Tenth Anniversary SCOPE !! On Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation

Sissy Spacek as Carrie (Brian de Palma, 1976). See Queering the Cult of Carrie: Appropriations of a Horror Icon in Charles Lum's Indelible by Darren Elliott in the new Scope issue

Hooray! It's 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. It's 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

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements Iain Robert Smith

Foreword: Scope's Tenth Anniversary  Mark Gallagher and Julian Stringer

Introduction Iain Robert Smith

Part I: Hollywood Cinema and Artistic Imitation

Exploitation as Adaptation I. Q. Hunter

The Character-Oriented Franchise: Promotion and Exploitation of Pre-Sold Characters in American Film, 1913-1950 Jason Scott

Novelty through Repetition: Exploring the Success of Artistic Imitation in the Contemporary Film Industry, 1983-2007 Stijn Joye

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

From Cult to Subculture: Re­imaginings of Cult Films in Alternative Music Video Brigid Cherry

Queering the Cult of Carrie: Appropriations of a Horror Icon in Charles Lum's Indelible Darren Elliott

Irony Inc.: Parodic-Doc Horror and The Blair Witch Project Jordan Lavender-Smith

Part IV: Transnational Screen Culture

A Marxist's Gotta Do What a Marxist's Gotta Do: Political Violence on the Italian Frontier Austin Fisher

"Tom Cruise? Tarantino? E.T.? ...Indian!": Innovation through Imitation in the Cross-cultural Bollywood Remake Neelam Sidhar Wright

"La Television des Professeurs?": Charles Dickens, French Public Service Television and Olivier Twist Pamela Atzori