New Issue of SCOPE!

Image of Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982). Read Elizabeth Abele's article about transgendered fantasy films, including Tootsie, here

Film Studies For Free always loves it when a new issue of the high quality, Open Access, film and television studies journal SCOPE slips out online without any fuss.

That's just what happened with the latest issue - number 21 - so let FSFF toot out its own fanfare to yet another excellent collection of film and television studies work. All the contents are linked to below.

SCOPE Issue 21, October 2011

Articles

• Becoming a Better Man as a Woman: The Transgendered Fantasy in 1980s-1990s Popular Films Elizabeth Abele  
• TV Similes: Language, Community and Comparative Poetics in Northern Exposure David Scott Diffrient  
• Let's Get Found: Music Sampling, Found Footage and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts David Laderman  
• Interracial Romance Revisited: Chinese Box and Tomorrow Never Dies Jing Yang  
• [ALL ARTICLES ON ONE PAGE]

Book Reviews

• History by Hollywood by Robert Brent Toplin (plus Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era) Reviewer: Brian Faucette  
• What Cinema Is! by Dudley Andrew  (Plus The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay) Film Reviewer: Daniele Rugo  
• All about Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema by Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki (eds) (Plus Stephen King on the Big Screen) Reviewer: Edmund P. Cuev  
• Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema by Joanna Page (Plus Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru) Reviewer: Rowena Santos Aquino  
• Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies by Warren Buckland (ed) (Plus Post-Classical Hollywood: Film Industry, Style and Ideology Since 1945) Reviewer: Steen Christiansen  
• The British Cinema Book by Robert Murphy (ed) (Plus A Short History of Film) Reviewer: Paul Quinn 
• 100 Film Noirs (BFI Screen Guides) by Jim Hillier and Alastair Phillips (Plus Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization) Reviewer: Keith James Hamel  
• Fame by Mark Rowlands (Plus American Idolatry: Celebrity, Commodity and Reality Television) Reviewer: Melanie Kennedy  
• Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel by Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis (eds) (Plus Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood) Reviewer: Stuart Henderson
• Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear by Julian Hanich (Plus Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd: A Post-Jungian Perspective) Reviewer: Flavia Monceri
• [ALL BOOK REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Film Reviews

• I AM: Afia, Megha, Abhimanyu and Omar Reviewer: Rohit K Dasgupta  
• Phineas and Ferb Reviewer: Derek Jones  
• The Turin Horse Reviewer: Philip Phillis  
• The Monk Reviewer: Simon Dawes  
• That Girl in Yellow Boots Reviewer: Sukhmani Khorana  
• [ALL FILM REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Conference Reports

• The Diasporic Family in Cinema, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 21 May 2011 Reporter: Deniz Günes Yardimci  
• NECS Conference 2011, King's College and Birkbeck, University of London, 23-26 June Reporter: Celia Nicholls and Richard Wallace  Screen Studies Conference 2011: Repositioning Screen History, University of Glasgow, 1–3 July 2011 Reporter: Linda Hutcheson and Natália Pinazza  
• Images of Whiteness, InterDisciplinary.Net, Oxford University, 12–14 July 2011 
• Screen Studies Conference, July 2010 [File not yet accessible}
• [ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON ONE PAGE]

New SCOPE: Chris Marker, Cult cinema, Dance on Film, 1970s Film Theory

Image from The Company (Robert Altman, 2003)

Today, Film Studies For Free is thrilled to point you in the tremendous direction of the latest contents of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies. There's lots to recommend in this issue but FSFF particularly enjoyed Katharina Lindner's article on the female dancer on film, along with numerous, wonderful book reviews and conference reports, all part of the fabulous and openly accessible service that Scope provides to the international film studies community.

Scope, Issue 20, June 211

Articles

• Pasts and Futures of 1970s Film Theory Matthew Croombs
• Cultivating the Cult Experience at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Donna de Ville
• Spectacular (Dis-) Embodiments: The Female Dancer on Film  Katharina Lindner
• Chris Marker and the Audiovisual Archive Oliver Mayer

• [ALL ARTICLES ON ONE PAGE]

Book Reviews

• Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover by Denise Mann  
  100 American Independent Films, 2nd edition; The Contemporary Hollywood Reader  Reviewer: Gareth James
• Documentary Display: Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video by Keith Beatti Reviewer: Jeffrey Gutierrez
• Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit by Dina Iordanova with Ragan Rhyne (eds); Dekalog 3: On Film Festivals Reviewer: Linda Hutcheson
• Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting's An Autumn's Tale by Stacilee Ford; John Woo's The Killer Reviewer: Lin Feng
• Responses to Oliver Stone's Alexander: Film, History, and Cultural Studies by Paul Cartledge and Fiona Rose Greenland (eds); Screening Nostalgia: Populuxe Props and Technicolor Aesthetics in Contemporary American Film Reviewer: Andrew B.R. Elliott
• Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies by Abe Mark Nornes and Aaron Gerow; The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs Reviewer: Jonathan Wroot
• Chapaev by Julian Graffy; Leni Riefenstahl: A Life Reviewer: Andrei Rogatchevski
• Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century by R. Bruce Elder; Moving Viewers: American Film and the Spectator's Experience Reviewer: Caroline Hagood
• Reworking the German Past: Adaptations in Film, the Arts, and Popular Culture by Susan G. Figge and Jenifer K. Ward (eds); The Collapse of the Conventional: German Film and Its Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Reviewer: Matthias Uecker
• Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema by Tytti Soila (ed); Claude Rains: An Actor's Voice Reviewer: Rachael Johnson
• Alternative Film Culture in Inter-War Britain by Jamie Sexton; The Lost World of Cliff Twemlow: The King of Manchester Exploitation Movies; The British 'B' Film Reviewer: Laurence Raw
• Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider by Brian Neve; Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture, Volume 1 Reviewer: Mildred Lewis
• First Person Jewish by Alisa S. Lebow; Neo-Noir Reviewer: Marat Grinberg

• [ALL BOOK REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Film Reviews

• Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-war Britain (1951-1977) Reviewer: Dai Vaughan
• Bonnie and Clyde Reviewer: Ian Murphy
• Cracks & Tell-Tale; Robin Hood; The A-Team  Reviewer: Laurence Raw
• The Karate Kid & The Karate Kid Reviewer: Rachel Mizsei Ward

• [ALL FILM REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Conference Reports

• Flow Conference 2010, University of Texas, Austin, 30 September–2 October 2010 Reporter: Kelly K. Ryan and Heather Muse
• Women's Filmmaking in France 2000-2010, Institut Français, London, 2–4 December 2010 Reporter: Sarah Forgacs
• MeCCSA Conference: Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, University of Salford, 12–14 January 2011 Reporter: Greg Bevan
• ¡Documentary Now!, University of Westminster, London, 28–30 January 2011 Reporter: Philippa Daniel
• Rendering the Visible Conference, Georgia State University, 10–14 February 2011 Reporter: Drew Ayers and Steven Pustay
• Erotic Screen and Sound: Culture, Media and Desire Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, 15–18 February 2011 Reporter: Michelle A. Mayefske
• SCMS 2011: Media Citizenship, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New Orleans, 10–13 March 2011 Reporter: Shana MacDonald

• [ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON ONE PAGE]

New Issue of Scope! Gollum/LOTR, Egyptian cinema, Fight Club, Snuff-Fiction

Read Mike Miley's review of Glyn Davis's study of  Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes, 1987). Read Film Studies For Free's related entry dedicated to Todd Haynes and its entry on the Sirkian melodrama. 

As usual, Film Studies For Free is delighted to bring you news of the latest issue of Scope; an Online Journal of Film and TV Studies. The full table of contents is given below. 

In addition to an excellent selection of main articles, there is an astonishing array of book and film reviews and conference reports, the latter sections in particular flagging up the enormous, but highly worthwhile, collective editorial effort that goes into producing a very good quality Open Access journal.

Thank you, Scope!

