[ecrea] Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies issue 26 now published

We are pleased to announce that Scope: An Online Journal of Film and 
Television Studies issue 26 has been published: 
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/february-issue-26.aspx



We hope readers will enjoy this open-access resource for film and 
television scholarship. The issue’s table of contents is reproduced below.



Scope has moved to a new website, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/, 
and we are working to migrate content from past issues to the new site. 
Thanks for your patience as we work to make all journal issues available 
to interested readers.



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Mark Gallagher
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Department of Culture, Film and Media
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Scope Issue 26 – February 2014

Articles



No Country for Women and Children: Pastoral American and Meaningful 
Despair in Palindromes and Dancer in the Dark — Charles Burnetts



The Fine Art of Commercial Freedom: British Music Videos and Film 
Culture — Emily Caston



"Disappointingly Thin and Flaccid": Gender, Authorship and Authenticity 
in Shane Meadows' Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) — Martin 
Fradley & Emma Sutton



“We Ain’t Thinking About Tomorrow”: Narrative Immediacy and the Digital 
Period Aesthetic in Michael Mann’sPublic Enemies — Adam Gallimore



Melodrama as Vernacular Modernism in China: The Case of D. W. Griffith — 
Qijun Han



Postmillennial Cinema and the Avenging Fatale in Sin City, Hard Candy 
and Descent — Samantha Jane Lindop



Labor Relations, 16mm Film and Euston Films — Max Sexton



DOSSIER: Film Festival Pedagogy: Using the Film Festival in or as a Film 
Course — curated by Ger Zielinski



Book Reviews



All book reviews



Watching the World: Screening Documentary and Audiences by Thomas Austin

A Journey through Documentary Film by Luke Dormehl

American Documentary Film: Projecting the Nation by Jeffrey Geiger

A Review by Douglas C. MacLeod Jr.



Performance in the Cinema of Hal Hartley by Steven Rawle

Hal Hartley by Mark L. Berrettini

A review by Jennifer O'Meara



Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman by Will Brooker

The James Bond Phenomenon: A Critical Reader edited by Christoph Lindner

A Review by Matthew Freeman



Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women by 
Lucy Bolton

Civilized Violence: Subjectivity, Gender and Popular Cinema by David 
Hansen-Miller

A Review by Katherine Whitehurst



New Takes in Film-Philosophy edited by Havi Carel and Greg Tuck

Deleuze and Cinema: The Film Concepts by Felicity Colman

Deleuze and World Cinemas by David Martin-Jones

A Review by Sergey Toymentsev



The British Film Institute, the Government and Film Culture, 1933-2000 
edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and Christophe Dupin

J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of 
Hollywood’s Cold War by John Sbardellati

The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television by 
Tricia Jenkins

A Review by Elaine Lennon



Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer by Shaun Kimber

Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain by Julian Petley

A review by Karen Oughton



Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers: Redefining Feminism on Screen by 
Kathleen Rowe Karlyn

African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960 by 
Charlene Regester

Unsettling Sights: The Fourth World on Film by Corinn Columpar

A review by Mantra Roy



Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural 
Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933 by Erik Butler

Stephen King on the Small Screen by Mark Browning

John Carpenter by Michelle Le Blanc and Colin Odell

A review by Alissa Burger



Bollywood: Gods, Glamour and Gossip by Kush Varia

Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema by Tejaswini Gamti

A Review by Laya Maheshwari



The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam

InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen edited by Rajinder Dudrah, 
Sangita Gopal, Amit S. Rai and Anustup Basu

The New Media Nation: Indigenous Peoples and Global Communication by 
Valerie Alia

A Review by Rohit K Dasgupta, University of the Arts London



Reforming Hollywood: How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the 
Movies by William D. Romanowki

Celluloid Sermons: The Emergence of the Christian Film Industry, 
1930-1986 by Terry Lindvall and Andrew Quicke

A review by Hannah Graves, University of Warwick



Shadow of a Mouse: Performance, Belief, and World-Making in Animation by 
Donald Crafton

The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation by Thomas Lamarre

A review by Daniel Knipe, University of the West of England



Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento by 
Maitland McDonagh

The New Neapolitan Cinema by Alex Marlow-Mann

Radical Frontiers in the Spaghetti Western: Politics, Violence and 
Popular Italian Cinema by Austin Fisher

A review by Joseph North



Mike Leigh by Sean O’Sullivan

Discomfort and Joy: The Cinema of Bill Forsyth by Jonathan Murray

A review by Marcus Smith



Lindsay Anderson: Cinema Authorship by John Izod, Karl Magee, Kathryn 
Hannan and Isabelle Gourdin-Sanguaord

The Cinema of Michael Winterbottom by Deborah Allison

A review by Martin Stollery



A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas edited by Anikó Imre

European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory and Politics by Ewa 
Mazierska

European Cinema in Motion: Migrant and Diasporic Film in Contemporary 
Europe edited by Daniela Berghahn and Claudia Sternberg

A review by Andrea Virginás



Existentialism and Social Engagement in the Films of Michael Mann by 
Vincent M. Gaine

Maximum Movies–Pulp Fictions: Film Culture and the Worlds of Samuel 
Fuller, Mickey Spillane, and Jim Thompson by Peter Stanfield

A review by Michael Ahmed



Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream by 
Sherry B. Ortner

Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s by 
Alisa Perren

Hollywood’s Indies: Classics Divisions, Specialty Labels and the 
American Film Market by Yannis Tzioumakis

A review by Steven Rawle



Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetee, Sans 
Soleil and Hiroshima Mon Amour by Carol Mavor

Temporality and Film Analysis by Matilda Mroz

A review by John A. Riley



Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie by Walter Raubicheck 
and Walter Srebnick

A Companion to Literature, Film and Adaptation edited by Deborah Cartmell

A review by J. E. Smyth



What Dreams Were Made Of: Movie Stars of the 1940s edited by Sean Griffin

Hollywood Reborn: Movie Stars of the 1970s edited by James Morrison

Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s edited by Murray Pomerance

A review by Jude Warne



Coming Soon to A Festival Near You: Programming Film Festivals edited by 
Jeffrey Ruoff

Film Festival Yearbook 4: Film Festivals and Activism edited by Dina 
Iordanova and Leshu Torchin

A review by Dorota Ostrowska



Film Reviews



All Film Reviews



Special Feature: The Marvel Cinematic Universe



Introduction by Leora Hadas

Iron Man 3: launching Phase 2 — review by Leora Hadas



Avengers Assembled: The Marvel Transmedia Universe — review by William 
Proctor



Joe Johnston and Marvel Studios Unearth a Brooklyn Antique Captain 
America: The First Avenger — review by Martin Flanagan



Iron Man: Building the Marvel Cinematic Universe — review by Aaron 
Calbreath-Frasieur



Additional reviews



The Devils — review by Sarah Pines



The Voyage of the Dawn Treader — review by Alice Mills



Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy — review by Reidar Due



Conference Reports



All Conference Reports



European Cinema Research Forum Conference 2013: The Other — report by 
Christian Klesse

German Screen Studies Network Symposium: "The Return of the Real—Realism 
and Everyday Life in Contemporary German-Language Film" — report by 
Elizabeth Ward

MeCCSA (Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association) 
Postgraduate Network Conference — report by Michael Ahmed

Revisiting Star Studies Conference — report by Anna Malinowska and Mani 
Sharpe

SCMS 2013: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference — report by 
Frances Smith

Screening Atrocity: Cinema, Decolonisation and the Holocaust — report by 
Hilary Clixby & Hedley Sugar-Wells

Texture in Film: Interdisciplinary Symposium — report by Allain Dingle

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