[ecrea] Call for Papers - Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism

Call For Papers – Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism




Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism is a peer-reviewed open-access 
journal, and a joint venture between the Universities of Warwick, 
Reading, and Oxford. Its particular commitment is to publishing rigorous 
but accessible critical readings of film and television that grant 
sustained attention to texts’ detail, style, artistry, and aesthetic 
dimensions. We also welcome articles that illuminate concepts, 
analytical methods and questions in aesthetics that are of significance 
to the practice of criticism.

We are currently inviting submissions for Issue 6 (edited by Lucy Fife 
Donaldson and James MacDowell). While all submissions will be 
considered, we are particularly interested in receiving work on the 
subject of texture in film and television.


Texture


Texture has more commonly been discussed in relation to visual art, 
design, music and literature than film. In these other disciplines, 
texture usually refers to the tactile or material quality of a work’s 
surface, patterns of sound, or the ‘concrete’ properties of language. 
Texture necessarily has an important sensory dimension: it expresses the 
sensuous ‘feel’ of a medium, material, or environment, and thus invites 
consideration of the affective and sensorial relationship between text 
and spectator, a growing field of focus for philosophical approaches to 
film. Yet texture also offers a corresponding opportunity for attending 
to the importance of stylistic decisions - to an aesthetic object’s 
details, patterns, and overall shapes. Addressing texture in the context 
of film and television criticism thus involves attention to the 
fine-grained decisions observable in a text’s realisation, and can 
enrich discussions of not only the sensuous aspects of spectatorship, 
but also of film/television art. We thus seek submissions that consider 
the significance of this critically-overlooked aspect of film and 
television.



Articles should be no more than 8,000 words in length, and should be 
submitted as email attachments in Word format to 
(movie.journal /at/ gmail.com). Please read our style guide before submitting. 
The deadline for submissions to Issue 6 is 1 November 2014.



Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism is also interested in receiving work 
for the following ongoing sections:


‘Opening Shots’


This regular section consists of shorter critical pieces, usually 
focused on a single film or television programme. Appropriate approaches 
might include short articles drawing attention to valuable movies that 
are rarely seen and too little discussed (perhaps because not widely 
available), pieces focused on individual moments of a film/programme, or 
works of ‘visual criticism’ centred around images.


Digital style and meaning

We continue to seek pieces that assess the achievements of particular 
digital films and film practices, and which help develop a language of 
analysis with regard to them that will enable and enrich the kinds of 
close reading associated with Movie’s tradition of criticism.



Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism is published annually.




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