Scope, Issue 19, February 2011

Articles

• Playing with Gollum: Uncovering the Cultural Life and Transnational Travels of a Complex Character - Part One Martin Barker

• Playing with Gollum: Uncovering the Cultural Life and Transnational Travels of a Complex Character - Part Two Martin Barker

• Dying to be Seen: Snuff-Fiction's Problematic Fantasies of "Reality" Steve Jones

• Screening Egypt: Reconciling Egyptian Film's Place in "World Cinema" Omar Kholeif

• A Copy, of a Copy, of a Copy? Exploring Masculinity Under Transformation in Fight Club Simon Lindgren

• [ALL ARTICLES ON ONE PAGE]

Book Reviews

• Carmen on Film: A Cultural History by Phil Powrie, Bruce Babington, Ann Davies and Chris Perriam  100 Hundred Years of Spanish Cinema By Tatjana Pavlovi, Inmaculada Alvarez, Rosana Blanco-Cano, Anitra Grisales, Alejandra Osorio and Alejandra Sánchez Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943 By Steven Ricci Reviewer: Noelia Saenz

• Screen Education: From Film Appreciation to Media Studies by Terry Bolas  Beginning Film Studies By Andrew Dix Reviewer: Juli Pitzer

• Isuma: Inuit Video Art by Michael Robert Evans Outside Looking In: Viewing First Nations Peoples in Canadian Dramatic Television Series By Mary Jane Miller  Reviewer: Heather Macdougall

• The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks by Peter Graham and Ginette Vincendeau (eds.)  Stardom in Postwar France Edited by John Gaffney and Diana Holmes Reviewer: John Berra

• Satire TV: Politics and Comedy in the Post-Network Era by Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, and Ethan Thompson (eds.) Reviewer: Evan Elkins

• Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy by Paola Marrati. Translated by Alisa Hartz  Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film By Irving Singer Reviewer: Alexander Thimons

• Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema by Warren Buckland (ed.) Reviewer: Chris Pallant

• Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story by Glyn Davis Reviewer: Mike Miley

• The Hitchcock Annual Anthology: Selected Essays from Volumes 10-15 by Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Allen (eds.) Reviewer: Christina M. Parker

• Film and Memory in East Germany by Anke Pinkert  Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema By Inga Scharf Reviewer: David Embree

• Dismantling the Dream Factory: Gender, German Cinema and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language by Hester Baer Reviewer: Paul Cooke

• Understanding Indian Cinema: Culture, Cognition and Cinematic Imagination by Patrick Colm Hogan  Mourning The Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition By Bhaskar Sarkar Reviewer: Scott Jordan Harris

• Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Movies by Dave Saunders Reviewer: Joseph Arton

• Jean-Pierre Jeunet by Elizabeth Ezra  The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience By Jennifer M. Barker Reviewer: Alison Frank

• Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel by Nick Dawson  The Films of Hal Ashby By Christopher Beach Reviewer: Aaron Hunter

• Steven Spielberg and Philosophy: We're Gonna Need a Bigger Book by Dean A. Kowalski (ed.)  Scenes of Love and Murder: Renoir, Film and Philosophy By Colin Davis Reviewer: Chelsea Wessels

• The Cinema of Naruse Mikio: Women and Japanese Modernity  by Catherine Russell   Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary By Abé Mark Nornes  Reviewer: Stephen Potter

• Anatomy of Film. Sixth Edition by Bernhard F. Dick Reviewer: Monika Raesch

• Playing with Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin by David Church (ed.)  The Young, the Restless, and the Dead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers, Volume 1. Edited by George Melnyk Reviewer: Rachel Walls

• TV China by Ying Zhu and Chris Berry (eds.)  Transnational Television in Europe: Reconfiguring Global Communications Networks By Jean K. Chalaby Reviewer: Bärbel Göbel

• [ALL BOOK REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Film Reviews

• The Godfather Reviewer: Mark Chapman

• Red Hill Reviewer: Kate Harper

• The Eclipse Reviewer: Andrea Grunert

• Life on Mars Reviewer: Mary Irwin

• Kaminey Reviewer: Sagnik Banerjee

• [ALL FILM REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Conference Reports

• British Film 2000-2010: Crossing Borders, Transferring Cultures, Germersheim School of Translation, Interpreting, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Mainz, 18 – 21 February 2010 Reporter: Ron Walker

