Dear All The new issue of *Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies* - issue 10 (NS) - has just been published at http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/issue.php?issue=10 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.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/archive.php) best Julian *Scope* - Issue 10 (February 2008) Articles Miramax's Asian Experiment: Creating a Model for Crossover Hits Lisa Dombrowski Comedy and Experimentation in British Alternative Film: The Funny Peculiar Case of Ivor Montagu's Bluebottles Seb Manley "If we stretch our imaginations": the Monstrous-Feminine Mother in Rolf de Heer's Bad Boy Bubby (1993) and Alexandra's Project (2003) D. Bruno Starrs Dogville: Lars Von Trier's Desexualized America Ahmed F. Elbeshlawy Book Reviews Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture By Ted Friedman Reviewer: Anne Petersen Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry By Richard M.J. Fischer Reviewer: Farhang Erfani Uncovering the Holocaust: The International Reception of Night and Fog By Ewout van der Knaap (ed.) Reviewer: Chris Cagle Color: The Film Reader By Angela Dalle Vacche and Brian Price (eds.) Reviewer: Deborah Allison Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture By Annalee Newitz Reviewer: Natasha Patterson Film as Philosophy: Essays on Cinema After Wittgenstein and Cavell By Rupert Read and Jerry Goodenough (eds.) & The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Special Issue: Thinking Through Cinema: Film as Philosophy By Murray Smith and Thomas E. Wartenberg (eds.) Reviewer: Vincent Gaine Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory By Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener (eds.) & Quintessential Tarantino Reviewer: Ryan Shand Billy Wilder, American Film Realist By Richard Armstrong Reviewer: Thorsten Carstensen Carmen: From Silent Film to MTV By Chris Perriam and Ann Davies (eds.) Reviewer: Tom Whittaker The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931 - 1941: Madness in a Social Landscape By Reynold Humphries & The Quest for the Wicker Man By Benjamin Franks, Stephen Harper, Jonathan Murray and Lesley Stevenson (eds.) Reviewer: Edmund P. Cueva Deleuze, Cinema and National Identity: Narrative in National Contexts By David Martin-Jones Reviewer: Terry Rowden Filmosophy By Daniel Frampton Reviewer: Ils Huygens Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image By Laura Mulvey Reviewer: Daniel Herbert Robert and Frances Flaherty: A Documentary Life, 1883-1922 By Robert J. Christopher Reviewer: Timothy Shorkey Directed By Stephen Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Blockbuster By Warren Buckland & In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin By Ian Scott Reviewer: Elaine Lennon Multiculturalism and the Mouse: Race and Sex in Disney Entertainment By Douglas Brode Reviewer: D.K. Peterson The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture By Diane Negra (ed.) & Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000 By Maria Pramaggiore Reviewer: Sinéad Moynihan Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and The European Road Movie By Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli Reviewer: Fiona Handyside Film Remakes By Constantine Verevis Reviewer: Vicente Rodríguez Ortega Film Reviews The Namesake Reviewer: Rashna Wadia Richards El Topo Reviewer: Jo Eadie Sugar Reviewer: Richard Harrison Water Reviewer: Amitava Nag Babel Reviewer: Devorah Macdonald Conference Reports Fourth Annual MeCCSa Postgraduate Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 12 - 13 July, 2007 Reporter: Philippa Daniel Anglo-French Cinematic Relations Since 1930 conference, University of Southampton, UK, 14 - 16 September 2007 Reporter: Jonathan Driskell Reception Studies Society, Bi-Annual Conference, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA, 27 - 29 September 2007 Reporter: Brian Faucette Identities and Encounters: British Association of American Studies (BAAS) Postgraduate Conference, University of Manchester, UK, 17 November, 2007 Reporter: Henry Thompson 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. ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org