Dear All *Scope*'s new book reviews, film reviews and conference reports are now available online at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/index.htm Here is the list of contents: Book Reviews: A Long Hard Look at Psycho, By Raymond Durgnat. A Review by Frances Pheasant-Kelly Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema, By Lalitha Gopalan. A Review by Oindrila Mukherjee Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America, Edited by Peter Knight. A Review by Christopher H. Smith Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory, By Annette Kuhn. A Review by Paul Grainge Film: An Introduction (Second Edition), By William H. Phillips. A Review by Warren Buckland Global Hollywood, Edited by Toby Miller, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell. A Review by Daniel Chamberlain Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy, By Peter Stanfield. A Review by Sean Griffin Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema, By David Foster. A Review by Karen Anijar and Nicole Teyechea Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era, Edited by Pearl Bowser, Jane Gaines and Charles Musser. A Review by Celeste-Marie Bernier Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis, By Thomas Elsaesser and Warren Buckland. A Review by Eugenie Brinkema Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: The Dialectics of a Filmmaker, By Paul A. Schroede Questioning African Cinema: Conversations with Filmmakers, By Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike. A Review by Ambrose Uchenunu Film Reviews Bringing Down the House, A Review by Rebecca Janicker Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, A Review by Natalie Wilson-Clift Hulk, A Review by Bob Rehak Irréversible, A Review by Eugenie Brinkema Laurel Canyon, A Review by Michael Keating The Magdalene Sisters, A Review by Brian Gibson Playtime, A Review by Jerome de Groot The Recruit, A Review by Ross Thompson Spider, Videodrome, A Review Essay by Wayne Egers Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Review by Greg Jericho X2, A Review by Rayna Denison Conference Reports Active Heroines Study Day, John Moores University, Liverpool in partnership with The Association for Research in Popular Fiction, 14 February 2004, A Report by Kerry Gough The Wicker Man: Rituals, Readings and Reactions -- An Interdisciplinary Conference, Dumfries, 14-15 July 2003, A Report by Mikel J. Koven Breaking the Boundaries in Television Historiography: Historical Research and the Television Archive, University of Reading, 9 January 2004, A Report by Jamie Medhurst MeCCSA, The University of Sussex, Brighton, 19-21 st December 2003, A Report by Rayna Denison best Julian Dr. Julian Stringer Lecturer, Institute of Film Studies School of American and Canadian Studies University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham NG7 2RD England Tel: +44 (0) 115 951 4846 Fax: + 44 (0) 115 951 4270 http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film This message has been scanned but we cannot guarantee that it and any attachments are free from viruses or other damaging content: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu