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Volume 1 Issue 1

The first issue of the termly publication of studying contemporary film includes articles on representation in War of the Worlds, Arabs in Western cinema and Iranian football film, Offside.

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Volume 1 Issue 2

The second issue of our new termly publication has articles on two films featuring Jim Carrey which have been both critical and commercial hits - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Truman Show - and the first Film Studies-focused consideration of Snakes on a Plane.

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Volume 1 Issue 3

Splice Vol 1 issue 3 features articles on Sin City and A History of Violence, the history and development of film criticism, using Star Wars to teach Citizenship and Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

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Volume 2 Issue 2

A Britain on Film special issue, including articles on:

Dystopian Britain - 28 Days Later, V for Vendetta and Children of Men
The 'New Social Realism' - Red Road, London to Brighton, This is England
The Reel Scotland
If there's one film you use in the classroom, make it... Hot Fuzz

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Volume 2 Issue 1

This Cult/Horror Cinema special issue asks 'Just what exactly is a cult film?' and goes on to consider Japanese Gothic in the Ring Cycle, the 'Painographic' Horror Film, The Descent and Pan's Labyrinth.

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Volume 2 Issue 3

An Animation special issue, including articles on: Anime - An introduction to Japanese animation; animation zeitgeist; the rotoscoping films of Richard Linklater and Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

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Volume 3 Issue 2
A 'Green Onscreen' special, including 'Picturing a Planet in Peril', exploring the seemingly infinite number of ways to introduce eco-themes into the classroom via Film and Media Studies.