Annual Bibliography of Film Studies--2002 (Bibliography‪)‬

INTRODUCTION The 2002 version of Post Script's "Annual Bibliography," like its predecessors, hopes to serve not only as an easy point of access to the latest film and media criticism, but also as a rough barometer of recent trends. To that end, I want to begin by calling attention to several of the special topics issues that appeared in film periodicals over the last year. Among the more significant are Film History's special numbers in 2002 on Film Music and Film and Religion, the issue of Quarterly Review of Film and Video on stardom in the international cinema, and the Film Comment special numbers on Bollywood and recent Japanese cinema--both testimony to the increasingly international focus of that popular film journal. Post Script has also devoted issues to select topics, in this case Spanish Cinema and Realist Horror. And the non-film journal Science-Fiction Studies has provided substantial academic coverage for Japanese Anime with its number on Japanese Science Fiction. What makes such issues particularly noteworthy are that they serve as immediate indicators of a critical mass of interest in an area, and they provide an opportunity for exploring a key subject in great depth.