Letter from the Editors

By Kathleen Scott and Sarah Soliman

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