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Intellect is exhibiting at the BAFTSS 2025 Conference

The British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies conference will take place 26-28 March at the University of Warwick. More information about the event can be found here.

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We publish a range of relevant journals, including Asian Cinema, Film International, New Cinemas, Journal of Popular Television and many more.

We are also pleased to announce the launch of our brand new journal International Journal of Disney Studies! The first issue is out now and available to access freely here.

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Spotlight Journals

 

The International Journal of Disney Studies examines the Walt Disney Company, an international media conglomerate that impacts our global culture. This international, peer-reviewed journal draws from a variety of academic and industrial lenses, perspectives, methods and fields, while providing a space for scholars to present new research, review current research and comment on wider Disney commodities. Twitter: @IJDisneyStudies IJDS is affiliated with the Disney, Culture & Society Research Network and supported by East Texas A&M University. 

Asian Cinema is a peer-reviewed seminal journal, which was published from 1995 by the Asian Cinema Studies Society under the stewardship of Professor John Lent. From 2012 Asian Cinema has been published by Intellect as part of our film studies journal portfolio. The journal currently publishes a variety of scholarly material – including research articles, interviews, book and film reviews and bibliographies – on all forms and aspects of Asian cinema. The journal’s broad aim is to advance understanding and knowledge of the rich traditions of the various Asian cinemas, thereby making an invaluable contribution to the field of film studies in general. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Journal of Popular Television is an international, double-blind peer-reviewed journal designed to promote and encourage scholarship on all aspects of popular television, whether fictional or non-fictional, from docudramas and sports to news and comedy. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Journal of World Cinema

Film International is devoted to the study of world cinemas, focusing on films within international and transnational contexts. The journal offers insights into the broader scope of cinema practices across the globe, both feature-length and otherwise, including by way of cultural comparison. It not only encourages attention to underrepresented regions such as the Global South, small-nation and minor cinemas, but also to how aesthetic choices have been made in these contexts. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

New Cinemas provides a peer-reviewed platform for scholarship that broadens and elaborates our knowledge of late-twentieth century and contemporary cinematic theory and practice. Welcoming approaches that do not take existing conceptual paradigms and canons as given, it anticipates submissions that refresh our understanding of established bodies of work as well as those which tackle practices still in the process of development. This title is indexed with Scopus. For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Short Film Studies is a peer-reviewed journal designed to encourage research by new and established scholars and critics that reflects both the historical importance and the increasing prominence and diversity of short films in today’s media landscape. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

The Journal of African Cinemas explores the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in films from and about Africa, no matter where they are made. It encourages studies about production, reception and audiences, interpretation and theory, and history and technology. The journal recognises the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas in relation to cinema everywhere, within diverse African languages and cultures. The editors invite papers on the perception and identity/identities of Africa and its peoples represented in film, in isolation or relation to other cinemas globally. The journal aims to create a forum for debate that will promote inter-disciplinarity between cinema and other visual and rhetorical forms of representation. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

The Journal of Screenwriting is an international double-blind peer-reviewed journal published three times per year. The journal highlights current academic and professional thinking about the screenplay – in all its forms and guises – and stimulates debate about contemporary and historical screenwriting practices, as well as the teaching of screenwriting and training of screenwriters. The journal is committed to research that represents a truly global perspective. The journal is discursive, critical and rigorous, and is inclusive of all forms of research and scholarship in what is a dynamic and developing field. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

Film, Fashion & Consumption is a peer-reviewed journal designed to provide an arena for the presentation of research and practice-based writing within and between the fields of film, fashion, design, history and art history. The journal aims to unite and enlarge a community of researchers and practitioners in these fields, whilst also introducing a wider audience to new work, particularly to interdisciplinary research that looks at the intersections between film, fashion and consumption. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.

This peer-reviewed journal explores the cinemas of Spain and Spanish-speaking South, Central and North America, including the Caribbean and Brazil. Maximizing the opportunities for contact between academic disciplines such as media, film studies, Latin American, Hispanic and postcolonial studies, the journal encourages an inter-cultural and interdisciplinary focus. Formerly published as Studies in Hispanic Cinemas, 2004-2013, (ISSN: 1478-0488, Online ISSN: 2040-0608). Additional material hosted under https://slacextras.com. This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For more information, to access the journal or to subscribe visit the Discover platform here.  

Spotlight Books

Featuring work by key figures in international documentary scholarship and talented emerging scholars, the Handbook is a landmark publication for documentary studies in the 21st century. It tackles key topics and debates and the shifting practices of documentary activism and the professionalization of impact.  24 b&w illus.

Father of Soviet Fairy-Tale Cinema

In a directorial career spanning from 1938 to 1972, Aleksandr Rou transformed the landscape of Soviet fantasy and filmmaking. Featuring detailed analyses of Rou’s films and their social and industrial contexts, this book introduces the exhilarating oeuvre of one of the world’s great masters of fairy-tale cinema to Western audiences. 19 b&w illus.

Volume 2

World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-colour film stills. Col. illus.

Westerns in Australian Cinema

Outback is essentially a study of how the Western genre has evolved in Australian cinema history over more than a century. The book reflects on what constitutes the nature of the genre, on its prolificacy in Australia, and on some of the recurring thematic and cultural concerns that have been matters of ongoing interest. 17 b&w illus.

Changes to infrastructure allow us to see imagined worlds better, and we can look to dystopian and post-apocalyptic movies from 1968 to 2021 for a sense of where we might begin to re-design and retrofit our current world to face the dystopias and possible apocalypses of our own making. 31 b&w illus.

Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination
Edited by Angela McRobbie

Comprises scholarly engagements with the various outputs of the prolific Berlin based German artist Ulrike Ottinger born in Constance in 1942 to a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father both of whom were protected from the Nazis by the paternal grandmother. The book consists of thirteen contributors, one commentator and 5 interviews. 20 b&w illus.

Cinema, Popular Culture, and Identity

This book focuses on the neoliberal self, which, far from being a stable marker of urban, liberal, millennial Indian identity, has a schizophrenic quality, replete with contradictions and oppositions, that belies the narrative of progress and prosperity that has marked mainstream cultural discourse in India. 15 b&w illus.

From Marginalization to Mainstreamification

This edited volume draws attention to a dynamic field in which a wide variety of queer identities can be put on display and consumed by audiences rather than framed as marginal. Cementing a foundational understanding of queerness that is at odds with current shifts in media production, contributors present a broad variety of queer identities

For Baudelaire, Paris streets conjured visions of the past even as he contemplated the present. This book investigates this and other cases of double vision, tracing back into antiquity and following Baudelaire forwards as his poetry is translated, received and referenced through text and film to the twentieth century and beyond. 8 b/w illus.

Britain’s Trade in Hardcore Pornographic 8mm Films

Tells the undocumented story of Britain’s trade in 8mm hardcore pornography, exploring how entrepreneurs circumvented obscenity laws to produce and distribute hardcore films. Draws on extensive archival research, including the use of legal records, police files, media reportage, and interviews with those who were involved in the business. 75 illus.