Contents Film International #38

Editorial
by Michael Tapper

Not 'Another Bloody Cop Show': Life on Mars and British Television Drama
by James Chapman

Clowns, Crimes, and Capital: Popular Crime-Comedies in Post-Crisis Korea
by Jinying Li

'It's a Fine Line Between Safety and Terror': Crime and Anxiety Re-Drawn in Spooks
by Paul Cobley

Buddies, Bitches, Broads: The British Female Cop Show
by Susan Sydney-Smith

'More Than ABBA and Skinny-Dipping in Mountain Lakes': Swedish Dystopia, Henning Mankell and the British Wallander Series
by Michael Tapper

DVD Reviews: Distant Voices, Still Lives (Katherine Spring), A Cottage On Dartmoor (Tom von Logue Newth)

Book Reviews: The B List: The National Society of Film Critics on the Low-Budget Beauties, Genre-Bending Mavericks, and Cult Classics We Love (Scott Jordan Harries), Cinemachismo: Masculinities and Sexuality in Mexican Film (Ryan Prout), Sex and the Cinema (Liz Stephens), Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (Deborah Allison), The Cinematic Tango: Contemporary Argentine Film (Michael Talbott)

Festival Reports: Margaret Mead Film Festival 2008 (Liz Stephens), The Mediterranean Film Festival in Montpellier 2008 (Larry Portis), Toronto International Film Festival 2008 (Gary M. Kramer)