Issue 11
Articles
The Pleasures of Watching an "Off-beat" Film: the Case of Being John Malkovich
Martin Barker
Epicurean Disdain and the Rhetoric of Defiance: Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Dave Mann
The Uncanny Ecology of Mulholland Drive
Andrew Hageman
Conceiving Grizzly Man through the "Powers of the False"
Eric Dewberry
[ALL ARTICLES ON ONE PAGE]
Book Reviews
The Big Show: British Cinema Culture in the Great War 1914-1916 By Michael Hammond
Reviewer: Brenda McDermott
John Mills: Masculinity and British Cinema By Gill Plain & Hollywood Heroines: Women in Film Noir and the Female Gothic Film By Helen Hanson
Reviewer: Elaine Lennon
Rethinking Disney: Private Control, Public Dimensions By Mike Budd and Max H. Kirsch (eds.)
Reviewer: Anthony Friedmann
New Documentary: A Critical Introduction, 2nd Edition By Stella Bruzzi
Reviewer: Gerald R. Butters, Jr.
Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema: No Film is an Island By Gina Marchetti and Tan See Kam (eds.)
Reviewer: Konrad Ng
Britain Colonized: Hollywood's Appropriation of British Literature By Jennifer M. Jeffers
Reviewer: Kevin M. Flanagan
From Box Office to Ballot Box: The American Political Film By M. Keith Booker
Reviewer: Nicholas Witham
Mexican National Cinema (National Cinemas) By Andrea Noble
Reviewer: Heather Macdougall
Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker By Randolph Lewis
Reviewer: Rachel Walls
Alphaville (French Film Guides series) By Chris Darke
Reviewer: Helen Donlon
European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood (Film Culture in Transition) By Thomas Elsaesser
Reviewer: Nick Hodgin
Soft in the Middle: The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts By David Andrews
Reviewer: Jane Fader
The Films of Kenneth Branagh By Samuel Crowl<
Reviewer: Connie Luther
Shakespeare on Film (Inside Film Series) By Judith Buchanan
Reviewer: Alissa Burger
The Films of Woody Allen: Critical Essays By Charles L. P. Silet (ed.)
Reviewer: Jarrett Neal
The Television Handbook, Third Edition By Jonathan Bignell and Jeremy Orlebar & Programming Our Lives: Television and American Identity By Walter Cummins and George Gordon
Reviewer: Erin Giannini
F is for Phony: Fake Documentary and Truth's Undoing By Alexandra Juhasz and Jesse Larner (eds.)
Reviewer: Brett Mills
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Vision of Hell on Earth By Kim Paffenroth
Reviewer: Edmund P. Cueva
The Cinema of the Balkans (24 Frames Series) By Dina Iordanova (ed.)
Reviewer: Ljiljana Šarić
Masculine Jealousy and Contemporary Cinema By Candida Yates & Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film By Stephen Teo
Reviewer: Michael Brian Faucette
[ALL BOOK REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]
Film Reviews
Shoot the Messenger
Reviewer: Stephen Harper
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire
Reviewer: Debbie James Smith
Black Narcissus
Reviewer: Peter Coyne
Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution
Reviewer: Sarah Boslaugh
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Reviewer: Jo Eadie
[ALL FILM REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]
Conference Reports
SCMS, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2008
Reporter: Drew Beard, Stephen Rust, Carter Soles, Jeong Chang, and Raphael Raphael
African Film Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, November 9-10, 2007
Reporter: Audrey Evrard
Fusion Cultures: Memory, Migration, [Re]mediation, Mobility, A one-day multi-disciplinary conference, University of Greenwich, December 9, 2006
Reporter: Colette Balmain
Italian Film Study Day, Queen Mary, University of London, January 25, 2008
Reporter: Louis Bayman
Literature/Film Association Conference, Kansas Union, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, October 11-14, 2007
Reporter: Frederick A. Holliday II
[ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON ONE PAGE]