Book Reviews Action/Spectacle Cinema: A Sight and Sound Reader, Edited by José Arroyo, Screening Violence, Edited by Stephen Prince, A Review by Mark Gallagher The Birth of Whiteness: Race and the Emergence of U.S. Cinema, Edited by Daniel Bernardi, A Review by Eithne Quinn British Cinema: Past and Present, Edited by Justine Ashby and Andrew Higson, A Review by Jonathan Murray A Chorus of Raspberries. British Film Comedy 1929-1939, By David Sutton, A Review by Alan Burton Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde, By Joan Hawkins, A Review by Matthew Hills "Film Europe" and "Film America": Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939, Edited by Andrew Higson and Richard Maltby, A Review by Ronald W. Wilson The Musical: A Concise History, By Kurt Ganzl, A Review by Ruth Doughty Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, By David Bordwell, and The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity, Edited by Poshek Fu and David Desser, A Review by Leon Hunt Satyajit Ray: In Search of the Modern, By Suranjan Ganguly, A Review by Subrata K. Mitra Television, Globalization and Cultural Identities, By Chris Barker, Modernity and Postmodern Culture, By Jim McGuigan, A Review by Herman Wasserman Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film, Edited by Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar, and Orientalism, By Ziauddin Sardar, A Review by Patrick Williams Film Reviews 23rd Cinema Du Reel Film Festival at Beauborg Museum, Paris, A Review by Ruth and Archie Perlmutter The Apartment, A Review by Richard Armstrong Brother, A Review by Jon Wisbey Enemy at the Gates, A Review by Ted Johnson A Ma Soeur! (Fat Girl), A Review by Sally Hussey The Gauche/Droit Films, A Review Essay by Adriano Piccardi Goya in Bourdeaux, A Review by Antonio Lázaro Reboll Jesusš Son, A Review by Marion Muirhead The Tailor of Panama, A Review by Jacob R. Smith Voyages, A Review by Kimberly Lamm Conference Reports Processes of Cultdom: A Report on Defining Cult Movies: The Cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste, 2000, by Andrew Caine Rethinking the Categories: A Report on the Film Stars in the Nineties Conference, by Cynthia Baron Yours -- Dr Mark Jancovich Reader and Director 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 URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu