1. Bright Lights Film Journal – Issue 72 – May 2011
www.brightlightsfilm.com

This packed issue includes articles on films by Tarantino, Fassbinder, Carlos Atanes, Scorsese, Wong Kar-wai, forgotten minor auteur Norman Foster, Coppola’s The Godfather, sex in the movies, gender in Hindi cinema, exploitation films, the animated TV satire Archer, and representations of the FBI along with reviews and interviews and much more

2. Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism – issue 2
www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/movie/

This second issue edited is by Douglas Pye and Michael Walker. It includes:

Fritz Lang Dossier, Part 1

• Notes on Metropolis by Michael Walker
• M: Leading the Blind by Douglas Pye & Iris Luppa
• Das Testament des Dr Mabuse by Michael Walker

Susan Hayward in the 50s by Edward Gallafent

Madame Bovary, C’est Moi – Signed, Vincente Minnelli by Mark Rappaport

Robin Wood: A Tribute

• Psychoanalyse de Psycho / Psychoanalysis of Psycho
• Attitudes in Advise and Consent
• In Memoriam Michael Reeves
• Sense of Dislocation
• Signs and Motifs
• Moments of Release
• Call Me Ishmael

3. Scope – Issue 20 – June 2011
www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
The new issue of this journal from the University of Nottingham includes:

Articles

• Pasts and Futures of 1970s Film Theory
• Cultivating the Cult Experience at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
• Spectacular (Dis-) Embodiments: The Female Dancer on Film
• Chris Marker and the Audiovisual Archive

Book Reviews

• Hollywood Independents: The Postwar Talent Takeover by Denise Mann
• 100 American Independent Films, 2nd edition
• The Contemporary Hollywood Reader
• Documentary Display: Re-Viewing Nonfiction Film and Video by Keith Beattie
• Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit by Dina Iordanova with Ragan Rhyne (eds)
• Dekalog 3: On Film Festivals
• Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting’s An Autumn’s Tale by Stacilee Ford
• John Woo’s The Killer
• Chapaev by Julian Graffy
• Leni Riefenstahl: A Life
• Stellar Encounters: Stardom in Popular European Cinema by Tytti Soila (ed)
• Claude Rains: An Actor’s Voice
• Alternative Film Culture in Inter-War Britain by Jamie Sexton
• The Lost World of Cliff Twemlow: The King of Manchester Exploitation Movies
• The British ‘B’ Film
• Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider by Brian Neve
• Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure and Digital Culture, Volume 1
• First Person Jewish by Alisa S. Lebow

Film Reviews

• Shadows of Progress: Documentary Film in Post-war Britain (1951-1977) – Reviewer: Dai Vaughan
• Bonnie and Clyde – Reviewer: Ian Murphy
• Cracks & Tell-Tale / Robin Hood / The A-Team – Reviewer: Laurence Raw
• The Karate Kid & The Karate Kid – Reviewer: Rachel Mizsei Ward

Conference Reports

• Flow Conference 2010, University of Texas, Austin, 30 September–2 October 2010
• Women’s Filmmaking in France 2000-2010, Institut Français, London, 2–4 December 2010
• MeCCSA Conference: Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association, University of Salford, 12–14 January 2011
• ¡Documentary Now!, University of Westminster, London, 28–30 January 2011
• Rendering the Visible Conference, Georgia State University, 10–14 February 2011
• Erotic Screen and Sound: Culture, Media and Desire Conference, Griffith University, Brisbane, 15–18 February 2011
• SCMS 2011: Media Citizenship, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New Orleans, 10–13 March 2011