As with our last issue, we followed a strict policy of blind peer review for each paper that came to us. Academics and practitioners form our review panels, and without them this collection of essays, reviews and comments would not have been possible. We take this opportunity to thank the members of our editorial and advisory boards who have helped through this long process.

Essays
“On Not Being a Fan: Masculine Identity, DVD Culture and the Accidental Collector” Caroline Bainbridge, Candida YatesDownload
“Film Analysis: A Comparison among Criticism, Interpretation, Analysis and Close Analysis. Elisa PezzottaDownload
“‘Bhagat Singh Topless, Waving In Jeans’: Melancholia Through Mimesis In Rang De Basanti” Kshama KumarDownload
“Loss and Mourning: Cinema’s ‘Language’ of Trauma in Waltz with Bashir” Natasha Jane MansfieldDownload
“We must be doing something right to last two hundred years”: Nashville, or the American bicentennial as viewed by Robert Altman” Chris Louis DurhamDownload