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Call for Papers: Short Film Studies
Friday, October 11, 2019

Call for Papers: Short Film Studies

Call for Papers: Short Film Studies

 

Aims and Scope 

 

Short Film Studies is a peer-reviewed journal designed to stimulate ongoing research on individual short films as a basis for a better understanding of the art form as a whole. In each issue, two or three short films will be selected for comprehensive study, with articles illuminating each film from a variety of perspectives. 

 

These are the works that will be singled out for close study in Short Film Studies Vol. 11, Number 1:

 

La Vis 

Didier Flamand 

France, 1993, 19 min

 

https://vimeo.com/230325873  

Password: XLvimLaVis7K7

 

Echo 

Magnus von Horn 

Poland, 2008, 14 min

 

https://vimeo.com/17464926

 

Article submissions

 

We invite all students of the short film – including researchers, teachers and filmmakers – to contribute to Short Film Studies Vol. 11, Number 1. Each article should focus on either of the two works mentioned above and should not exceed 1,500 words. Any aspect of the selected work may be chosen for study, including interpretive issues, dramaturgy, camera work, editing style, sound, closure, etc. Preference will be given to submissions which explore the premises of the film itself instead of taking the postulates of a particular theoretician as their principal focus. And submissions should be conceived as analytical studies rather than evaluative reviews of the films. 

 

Potential contributors should begin by sending a max. 50-word abstract to the editor, Richard Raskin at shortfilmstudies@raskin.dk. The abstract should be accompanied by a working title that would help distinguish this contribution from five or six other studies devoted to the same film. A prompt response will follow, regarding the suitability of the proposed contribution and authors encouraged to proceed with their articles will be given submission guidelines that include a link to a shot-by-shot breakdown of the selected film. The deadline for submitting completed articles for peer-review is 1 March 2020.


For more information about the journal and call for papers, click here >> http://www.intellectbooks.com/short-film-studies