CFP — Stardom (11.2)
Deadline for submissions: September 11, 2015. Since the silent era, film industries have utilized the appeal of stars to advertise and promote films. The success of this model is due in part to their...
Cinephile: The University of British Columbia's Film Journal
Vol. 11 No. 1 Now Available
Cinephile 11.1, “Visions of the Sixties,” is now available! Marking the tenth anniversary of the University of British Columbia’s Film Journal, this issue features articles by Wheeler Winston Dixon, David E. James, Victoria Kennedy,...
Cinephile 10.2 Now Available Online
Cinephile 10.2, “New Queer Theory in Film,” is now available online for free. Click here to download now as a single PDF file or, alternatively, head over to our archives page to view this issue and all our previous...
CFP – Visions of The Sixties (11.1)
Deadline for draft submissions: March 6, 2015. The Sixties was a period of radical change, revolution, and major political and social upheaval. Following Arthur Marwick’s definition of the period as one that extends from...
Vol. 9 No. 2 and Vol. 10 No. 1 Now Online
Cinephile 9.2, The Superhero Film, and Cinephile 10.1, Music in Documentary, are now available online for free. Available for download as a PDF. Each issue is an individual file.
Vol. 10 No. 2 Now Available
Cinephile 10.2, “New Queer Theory in Film,” is now available! 10.2 features original articles by Lee Edelman, Shi-Yan Chao, Derrick King, Allison Macleod, and Mario Obando Jr. Available at selected retailers in Vancouver or,...
Vol. 10 No. 1 Now Available
Cinephile 10.1, “Music in Documentary,” is now available! 10.1 features articles by Michael Brendan Baker, Maurice Charland, Rebecca Coyle & Philip Hayward, Randolph Jordan, and Robynn J. Stilwell, as well as original artwork by Nova...
CFP – New Queer Theory in Film & Television (10.2)
Deadline for draft submissions: September 5, 2014 The emergence of queer theory from the fields of post-structuralism and feminism in the 1990s sought to destabilize identity and its attendant heteronormative and cisgendered ideological constructions. Grounded...
VOL. 9 NO. 1 NOW ONLINE
Head over to our archives page to view Cinephile 9.1, “Reevaluating Television,” now available online for free. The issue is currently available for download as a single PDF file.
CFP – Music in Documentary (10.1)
Deadline for draft submissions: March 17, 2014 Music acts as vital connective tissue between even the most disparate forms of documentary, a filmic mode that claims closer ties to our experience of reality than...
VIFF 2013: Undeniably Super
Suffice to say, no Hollywood superhero films screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 2013. Indeed, the festival’s promotional video, which preceded every film, pointedly mocked the bombastic clichés proliferating the marketing of...
Vol. 8 No. 2 Now Online
Head over to our archives page to view Cinephile 8.2, “Contemporary Extremism,” now available online for free. The issue is currently available for download as a single PDF file.
Vol. 9 No.1 Now Available
Cinephile 9.1 “Reevaluating Television” featuring articles by Jason Mittell and Rachel Talalay is now available! You can pick it up in Vancouver at Mayfair News, Pulp Fiction Books, Tanglewood Books, UBC Bookstore, and Zulu...
CFP – The Superhero Film (9.2)
Deadline for draft submissions: September 2, 2013 The comic book medium has evidenced a profound growth in legitimacy and cultural currency in the past twenty years. Such a shift has been echoed in filmic...
Vol 8. No. 1 Now Online
Head over to our archives page to view Cinephile 8.1, “The Voice-Over,” now available online for free. The issue is currently available for download as a single PDF file.
Vol. 8 No. 2 Now Available
Cinephile 8.2 “Contemporary Extremism” is now available! Featuring original articles by Tanya Horeck and Tina Kendall, Tim Palmer, and Dave Alexander, the issue seeks to expand the discourse around extremist cinema beyond its traditionally...
