Scope
An online journal of film and television studies: ISSN 1465-9166
University of Nottingham
  

Issue 12 — October 2008

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Book Reviews

All book reviews

Switching to Digital Television: UK Public Policy and the Market by Michael Starks

A review by David Hutchison

 

Feminist Auteurs: Reading Women's Films by Geetha Ramanathan

A review by Jane Fader

 

The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian edited by Richard Schickel

A review by Nicholas Guest-Jelley

 

Film's Musical Moments edited by Ian Conrich and Estella Tincknell

A review by Lara Hrycaj

 

Deleuze and Horror Film by Anna Powell

A review by Edmund P. Cueva

 

Sex and the Cinema by Tanya Krzywinska

A review by Florian Grandena

 

Cinematic Savior: Hollywood's Making of the American Christ by Stephenson Humphries-Brooks

Religion and Film: An Introduction by Melanie J. Wright

A review by Louise Smith

 

La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film by Mikel J. Koven

A review by David Church

 

Sound Design and Science Fiction by William Whittington

A review by Douglas King

 

Pedro Almodóvar by Marvin D'Lugo

A review by Heather Macdougall

 

Ancient Greece in Film and Popular Culture by Gideon Nisbet

A review by Monica Bontty

 

Spectatorship: The Power of Looking On by Michele Aaron

A review by Sarah Arnold

 

Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema by David A. Gerstner

A review by John Saddington

 

Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet edited by James Lyons and John Plunkett

Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema Before 1930 edited by Laraine Porter and Bryony Dixon  

A review by Tom Ruffles

 

The Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth by Kim Paffenroth

A review by Steffen Hantke

 

Screens Fade to Black: Contemporary African American Cinema by David J. Leonard

Dark Designs and Visual Culture by Michele Wallace

A review by Michele Prettyman Beverly

 

The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century edited by Zhang Zhen

A review by Peter C. Pugsley

 

Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value and The MGM Musical by Steven Cohan

A review by Nadine Wills

 

Cinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees by Christian Keathley

A review by Jason Sperb

 

The Man and His Wings: William A. Wellman and the Making of the First Best Picture by William Wellman Jr.

A review by Timothy Shorkey


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Film Reviews

All film reviews

The Spiderwick Chronicles (dir. Mark Waters, 2008)

A review by Alice Mills

 

Zulu (dir. Cy Endfield, 1964)

A review by Frank Carle

 

I'm Not There (dir. Todd Haynes, 2007)

A review by Lawrence Taylor

 

Son of Rambow (dir. Garth Jennings, 2008)

A review by A. T. McKenna

 

Atonement (dir. Joe Wright, 2007)

A review by Emily Crawford



 

Conference Reports

All conference reports

In the Shadow of Empire: The Post-Imperial Urban Imaginaries of London and Paris — a report by Christopher Meir

 

New Developments in Stardom — a report by Laura Sava

 

Child and Teen Consumption Conference (2008) — a report by Jacob Smith

 

Screen Studies Conference (2008): Sound and Music in Film, TV and Video — a report by Faye Woods

 

Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking and Transformation — a report by Neelam Sidhar Wright and Stella Sims

 

New Directions in Turkish Film Studies Conference IX: Cinema and Reality — a report by Jenna Ng


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Scope

Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies
University of Nottingham
NG7 2RD

Email: scope@nottingham.ac.uk