Scope
An online journal of film and television studies: ISSN 1465-9166
University of Nottingham
  

February 2004

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Book Reviews

All book reviews

A History of the French New Wave Cinema by Richard Neupert

A review by Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.

 

Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture by Steve Beard

A review by Neil Schiller

 

Ambient Television: Visual Culture and Public Space by Anna McCarthy

A review by Daniel Chamberlain

 

Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique by Jack Boozer

A review by Erica Arthur

 

Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930-1950: Moguls, Mobsters, Stars, Reds, and Trade Unionists by Gerald Horne

A review by George Lewis

 

Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths by David Henry Slavin

A review by Sarah Leahy

 

Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader edited by Justin Lewis and Toby Miller

A review by Jennifer Holt

 

The Cultural Industries by David Hesmondhalgh

A review by Eithne Quinn

 

Dracula by Peter Hutchings

A review by Rebecca Janicker

 

Early American Cinema in Transition: Story, Style, and Filmmaking, 1907-1913 by Charlie Keil

A review by David Mayer

 

Exhibition: The Film Reader edited by Ina Rae Hark

American Audiences on Movies and Moviegoing by Tom Stempel

An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory by Annette Kuhn

A review by Martin Barker

 

Film Comedy by Geoff King

A review by Hsiao-Pin Chang

 

Film Music: Critical Approaches edited by K. J. Donnelly

Music and Cinema edited by James Buhler, Caryl Flynn and David Neumeyer

A review by Ian Brookes

 

Heartbreak and Vine: The Fate of Hardboiled Writers in Hollywood by Woody Haut

The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film edited by Stacy Gillis and Philippa Gates

A review by Andrew Pepper

 

Horror: The Film Reader edited by Mark Jancovich

A review by Patricia M. Allmer

 

Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture edited by Sandra R. Joshel, Margaret Malamud, and Donald T. McGuire, Jr.

The Ancient World in the Cinema (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Jon Solomon

A review by Karen Fang

 

Key Film Texts by Graham Roberts and Heather Wallis

A review by Brian Caldwell

 

Masculinity: Bodies, Movies, Culture edited by Peter Lehman

A review by Kirsty Fairclough

 

Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism, 1946-1964 by M. Keith Booker

Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film by Jerome F. Shapiro

A review by Elizabeth Rosen

 

New Chinese Cinema: Challenging Representations by Sheila Corneilius with Ian Hayden Smith

Seven Samurai by Joan Mellen

A review by Rayna Denison

 

The New Media Book edited by Dan Harries

A review by Karen Orr Vered

 

Reading Between Designs: Visual Imagery and the Generation of Meaning in The Avengers, The Prisoner, and Doctor Who by Piers D. Britton and Simon J. Barker

A review by Lincoln Geraghty

 

ScreenPlay: Cinema/Videogames/Interfaces edited by Geoff King and Tanya Krzywinska

A review by Lorna Jowett

 

Spanish National Cinema by Núria Triana-Toribio

A review by Camila Loew

 

Terrestrial TV News in Britain: The Culture of Production by Jackie Harrison

A review by Graham Barnfield

 

Women's Cinema: The Contested Screen by Alison Butler

Cinema and the Second Sex: Women's Filmmaking in France in the 1980s and 1990s by Carrie Tarr with Brigitte Rollet

Stars and Stardom in French Cinema by Ginette Vincendeau

A review by Rebecca D. Feasey


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Film Reviews

All film reviews

8 Mile (dir. Curtis Hanson, 2002)

A review by Charlene Keeler

 

Adaptation (dir. Spike Jonze, 2002)

A review by Charles Tryon

 

Far From Heaven (dir. Todd Haynes, 2002)

A review by June Scudeler

 

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (dir. Chris Columbus, 2002)

A review by Alice Mills

 

The Hours (dir. Stephen Daldry, 2002)

A review by Natalie Wilson Clift

 

Jeanne et le Garçon Formidable (dir. Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, 1998)

A review by Florian Grandena

 

Neil Jordan Retrospective: Irish Film Theatre

A review by Jerome de Groot

 

O (dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 2001)

A review by Haley Fishburn

 

The Salton Sea (dir. D. J. Caruso, 2002)

A review by Winter Elliott

 

Der Siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent) (dir. Michael Haneke, 1989)

A review by Eva Kuttenberg

 

La stanza del figlio (The Son's Room) (dir. Nanni Moretti, 2001)

A review by Jason Cisarano

 

Sweet Home Alabama (dir. Andy Tennant, 2002)

A review by Ross Thompson

 

Veronica Guerin (dir. Joel Schumacher, 2003)

A review by Karen McNally


 
 

Scope

Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies
University of Nottingham
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Email: scope@nottingham.ac.uk