• NERFS (North-East Regional Film Seminar), Northumbria University, Newcastle, 15 July 2010 Reporter: Louise Anderson and Erin Hill-Parks

• Investigating Torchwood: Text, Context, Audiences, Cardiff School of Creative Arts, University of Glamorgan, 18 June 2010 Reporter: Ross P. Garner

• NECS 2010 Annual Conference, Communication Faculty, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, 24 – 27 June 2010 Reporter: Ozgur Cicek

• MeCCSA-PGN 2010: Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association Postgraduate Network Conference, University of Glasgow, 31 June – 1 July 2010 Reporter: Douglas McNaughton

• Screen Studies Conference: Screen Performance, University of Glasgow, 2 – 4 July 2010 Reporter: Melanie Hoyes

• [ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON ONE PAGE]

New Issue of Scope!

Image from Good Bye, Lenin! ( Wolfgang Becker, 2003). Read Kevin L. Ferguson's fascinating article on the film: Home Movies: Historical Space and the Mother's Memory

Good Bye Lenin!, a film commonly read as a political fable of East German nostalgia, is rather for me a successful example of autobiographical narrative that balances maternal loss and a boy's coming to manhood, framing this transition in and through home movies. As such, it provides a much-needed positive model for cinema's use of mothers and memory. [Kevin L. Ferguson]

Film Studies For Free has been far too quiet lately, but that's about to change, people! Let us kick off the burst of activity with FSFF's usual update about one of its very favourite openly accessible, film-scholarly journals, SCOPE: And Online Journal of Film and TV Studies, run by those wonderful people at the Department of Culture, Film and Media, University of Nottingham. The full Table of Contents is reproduced below for your convenient reading pleasure.

Scope, Issue 18, 2010

Articles

Art Cinema as Institution, Redux: Art Houses, Film Festivals, and Film Studies
David Andrews
The Pinnacle of Popular Taste?: The Importance of Confessions of a Window Cleaner
Sian Barber
Walking the Line: Negotiating Celebrity in the Country Music Biopic
Molly Brost
Home Movies: Historical Space and the Mother's Memory
Kevin L. Ferguson
An Aristocratic Plod, Erstwhile Commandos and Ladies who Craved Excitement: Hammer Films' Post-War BBC Crime Series and Serial Adaptations
David Mann

[ALL ARTICLES ON ONE PAGE]

Book Reviews

"May Contain Graphic Material": Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Film By M. Keith Booker
Reviewer: David Simmons
Investigating Firefly and Serenity By Rhonda Wilcox and Tanya Cochran (eds.) & Special Issue on Firefly and Serenity
Reviewer: Ronald Helfrich
Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film By Adilifu Nama & Mixed Race Hollywood
Reviewer: Augusto Ciuffo de Oliveira
Inherent Vice: Bootleg Histories of Videotape and Copyright By Lucas Hilderbrand & From Betamax to Blockbuster: Video Stores and the Invention of Movies on Video
Reviewer: Daniel Herbert
Stanley Cavell's American Dream: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood Movies By Lawrence F. Rhu
Reviewer: Áine Kelly
Scorsese By Roger Ebert
Reviewer: John Berra
Contemporary British Cinema: From Heritage to Horror By James Leggott & Roman Polanski
Reviewer: Paul Newland
Cities In Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis By Andrew Webber and Emma Wilson (eds.) & Cinematic Countrysides (Inside Popular Film)
Reviewer: Peter C. Pugsley
Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World By S. Brent Plate & Crowd Scenes: Movies and Mass Politics
Reviewer: Douglas C. MacLeod, Jr.
Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City By Mark Shiel
Reviewer: Tom Whittaker
Independent Cinema (includes DVD of Paul Cronin's Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16) By D.K. Holm & Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production
Reviewer: Carl Wilson
Seventies British Cinema By Robert Shail (ed.)
Reviewer: Lawrence Webb
Photography and Cinema (Exposures) By David Campany  & Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography
Reviewer: Tom Slevin
Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood's Russians: Biography of an Image By Harlow Robinson & How the Soviet Man was Unmade: Cultural Fantasy and Male Subjectivity under Stalin
Reviewer: Brian Faucette
A Companion to Spanish Cinema By Bernard P.E. Bentley & Gender and Spanish Cinema
Reviewer: Abigail Keating
The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II By David Welky & The Hidden Art of Hollywood: In Defense of the Studio Era Film
Reviewer: Hannah Durkin
Neil Jordan By Maria Pramaggiore & The Cinema of Neil Jordan: Dark Carnival
Reviewer: Steve Masters
Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, and Memory By Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi
Reviewer: Omar Kholeif
The Cinema of Jan Švankmajer: Dark Alchemy (Directors' Cuts) By Peter Hames & Hungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex
Reviewer: Jonathan Owen
Movie Greats: A Critical Study of Classic Cinema By Philip Gillett  & Inventing Film Studies
Reviewer: Steven Rybin

