Journal of Film & Video

Editor: Cynthia Baron

DETAILS

Current Volume: 76 (2024)
Issued quarterly (Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter)
ISSN: 0742-4671
eISSN: 1934-6018

About

Official Journal of the University Film & Video Association

Announcement: The UFVA has opened a home office. Members seeking information about accessing the UFVA web site and job postings may contact the home office by email at home@ufva.org.

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. 

Note: Work accepted for publication uses culturally sensitive language. The journal reserves the right to alter phrasing and reject submissions that do not follow the manuscript submission guidelines (see Submissions).

The Journal of Film and Video is the official publication of the University Film & Video Association.


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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

University Film and Video Association
Pamela Ueno
UFVA Home Office Manager
Ph: 866-647-8382
home@ufva.org


ADVISORY BOARD

  • 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
  • Elaine Roth, Indiana University
  • Frank P. Tomasulo, Independent Scholar
  • Stephen Tropiano, Ithaca College, Los Angeles


Editorial Board

  • Jonathan Cavallero, Bates College
  • Cathryn Borum, American University
  • Anne T. Ciecko, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • Emily Edwards, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • 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
  • Robert Gordon Joseph, Dayton University
  • 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
  • Rosemary Nyaole, Daystar University
  • 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
  • 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

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Submissions

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 to Journal of Film & Video

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
Successful submissions demonstrate a mastery of critical and production terminology as well as the ability to create an argument that has a clear purpose, substantial evidence, and a conclusion that flows from the evidence. Work accepted for publication uses culturally sensitive language. The journal reserves the right to alter phrasing and reject submissions that do not follow the manuscript submission guidelines, which involve use of MLA style and citation conventions (9th Edition, 2021). Articles and reviews represent the views of their authors and are not necessarily those of the Journal of Film and Video or the University Film and Video Association.

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

Featured Articles



From the Opening Sequence of Citizen Kane to the Final Shot of The Birds: A Filmic Microanalysis of Three Painted Scenes
Dario Lanza Vidal
https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.1.0033
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/781774

UFVA's 2020 Virtual Conference: A Path Forward
Laura Vazquez and Wenhwa Ts'ao
https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.2.0003
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.2.0003?refreqid=excelsior%3A1c08c60b097e9543b571c55b775dafac

Atomic Tests: Experimental Filmmaking in the Nuclear Era
Hannah Goodwin
https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.2.0011
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.2.0011?refreqid=excelsior%3A0927b9141506686feb075f3fd6596353

To Have and to Hold: The Possessive Spectator, the Spinster Narrative, and Katharine Hepburn in David Lean's Summertime
Alison L. McKee
https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.2.0026
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.2.0026?refreqid=excelsior%3Afd532e3afd38be8a7d3006ebd51e900c

The Imaginary in the Biopic: Deconstructing Convention in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Ian Radzinski
https://doi.org/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.2.0046
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jfilmvideo.73.2.0046?refreqid=excelsior%3A8648d1178f4b04dbfaa64ec3a67bb208

What Is Cinematography in the Age of Virtual Film Production? Posing a New Definition for the Practice of Cinematography
Daniel Maddock
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/73/4/44/291868/What-Is-Cinematography-in-the-Age-of-Virtual-Film

Direct-to-Video (On Demand): New Industrial and Cultural Valuations of Nontheatrical Film Releases
Mike Van Esler
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/1/3/355193/Direct-to-Video-On-Demand-New-Industrial-and

“Beauty and the Beast”: Romance, Reform, and Mystery in the Films of Lon Chaney
Shane Brown; Mark Jancovich
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/1/16/355192/Beauty-and-the-Beast-Romance-Reform-and-Mystery-in

Americanizing the Scandinavian Super Underdog in Eighteen Film Remakes
Mads Larsen
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/1/29/355195/Americanizing-the-Scandinavian-Super-Underdog-in

Building a Timeline for LGBTQ+ Global Cinemas (1910–2019): Movie Production Trends from a Collaborative Internet Cinema Database
Manuel Hernández-Pérez; Juan José Sánchez-Soriano
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/1/46/355194/Building-a-Timeline-for-LGBTQ-Global-Cinemas-1910

According to the Narrator, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: Styles of Narration-as-Advocation in True-Crime Documentary Series
Max Dosser
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/2/45/379438/According-to-the-Narrator-It-Was-a-Dark-and-Stormy

“White Girls, They Get You Every Time”: Get Out's Horror of Miscegenation and Its Conception of the Black Bro'mance
Michèle S. Frank
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/2/4/379439/White-Girls-They-Get-You-Every-Time-Get-Out-s

“Why Don't You Go Down to Wall Street and Get Some Real Crooks?”: Capitalism and Masculinity in GoodFellas, Casino, and The Wolf of Wall Street
Ciara Moloney
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/2/30/379441/Why-Don-t-You-Go-Down-to-Wall-Street-and-Get-Some

Automotive Associations in Post–New Wave Films by Czech Directors
Tanya Silverman
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/3/4/383083/Automotive-Associations-in-Post-New-Wave-Films-by

Facing the End of the World: Take Shelter as Horror Ecocinema
Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/3/22/383086/Facing-the-End-of-the-World-Take-Shelter-as-Horror

Audiovisual Silence: A Lever for Narrative Change and Transition
Daniel Torras i Segura
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/3/38/383084/Audiovisual-Silence-A-Lever-for-Narrative-Change

Documentary Film and the Flint Water Crisis: Incorporating the Sociological Imagination
Cedric Taylor
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/3/53/383087/Documentary-Film-and-the-Flint-Water-Crisis

Neoliberalism and Disclosure's New Trans Activism: The Politics of Discrimination in Hollywood and How to Fight It
Sowjanya Kudva
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/4/4/385870/Neoliberalism-and-Disclosure-s-New-Trans-Activism

“A Truer Test of Woodcraft”: Bell & Howell Camera Advertising, Nature Magazine, and the Creation of the Modern “Camera Hunter”
Phillip D. Duncan
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/4/20/385873/A-Truer-Test-of-Woodcraft-Bell-amp-Howell-Camera

Queer Child, Decolonial Child: Beasts of the Southern Wild Revisited through an Ecocritical Lens
Robinson Murphy
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/4/32/385872/Queer-Child-Decolonial-Child-Beasts-of-the

A Study of Mordor and Coruscant as Paradigms of Neo-Baroque Digital Landscapes
Dario Lanza Vidal
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfv/article/75/4/45/385871/A-Study-of-Mordor-and-Coruscant-as-Paradigms-of