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*Articles*
Reading Ambiguity and Ambivalence: The Asymmetric Structure of Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon, By Felicia Chan
0.01cm: Affectivity and Urban Space in Chungking Express, By Wendy Gan
Muhammad Ali, Jack Johnson, and the "Problem" of Interracial Relationships:
A Re-view of Martin Ritt's The Great White Hope (1970), By Nicholas Naylor
Kings of Infinite Space: Cult Television Characters and Narrative
Possibilities, By Roberta E. Pearson
*Book Reviews*
Animation: Genre and Authorship, By Paul Wells. A Review by Esme Davidson
Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters: Storytelling Secrets from the
Greatest Mind in Western Civilization, By Michael Tierno. A Review by
Christopher S. Morrissey
Billy Wilder: American Film Realist, By Richard Armstrong. A Review by Rory
Drummond
Blacks in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and
Television. By Stephen Bourne. A Review by Gerald R. Butters Jr.
Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire. By Vijay Mishra. A Review by Arnab Das
and Subrata sankar Bagchi
British Television Drama: Past, Present and Future, Edited by Jonathan
Bignell, Stephen Lacey and Madeleine Macmurraugh-Kavanagh, and Freakshow:
First Person Media and Factual Television, By Jon Dovey. A Review by Norma
Coates
Comic Politics: Gender in Hollywood Comedy after the New Right. By Nicole
Matthews. A Review by Kathrina Glitre
Costume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film. By Sarah Street. A Review
by Rebecca Janicker
"Dear BBC": Children, Television Storytelling and the Public Sphere. By
Máire Messenger Davies. A Review by Lincoln Geraghty
Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking,
1907-1913. By Charlie Keil. A Review by David Mayer
Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema, By Lucy Mazdon, and European
Cinema: An Introduction, By Jill Forbes and Sarah Street. A Review by Andrea
Opitz
The End of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties. Edited by
Jon Lewis. A Review by Brendan Riley
Essential Brakhage: Selected Writings on Filmmaking. By Stan Brakhage.
Edited by Bruce R. McPherson
Eyes Wide Shut. By Michel Chion. Translated by Trista Selous. A Review by
Paul N. Reinsch
German National Cinema. By Sabine Hake. A Review by James M. Skidmo
Hollywood, Hype and Audiences: Selling and Watching Popular Film in the
1990s. By Thomas Austin. A Review by Rayna Denison
Introduction to Documentary, By Bill Nichols, and Autobiographical
Documentary in America, By Jim Lane. A Review by Jamie Sexton
Law and Film. Edited by Stefan Machura and Peter Robson. A Review by
Shulamit Almog
New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction. By Geoff King. A Review by Paul
Grainge
Popular Cinema of the Third Reich. By Sabine Hake. A Review by Robert D.
Levy
Psychoanalysis and Cinema: The Play of Shadows. By Vicky Lebeau. A Review by
Arnab Das and Subrata sankar Bagchi
Representing Black Britain: Black and Asian Images on Television. By Sarita
Malik. A Review by Gerald R. Butters Jr
Science Fiction Culture. By Camille Bacon-Smith. A Review by Lincoln
Geraghty
Screening Science: Contexts, Texts, and Science in Fifties Science Fiction
Film. By Errol Vieth. A Review by Mark Bould
The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image. By
Wheeler Winston Dixon. A Review by Richard L. Edwards
Shakespeare in Space: Recent Shakespeare Productions on Screen. By Herbert
R. Coursen. A Review by Rebecca Janicker
The Sounds of Early Cinema. Edited by Richard Abel and Rick Altman. A Review
by Jeff Smith
Spreading Misandry: The Teaching of Contempt for Men in Popular Culture. By
Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young. A Review by Erica Arthur
The Television Genre Book, Edited by Glen Creeber, and Action TV: Tough
Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks, Edited by Bill Osgerby and Anna
Gough Gates. A Review by James Lyons
The Usual Suspects. By Ernest Larsen. A Review by Scott Ruston
Vertigo. By Charles Barr. A Review by Jon Wisbey
Voices From The Set: The Film Heritage Interviews. Edited by Tony Macklin
and Nick Pici. A Review by Felicia Chan
The Wild West: The Mythical Cowboy and Social Theory. By Will Wright. A
Review by Stephen McVeigh
Women in British Cinema: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know. By Sue Harper. A
Review by Deneka C. MacDonald
*Film Reviews*
9'11"01 (September 11), A Review by Elizabeth Rosen
About Schmidt, A Review by Brian Gibson
Bob le Flambeur, A Review by Ronald W. Wilson
Donnie Darko, A Review by Ross Thompson
The Edgar G. Ulmer Collection, Volume One: The Strange Woman, Moon Over
Harlem; Volume Two: Bluebeard, A Review Essay by Dana Anderson
Gangs of New York, A Review by Leighton Grist
Gohatto (Taboo), A Review by Kate Moran
K-PAX, A Review by Diane R. Wiener
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, A Review by Alice Mills
Morvern Callar, A Review by Jerome de Groot
The Pianist, A Review by Michael Keating
Possession, A Review by David Greven
Singin' in the Rain, A Review by Sunny Stalter
Star Trek Nemesis, A Review by Lincoln Geraghty
Vanilla Sky, A Review by Kevin Hunt
*Conference Reports*
Fangs for the Memories, "Blood, Text and Fears -- Reading Around Buffy the
Vampire Slayer" Conference held at the University of East Anglia, UK, 19-20
October 2002, A Report by Beverley Jansen
Flying High in the City of Angels, New Cities: New Media -- An
Interdisciplinary Conference and Media Exhibition, University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, January 17-19, 2003, A Report by Christina I.
Wilson
History Now, Screen Conference, Gilmorehill Centre, The University of
Glasgow, 28th-30th June 2002, A Report by Alastair Phillips
New Technologies, New Media Forms and Approaches, and a Welcome Reflexivity,
The Fourth Annual Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association
(MeCCSA) Conference, University of Reading, UK, 18-20 December 2002, A
Report by Kate Egan
What about the Sports Celebrity? Sporting Icons: Celebrity, Media and
Popular Culture, Leicester University, 7th February, 2003, A Report by Tom
Gibbons
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Prof. Mark Jancovich
Director of the Institute of Film Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
United Kingdom
Phone: 0115 951 4250
Fax: 0115 951 4270
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Institute URL: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film
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