Scope's new edition can be accessed free via the link to the linkbelow. CONTENTS ARTICLES "Did You Ever Eat Tasty Wheat?": Baudrillard and The Matrix, By William Merrin How queer is L'Air de Paris? -- Marcel Carn and queer authorship, By Alexander Dhoest The Terror Tale: Urban Legends and the Slasher Film, By Mikel J. Koven Why Call them "Cult Movies"? American Independent Filmmaking and the Counterculture in the 1960s, By Mark Shiel Articles Archive BOOK REVIEWS African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze, By Olivier Barlet, A Review by Martin Stollery An Argentine Passion: Mara Luisa Bemberg and her Films, Edited by John King, Sheila Whitaker and Rosa Bosch, A Review by Bernard McGuirk Anatomy of Film, Third Edition, By Bernard F. Dick, A Review by Bob Rehak Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation, By Susan J. Napier, A Review by Jay McRoy The Bare Facts Video Guide, By Craig Hosoda, A Review by Rebecca D. Feasey Blockbuster TV: Must-See Sitcoms in the Network Era, By Janet Staiger, A Review by Brett Mills Britain and the American Cinema, By Tom Ryall, A Review by Sarah Street Celluloid Indians, By Jacqueline Kilpatrick, A Review by Ragan Rhyne Close Up: Iranian Cinema Past, Present and Future, By Hamid Dabashi, A Review by Lina Khatib The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, By Warren Buckland, A Review by Tico Romao The Documentary Film Movement: An Anthology, Edited by Ian Aitken, A Review by John W. Campbell Fan Cultures, By Matt Hills, A Review by Lincoln Geraghty Film Music: Critical Approaches, Edited by K. J. Donnelly, A Review by Annette Davison Hearing Film: Tracking Identifications in Contemporary Hollywood Film Music, By Anahid Kassabian, A Review by David Sanjek Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences, Edited by Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby, A Review by Stephen Harper How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia: Language, History, Theory. (Third Edition, Completely Revised and Expanded), By James Monaco. A Review by Stacy Gillis Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies, By Chris Holmlund, A Review by Rebecca Janicker Korean Broadcasting Institute Report 2001, By Korean Broadcasting Institute, A Review by Jeongmee Kim Keyframes: Popular Cinema and Cultural Studies, Edited by Matthew Tinkcom and Amy Villarejo, A Review by David Inglis The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century, Edited by David W. Ellwood, A Review by Lincoln Geraghty New Documentary: A Critical Introduction, By Stella Bruzzi, A Review by Heather Nunn New Patterns in Global Television: Peripheral Vision, Edited by John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka and Stuart Cunningham, A Review by Ragan Rhyne The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, Edited by Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer and Ina Bertrand, A Review by Julia Hammett-Jamart Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology, By Jay Ruby, A Review by David Murray Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema, By Mike Wayne, A Review by Martin Stollery Post-War Cinema and Modernity: A Film Reader, Edited by John Orr and Olga Taxidou, A Review by Richard Armstrong Reading Hollywood: Spaces and Meanings in American Film, By Deborah Thomas, A Review by Sarah Heaton Retrovisions: Reinventing the Past in Film and Fiction, Edited by Deborah Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, and Imelda Whelehan, A Review by Lincoln Geraghty Scriptwriting for the Screen, By Charlie Moritz, and A Poetics for Screenwriters, By Lance Lee, A Review by Cynthia Baron A Skin For Dancing In: Possession, Witchcraft and Voodoo in Film, By Tanya Krzywinska, A Review by Brigid Cherry Spectacular Narratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster, By Geoff King, A Review by Marlon Kuzmick Technology and the Logic of American Racism: A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence, By Sarah E. Chinn, A Review by Richard H. King Television: An International History, Edited by Anthony Smith and Associate Editor, Richard Paterson, A Review by Michael Curtin Understanding Disney, By Janet Wasko, A Review by Paul Grainge Writing for Radio, By Vincent McInerney, A Review by Martin Shingler FILM REVIEWS After the Rain, A Review by Shulamit Almog Animal Farm, A Review by Chris Wiley Bend It Like Beckham, A Review by Debnita Chakravarti Gebrtig, A Review by Eva Kuttenberg The Lawless Heart, A Review by Lisa Rull Monsters, Inc., and Ice Age, A Review Essay by Rebecca Farley Resident Evil, A Review by Bob Rehak Storytelling, A Review by William DeGenaro Sweet Sweetback's Baad Assss Song, A Review by Dennis Chester The Company Man, A Review by Valerie Holliday The Importance of Being Earnest, A Review by Irene Morra Threads, A Review by Paul Binnion The 49th Sydney Film Festival, 7-21 June 2002, A Review Essay by Maria San Filippo Videodrome, A Review by Polona Petek Windtalkers, A Review by Elizabeth Abele SPECIAL EDITION: ASIAN CINEMA Introduction, by Julian Stringer, Guest Editor New Kids on the Street: The Pan-Asian Youth Film, An Article by David Desser A Zhong, A Review by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley Across a Gold Prairie, A Review by Sachiko Shikoda Ah Kam, A Review by Andrew Willis Buddha Blessed America, A Review by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley Dandelion, A Review by Sanghee Lee, Translated by Jeongmee Kim East Palace, West Palace, A Review by Jeongmee Kim Floating Life, A Review by Hsiao-Pin Chang Green Fish, A Review by Jeeyoung Shin Home and the World, A Review by Subrata K. Mitra The Indian Tomb, A Review by Richard J. Aldrich Murmur of Youth, A Review by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley Nation and Kingship in the Films of His Majesty Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia: My Village at Sunset and The Heir of a Vanquished Secessionist, A Review Essay by Caroline Hughes A Page of Madness, A Review by Rayna Denison Princess Mononoke, A Review by Sachiko Shikoda The Rite of Love and Death, A Review by Julian Stringer Salaryman or Iron Man?: Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer, A Review Essay by Tsung-yi Michelle Huang Fidelity and Betrayal: Adapting Novel into Film in a Political-Commercial Context - The Strangers in Beijing, A Review by Hei Ma Three Seasons, A Review by Roopa Chauhan Tropical Fish, A Review by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley and Gary D. Rawnsley Xiu-Xiu the Sent Down Girl, A Review by Xiaoling Zhang CONFERENCE REPORTS Film in American Studies 2002, The British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, University of Oxford, 5-8 April 2002, A Report by Jude Davies From Literature to Film and Back, The NEMLA's Thirty-Third Annual Convention, April 11-14, 2002, Toronto, Canada, A Report by Michelle E. Moore The Long Revolution?, Media in Transition 2: Globalization and Convergence, May 10-12, 2002, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, A Report by Anita Biressi -- 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 ---- 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]