CALL FOR PAPERS

Scope, a fully refereed online journal of film studies, edited by staff and
postgraduate students within the Institute of Film Studies at the University
of Nottingham, is looking for film reviews of 1,000 to 1,500 words and
review essays of 2,500 to 3,000 words to be included in forthcoming issues.
We are interested in both recently released movies and retrospective reviews
of older films (especially if these films have just been released on video
or DVD, or have been the focus of renewed critical attention).

The editors of the volume in progress, _Mary Astell: Gender, Reason,
Faith_, propose to move the study of Astell to a mature phase, and to
accommodate a variety of disciplinary perspectives so that the broad
span of Astell's work can be understood in its manifold contexts. The
editors of the volume are soliciting essays not only on Astell's
already canonized works, but on the full range of her political,
theological, philosophical, and poetic writings. The volume, however,
will not eschew the more traditional scholarly interest in Astell's
concerns about gender; rather, it aspires to reveal how Astell's
reflections on gender were always mediated through her diverse set of