Journal of Film & Video

Editor: Cynthia Baron

DETAILS

Current Volume: 77 (2025)

Issued quarterly (Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter)

ISSN: 0742-4671

eISSN: 1934-6018

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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.

Read our blog post introducing new editor, Cynthia Baron

Indexes

Advanced Placement Fine Arts and Music, Abstracts of Popular Culture, Academic Search Alumni Edition, Academic Search Complete, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, Academic Search Ultimate, Art & Architecture Complete, Art & Architecture Index, Art & Architecture Source, Art Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), Art Index (H.W. Wilson), Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Arts Premium Collection, Associates Program Source Plus, Associates Programs Source, Book Review Index, Brepols, Career & Technical Education Database, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Communication Abstracts, Communication Source, Current Abstracts, Current Contents, Current Contents: Art and Humanities, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, Education Research Complete, Education Research Index, Education Source, ERIC, Expanded Academic ASAP, FIAF International Film Archive Database, Film & Television Literature Index, Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text, Film Literature Index, Gale Academic OneFile, Gale Academic OneFile Select, Gale General OneFile, Gale Literature: Book Review Index, Gale OneFile: Communications and Mass Media, Gale OneFile: Educator's Reference Complete, Gale OneFile: Fine Arts, Gale World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean, IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, InfoTrac Custom, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in All Fields of Knowledge, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, International Index to Film Periodicals, International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA), Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes - und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur, Military Transition Support Center, MLA International Bibliography, Music & Performing Arts Collection, OCLC ArticleFirst, OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson), Performing Arts Periodicals Database, Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, Professional ProQuest Central, ProQuest 5000, ProQuest 5000 International, ProQuest Career and Technical Education, ProQuest Central, Proquest Research Library, Research Library, Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, Scopus, Screen Studies Collection, TOC Premier, Vocational & Career Collection, Vocational Studies Complete, Web of Science, Wilson Art Full Text, Wilson OmniFile Full Text

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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

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

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Tenure dossier.
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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.

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

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Submissions

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

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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.

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