Category Archives: Call For Papers
During the past three decades, studying the voice has intrigued many film theorists and thinkers. Arguing that the cinematic image is an audiovisual space largely structured according to human body and voice, some scholars (Mary Ann Doane, Sarah Kozloff, and Michel Chion, among others) have been drawn to the various manifestations and mysterious connotations of the non-visualized voice. If off-screen voices foster a need to categorize and perhaps control their elusive nature, then the voice-over raises some challenging questions about … Continue reading
Realism appears to have reached a critical juncture in recent years: digital technology has all but usurped the photographic medium, rendering the indexical nature of photographic images obsolete (Doane 2002; Rodowick 2007); “reality” television and on-line exhibitionism have proliferated audiovisual culture, trivializing the fidelity of documentary realism and its particular mode of truth telling; and social realism has gradually detached itself from the socio-political convictions that once defined it, instead looking inward towards private/familial issues removed from the public sphere … Continue reading
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
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.
