Film Studies
Politics of Contemporary European Cinema
Frames and Fictions on Television
Television drama both reflects and contributes to the production of cultural identity. At a time of deep cultural uncertainty how has this been represented within the programmes that help individuals make sense of their own lives and identities?
This book addresses the question head on: the contributors examine a range of issues of identity in relation to the shifting historical context while considering social class ethnicity race gender sexuality and national/diaspora identity. These are debated in relation to current aesthetic and social concerns and particular attention is paid to the changing identity of British television drama over the last 35 years:
- the fragmentation of the home audience
- the transnationalisation of media culture
- the increasingly hybrid nature of programme formats and
- the growth in popularity of US series within a British viewing context.
Danish Directors
Sensing the City through Television
An investigation of the fictional representations of the city in contemporary British and American television drama assessing their political sociological and cultural implications. The book draws on the following five key case studies for specific and detailed analysis:
* Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
* Homicide & Life on the Street
* Queer as Folk
* The Cops
* Holding On
Each is discussed in terms of structure content characterisation and narrative and each is placed within its specific ideological context. The case studies are intended to represent an interesting range of British and American cities and city sub-cultures. The author extends his analysis to investigate the intrinsic issues related to the implications of popular and high drama and culture.
This study includes exclusive interviews with the writers and directors of some of the series discussed. This new material provides new insights into the intended presentations of "city" identities for the television. As one of the first substantial investigations of the city in television drama this book reflects and contributes to a growing general interest in the politics of representation. It is also designed for accommodation into the very popular academic courses on drama and in film and media studies: as a textbook and for supplementary reading.
Spaces in European Cinema
Journal of Screenwriting
New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film
Film, Fashion & Consumption
Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook
Studies in Hispanic Cinemas (new title: Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas)
Our target readership includes students teachers and scholars. The journal is written in English to maximize the opportunities for contact between academic disciplines such as Media Film Studies Latin American and Post-colonial Studies as well as Hispanic Studies thereby encouraging an inter- cultural and inter- disciplinary focus.
View the issues of Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas available online
Studies in South Asian Film & Media
Journal of African Cinemas
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
Studies in Costume & Performance
Studies in Costume & Performance aims to encourage generate and disseminate critical discourse on costume and the relationship between costume and performance. It considers costume as a symbiotic articulation of the body of the performer which is visual material temporal and performative. Whether performed live seen through the camera lens or found in an archive costume embodies and reflects the performance itself.
The journal will bring together experts in costume scenography performance fashion and curation as well as critically engaged practitioners and designers to reflect and debate costume in performance its reception in production exhibition and in academic critical discourse. Submission will include visual essays. The journal is double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholastic integrity.
Past and current practice is considered through the ‘reading’ of the costumed body as a communication of embodied cultural social artistic and historical narratives. As such this journal is an articulation of practice which through this process redefines practice itself.
Studies in Spanish & Latin American Cinemas
Our target readership includes students teachers and scholars. The journal is written in English to maximize the opportunities for contact between academic disciplines such as Media Film Studies Latin American and Post-colonial Studies as well as Hispanic Studies thereby encouraging an inter-cultural and inter-disciplinary focus.
View the Studies in Hispanic Cinemas archive from Volume 1 2004
Asian Cinema
Film Matters
Film Matters is an exciting film magazine celebrating the work of undergraduate film scholars. It is published three times a year by students and for students and each issue contains feature articles as well as a healthy reviews section. In addition with an undergraduate audience in mind Film Matters will include occasional service-oriented pieces such as profiles of film studies departments articles that engage the undergraduate film studies community and prepare students for graduate study in this field and resources and opportunities that undergraduate scholars can pursue. In an effort to give undergraduate scholars real-world applied learning experiences all Film Matters feature submissions from external open calls will undergo a peer review process.
Film Matters also enjoys partnering with guest editors on themed dossiers. Any instructor who works with undergraduate students (including teaching assistants part-time faculty etc.) is encouraged to contact the editors with dossier proposals.
For more information and content visit the Film Matters website.