A useful site :)

Scope, part of The University of Nottingham's Film Studies department is quite a useful website with a collection of academic articles and reports. In fact, it's Nottingham's Film Journal. The department's homepage is here. Unfortunately, the website doesn't seem to have been updated in a while, so I am looking for a more recent version. So far, I have found these articles:

• This is about The Butterfly's Tongue, by Antonio Lázaro-Reboll... 'the use of both Galician and Spanish traditions in Cuerda's latest production poses a number of questions about cultural identity'... It explores the Republican importance of education (it was seen as the ideological arm of the new Republic... 'of the nearly 300 historical films produced in Spain since the 1970s, more than half are set during the Second Republic (1931-1936), the Civil War (1936-1939), and the dictatorship of Franco (1939-1975)'...it has a 'polarized, oversimplified vision' of the war... doesn't 'display the complexities of Cuerda's more masterful work'.
• This is a review of the 2000 Viva! Spanish film festival in Manchester, by Andrew Willis of the University of Salford... The film shows how 'Spain and, in particular, its impressionable young children, fell into the hands of the Franco regime because many were too afraid and too weak and selfish to speak out against it'.