May 2004
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All book reviews
African American Viewers and the Black Situation Comedy: Situating Racial Humor by Robin R. Means-Coleman
An American Family: A Televised Life by Jeffrey Ruoff
A review by Gordon Alley-Young
Aristotle in Hollywood: The Anatomy of Successful Storytelling by Ari Hiltunen
A review by Christopher S. Morrissey
British Cinema and the Second World War by Robert Murphy
A review by Andrew Gaskievicz
British Social Realism: From Documentary to Brit Grit by Samantha Lay
A review by Ian Peddie
Buster Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down by Tom Dardis
A review by Cara McClintock-Walsh
Contemporary British and Irish Film Directors edited by Yoram Allon, Del Cullen and Hannah Patterson
A review by Sarah Neely
Directed by Allen Smithee edited by Jeremy Braddock and Stephen Hock
A review by Dan North
Experimental Cinema, The Film Reader edited by Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
A review by Harry M. Benshoff
Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers edited by Yvonne Tasker
Contemporary North American Filmmakers: A Wallflower Critical Guide (Second Edition) edited by Yoram Allon, Del Cullen and Hannah Patterson
A review by Andrew Neal
Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson and Keanu Reeves by Michael De Angelis
The Girls in the Backroom: Looking at the Lesbian Bar by Kelly Hankin
A review by Kerry Gough
Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie by Tony Lee Moral
A review by Liza J. Palmer
Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader edited by Frank Krutnik
A review by Jodi Egerton
Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics in the Age of the New Deal by Saverio Giovacchini
A review by Robert Keser
Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen by Yosefa Loshitzky
A review by Ranen Omer-Sherman
Kids' Media Culture edited by Marsha Kinder
A review by Stephen Groening
Lars von Trier by Jack Stevenson
A review by Alan Gibbs
Life Through a Lens: Memoirs of a Cinematographer by Osmond Borradaile with Anita Borradaile Hadley
The World in a Frame: What We See in Films by Leo Braudy
Mise-en-Scène: Film Style and Interpretation by John Gibbs
A review by Kenneth Womack
Movie Blockbusters edited by Julian Stringer
A review by Rayna Denison
Only Entertainment: Second Edition by Richard Dyer
A review by Rebecca Feasey
Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV Discourse of Tomorrow edited by Angela Hague and David Lavery
A review by Stephen Groening
Terence Fisher by Peter Hutchings
A review by Harry M. Benshoff
The Cinema of Ken Loach: Art in the Service of the People by Jacob Leigh
A review by Ian Peddie
The Divine Comic: The Cinema of Roberto Benigni (Scarecrow Filmmakers Series #85) by Carlo Celli
A review by Dean DeFino
The Fright of Real Tears: Krzysztof Kieslowski Between Theory and Post-Theory by Slavoj Žižek
A review by Patricia Allmer
Toward Cinema and Its Double: Cross-Cultural Mimesis by Laleen Jayamanne
A review by Olivia Khoo
Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR by Frederick Wasser
A review by Jennifer Holt
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All film reviews
Blackboards (Takhté siah) (dir. Samira Makhmalbaf, 2000)
A review by Brian Gibson
Catch Me If You Can (dir. Steven Spielberg, 2002)
A review by Ross Thompson
Down With Love (dir. Peyton Reed, 2003)
Far From Heaven (dir. Todd Haynes, 2002)
A review by Sunny Stalter
Drôle de Félix (dir. Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, 2000)
A review by Florian Grandena
From Hell (dir. Albert and Allen Hughes, 2001)
A review by Diane R. Wiener
The Good Thief (dir. Neil Jordan, 2002)
A review by Carole Zucker
The Grey Zone (dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2001)
A review by Jessica Lang
Hero (Ying xiong) (dir. Zhang Yimou, 2003)
A review by Teo Kia Choong
Russian Ark (dir. Aleksandr Sokurov, 2002)
A review by Elizabeth Rosen
Secretary (dir. Steven Shainberg, 2002)
A review by Natalie Wilson Clift
S1m0ne (dir. Andrew Niccol, 2002)
A review by Bob Rehak
Talk to Her (Hable con ella) (dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
A review by Reni Celeste
The Wicker Man (dir. Robin Hardy, 1973)
A review by Paul Binnion
The Changing Faces of Television — A report by Kate Coyer
Dreaming Someone Else’s Dream: Traversing the Spaces of the 13th Annual Screen Studies Conference — A report by Michael S. Duffy
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference (2003) — A report by Benjamin McCann
New Myths?: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror — A report by Lincoln Geraghty
The Twenty-Fourth Annual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts — A report by Jeffrey S. Smith
American Cinema and Everyday Life, Commonwealth Fund Conference — A report by Rebecca Feasey
Animated "Worlds" — A report by Aylish Wood
Multimedia Histories Conference — A report by Mark Fremaux
Speculating Histories: Remembering Yesterday, Experiencing Today, Predicting Tomorrow — A report by Rebecca Janicker
Widescreen Cinema Conference— A report by Paul McDonald
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