Colleagues the latest issue of the 'New Review of Film and Television Studies' 9:2 (June 2011) has just been published. It contains the following essays and book reviews: Articles Yannis Tzioumakis Academic Discourses and American Independent Cinema: In Search of a Field of Studies. Part 1: From the beginnings to the 1980s Geoff King Striking a balance between culture and fun: 'Quality' meets hitman genre in 'In Bruges' Aniko Imre Eastern Westerns: Enlightened Edutainment and National Transvestism. Seung-hoon Jeong Systems on the Verge of Becoming Birds: Peter Greenaway’s Early Experimental Films Ramon Lobato and Mark Ryan Rethinking genre studies through distribution analysis: issues in international horror movie circuits Katharina Lindner 'There is a reason why Sporty Spice is the only one of them without a fella…': The 'lesbian potential' of 'Bend it Like Beckham' Reviews Rona Murray Review of Edinburgh University Press’s 'American Indies' series: 'Memento', 'Lost in Translation', and 'Brokeback Mountain' Daniel Martin Review of Jinhee Choi, 'The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs' Jim Whalley Review of Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale, 'Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History' Yours sincerely -- Warren Buckland Reader in Film Studies Oxford Brookes University Course leader, MA in Film Studies: Popular Cinema: http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/filmstudies/postgraduate/ -- Film-Philosophy After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] Or visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html For technical help email: [log in to unmask], not the list -- Film-Philosophy journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com/ Film-Philosophy Conference (6-8 July 2011): http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/ Contact: [log in to unmask] --