New Issue of SCOPE!

Image of Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie (Sydney Pollack, 1982). Read Elizabeth Abele's article about transgendered fantasy films, including Tootsie, here

Film Studies For Free always loves it when a new issue of the high quality, Open Access, film and television studies journal SCOPE slips out online without any fuss.

That's just what happened with the latest issue - number 21 - so let FSFF toot out its own fanfare to yet another excellent collection of film and television studies work. All the contents are linked to below.

SCOPE Issue 21, October 2011

Articles

• Becoming a Better Man as a Woman: The Transgendered Fantasy in 1980s-1990s Popular Films Elizabeth Abele  
• TV Similes: Language, Community and Comparative Poetics in Northern Exposure David Scott Diffrient  
• Let's Get Found: Music Sampling, Found Footage and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts David Laderman  
• Interracial Romance Revisited: Chinese Box and Tomorrow Never Dies Jing Yang  
• [ALL ARTICLES ON ONE PAGE]

Book Reviews

• History by Hollywood by Robert Brent Toplin (plus Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era) Reviewer: Brian Faucette  
• What Cinema Is! by Dudley Andrew  (Plus The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay) Film Reviewer: Daniele Rugo  
• All about Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema by Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki (eds) (Plus Stephen King on the Big Screen) Reviewer: Edmund P. Cuev  
• Crisis and Capitalism in Contemporary Argentine Cinema by Joanna Page (Plus Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru) Reviewer: Rowena Santos Aquino  
• Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies by Warren Buckland (ed) (Plus Post-Classical Hollywood: Film Industry, Style and Ideology Since 1945) Reviewer: Steen Christiansen  
• The British Cinema Book by Robert Murphy (ed) (Plus A Short History of Film) Reviewer: Paul Quinn 
• 100 Film Noirs (BFI Screen Guides) by Jim Hillier and Alastair Phillips (Plus Film Noir: Hard-Boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization) Reviewer: Keith James Hamel  
• Fame by Mark Rowlands (Plus American Idolatry: Celebrity, Commodity and Reality Television) Reviewer: Melanie Kennedy  
• Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel by Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis (eds) (Plus Film Sequels: Theory and Practice from Hollywood to Bollywood) Reviewer: Stuart Henderson
• Cinematic Emotion in Horror Films and Thrillers: The Aesthetic Paradox of Pleasurable Fear by Julian Hanich (Plus Tim Burton: The Monster and the Crowd: A Post-Jungian Perspective) Reviewer: Flavia Monceri
• [ALL BOOK REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Film Reviews

• I AM: Afia, Megha, Abhimanyu and Omar Reviewer: Rohit K Dasgupta  
• Phineas and Ferb Reviewer: Derek Jones  
• The Turin Horse Reviewer: Philip Phillis  
• The Monk Reviewer: Simon Dawes  
• That Girl in Yellow Boots Reviewer: Sukhmani Khorana  
• [ALL FILM REVIEWS ON ONE PAGE]

Conference Reports

• The Diasporic Family in Cinema, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 21 May 2011 Reporter: Deniz Günes Yardimci  
• NECS Conference 2011, King's College and Birkbeck, University of London, 23-26 June Reporter: Celia Nicholls and Richard Wallace  Screen Studies Conference 2011: Repositioning Screen History, University of Glasgow, 1–3 July 2011 Reporter: Linda Hutcheson and Natália Pinazza  
• Images of Whiteness, InterDisciplinary.Net, Oxford University, 12–14 July 2011 
• Screen Studies Conference, July 2010 [File not yet accessible}
• [ALL CONFERENCE REPORTS ON ONE PAGE]