Dear All Issue 2 (new series) of *Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies* has just been published online at http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/ Here is the list of contents: Articles Ringing The Bells in Celebration: Red, Breaking the Waves and Transcendent Humanism in Dogme Films Brian Gibson "Mother Oh God Mother...": Analysing the 'Horror' of Single Mothers in Contemporary Hollywood Horror John Lewis Pure Filth: Apocalyptic Hedonism and the Postmodern Surfer Jeff Lewis & Kirsty Best Suffering with Honour: The Visual Brutality of Realism in the Combat Film Anthony McCosker Book Reviews America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies, By Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin Reviewer: Elizabeth Abele Shocking Cinema of the Seventies: The Decade that Humanity Forgot, By Xavier Mendik (ed.) with an Introduction by Michael Winner Reviewer: Rebecca Feasey Cinema's Illusions, Opera's Allure: The Operatic Impulse in Film, By David Schroeder & Hollywood Theory, Non-Hollywood Practice: Cinema Soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s By Annette Davison Reviewer: Holly Rogers Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film, By Murray Pomerance (ed.) Reviewer: Kathrina Glitre English Heritage, English Cinema: Costume Drama since 1980, By Andrew Higson Reviewer: Aimée Stoffel Genre and Contemporary Hollywood, By Steve Neale (ed.) Reviewer: Peter Hutchings Ghouls, Gimmicks, and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968, By Kevin Heffernan Reviewer: Rebecca Janicker Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde, By Esther Leslie Reviewer: D.K. Peterson New Queer Cinema: A Critical Reader, By Michelle Aaron (ed.) & Queer Cinema: A Film Reader By Harry Benshoff and Sean Griffin (eds.) Reviewer: Sarah Gamble Screening the City, By Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice (eds.) Reviewer: David B. Clarke The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor., By Deborah Jermyn and Sean Redmond (eds.) Reviewer: Kate Adams The Fellini Lexion, By Sam Rohdie Reviewer: Bruce Williams Film Reviews Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary Reviewer: Jessica Lang Dawn of the Dead Reviewer: Stephen Harper Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Reviewer: Kevin Hunt The Fog of War Reviewer: Derek Gladwin Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Reviewer: Alice Mills The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp & A Matter of Life and Death Reviewer: Sarah Knight The Olive Harvest Reviewer: Lina Khatib The Return Reviewer: Brian Gibson Conference Reports Time And Relative Dissertations In Space: Critical Perspectives on Doctor Who Conference, 1 July 2004, University of Manchester Reporter: Lincoln Geraghty Love Maybe: A Romantic Comedy Study Day, 19 August 2004, University of Nottingham, UK Reporter: Kathrina Glitre Off-Screen Spaces: Regionalism and Globalised Cultures, 28-30 July 2004, University of Ulster, Coleraine Reporter: Stephen Woollock Screen Studies Conference: The Child in Film and Television, 2-4 July 2004, Glasgow University Reporter: Ewan Kirkland best Julian Dr. Julian Stringer Institute of Film and Television 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 checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: 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