WideScreen
peer reviewed, open access film journal
ISSN 1757-3920
<http://www.widescreenjournal.org/>http://www.widescreenjournal.org
About
WideScreen is a peer-reviewed, open access
journal. It is devoted to the critical study of
cinema from historical, theoretical, political,
and aesthetic perspectives. The journal is a
continuation of sorts of
<http://subalterncinema.com/>subalterncinema.com
and it aims to combine the best of academic
and journalistic critique of cinema and to look
at the various critical vantage points from
which to understand cinema in this dynamic environment.
Call for Papers
The most encouraging development in film in the
recent past has been a change in the attitude
towards what is commonly called alternative
cinema. Representation of the minority ?of race,
ethnicity, sex, sexuality etc?is said to be
adopting the 'new cultural politics of
difference.' Broadly, there are two impulses:
one, a celebration of the differences, where new
identities are formed and there is a sense of
pride in them. Two, a desire to assimilate the
alternative into a master narrative. More
importantly, there are sides to be taken, by the
filmmakers, by the audience, by everyone. Is
there really a new culture, is it beneficial, if
yes, how, what is the nature of the hybrid that
is often a result of these new impulses etc are
all questions we are still thinking about and to
which there are a wide variety of answers. But
the debate is on and with every passing moment
we are faced with new possibilities and new perspectives.
New media and developments within film have
facilitated easy means of presenting points of
view: film festivals, multiplexes, YouTube etc
have enormous food for thought and immense
possibilities. Yet, the basic distinction
between mainstream and the alternative is
visible in the use of these very words. A change
is upon us, but much is to be achieved before it is felt by one and all.
Thus, the inaugural issue of WideScreen aims to
critically re-examine cinema against the
backdrop of existing hegemonies and
re-conceptualise the cinema located in the gaps
of the popular. We invite critical papers on
"subaltern cinema" and the "subaltern" in cinema.
Editors
Kishore Budha, Gopalan Ravindran, Kuhu Tanvir
Advisory Board
* Anand Patwardhan
* Christine Gledhill
* Latika Padgaonkar
* Laura Mulvey
* Rakesh Sharma
* Ralf Christensen
Editorial Board
· Anurag Kashyap
· Diane Myers
· Frederick Noronha
· Graham Roberts
· Kartik Nair
· Kuba Mikurda
· Rebecca Romanow
· Rituparno Ghosh
· Sean M Tierney
· Tilman Baumgarten
· Todd McGowan
· Norman Yusoff
· Mahyuddin Ahmad
Send in your articles, interviews, reviews,
essays to <mailto:(kuhu /at/ subalterncinema.com)>(kuhu /at/ widescreenjournal.org)
