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No clear principle unifies this work apart from a negative injunction: treatment of specific texts and all the tools of textual analysis shall be left at the door. Since the majority of film scholars have a primary interest in textual analysis, the Current Research series of annuals would seem to be intended to help fill something of a gap in film scholarship and to address a somewhat wider audience of those who study industries, mass media, or social behaviour from a variety of perspectives. This leaves a lot of ground to cover which this volume copes with via a smorgasbord approach. The Ablex letter to reviewers informs us that the volumes will be suitable not only "as texts for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses, but they will be of interest to scholars and industry professionals." Given the range of the articles the letter is no doubt correct.
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