Dear Colleagues

We are delighted to announce that Issue 2 of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media is now online at www.alphavillejournal.com. This special issue, edited by postdoctoral and doctoral students at University College Cork, focuses on the representation of space and time in cinema. The collection of articles employs a wide, range of methodological approaches and arguments to investigate cinematic spatiotemporal relationships, ably demonstrating how these concepts continue to engage and stimulate film scholars.

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media Issue 2: Space and Time in Cinema

Contents:

Issue Editors’ Note

Marian Hurley, Deborah Mellamphy and Jill Moriarty

Articles

Scrutinising the Rainbow: Fantastic Space in The Wizard of Oz

Alexander Sergeant, Kings College London

Bullet-Time in Simulation City: Revisiting Baudrillard and The Matrix by way of the “Real 1999”

Randy Laist, Goodwin College

Personal Time in Alternative and Time-Travel Narrative: The Cases of Groundhog Day, Twelve Monkeys and 2001: A Space Odyssey

Elise Pezzotta, University of Bergamo

Revisiting the Past as a Means of Validation: Bridging the Myth of the Resistance and the Satire of the Economic Miracle in Two Comedies “Italian style”

Giacomo Boitani, National University of Ireland, Galway

From History to Haecceity: Spatial Reframings of the Past in Post-Heritage Cinema

Eliza Wortel, Independent Scholar

Making Nothing Happen: The Transition from Reactive Nihilism to Affirmation in Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers (2005)

Anna Backman Rogers, University of Groningen

Book Reviews and Festival and Conference Reports

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Issue 3, Summer 2012, Sound, Voice, Music.

Issue 4, Winter 2012, Open Submission

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