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FRAMEWORK REBORN: AN INTRODUCTION Framework: the Journal of Cinema and Media is a peer reviewed, international journal published bi-annually and dedicated to radical and informative analyses of the complexities, histories and intersects of today’s film and media. Framework (1971-1992) provided an open forum for many trends in film theory and culture and trail blazed in its coverage of early film theory, new television studies and international cinema, at times devoting entire issues to the films of China, Vietnam, Britain, India, Latin America, and Australia as well as those of American independents. Its interviews with African, Latin American and Asian directors broke ground in the exposure of their work. Framework’s writers were as diverse as Jean-Luc Godard, Umberto Eco, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lesley Stern, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen and it reprinted the early twentieth century writing of long neglected cinema theorists such as Dorothy Richardson and Ricciotto Canudo. Many of its directions, at that time unprecedented, have become de rigueur in cinema and media studies today. A full list of its back issues is available in our ARCHIVE section. Paul Willemen, one of Framework’s founding editors, sees Framework’s success very specifically (see An Introduction to Framework in ABOUT THE JOURNAL for the full text): If I were to claim one single main achievement for Framework, it would be this: the journal was among the quickest to recognize the need, and to argue, for the elaboration of a transnational critical-theoretical discourse, which would leave no 'existing' frame of reference undisturbed.
The re-launch of Framework in 1999 signaled a desire to continue this discourse and to engage in it the twenty first century’s vibrant thinkers and artists. Numerous changes in the field of cinema and the burgeoning of media study have realigned Framework’s approaches. Framework doesn’t exist solely in the academic frame and aims to contribute beyond it. With this as its base, new Framework has no single ideology, rather, the journal covers a panoply of ideas and seeks to publish work from original thinkers in the forefront of new cultural and political perspectives. Framework welcomes contributions from academics, critics, and practitioners in film, communication, media and cultural studies from around the world. It invites articles, interviews, reviews and think-pieces covering a range of topics and styles. Content The journal is composed of articles, interviews, reviews and dossiers, from both commissioned and unsolicited work. Thematic dossiers Special dossiers containing in-depth pieces, interviews and short essays. Past themes have included: telephilia vs cinephilia; the work of Babette Mangolte, of Manny Farber, of Gunvor Nelson and of Michael Haneke; women’s cinema in the 1920s; film space; media audiences; Latin American cinema; the promotion and distribution of film and media; Romany cinema; Middle Eastern Media Arts; and fashion.
Proposals for guest-edited dossiers are welcome.
Framework is expanding its scope to include regularly featured or rotating dossiers, edited by in-house editors, on specific subjects. Interviews Contemporary interviews from a wide range of occupations including film directors, film crew (such as designers and technicians), writers, critics, couturiers, scholars, and artists. Interviews have included: film critic Manny Farber, video artist Jun Nyugen-Hatsushiba, avant-garde filmmakers Gunvor Nelson and Mathias Muller, cinematographer Babette Mangolte, director Khalid Mohamed, documentarian Ellen Seiter, costume designer Piero Tosi and couturière Zandra Rhodes. Reviews Books, festivals, as well as some conferences and workshops. Our Reviews ‘Excellent, up to the minute! As indispensable as ever.’ --Peter Wollen
‘Once again, a journal that all media scholars need to read. On-target and leading the field.’ --Janet Staiger
‘Framework was simply the leading English-language film journal in the world. Now it is again.’ --Toby Miller |
