Dear All The new issue of *Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies* - issue 11 (NS) - has just been published at http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/issue.php?issue=11. 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 11 (June 2008) ARTICLES The Pleasures of Watching an "Off-beat" Film: the Case of Being John Malkovich Martin Barker Epicurean Disdain and the Rhetoric of Defiance: Colonel March of Scotland Yard Dave Mann The Uncanny Ecology of Mulholland Drive Andrew Hageman Conceiving Grizzly Man through the "Powers of the False" Eric Dewberry BOOK REVIEWS The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War 1914-1916 By Michael Hammond Reviewer: Brenda McDermott John Mills: Masculinity and British Cinema By Gill Plain & Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film By Helen Hanson Reviewer: Elaine Lennon Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions By Mike Budd and Max H. Kirsch (eds.) Reviewer: Anthony Friedmann New Documentary: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition By Stella Bruzzi Reviewer: Gerald R. Butters, Jr. Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema: No Film is an Island By Gina Marchetti and Tan See Kam (eds.) Reviewer: Konrad Ng Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation of British Literature By Jennifer M. Jeffers Reviewer: Kevin M. Flanagan From Box Office to Ballot Box: The American Political Film By M. Keith Booker Reviewer: Nicholas Witham Mexican National Cinema (National Cinemas) By Andrea Noble Reviewer: Heather Macdougall Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker By Randolph Lewis Reviewer: Rachel Walls Alphaville (French Film Guides series) By Chris Darke Reviewer: Helen Donlon European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (Film Culture in Transition) By Thomas Elsaesser Reviewer: Nick Hodgin Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts By David Andrews Reviewer: Jane Fader The Films of Kenneth Branagh By Samuel Crowl< Reviewer: Connie Luther Shakespeare on Film (Inside Film Series) By Judith Buchanan Reviewer: Alissa Burger The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays By Charles L. P. Silet (ed.) Reviewer: Jarrett Neal The Television Handbook, Third Edition By Jonathan Bignell and Jeremy Orlebar & Programming Our Lives: Television and American Identity By Walter Cummins and George Gordon Reviewer: Erin Giannini F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing By Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Larner (eds.) Reviewer: Brett Mills Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth By Kim Paffenroth Reviewer: Edmund P. Cueva The Cinema of the Balkans (24 Frames Series) By Dina Iordanova (ed.) Reviewer: Ljiljana ©ariæ Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema By Candida Yates & Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film By Stephen Teo Reviewer: Michael Brian Faucette FILM REVIEWS Shoot the Messenger Reviewer: Stephen Harper Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire Reviewer: Debbie James Smith Black Narcissus Reviewer: Peter Coyne Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution Reviewer: Sarah Boslaugh The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Reviewer: Jo Eadie CONFERENCE REPORTS SCMS, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2008 Reporter: Drew Beard, Stephen Rust, Carter Soles, Jeong Chang, and Raphael Raphael African Film Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, November 9-10, 2007 Reporter: Audrey Evrard Fusion Cultures: Memory, Migration, [Re]mediation, Mobility, A one-day multi-disciplinary conference, University of Greenwich, December 9, 2006 Reporter: Colette Balmain Italian Film Study Day, Queen Mary, University of London, January 25, 2008 Reporter: Louis Bayman Literature/Film Association Conference, Kansas Union, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, October 11-14, 2007 Reporter: Frederick A. Holliday II 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