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Volume 46

Volume 46, number 4 (Winter 2005)

ANNETTE KUHN: Thresholds: film as film and the aesthetic experience
SARAH WRIGHT: Dropping the mask: theatricality and absorption in Sáenz de Heredia’s Don Juan
JIAN XU: Representing rural migrants in the city: experimentalism in Wang Xiaoshuai’s So Close to Paradise and Beijing Bicycle
ERNEST MATHIJS: Bad reputations: the reception of ‘trash’ cinema
ASHLEY DAWSON: Documenting the trauma of apartheid: Long Night’s Journey into Day and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Reports and debates
Brian D. Harvey: Soviet–American ‘cinematic diplomacy’ in the 1930s: could the Russians really have infiltrated Hollywood?
JAMES BENNETT: From the National to the Transnational: European film and television in transition conference
JAMES WALTERS: ‘Some people are disappointed to only get the film…’ What is a DVD? Conference

Reviews
VICKY BALL: Francis Bonner, Ordinary Television
Alison Butler: Julianne Pidduck, Contemporary Costume Film: Space, Place and the Past
WENDY EVERETT: Alastair Phillips, City of Darkness, City of Light: Emigre Filmmakers in Paris 1929-1939
Matthew Solomon: Lee Grieveson, Policing Cinema: Movies and Censorship in Early-Twentieth-Century America
HELEN STODDART: Esther Leslie, Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant-Garde

Volume 46, number 3 (Autumn 2005)
Special issue: The child in film and television

KAREN LURY: The child in film and television – introduction
DIMITRIS ELEFTHERIOTIS: Early cinema as child: historical metaphor and European cinephilia in Lumière & Company
EMMA WILSON: Children, emotion and viewing in contemporary European film
PHIL POWRIE: Unfamiliar places: ‘heterospection’ and recent French films on children
PAUL SUTTON: The bambino negato or missing child of contemporary Italian cinema
MELANIE WILLIAMS: ‘I'm not a lady!’: Tiger Bay (1959) and transitional girlhood in British cinema on the cusp of the 1960s
JONATHAN BIGNELL: Familiar aliens: Teletubbies and postmodern childhood
MÀIRE MESSENGER DAVIES: ‘Crazyspace’: the politics of children’s screen drama

Volume 46, number 2 (Summer 2005)

PETER DICKINSON: Space, time, auteur-ity and the queer male body: the film adaptations of Robert Lepage
SU HOLMES: 'It's a woman!': the question of gender on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
LISA TRAHAIR: Figural vision: Freud, Lyotard and early cinematic comedy
HYUN-SUK SEO: The unheard mourning: offscreen sound and melancholy in Applause

Dossier
DUNCAN PETRIE: Scottish cinema - introduction
JONATHAN MURRAY: Kids in America? Narratives of transatlantic influence in 1990s Scottish cinema
DAVID MARTIN-JONES: Sexual healing: representations of the English in post-devolutionary Scotland
IAN GOODE: Scottish cinema and Scottish imaginings: Blue Black Permanent and Stella Does Tricks
SARAH NEELY: Scotland, heritage and devolving British cinema

Reports
ROD STONEMAN: The sins of commission II
KAY DICKINSON: Report on the first Ramallah International Film Festival

Reviews
RICHARD RUSHTON: Ronald Bogue, Deleuze on Cinema; Patricia Pisters, The Matrix of Visual Culture: Working with Deleuze in Film Theory
JOHN ORR: Mark Cousins, The Story of Film
ALASTAIR PHILLIPS: Edward Dimendberg, Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity
WILLIAM BODDY: Thomas Doherty, Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism and America Culture
SUE HARRIS: Colin MacCabe, Jean-Luc Godard: a Portrait of the Artist at 70; Richard Neupert, A History of the French New Wave Cinema; Ginette Vincendeau, Jean-Pierre Melville: an American in Paris

Volume 46, number 1 (Spring 2005)
Michael Powell special issue

SARAH STREET: Michael Powell centenary issue - Introduction
CHARLES BARR: Hitchcock and Powell: two directions for British cinema
ANDREW MOOR: Autobiography, the self and Pressburger–Powell’s The Golden Years project
JAMES CHAPMAN: ‘The true business of the British movie’? A Matter of Life and Death and British film culture
DAMIAN SUTTON: Rediagnosing A Matter of Life and Death
ROBERT MURPHY: Strong men: three forms of the magus in the films of Powell and Pressburger
JEANETTE HOORN: Comedy and Eros : Powell’s Australian films They’re a Weird Mob and Age of Consent

Dossier
SARAH STREET: The British film debate – Introduction
MARGARET DICKINSON and SYLVIA HARVEY: Public policy and public funding for film: some recent developments in the UK
WENDY EVERETT: Images on the move: reframing the cinemas of Europe

Report
PATRICK RUSSELL: Parenthood: nurturing and developing the BFI National Film and Television Archive

Reviews
CHRISTINE GERAGHTY: Grahame Smith, Dickens and the Dream of Cinema; John Glavin (ed.) Dickens on Screen
SARAH STREET: Jon Burrows, Legitimate Cinema: Theatre Stars in Silent British Films, 1908-1918; Christine Gledhill, Reframing British Cinema 1918-1928: Between Restraint and Passion; Michael Williams, Ivor Novello: Screen Idol
LAURA MARKS: Sean Cubitt, The Cinema Effect