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

Issue 5 — June 2006 

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Book Reviews

All book reviews

Teen TV: Genre, Consumption & Identity edited by Glyn Davies and Kay Dickinson

A review by Ewan Kirkland


Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book by Michael Asimow and Shannon Mader

The Celluloid Courtroom: A History of Legal Cinema by Ross D. Levi 

Law and Justice as Seen on TV by Elayne Rapping

A review by Shulamit Almog


Purity and Provocation: Dogma 95 edited by Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie

A review by Jason Scott


Devotional Cinema by Nathaniel Dorsky

A review by Anton Karl Kozlovic


Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film by Arthur Knight

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson

A review by Ruth Doughty


Italian Cinema: Gender and Genre by Maggie Günsberg

A review by Clodagh Brook


The Films of Peter Weir, Second Edition by Jonathan Rayner

A review by Serena Formica


The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan by Eric Cazdyn

The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp

The Yakuza Movie Book: A Guide to Japanese Gangster Films by Mark Schilling

A review by Kevin Teo Kia Choong


Dietrich’s Ghosts: the Sublime and the Beautiful in Third Reich Film by Erica Carter

A review by Michael Paris


The Real Ireland: The Evolution of Ireland in Documentary Film by Harvey O’Brien

A review by Robert Miller


Bollywood: A Guide to Popular Hindi Cinema by Tejaswini Ganti

Gladiator: Film and History edited by Martin M. Winkler 

American Jewish Filmmakers (Second Edition) by David Desser and Lester D. Friedman

A review by Mikel J. Koven


The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon: Edwardian Britain on Film edited by Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple and Patrick Russell

The Silent Cinema Reader edited by Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer

A review by Larraine Porter


Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory by Simon Popple and Joe Kember

Love Rules: Silent Hollywood and the Rise of the Managerial Class by Mark Garrett Cooper

William Beaudine: From Silents to Television by Wendy Marshall

A review by Richard Harrison


The New Brazilian Cinema edited by Lúcia Nagib

A review by Sarah Barrow


European Cinema edited by Elizabeth Ezra

The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema edited by Andrea Sabbadini

A review by Stephen Woollock

 

 

 

 

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Film Reviews

All film reviews

 

Shopping for Fangs (dir. Quentin Lee and Justin Lin, 1997)

A review by Luca Prono


Kurtlar Vadisi - Irak (dir. Serdar Akar, 2005)

National Treasure (dir. John Turtletaub, 2004)

A review by Gabriel Noah Brahm Jr.


Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (dir. Danny Leiner, 2004)

A review by Shama Rangwala


Match Point (dir. Woody Allen, 2005)

A review by Wendy Knepper


King Kong (dir. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)

King Kong (dir. Peter Jackson, 2005) 

A review by Jonathan E. Goldman


The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (dir.  Andrew Adamson, 2005)

A review by Alice Mills

 

 

 


 

Conference Reports

All conference reports

 

 

 

 

Media and Identity in Asia  — A report by Nandana Bose


National Postgraduate Conference: Creative Arts, Film and Media — A report by Julia Peck


Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Conference (2006) — A report by Liza Palmer


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Scope

Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies
University of Nottingham
NG7 2RD

Email: scope@nottingham.ac.uk