Dear All The new issue of *Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies* - issue 4 (NS) - has just been published (at http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/issue.php?issue=4). The table of contents is reproduced below. All issues of *Scope* published between 1999-2004 are now available in the journal's archive (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/scopearchive/index.htm). best Julian *Scope* - Issue 4 (February 2006) Articles Safe Rebellions: Romantic Emancipation in the "Woman's Heritage Film" Antje Ascheid "All Imperfect Things": Motherhood and the Aesthetics of Ambivalence in The Piano Betty Jay Dark City, Noir, and the Space Between: Or is it Our Nature to Live in the Dark? Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann Rose Marie: I Don't Love You Ron Smith Book Reviews Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange, By Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby (eds.) Reviewer: Martin Barker Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film, By Melissa Thwackway & African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent By Josef Gugler Reviewer: Martin Stollery Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema, By Pam Cook Reviewer: Paul Grainge The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image, By Joseph G. Kickasola & Edward Yang By John Anderson Reviewer: Corin Depper A Hard Day's Night, By Stephen Glynn & Brighton Rock By Steve Chibnall Reviewer: James Leggott Film Genre Reader III, By Barry Keith Grant (ed.) Reviewer: D.K. Peterson The Dolby Era: Film Sound in Contemporary Hollywood, By Gianluca Sergi Reviewer: Jay Beck 100 American Independent Films, By Jason Wood & After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age By Millicent Marcus Reviewer: Glen Jones Filmography of Social Issues: A Reference Guide, By Charles P. Mitchell & The War Film By Robert Eberwein (ed.) Reviewer: John Saddington Framing Piracy: Globalization and Film Distribution in Greater China, By Shujen Wang Reviewer: Jonathan Stubbs British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference, By Sue Harper and Vincent Porter Reviewer: Melanie Williams Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001, By Daniel J. Goulding Reviewer: Ljiljana Saric Storytelling in Film and Television, By Kristin Thompson Reviewer: Jesse Schlotterbeck Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends, By Mike Wayne Reviewer: Harri Kilpi Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century, By Scott Bukatman Reviewer: Ross Thompson Film Reviews Lola and Bilidikid Reviewer: Filez Cicek Angi Vera & Colonel Redl Reviewer: Carol Donelan A History of Violence Reviewer: Jo Eadie Kingdom of Heaven Reviewer: Ian London Memento & Switching Reviewer: Siobhan O'Flynn The Hand Reviewer: Nicholas Y.B. Wong Conference Reports "(Dis)junctions: Theory Reloaded / Cintax: Locating Visuality", Department of English -- University of California, Riverside. 8-9 April, 2005 Reporter: Zina Rodriguez Visualising The City: A Symposium, University of Manchester, 26-28 June 2005 Reporter: James Scorer Gender and East Asian Cinema: A Study Day, Lakeside Arts Centre, University of Nottingham, 21 October 2005 Reporter: Martin Fradley 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. ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html