Journal of Film & Video

Editors

Editor
Cynthia Baron
Bowling Green State University
Department of Theatre and Film
222 Wolfe Center
Bowling Green, OH 43403 
cbaron@bgsu.edu

Book Review Editor
Shane H. Weathers
Bowling Green State University
shaneth@bgsu.edu

ADVISORY BOARD

• Ren Baron, Toronto Copy Editing
• Thomas Brecheisen, Texas Tech University
• Diane Carson, St. Louis Community College
• Michael Clarke, California State University, Los Angeles
• Michelle Glaros, Centenary College of Louisiana
• Suzanne Regan, California State University, Los Angeles
• Frank P. Tomasulo, Independent Scholar
• Stephen Tropiano, Ithaca College, Los Angeles

Editorial Board

• Jonathan Cavallero, Bates College
• CatyBorum Chattoo, American University
• Anne T. Ciecko, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Cynthia Felando, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Karla Fuller, Columbia College Chicago
• Mikal Gaines, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
• Arundhati Ghosh, Independent Scholar
• Thomas Grochowski, St. Joseph’s College, New York
• Rodney Hill, Hofstra University
• Dale Hudson, New York University, Abu Dhabi
• Victoria Johnson, University of California, Irvine
• Yulia Gilich, University of California, Santa Cruz
  
• Robert Gordon Joseph, University of Dayton
• Amanda Konkle, Georgia Southern University
• Kurt Lancaster, Northern Arizona University
• Christina Lane, University of Miami
• George S. Larke-Walsh, University of Sunderland
• Melinda Levin, University of North Texas
• Stefania Marghitu, University of Alabama
• Nina K. Martin, Connecticut College
• Heather McIntosh, Minnesota State University, Mankato
• Darshana Sreedhar Mini, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Michael Ogden, Zayed University, Dubai
• Claudia Pederson, Wichita State University
• Christina Petersen, Eckerd College
• Cortland Rankin, Bowling Green State University 
• Charlene Regester, University of North Carolina, Chappell Hill
• Jamie Ann Rogers, Western Washington University
• Elaine Roth, Indiana University
• Jeevani Sammeta, Bowling Green State University
• Sudipto Sanyal, Independent Scholar
  
• Mary C. Schmitt, Quinnipiac University
• Samantha N. Sheppard, Cornell University
• Sarah E. S. Sinwell, University of Utah
• Nick Smith, SUNY Fredonia
• Ingrid Stobbe, Lesley University
• Andrew Utterson, Ithaca College
• Lorene Wales, Liberty University
• Rulon Wood, Boise State University
• Rick Worland, Southern Methodist University

PDF Policy

Upon publication, authors will receive a link to access their article free for three months. They are permitted to share the link (not the PDF) with friends, colleagues, and on social media.

PDFs are permitted and issued for the following:

• Tenure dossier.
• Special workshops the author is moderating.
• Other requests to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
• All PDFs will include a statement of copyright and a provision that the articles will not be photocopied, distributed, or used for purposes other than the terms agreed to by UIP.

Preprints are permitted for:

• University repositories; UIP requires a publication statement to be posted along with the preprint.

Postprints are permitted for:

• Non-profit archives and repositories; Articles must be at least one year old. UIP requires a publication statement to be posted along with the postprint and a link back to the UIP Journal of Film and Video page.
• Personal and commercial Web sites; Articles must be at least three years old. UIP requires a publication statement to be posted along with the postprint and a link back to the UIP Journal of Film and Video page.

Please contact the Intellectual Property Manager for more information.

Please send all requests to:

Angela Burton
Intellectual Property Manager
UIP-RIGHTS@uillinois.edu

Submissions

Please verify that all communications come from the editor directly (see “Editors” for contact information) or from Scholastica, our submission system. There is no cost to submit or publish in the journal unless you have requested open access for your accepted article.

The Journal of Film and Video is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published four times a year. It features scholarship on film, video, and media production, history, and aesthetics as well as research on education in these fields and the role of fiction and documentary work in society. 

The journal is grounded in humanities research traditions that examine cultural, historical, material, and aesthetic dimensions in ways that differ from many journals in communication studies or specialty journals, such as those in cognitive studies. Yet it accepts articles that use a range of critical methods if they shed light on the production and study of film, video, and media.  

The journal publishes research articles (25 to 30 pages) in history, theory, and criticism that contextualize individual productions and the work of creative laborers. It is committed to intersectional cultural studies and ideological analyses that examine representational politics, developments in taste formation, audience engagement, and so on. It values interdisciplinary industry studies and research that illuminates the conception, production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of film, video, and media. The journal also publishes (5 page) book reviews. 

How to Submit

Manuscripts intended for publication, including reviews, should be submitted electronically through the Journal of Film and Video online manuscript submission system. 

Submit clean Microsoft Word documents (no PDFs, Google docs, or track-change Word files). Remove author name(s) from the article, including running heads, notes, and works cited. Follow MLA Handbook (9th Edition, 2021) style and citation conventions, unless superseded by the Style Guide below. For more information on MLA, consult the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) MLA guides.

• Style Guide
• Editing Guidelines and Samples

Peer Review Policy: After initial editorial review, submissions are sent to external reviewers, independent of the journal and publisher for double-blind review.

View our Publications Ethics and Malpractice Statement

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