BAFTSS Fall 2012 Issue 2, November 2012 Editorial Letter from the Editors By Kathleen Scott and Sarah Soliman Feature Articles An Investigation of Affect in the Cinema: Spectacle and the Melodramatic Rhetoric in Nil by Mouth By Stephen Presence Nature versus architecture: navigating the threshold in Alain Resnais’s L’Année dernière à Marienbad, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Jessica Hausner’s Hotel By Hannah Mowat “Things that almost killed me”: Apocalypse Now and The Hurt Locker and the influence of 19th century spectacle art in the war film By John Trafton “Welcome to Manchester”: Heritage, Urban Regeneration, and Michael Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People By Joe Barton Keeping It All in the (Nuclear) Family: Big Brother, Auntie BBC, Uncle Sam and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four By Nigel Morris Cinema, Aviation and Airmindedness in Britain in the 1920s By Amy Sargeant