Follow the link below to the Institute of Film Studies for free access Scope's new issue *Articles* "Window Shopping"? -- Aesthetics of the Spectacular and Cinéma du Look, By Patricia Allmer News, Reviews, Clues, Interviews and Other Ancillary Materials -- A Critique and Research Proposal, By Martin Barker Third Culture Kids: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Language and Multiculturalism in Swallowtail Butterfly, By Lori Hitchcock Going Out (of Town): New Geographies of Cinema-Going in the UK, By Phil Hubbard *Book Reviews* A History of the French New Wave Cinema, By Richard Neupert. A Review by Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture, By Steve Beard. A Review by Neil Schiller Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space, By Anna McCarthy. A Review by Daniel Chamberlain Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique, By Jack Boozer. A Review by Erica Arthur Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists, By Gerald Horne. A Review by George Lewis Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths, By David Henry Slavin. A Review by Sarah Leahy Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader, Edited by Justin Lewis and Toby Miller. A Review by Jennifer Holt The Cultural Industries, By David Hesmondhalgh. A Review by Eithne Quinn Dracula, By Peter Hutchings. A Review by Rebecca Janicker Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913, By Charlie Keil. A Review by David Mayer Exhibition: The Film Reader, Edited by Ina Rae Hark, American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing, By Tom Stempel, and An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory, By Annette Kuhn. A Review by Martin Barker Film Comedy, By Geoff King. A Review by Hsiao-Pin Chang Film Music: Critical Approaches, Edited by K. J. Donnelly, Music and Cinema, Edited by James Buhler, Caryl Flynn and David Neumeyer. A Review by Ian Brookes Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood, By Woody Haut, The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film, Edited by Stacy Gillis and Philippa Gates. A Review by Andrew Pepper Horror: The Film Reader, Edited by Mark Jancovich. A Review by Patricia M. Allmer Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture, Edited by Sandra R. Joshel, Margaret Malamud, and Donald T. McGuire, Jr., The Ancient World in the Cinema (Revised and Expanded Edition), By Jon Solomon. A Review by Karen Fang Key Film Texts, By Graham Roberts and Heather Wallis. A Review by Brian Caldwell Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture, Edited by Peter Lehman. A Review by Kirsty Fairclough Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964, By M. Keith Booker, Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film, By Jerome F. Shapiro. A Review by Elizabeth Rosen New Chinese Cinema: Challenging Representations, By Sheila Corneilius with Ian Hayden Smith, Seven Samurai, By Joan Mellen, A Review by Rayna Denison The New Media Book, Edited by Dan Harries. A Review by Karen Orr Vered Reading Between Designs: Visual Imagery and the Generation of Meaning in The Avengers, The Prisoner, and Doctor Who, By Piers D. Britton and Simon J. Barker. A Review by Lincoln Geraghty ScreenPlay: Cinema/Videogames/Interfaces, Edited by Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska. A Review by Lorna Jowett Spanish National Cinema, By Núria Triana-Toribio. A Review by Camila Loew Terrestrial TV News in Britain: The Culture of Production, By Jackie Harrison. A Review by Graham Barnfield Women's Cinema: The Contested Screen, By Alison Butler, Cinema and the Second Sex: Women's Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s, By Carrie Tarr with Brigitte Rollet, Stars and Stardom in French Cinema, By Ginette Vincendeau. A Review by Rebecca D. Feasey *Film Reviews* 8 Mile, A Review by Charlene Keeler Adaptation, A Review by Charles Tryon Far From Heaven, A Review by June Scudeler Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, A Review by Alice Mills The Hours, A Review by Natalie Wilson Clift Jeanne et le Garçon Formidable, A Review by Florian Grandena Neil Jordan Retrospective: Irish Film Theatre, A Review Essay by Jerome de Groot O, A Review by Haley Fishburn Salton Sea, A Review by Winter Elliott Der Siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent), A Review by Eva Kuttenberg La stanza del figlio (The Son's Room), A Review by Jason Cisarano Sweet Home Alabama, A Review by Ross Thompson Veronica Guerin, A Review by Karen McNally *Conference Reports* The Changing Faces of Television, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 15 March, 2003, A Report by Kate Coyer Dreaming Someone Else's Dream: Traversing the Spaces of the 13th Annual Screen Studies Conference, Glasgow University, 4-6 July 2003, A Report by Michael S. Duffy Grand Hotel: The Sopranos and Set Design, Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Minneapolis, Minnesota, 6-9 March 2003, A Report by Benjamin McCann New Ground and Familiar Faces, "New Myths?: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror", The 5th Annual Conference of the Department of Arts & Media, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, High Wycombe, 3rd May 2003, A Report by Lincoln Geraghty Tripping the Dark Fantastic: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Film and Television at ICFA, The Twenty-Fourth Annual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, The Ft. Lauderdale Hilton, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, March 19-23, 2003, A Report by Jeffrey S. 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