[ALL BOOK REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Film Reviews

Generation Kill
Reviewer: Sheamus Sweeney
Diary of the Dead
Reviewer: Sigmund Shen
Rich and Strange & Stage Fright
Reviewer: Judy Beth Morris
Blood: The Last Vampire
Reviewer: Kia-Choong Teo
Coraline
Reviewer: Alice Mills
Before and After
Reviewer: Clodagh M. Weldon

[ALL FILM REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Conference Reports

Bloodlines: British Horror Past and Present, An International Conference and Film Festival at De Montfort University and Phoenix Square, Leicester, 4 - 5 March 2010
Reporter: Michael Ahmed
IMAGEing Reality, University of Navarra, Spain, 22– 24 October 2009
Reporter: Stefano Odorico
The Moving Image: Reconfiguring Spaces of Loss and Mourning in the 21st Century, Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge, 26-27 February 2010
Reporter: Jenny Chamarette
NECS 2009 3rd Annual Conference: Locating Media, Lund, Sweden, 25 - 28 June, 2009
Reporter: Andrea Virginás
New Waves: XII International Film and Media Conference, Transylvania, Romania, 22 - 23 October 2009
Reporter: Hajnal Kiraly
Open Graves, Open Minds: Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, April 16 - 17 2010
Reporter: Darren Elliott-Smith
Re-Living Disaster, Birbkeck College, London, 29-30 April 2010
Reporter: Ozlem Koksal
SCMS @ 50/LA (Society for Cinema and Media Studies): Archiving the Future, Mobilizing the Past, Los Angleles, California, US, March 10-14, 2010
Reporter: Jason Kelly Roberts
SCMS @ 50/LA (Society for Cinema and Media Studies), Los Angeles, California, March 10-14, 2010
Reporter: Martin L. Johnson
Straight Outta Uttoxeter: Studying Shane Meadows, University of East Anglia, 15 - 16 April 2010
Reporter: Emma Sutton

[ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON ONE PAGE]

Scope on Moving Image Archives

Image from Picturegoer Magazine, archived at the Bill Douglas collection, University of Exeter, as discussed by Lisa Stead in
her article Audiences from the Film Archive: Women's Writing and Silent Cinema.
(Used in accordance with the Original License)

Across the [Using Moving Image Archives] collection, then, scholars ask: how is the archive, as a repository of memory and of the past, used to construct cultural history? What can archives tell us about the formation of particular categories of identity? How can the ephemeral, like the digital, be archived? These are pressing, important questions, and we hope the varied answers here will lead to further reflection and debate upon the place of archival research in the interdisciplinary study of moving images.  From 'Introduction', by Nandana Bose and Lee Grieveson

Film Studies For Free is still catching up with the busy, Summer, electronic educational traffic. Below are links to all the brilliant items in one of the most significant volumes to be published online in its recent absence on holiday: Scope's latest issue on Using Moving Image Archives, edited by Nandana Bose and Lee Grieveson.

