[ecrea] Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies

Dear All

Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television 
Studies issue 16 (NS) has just been published.

It is available at http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/issue.php?issue=16

The table of contents is reproduced below.

best

Julian



Scope #16 (February 2010)

Articles

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

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

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

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

Violent Affect, Aesthetic Intimacy and Salvific 
Pain in The Passion Of The Christ
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 Carroll
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 & Rome: 
Season One: History Makes Television
Reviewer: Gareth James

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

Writing History and Film By William Guynn & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & 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 & University of Liverpool. Hosted by 
Liverpool Screen School, Liverpool John Moores University, 8-10 May 2009
Reporter: Carl Wilson



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