Annual Bibliography of Film Studies--2003 (Bibliography‪)‬

INTRODUCTION Following my practice in recent years, I would like to introduce this year's Annual Bibliography by calling attention to a few trends and developments in recent film scholarship. An obvious place to start is with the special issues that have increasingly come to characterize journal publication. In 2003 we find numbers devoted to both traditional and somewhat unusual concerns. Certainly, genre retains its fascination for both filmgoers and scholars, as is evidenced by Post Script's own special issue devoted to "Realist Horror Cinema" and several periodicals that focused on other genres. The Western particularly came in for renewed attention, thanks to Journal of Popular Film and Television's special numbers on television genres and on the Western genre at 100 years, and to Film & History's devoting two issues to re-examining the genre and assessing its impact on the shaping of American history. National cinemas too received their share of attention with Film Criticism's number on Greek cinema, New German Critique's issue on "Post-Wall Cinema" in Germany, and Cineaste's special supplement on Contemporary Spanish Cinema. Among the more unusual or noteworthy special numbers, we might especially single out Criticism's two-issue sequence on "New and Neglected Approaches to Understanding Moving Images," Film Comment's retrospective on the work of Chris Marker, which extended over two issues, and Asian Cinema's ambitious survey of "Asian Animation: Artistic and Commercial Perspectives."