Sissy Spacek as Carrie (Brian de Palma, 1976). See Queering the Cult of Carrie: Appropriations of a Horror Icon in Charles Lums Indelible by Darren Elliott in the new Scope issue
Hooray! Its OUT. Film Studies For Free has been checking almost every day for a couple of months now because it knew that an amazing issue of Scope: an online journal of film and tv studies -- its TENTH anniversary issue -- was just about to be published. Its here now *Scope* # 15: an issue and an e-book -- see the contents links below -- and contains some fantastic items of film and media studies.
Congratulations to the whole editorial team at Scope, who do a fabulous job. These have been ten great years of remarkably high quality and FREELY ACCESSIBLE scholarly works. Thank you.
Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation
Edited by Iain Robert Smith
Acknowledgements Iain Robert Smith
Foreword: Scopes Tenth Anniversary Mark Gallagher and Julian Stringer
Introduction Iain Robert Smith
Part I: Hollywood Cinema and Artistic Imitation
Exploitation as Adaptation I. Q. Hunter
Part II: Found Footage and Remix Culture
A Taxonomy of Digital Video Remixing: Contemporary Found Footage Practice on the Internet Eli Horwatt
Ethical Possession: Borrowing from the Archives Emma Cocker
Music Videos and Reused Footage Sérgio Dias Branco
Part III: Modes of Parody and Pastiche
Queering the Cult of Carrie: Appropriations of a Horror Icon in Charles Lums Indelible Darren Elliott
Irony Inc.: Parodic-Doc Horror and The Blair Witch Project Jordan Lavender-Smith
Part IV: Transnational Screen Culture
A Marxists Gotta Do What a Marxists Gotta Do: Political Violence on the Italian Frontier Austin Fisher
