Issue 5 of the electronic journal 'Screening the past' is now on-line. It contains two articles on Chinese cinema: * 'A spring river flows east': "progressive" ideology and gender representation, by Bret Sutcliffe * Woman as spectacle in Zhang Yimou's "Theatre of punishments", by Jeannette Delamoir. Continuing our interest in film archiving, and the implications of this for film scholars, is: * Film history and film preservation: Reconstructing the text of 'The joyless street' (1925) by Jan-Christopher Horak. Finally we include: * Composing the past: music and the sense of history in Hollywood spectacles of the 1950s and early 1960s, by Hannu Salmi. There is also a republication of: * Recovering the past: rare films screened in Korea, by Professor Cho Hee-Moon, introduced by Chris Berry Book reviews include: * Peter B. White on Ronald Genini: 'The death of broadcasting: media's digital future'. * Dave Sanjek on Rebecca Coyle (ed): 'Screen scores: studies in contemporary Australian film music'. * Adrian Martin on Darren Tofts & Murray McKeich: 'Memory trade: a prehistory of cyberculture' * Mike Walsh on Noël Carroll: 'Interpreting the moving image' We are always pleased to receive feedback and unsolicited articles. Ina Bertrand (editor) -- (Dr) Ina Bertrand Media Studies, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia 3083 [log in to unmask] http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast/ ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]