[Commlist] Call for Papers: 'Transnational Horror Culture in Cinema’

Call for Papers: Film International: Journal of World Cinema

Special Issue: ‘Transnational Horror Culture in Cinema’

Themed issue (to be published in 2026)

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-international-journal-of-world-cinema#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/film-international-journal-of-world-cinema#call-for-papers>

In the preface to the edited volume World Cinemas, Transnational 
Perspectives(2010), Natasa Durovicová proposes that the transnational 
approach to national film histories does not undermine or negate them, 
but, rather, reinterprets them ‘within a grid of comparison allowing the 
analyst, and, much more properly, a team of analysts specializing in 
film from an assortment of periods and provenances, to parse and 
compare’ (2010: xiv). Regarding the so-called ‘excessive bodies of 
horror’ explored in their recent volume Transnational Horror 
Cinema(2016), Siddique and Raphael claim that ‘[t]hese reinventions, or 
rearticulations of generic expression, spill across national borders in 
an unruly dialog between nations, taking up in its conversation those 
nations’ unique culturally located historical traumas, dramas and 
artistic forms’ (2016: 5). It is this ‘unruly dialog’ that warrants 
further attention toward expanding the research their collection and 
other studies have accomplished in recent years.

This themed issue of Film Internationalwill explore the complex 
relationship between horror culture per seand cinematic expression. We 
welcome essays about any form of transnational confluence between 
geographies and how these cultural linkages foster new ways of 
interpreting the horror genre. Rather than close readings of single, 
regional films (or their directors’ oeuvres), we seek analyses of 
transnational dynamics within the globalized scope of horror cinema. 
This issue encourages a broad range of methodological approaches 
encompassing textual, historiographic, geographical, adaptation and 
other iterations of evolving critical attention to production, 
distribution, exhibition, reception and regulatory processes. We look 
forward to submissions addressing topics including but not limited to:

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    cultural analysis of horror co-productions

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    transnational genre remakes

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    transnational issues of horror reception

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    transnational aspects of American classical horror cinema

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    transnational horror in the Global South

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    emerging aesthetic trends of transnational horror

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    transnational horror subgenres

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    transnational cultures of post horror

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    new interpretations of Euro horror

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    cultural flow between central and peripheral nations

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    academic patterns of discourse on transnational horror cinema.

Submission guidelines

Please submit abstracts of 300–400 words along with a brief biographical 
statement no later than 30 November 2025to this thematic issue’s 
co-editors, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns at (citeron05 /at/ yahoo.com) 
<mailto:(citeron05 /at/ yahoo.com)> and David Melbye at (dwmelbye /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(dwmelbye /at/ gmail.com)>. Please note that accepted abstracts do not 
guarantee publication in the issue. This will also depend on a 
double-blind peer review of completed essays (6000–8000 words).

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