Cinephile 11.3- Adaptation, Translation, Permutation Adapting and translating works across media platforms and national borders has long been an integral part of cinema, television, and other screen media. Source narratives can be transformed into entirely new...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Since the early 2000s, with the onset of The Sopranos and Sex and the City, serialized television has captured the attention of viewers and scholars alike. The popularity of shows such as Six Feet...
The last decade has marked an escalation in the treatment of extreme subject matter in European cinema, heralded by the graphic violence and sexuality of French New Extremism at the turn of the millennium...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
