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Submissions
Alphaville accepts articles for consideration through a system of call for papers for themed issues. Calls are advertised on this website and via subject lists. Currently, Alphaville does not accept unsolicited article manuscripts. Check this site for updates on open calls.
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All submissions must adhere fully to Alphaville's Guidelines and House Style.
Call for Guest-Edited Dossier Proposals
Alphaville regularly publishes dossiers, i.e., focused collections of articles, short papers, interviews, reports, or case studies dedicated to a specific topic. If you would like to propose a dossier for publication, please download and fill in an Alphaville Dossier Proposal Form and submit it to alphavillejournal@gmail.com with the subject line “Dossier proposal”. There is no deadline in the case of dossier proposals. Please consult past issues of Alphaville to familiarise yourself with the format and range of our dossiers.
Calls for Papers
Alphaville Special Issue: Coming to Latin America: Moving Image Encounters, Non-Latin American Practitioners – Editors Dr Lawrence Alexander (University of Oxford) and Javier Pérez-Osorio (University of Cambridge) – Deadline 5th April 2024. Call for Papers
Risible Evidence – Special Dossier on Mockumentary and Comic Documentary in a Post-Truth Media Ecology. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Summer 2025. Guest editors: Ohad Landesman (lander@tauex.tau.ac.il) and Leshu Torchin (lt40@st-andrews.ac.uk)). Call for Papers
Pandemic Documentary: Negotiating “Cramped Space”. Special issue of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Winter 2025. Guest editors: Dr Oliver Brett (Health Sciences, University of Nottingham) and Dr Rhiannon Harries (Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, University of Nottingham). Call for Papers
Women’s Autobiographical Filmmaking. Special issue of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Summer 2026. Guest editors: Dr Felicia Chan (University of Manchester) and Dr Monika Kukolova (University of Salford). Call for Papers
Books for Review
Publishers and authors may contact us at reviews.alphaville@gmail.com and send us books for review at the following address:
Alphaville Reviews Editor
Department of Film and Screen Media
O’Rahilly Building 1.80
University College Cork
College Road
Cork, T12 YN60
IrelandIf you are interested in reviewing one of the titles below contact us at: reviews.alphaville@gmail.com
Please note that only high-quality reviews that scrupulously observe Alphaville Guidelines and House Style, and display rigorous scholarly engagement with the title being reviewed, will be considered for publication. Please consult the journal Guidelines and House Style for further guidance.
Bolton, Lucy, David Martin-Jones and Robert Sinnerbrink. Contemporary Screen Ethics: Absences, Identities, Belonging, Looking Anew. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Brady, Martin and Helen Hughes, eds. The Cinema of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. Moving Image 14, 2023.
Burgoyne, Robert. The New American War Film. University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
Elliott, Fraser, Sarah Feinstein and Joshua Gulam, eds., Full-Throttle Franchise: The Culture, Business and Politics of Fast & Furious. Bloomsbury 2023.
Ferriss, Suzanne, ed. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola. Bloomsbury, 2023.
Glynn, Stephen. Kate Bush and the Moving Image. Routledge, 2024.
Gordon, Marsha. Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott. UC Press, 2024.
Hext, Kate. Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Hassapopoulou, Marina. Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Hines, Claire, Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy. James Bond Will Return. Wallflower Press, 2024.
Hoedt, Madelan and Marko Lukic, eds. Re-imagining the Victim in Post-1970s Horror Media. Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
Irwin, Mary and Jill Marshall, UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity. Palgrave, 2023.
Lee, Hyunseon, Korean Film and History. Routledge, 2023.
Lulkowska, Agata. Filmmaking in Academia: Practice Research for Filmmakers. Routledge, 2024.
McArthur, Colin. Cinema, Culture, Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
Melamed, Laliv. Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence. University of California Press, 2023.
Motazedian, Táhirih, Key Constellations: Interpreting Tonality in Film. University of California Press, 2023.
Nair, Kartik. Seeing Things: Spectral Materialities of Bombay Horror. University of California Press, 2024.
Matthews, Simon. Free Your Mind: Giovanni “Tinto” Brass: “Swinging London” and the 60s Pop Culture Scene. Oldcastle Books, 2024.
Norris Nicholson, Heather. Round Our Way: Sam Hanna’s Visual Legacy. Pendle Press, 2024.
Pomerance, Murray and Matthew Solomon. The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis. SUNY Press, 2024.
Rawle, Steve and Martin Hall. Monstrosity and Global Crisis in Transnational Film. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2024.
Rubin Suleiman, Susan. István Szabó. I.B. Tauris, 2024.
Serrano, Jorge, ed., Black Panther: Wakandan “Civitas” and Panthering Futurity, 2022.
Shafguta Cheema, Iqra and Stefanie Van de Peer. Refocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Strongman, Luke. The Films and Career of Eva Greene. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Thornton Caldwell, John. Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries. University of California Press, 2023.
Tsai, Beth, Taiwan New Cinema at Film Festivals. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Waller, G. Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, Audiences. California: University of California Press. 2023.
Van den Troost, Kristof. Hong Kong Crime Films: Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947–2010. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
White, Dan. The Music of Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings: Sounds of Home in the Fantasy Franchise. Taylor and Francis, 2024.
Williams, Bruce. Albanian Cinema through the Fall of Communism. Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
Windisch, Anna K., Claus Tieber and Phil Powrie, eds., When Music Takes Over in Film. Palgrave, 2023.