FULL ISSUE AS e-BOOK

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements and Introduction by Nandana Bose and Lee Grieveson

Part I: The Archive and the Nation

• Amateur Film and the Interwar English Countryside by Michael McCluskey

• Critical Reflections on Film as a Historical Source: A Case Study of the Military Regime in Brazil by Nina Schneider

Part II: The Ephemerality and Textuality of the Archive

• Audiences from the Film Archive: Women's Writing and Silent Cinema by Lisa Stead

• Archival Realities and Contagious Spaces: Shopgirls, Censorship and the City in Damaged Goods by Heida Johannsdottir

Part III: The Televisual and Digital Archive

• Reading Political Comedy: Yes Minister and Comic Coherence by Matt Crowder

• The Representation by French Television of Building Construction Work in and around Paris During the 1960s by Jacob Paskins

• Archives and Prefigurative Practices: Digital Games Walkthrough Archives as Record and Resource by Daniel Ashton

New Issue of Scope online now: Lynch, Haneke, horror, Spanish comedy, auteurism and digital cinema

Image from Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)

Film Studies For Free is delighted, as ever, to announce that a new issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies has been published.

It's yet another extremely successful issue for this journal, with a full set of very strong articles, and a rich offering of book and film reviews, plus conference reports. The full table of contents is reproduced below with direct links to all items.

FSFF particularly liked Matthew Croombs' article on afterwardsness and trauma in two films by Resnais and Haneke.

Scope #16 (February 2010)

Articles

• Algeria Deferred: The Logic of Trauma in Muriel and Caché by Matthew Croombs

• The Influence of the American Sitcom on the Production of TV Comedy in Spain by Mar Grandio and Patricia Diego

• DavidLynch.com: Auteurship in the Age of the Internet and Digital Cinema by Zoran Samardzija

• Terrorist Attack!: The Spectacle of Evil in the Blended Horror of Cloverfield by James Aston

• Violent Affect, Aesthetic Intimacy and Salvific Pain in The Passion Of The Christ by Anthony McCosker

[ALL ARTICLES ON ONE PAGE]

Book Reviews

• The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference By Tina Chanter, Reviewer: Adrienne Angelo

• Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping By Noël Carrol, Reviewer: Alissa Burger

• Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art By Shyon Baumann, Reviewer: Beth Corzo-Duchardt

• Beautiful TV: The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal By Greg M. Smith, Reviewer: Dave Sagehorn

• Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond By Janet McCabe and Kim Akass (eds.), Reviewer: David Simmons

• Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World By Stacey Abbott, Reviewer: Edmund P. Cueva

• Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema By Robert Bird, Reviewer: Erik Heine

• Figures of Resistance: Essays in Feminist Theory By Teresa de Lauretis. Edited and with an Introduction by Patricia White, Reviewer: Flavia Monceri

• Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality By Jonathan Gray and Rome: Season One: History Makes Television, Reviewer: Gareth James

• War and Film By James Chapman and Hollywood's Cold War, Reviewer: Kevin M. Flanagan

• Writing History and Film By William Guynn and The Hollywood Historical Film (New Approaches to Film Genre), Reviewer: Laura E. Ferguson

• "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear By Tim Jon Semmerling, Reviewer: Martin Fradley

• Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television since 1933 By Toby Haggith and Joanna Newman (eds.), Preface by David Cesarani and Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust, Reviewer: Nathan Waddell

• International Adventures. German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s By Tim Bergfelder, Reviewer: Nick Hodgin

• Conscientious Viscerality: The Autobiographical Stance in German Film and Video By Robin Curtis, Reviewer: Sarah Heinz

• Film, Media and Popular Culture in Ireland: Cityscapes, Landscapes, Soundscapes By Martin McLoone and Emeralds in Tinseltown: The Irish in Hollywood, Reviewer: Sinéad Moynihan

• Documentaries…and how to make them By Andy Glynne, Reviewer: Stefano Odorico

• Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain By Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins, Reviewer: TJ McIntyre

• Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer By Elana Levine and Lisa Parks (eds.), Reviewer: Lucia Blanchet

• Understanding the Global TV Format By Albert Moran and Justin Malbon and Television Entertainment, Reviewer: Baerbel Goebel-Deigert

[ALL BOOK REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Film Reviews

• Funny Games, Reviewer: Mike Miley
• Gomorrah, Reviewer: Jonathan Murray
• The Other Boleyn Girl and The Other Boleyn Girl, Reviewer: Llewella Burton
• Blindness, Reviewer: Sofia Sampaio
• Yemeketyiz, Reviewer: Laurence Raw

