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

Issue 13 — February 2009

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Book Reviews

All book reviews

Culture Conglomerates: Consolidation in the Motion Picture and Television Industries by William M. Kunz

A review by Brenda McDermott

 

The Dream Team — The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood by Daniel M. Kimmel

A review by Erin Hill-Parks

 

Satyajit Ray: Essays 1970-2005 by Gaston Roberge

A review by Gëzim Alpion

 

Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture edited by Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra

A review by Jane Fader

 

The Virtual Life of Film by D.N. Rodowick

A review by Jason Kelly Roberts

 

The Immortal Marilyn: The Depiction of an Icon by John De Vito and Frank Tropea

A review by Jesse Schlotterbeck

 

The American Western by Stephen McVeigh 

"Injuns!": Native Americans in the Movies by Edward Buscombe

A review by Jo Eadie

 

Reconstructing American Historical Cinema: From Cimarron to Citizen Kane by J. E. Smyth

A review by Jonathan Stubbs

 

Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema by Garrett Stewart

A review by John-Paul Kelly

 

Shakespeare on Film: Such Things as Dreams are Made of by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

A review by Sarah Arnold

 

Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan edited by Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell

Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero by Marita Sturken

A review by Fiona Handyside

 

Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Film by Roz Kaveney

A review by Martin A. Zeller

 

The Romance of Transgression in Canada: Queering Sexualities, Nations, Cinemas by Thomas Waugh

A review by Sarah Artt

 

Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir by John T. Irwin

A review by Mark Bould

 

The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei

A review by Sinéad Moynihan

 

Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema by Genevieve Sellier (translated by Kristin Ross)  

The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I'll Kill Youby Lisa Dombrowski

A review by Michael Brian Faucette

 

The Essential Science Fiction Television Reader edited by J.P. Telotte

A review by David Simmons

 

Production Culture: Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television by John Thornton Caldwell 

Short Films… How to Make and Distribute Them by Nathan Parker

A review by Heather Macdougall

 

Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's "Infernal Affairs — The Trilogy" by Gina Marchetti

A review by Ruby Cheung

 

Hollywood Goes to Washington: American Politics on Screen by Michael Coyne

A review by Shayne Pepper


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Film Reviews

All film reviews

Transformers (dir. Michael Bay, 2007)

A review by Lincoln Geraghty

 

Frontier(s) (dir. Xavier Gens, 2007)

A review by Jonathan Walker

 

Into the Wild (dir. Sean Penn, 2007)

A review by Nazmi Al-Shalabi

 

The Lady Vanishes (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1938)

A review by Amitava Nag

 

Breakfast with Hunter (dir. Wayne Ewing, 2003)

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (dir. Tom Thurman, 2005)

A review by K. J. Hunt



 

Conference Reports

All conference reports

Hypervisibility II: Homosexualities in Contemporary Francophone Visual Cultures — a report by James N. Agar

 

Television without Borders: Transfers, Translations and Transnational Exchange — a report by Alexandra Simcock

 

Obsession and Addiction — a report by Louis Bayman



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Scope

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

Email: scope@nottingham.ac.uk