superhero (Scott BUKATMAN) Consuming Nostalgia: Screen Adaptations of British Literary Classics in Postmodernity (WATANABE Aiko) Price: 2000 yen, plus postage (variable by region). Back issues are also available: Number 1 (1987: articles by Kondo Masaki, Asanuma Keiji, Michel Colin, David Wills, Takeda Kiyoshi, Jacques Aumont, Iwamoto Kenji, Yamamoto Kikuo, Sato Tadao, Hirano Kyoko); Number 2 (1992: Dudley Andrew, Jacques Gerstenkorn, Yabu Toru, Nada Hisashi, Susanne Schermann, Gideon Avivi, Hamaguchi Koichi, Koga Futoshi, Kitano Keisuke); Number 3 (1994: Marc Vernet, John Belton, Nada Hisashi, A. A. Gerow, Yuji Oniki, Usami Shozo); Number 4 (1998: Philip Rosen, Michele Lagny, Kato Mikiro, Hase Masato, Saito Ayako, Susanne Schermann, Chidananda Dasgupta, Nishizawa Emiko) Payment by credit card is preferred (VISA, Master Card, DC), so inform the JASIAS office of the issues and number of copies desired and a credit card payment form will be sent. Libraries and institutions interested in Iconics and Eizogaku (ISSN 0286-0279), the Japanese domestic edition of the journal of the JASIAS, can order through Japan Publications Trading (JPT). Contact: Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences, c/o Department of Film, College of Art, Nihon University, 2-42-1 Asahigaoka, Nerima-ku, Tokyo 176-8525, Japan. Fax: 81-3-5995-8209. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Aaron Gerow Editor Iconics ---- 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]