[Commlist] Call for Papers: Short Film Studies 17.1 published

Call for Papers: Short Film Studies 17.1


Deadline for abstracts: 10 August 2026

Deadline for full manuscripts: 10 November 2026

Length requirements: 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>


Given the visibility of shorts in our current media landscape and their 
importance to film history, Short Film Studiesaims to encourage critical 
attention and research about short films and media. Articles 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 
are preferred. Articles can 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 17.1, in addition to the Open Call (see below), papers are 
invited that focus on the issue's featured auteur, Jane Campion, whose 
filmography includes several canonical shorts, including her first, An 
Exercise in Discipline: Peel (1983), which won a Palme d’Or at the 
Cannes Film Festival.


Short Film Studiesalso 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:

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    short film history and criticism;

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    short film theory and specificity;

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    short film canons;

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    LGBTQ+ themes and representation;

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    narrative music videos;

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    omnibus or anthology shorts;

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    genre shorts;

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    auteur shorts.


Please send a 75-word abstract that specifies your subject, argument, 
contextualization, and the objectives of your proposed paper; include a 
25- to 50-word biographical statement and send to the editor, Cynthia 
Felando ((cfelando /at/ filmandmedia.ucsb.edu) 
<mailto:(cfelando /at/ filmandmedia.ucsb.edu)>). Upon approval of the abstract, 
full manuscripts should be sent through Pubkit 
(https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/429/ 
<https://submission.pubkit.co/publisher/29/journal/429/>).


Articles should follow the Harvard citation style. Consult the Notes for 
Contributors 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/79778/1/SFS_NFC.pdf>for citation, 
images and other formatting issues, and 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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