[ALL FILM REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Conference Reports

• Colour and the Moving Image, University of Bristol, 10-12 July 2009, Reporter: Heather Heckman
• Televising History 2009, University of Lincoln, 22– 25 July 2009, Reporter: Debra Ramsay 
• Researching Cinema History: Perspectives and Practices in Film Historiography, University of Portsmouth and the British Universities Film & Video Council Geological Society 6-7 July 2009, Reporter: Stacey Abbott
• Screen Studies Conference: Screen Theorizing Today, University of Glasgow, July 3-5, 2009, Reporter: Su-Anne Yeo
• Sepancine Conference 2009, 5º Congreso Internacional de Teoría y Análisis Cinematográfico (5th International Congress on Film Theory and Analysis), 1–3 October 2009, Morelia, Michoacán, México, Reporter: Dale Hudson 
• Images of the Afterlife in Theology and Film, Conference of the International Research Group "Film and Theology" Catholic Academy, Schwerte, Gemany, 25-28 June 2009, Reporter: Marie-Therese Mäder
• Beyond the Politics of Identity, University of Aberdeen, 20th June 2009, Reporter: Tom Smith
• Beyond Life: The Undead in Global Cult Media, Cine Excess: The Third International Conference on Cult Film Traditions, Curzon Soho Cinema and Odeon Covent Garden, London, 30th April - 2nd May 2009, Reporter: Rachel Mizsei Ward
• B for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics and Cultural Value, Reporter: Ramon Lobato
• American Independent Cinema: Past, Present, Future, Co-organised by Liverpool John Moores University and University of Liverpool. Hosted by Liverpool Screen School, Liverpool John Moores University, 8-10 May 2009, Reporter: Carl Wilson

[ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON ONE PAGE]

Tenth Anniversary SCOPE !! On Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation

Sissy Spacek as Carrie (Brian de Palma, 1976). See Queering the Cult of Carrie: Appropriations of a Horror Icon in Charles Lum's Indelible by Darren Elliott in the new Scope issue

Hooray! It's OUT. Film Studies For Free has been checking almost every day for a couple of months now because it knew that an amazing issue of Scope: an online journal of film and tv studies -- its TENTH anniversary issue -- was just about to be published. It's here now *Scope* # 15: an issue and  an e-book -- see the contents links below -- and contains some fantastic items of film and media studies. 

Congratulations to the whole editorial team at Scope, who do a fabulous job. These have been ten great years of remarkably high quality and FREELY ACCESSIBLE scholarly works. Thank you.


Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation
Edited by Iain Robert Smith

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements Iain Robert Smith

Foreword: Scope's Tenth Anniversary  Mark Gallagher and Julian Stringer

Introduction Iain Robert Smith

Part I: Hollywood Cinema and Artistic Imitation

Exploitation as Adaptation I. Q. Hunter

The Character-Oriented Franchise: Promotion and Exploitation of Pre-Sold Characters in American Film, 1913-1950 Jason Scott

Novelty through Repetition: Exploring the Success of Artistic Imitation in the Contemporary Film Industry, 1983-2007 Stijn Joye

Part II: Found Footage and Remix Culture

A Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing: Contemporary Found Footage Practice on the Internet Eli Horwatt

Ethical Possession: Borrowing from the Archives Emma Cocker

Music Videos and Reused Footage Sérgio Dias Branco

Part III: Modes of Parody and Pastiche

From Cult to Subculture: Re­imaginings of Cult Films in Alternative Music Video Brigid Cherry

Queering the Cult of Carrie: Appropriations of a Horror Icon in Charles Lum's Indelible Darren Elliott

Irony Inc.: Parodic-Doc Horror and The Blair Witch Project Jordan Lavender-Smith

Part IV: Transnational Screen Culture

A Marxist's Gotta Do What a Marxist's Gotta Do: Political Violence on the Italian Frontier Austin Fisher

"Tom Cruise? Tarantino? E.T.? ...Indian!": Innovation through Imitation in the Cross-cultural Bollywood Remake Neelam Sidhar Wright

"La Television des Professeurs?": Charles Dickens, French Public Service Television and Olivier Twist Pamela Atzori