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Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 10.3 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 10.3 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Gianfranco Rosi’

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Aims and Scope

Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies (JICMS) is an English-language forum for theoretical, methodological and critical debate on Italian film and media production, reception and consumption. It provides a platform for dialogue between academics, filmmakers, cinema and media professionals. This peer-reviewed journal invites submissions of scholarly articles relating to the artistic features, cultural themes, international influence and history of Italian film and media. Furthermore, the journal intends to revive a critical discussion on the auteurs, revisit the historiography of Italian cinema and celebrate the dynamic role played by new directors. The journal includes a book and film review section as well as notes on Italian film festivals abroad and international conference reports.

The profound transformation undergone by the rapidly expanding media environment under the impact of digital technology, has lead scholars in the field of media studies to elaborate new theoretical paradigms and methodological approaches to account for the complexities of a changing landscape of convergence and hybridization. The boundaries between cinema and media as art forms and fields of inquiry are increasingly hybridized too. Taking into account this evolving scenario, JICMS provides an international arena for critical engagement with a wider range of issues related to the current media environment. The journal welcomes in particular contributions that discuss any aspects of Italian media production, distribution and consumption within national and transnational, social, political, economic and historical contexts.

Within the realm of a post-national and trans-cultural debate, the purpose of JICMS is to refer to Italy as the unifying site for a contemporary discussion on translocal cinema. The journal aims to elaborate a multifaceted definition of Italian cinema, transcending geo-ethnic land and sea borders and moving away from merely celebratory local cinematic experiences. Therefore, the journal also devotes attention to Italophone filmmakers and diasporic, accented or exilic cinema. JICMS is also interested in the artistic intersections between Italian and other international cinemas.

JICMS also invites submissions which examine experimental cinema, video art, short films, long/short feature and documentary animation, original and adapted screenplays, film music (songs and scores), issues of stardom and reception studies. The professional contributions of screenplay writers, art directors, cinematographers, film editors, costume designers and make-up artists are also potential subject areas for submissions.

Issue 10.3

Editorial

Lands – seas – bodies: On the cinema of Gianfranco Rosi

RHIANNON HARRIES AND JOHN DAVID RHODES

Articles

Death and life through the tourist’s gaze: Reflections on Gianfranco Rosi’s Boatman

LUCY BOLLINGTON

Intimate disclosure: Below Sea Level and documentary humanism

JOHN DAVID RHODES

The draftsman’s contract: Gianfranco Rosi’s El Sicario, Room 164

RHIANNON HARRIES

Rings of Saturn: Fellini Rosi