Dear All
Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television
Studies is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
To mark this achievement, we have just published
our tenth anniversary special issue (#15 NS) and
e-book, Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation,
Reworking, Transformation (edited by Iain Robert
Smith). The e-book may be found here:
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr_cover.php>http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr_cover.php.
We hope readers will enjoy this free-to-all
collection of original scholarship on processes
of adaptation in film, television and new media.
The table of contents of Cultural Borrowings is
reproduced below: All issues of Scope published
between 1999-2004 are now available in the
journal's archive
(<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/archive.php>http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/archive.php).
Scope is grateful to the academic community for
its continuing interest and support
best
Mark Gallagher and Julian Stringer
Co-editors, Scope
*Scope* # 15 (November 2009):
Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation
Edited by Iain Robert Smith
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=1>Notes
on Contributors
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=2>Acknowledgements
Iain Robert Smith
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=3>Foreword:
Scope's Tenth Anniversary
Mark Gallagher and Julian Stringer
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=4>Introduction
Iain Robert Smith
Part I: Hollywood Cinema and Artistic Imitation
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=5>Exploitation
as Adaptation
I. Q. Hunter
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=6>The
Character-Oriented Franchise: Promotion and
Exploitation of Pre-Sold Characters in American Film, 1913-1950
Jason Scott
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=7>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
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=8>A
Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing: Contemporary
Found Footage Practice on the Internet
Eli Horwatt
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=9>Ethical
Possession: Borrowing from the Archives
Emma Cocker
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=10>Music
Videos and Reused Footage
Sérgio Dias Branco
Part III: Modes of Parody and Pastiche
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=11>From
Cult to Subculture: Reimaginings of Cult Films in Alternative Music Video
Brigid Cherry
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=12>Queering
the Cult of Carrie: Appropriations of a Horror Icon in Charles Lum's Indelible
Darren Elliott
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=13>Irony
Inc.: Parodic-Doc Horror and The Blair Witch Project
Jordan Lavender-Smith
Part IV: Transnational Screen Culture
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=14>A
Marxist's Gotta Do What a Marxist's Gotta Do:
Political Violence on the Italian Frontier
Austin Fisher
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=15>"Tom
Cruise? Tarantino? E.T.? ...Indian!": Innovation
through Imitation in the Cross-cultural Bollywood Remake
Neelam Sidhar Wright
<http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=16>"La
Television des Professeurs?": Charles Dickens,
French Public Service Television and Olivier Twist
Pamela Atzori