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Film Studies For Free rushedly points you to some great weekend reading: a new issue of SCOPE is out. Please check out the very worthwhile items linked to directly below. That is all. Thank you.
SCOPE: Issue 22 February 2012
Articles
- Cannibals and Other Impossible Bodies: Il Profumo Della Signora In Nero and the Giallo film Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Between Allegory and Seduction: Perceptual Modulation in Battlestar Galactica Enrica Picarelli
- Regeneration and Rebirth: Anatomy of the Franchise Reboot William Proctor
- Modernity’s Automatization of Man: Biopower and the Early Zombie Film Justin Vaccaro
- All Book Reviews
- Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema by Todd Berliner; The Godfather by Jon Lewis A review by Adam OBrien
- A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Film Musical by Richard Barrios; Destablizing the Hollywood Musical: Music, Masculinity, and Mayhem by Kelly Kessler; Punk Slash! Musicals: Tracking Slip-Sync on Film by David Laderman A review by Alissa Burger
- Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique by Bliss Cua Lim; Crash: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis by Karen Beckman; Abandoned Images: Film and Films End by Stephen Barber A review by Benjamin Betka
- The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticsm by Steven Price; Film Authorship: Auteurs and Other Myths by C. Paul Sellors; Film Adaptation in the Hollywood Studio Era by Guerric DeBona A review by Douglas McLeod
- Skyscraper Cinema: Architecture and Gender in America Film by Merrill Schleier; The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945-1975 by Pamela Robertson Wojcik A review by Gillian Jein
- Asian Horror by Andy Richards; Horror to the Extreme: Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema edited by Jinhee Choi and Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano A review by Jamil Khader
- The Imperial Trace: Recent Russian Cinema by Nancy Condee; Cinepaternity: Fathers and Sons in Soviet and Post-Soviet Film edited by Helena Goscilo and Yana Hashamova A review by John A. Riley
- American Science Fiction Film and Television by Lincoln Geraghty; British Science Fiction Film and Television: Critical Essays edited by Tobias Hochscherf and James Leggott; The Philosophy of Science Fiction edited by Steven M. Sanders A review by Marcus Smith
- Sacred Space: The Quest for Transcendence in Science Fiction Film and Television by Douglas E. Cowan; 2001: A Space Odyssey by Peter Krämer; Battlestar Galactica: Investigating Flesh, Spirit and Steel edited by Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy A review by Matthew Cheney
- Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition by Malcolm Turvey; A Grammar of Murder: Violent Scenes and Film Form by Karla Oeler A review by Tijana Mamula
- All Film and Television Reviews
- Ghostwatch and Interview with Stephen Volk Elizabeth Evans
- Terraferma Lorenzo Mari
- Midnight in Paris Elliot Morsia
- All Conference Reports
- Women and Film in Africa: Overcoming Social Barriers Bronwen Pugsley
- Research Symposium: Gender Cultures and Reality Television Felicity Perry
