[Commlist] Call for Papers: Short Film Studies 16.1 - Short Film Studies

Call for Papers: /Short Film Studies/

Deadline for manuscripts: *15 November 2025*
Length requirement: 1500 to 4000 words, double-spaced

View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-film-studies#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-film-studies#call-for-papers>

/Short Film Studies/ is a humanities-oriented, peer-reviewed journal 
published twice a year. In the contexts of the enormous visibility of 
shorts in our current media landscape and their importance to film 
history, the journal aims to encourage critical attention and research 
that centers short films and media. Especially welcome are contributions 
that focus on short films and media as shorts – as a form with its own 
history and conventions – and in relation to relevant short form media 
scholarship. Essays may consider historical or contemporary narrative 
shorts, both fiction and nonfiction; live-action and/or animated titles; 
and may address thematic issues and/or close readings of single titles 
(those with running times of 40-minutes or less are preferred).

For Issue 16.1, the Special Focus will be on ‘Genre Shorts’ and, for 
example, how they enable a fuller critical and scholarly appreciation of 
particular film genres, as well as how they work, including by using 
fewer conventions, self-reflexivity, parody, among other possibilities.

In addition to the Special Focus, /SFS /observes a constant open Call 
for Papers and welcomes submissions from short film/media scholars that 
reflect their own critical and scholarly interests. Potential topics 
include, and are not limited to, the following:

• short film theory and specificity
• short film canons
• representations of and by underrepresented communities
• LGBTQ+ themes and representation
• narrative music videos
• short film exhibition
• short film series and anthologies
shorts from emerging national cinemas
• fashion shorts

Send a brief, 75-word abstract that specifies your subject, argument, 
contextualization and the objectives of your proposed paper (include a 
25- to 50-word biographical statement) to the editor, Cynthia Felando 
((cfelando /at/ filmandmedia.ucsb.edu) <mailto:(cfelando /at/ filmandmedia.ucsb.edu)>).

Upon approval of the abstract, full essays should be sent through 
Pubkit: https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/429/ 
<https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/429/>; Or by using 
the ‘Submit’ link on the webpage: 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-film-studies 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-film-studies>.

Papers should follow Harvard citation style. Please consult the notes 
for contributors for citation, images and other formatting issues: 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/79778/1/SFS_NFC.pdf 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/79778/1/SFS_NFC.pdf>.

Include a separate cover sheet with author details and affiliation 
information. The journal’s Editorial Board will referee all submissions. 
Please direct any further queries to the editor.

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