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Head over to our archives page to view the latest two issues, now available online for free! Each of our 2010 issues are available to download in a single PDF file. http://cinephile.ca/archives/
The topic of Volume 7, No.1 will be Reassessing Anime. With an emphasis toward anime film, our Fall 2011 issue of Cinephile seeks to address and tackle some of the overlooked aspects and problems of Japanese animation. Such a reassessment hopes to encourage and foster future inquiry into the evolution and value of anime, its history, and its impact on Western film culture. Incoming editor: Jonathan A. Cannon Incoming artist: Chloe Chan More details here
The horror genre continues to regenerate itself ad nauseam. On one hand, the genre may be liberating itself from the weight of many formulaic straight-to-video films that have tainted its image over the past two decades, re-imagining itself through the quintessential films that defined horror cinema in the 1970s and 80s. On the other hand, the genre has perhaps reached a moment of hyper-intertextualization to the point where it has literally mined itself dry of new ideas. The fall issue … Continue reading
‘Far From Hollywood’ – Alternative World Cinema (Vol. 5, No 1: Spring 2009) …in this, our 5th anniversay issue, we set out to navigate the murky and uncharted depths of ‘alternative cinema’. But carving out an epistemology of this amorphous cinema is no small endeavour-and what do we mean by ‘alternative cinema’ anyway? On the one hand, it is always evolving, always repositioning itself outside mainstream modes of representation: once the mainstream appropriates elements of alternative style, new configurations naturally … Continue reading
We are moving ahead with another year at Cinephile: new editor (Jessica Hughes), new editorial board, and new theme. For our first issue of 2010 we will be examining the oft-neglected question of sound in film studies, with ‘Sound on Screen.’ The Call For Papers is now available here Submissions are due January 22, 2010.
