A modern view of wide-angle exclusive scattering

The basic theoretical ideas of the handbag mechanism for wide-angle exclusive scattering reactions are discussed and, with regard to the present experimental program carried out at JLab, its application to Compton scattering is reviewed in some detail. Results for other wide-angle reactions such as two-photon annihilations into pairs of hadrons or virtual Compton scattering are presented as well.