Articles
Complicating the theory of the male gaze: Hitchcock’s leading men
By Colleen Glenn

Before Industrial Light and Magic: the independent Hollywood special effects business, 1968–75
By Julie Turnock

MAJOR STATUS, INDEPENDENT SPIRIT
By Yannis Tzioumakis

Say ‘Pulp Fiction’ One More Goddamn Time: quotation culture and an Internet-age classic
By Michael Z. Newman

Institutions, identity and insanity: abject spaces in Shutter Island
By F.E. Pheasant-Kelly

Book Reviews

Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale’s, Epics, Spectacles, and Blockbusters: A Hollywood History
Reviewed by Jim Whalley

Shyon Baumann’s Inside and outside Hollywood Highbrow
Reviewed by Jeff Scheible

Richard Rushton’s The politics of Hollywood cinema: popular film and contemporary political theory
Reviewed by Lindsay Steenberg

James MacDowell’s Happy endings in Hollywood cinema: cliché, convention and the final couple
Reviewed by Tanya Horeck

Steven Rybin’s Gestures of love: romancing performance in classical Hollywood cinema
Reviewed by Celestino Deleyto

The superhero symbol: media, culture & politics
EDITED BY LIAM BURKE, IAN GORDON & ANGELA NDALIANIS
Reviewed by Vinodh Venkatesh

Erin Heath’s Mental disorders in popular film: how Hollywood uses, shames, and obscures mental diversity
Reviewed by Fiona Gregory
