New Issue of Scope online now: Lynch, Haneke, horror, Spanish comedy, auteurism and digital cinema

Image from Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)

Film Studies For Free is delighted, as ever, to announce that a new issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies has been published.

It's yet another extremely successful issue for this journal, with a full set of very strong articles, and a rich offering of book and film reviews, plus conference reports. The full table of contents is reproduced below with direct links to all items.

FSFF particularly liked Matthew Croombs' article on afterwardsness and trauma in two films by Resnais and Haneke.

Scope #16 (February 2010)

Articles

• Algeria Deferred: The Logic of Trauma in Muriel and Caché by Matthew Croombs

• The Influence of the American Sitcom on the Production of TV Comedy in Spain by Mar Grandio and Patricia Diego

• DavidLynch.com: Auteurship in the Age of the Internet and Digital Cinema by Zoran Samardzija

• Terrorist Attack!: The Spectacle of Evil in the Blended Horror of Cloverfield by James Aston

• Violent Affect, Aesthetic Intimacy and Salvific Pain in The Passion Of The Christ by Anthony McCosker

[ALL ARTICLES ON ONE PAGE]

Book Reviews

• The Picture of Abjection: Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference By Tina Chanter, Reviewer: Adrienne Angelo

• Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping By Noël Carrol, Reviewer: Alissa Burger

• Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art By Shyon Baumann, Reviewer: Beth Corzo-Duchardt

• Beautiful TV: The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal By Greg M. Smith, Reviewer: Dave Sagehorn

• Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond By Janet McCabe and Kim Akass (eds.), Reviewer: David Simmons

• Celluloid Vampires: Life After Death in the Modern World By Stacey Abbott, Reviewer: Edmund P. Cueva

• Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema By Robert Bird, Reviewer: Erik Heine

• Figures of Resistance: Essays in Feminist Theory By Teresa de Lauretis. Edited and with an Introduction by Patricia White, Reviewer: Flavia Monceri

• Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality By Jonathan Gray and Rome: Season One: History Makes Television, Reviewer: Gareth James

• War and Film By James Chapman and Hollywood's Cold War, Reviewer: Kevin M. Flanagan

• Writing History and Film By William Guynn and The Hollywood Historical Film (New Approaches to Film Genre), Reviewer: Laura E. Ferguson

• "Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear By Tim Jon Semmerling, Reviewer: Martin Fradley

• Holocaust and the Moving Image: Representations in Film and Television since 1933 By Toby Haggith and Joanna Newman (eds.), Preface by David Cesarani and Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust, Reviewer: Nathan Waddell

• International Adventures. German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s By Tim Bergfelder, Reviewer: Nick Hodgin

• Conscientious Viscerality: The Autobiographical Stance in German Film and Video By Robin Curtis, Reviewer: Sarah Heinz

• Film, Media and Popular Culture in Ireland: Cityscapes, Landscapes, Soundscapes By Martin McLoone and Emeralds in Tinseltown: The Irish in Hollywood, Reviewer: Sinéad Moynihan

• Documentaries…and how to make them By Andy Glynne, Reviewer: Stefano Odorico

• Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain By Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins, Reviewer: TJ McIntyre

• Undead TV: Essays on Buffy the Vampire Slayer By Elana Levine and Lisa Parks (eds.), Reviewer: Lucia Blanchet

• Understanding the Global TV Format By Albert Moran and Justin Malbon and Television Entertainment, Reviewer: Baerbel Goebel-Deigert

[ALL BOOK REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Film Reviews

• Funny Games, Reviewer: Mike Miley
• Gomorrah, Reviewer: Jonathan Murray
• The Other Boleyn Girl and The Other Boleyn Girl, Reviewer: Llewella Burton
• Blindness, Reviewer: Sofia Sampaio
• Yemeketyiz, Reviewer: Laurence Raw

[ALL FILM REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Conference Reports

• Colour and the Moving Image, University of Bristol, 10-12 July 2009, Reporter: Heather Heckman
• Televising History 2009, University of Lincoln, 22– 25 July 2009, Reporter: Debra Ramsay 
• Researching Cinema History: Perspectives and Practices in Film Historiography, University of Portsmouth and the British Universities Film & Video Council Geological Society 6-7 July 2009, Reporter: Stacey Abbott
• Screen Studies Conference: Screen Theorizing Today, University of Glasgow, July 3-5, 2009, Reporter: Su-Anne Yeo
• Sepancine Conference 2009, 5º Congreso Internacional de Teoría y Análisis Cinematográfico (5th International Congress on Film Theory and Analysis), 1–3 October 2009, Morelia, Michoacán, México, Reporter: Dale Hudson 
• Images of the Afterlife in Theology and Film, Conference of the International Research Group "Film and Theology" Catholic Academy, Schwerte, Gemany, 25-28 June 2009, Reporter: Marie-Therese Mäder
• Beyond the Politics of Identity, University of Aberdeen, 20th June 2009, Reporter: Tom Smith
• Beyond Life: The Undead in Global Cult Media, Cine Excess: The Third International Conference on Cult Film Traditions, Curzon Soho Cinema and Odeon Covent Garden, London, 30th April - 2nd May 2009, Reporter: Rachel Mizsei Ward
• B for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics and Cultural Value, Reporter: Ramon Lobato
• American Independent Cinema: Past, Present, Future, Co-organised by Liverpool John Moores University and University of Liverpool. Hosted by Liverpool Screen School, Liverpool John Moores University, 8-10 May 2009, Reporter: Carl Wilson

[ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON ONE PAGE]