P R I O R   P U B L I C A T I O N

Articles are accepted with the understanding that their content is unpublished and is not proffered for publication elsewhere.

If any part of the article has been, or is about to be, published elsewhere, the author must notify the editor upon submission.

The author’s must have permission to use any copyrighted materials quoted in their article.

U N S O L I C I T E D  T E X T S

Unsolicited articles should not exceed 10,000 words, including endnotes and references.

Include coversheet with your name, institution, correspondence address and email.

Include 150 word abstract and 50 word autobiography.

Include your last name and the full title of your essay in SUBJECT heading of your email

Unsolicited articles are not returned; acknowledgement is given upon receipt.

M A N U S C R I P T

All manuscripts should be submitted via email attachment to Drake Stutesman, Framework’s Editor.

R E F E R E E

All articles considered for publication will be refereed anonymously.

W R I T I N G  S T Y L E

Writing should be clear and the essay should read as an informed and engaging article that examines its subject in depth. There should be little academic jargon or repetition of phrases and all arguments should be incorporated smoothly.

MANUSCRIPTS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION MUST USE THESE GUIDELINES:

All submissions must be formatted according to The Chicago Manual of Style. Please refer to its website for clarification. Texts must be in English.

Before submitting, please proofread to insure that you have used:

I N T E R V I E W S

Use full names for first two references of interviewer and interviewee. After that, use the initials of first and second name.

N O T E S  A N D  R E F E R E N C E S

As per Chicago Style, use endnotes. Cite these under a heading of Notes.

The first citation includes author, full title, press, publication year. Page numbers are at the end.

P. Adams Sitney, Modernist Montage: the Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1990), 19, 22–25.

A second citation includes last name, title, and page number.

Adams, Modernist Montage: the Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature, 104.

Third citation includes last name and page number.

Adams, 98.

Titles of books, journals, film titles, TV shows, plays, long poems, and multimedia are italicized; titles of articles, papers, short stories, book chapters are in quotation marks.

Leonard J. Leff, “‘Come on Home with Me’: 42nd Street and the Gay Male World of the 1930s,” Cinema Journal 39, no.1 (Winter 1999): 3–22.

Gertrude Smith, “On Alla Nazimova,” Moving Picture World,(October 21, 1919): 14–17.

Mark Wigley, “Untitled: The Housing of Gender,” in Sexuality and Space, ed. Beatrice Colomina (New York: Princeton Papers on Architecture/Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), 300.

If no magazine author or article title is cited, use the following:

Moving Picture World, (October 21, 1919).

Any reference not cited in notes should appear in References. This list should be minimal. Please note that book formatting is different in this section.

Sitney, P. Adams. Modernist Montage: the Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. 19, 22-25.

Article formatting is the same:

Leonard J. Leff, “‘Come on Home with Me’: 42nd Street and the Gay Male World of the 1930s,” Cinema Journal 39, no.1 (Winter 1999): 3–22.

Framework follows Chicago Style with ONE EXCEPTION:

FILM, TELEVISION, AND ELECTRONIC REFERENCES

First citation of film titles are followed by the director’s name, film’s country of origin (using country codes) and year of release, in parenthesis.

All title translations follow the original foreign title and a slash:

Le carabiniere/The Riflemen

Followed by a parentheses with the director, country of production, and release year:

Touki-Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambety, SN, 1973)

If the director and film are referred to within the text, use the following:

…Guy-Blaché’s La Vie(FR, 1906)

If multiple information is needed, use brackets to cite what is necessary.

… two American-financed films, that were adapted from French novels but shot in Britain, Bitter Victory (Columbia, s. René Hardy, d. Nicholas Ray, 1958) and Bonjour Tristesse (United Artists, s. Françoise Sagan, d. Otto Preminger, 1958)….

If there are co-productions, use slashes to divide each country, use slashes to divide each country

e.g. (FR/CR/CH, 2009)

If the film is produced independently, put the director’s own country.

All references are in ordinary brackets ( ) and fall within the sentence’s final punctuation.

If a film is referred to within an interview, use square brackets [ ].

“…I was influenced by Near Dark [Katherine Bigelow, US, 1987]…”

For television programs, bracket the channel, country of origin, and start and end year.

The Sopranos (HBO, US, 1999–2007)

If the show is ongoing leave the dash open-ended.

Mad Men (AMC, US, 2007–)

For foreign television programs, list the original title, followed by English title, director’s name, country of origin, and release year:

Befrielsesbilder/Pictures of a Liberation (Lars von Trier, DK, 1982)

Any multimedia—websites, videogames, CD-ROMs—are followed by author (if applicable), manufacturer, and date of first release, in brackets.

Cite the author/editor, full electronic address, and year the document was accessed, in lieu of the date of publication.

Gauntlett, David. 2001. Essay Writing: The Essential Guide. http://ww.leeds.ac.uk/ics/study3/htm.

If you can’t state the author/editor, use the following citation:

The Stakehouse, BBC Forum. 2001. Bad Girls. http://64.37.116.100.stakehouse/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000346.html.

P E R M I S S I O N S

All permissions, including picture permission, must be obtained and paid.

I L L U S T R A T I O N S

The author must obtain copyright for the use of any illustrations. We accept JPGS and TIFF files at 300 DPI.

When including pictures for publication, you must:

Number each picture as it appears sequentially in text

Identify files with the author’s name and a brief title of picture

03_GustavKlimt_TheKiss.jpg

C A P T I O N S

You must include a separate list of illustration captions. Number your captions to correspond exactly to the illustration number. These should also include credit source.

Fred Astaire in Top Hat. Courtesy: British Film Institute



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R E - P U B L I C A T I O N

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