About the Journal

Cinéma & Cie is an international, peer-reviewed academic journal. The research areas of the journal include media history and theory and their relationship; the various intersections between technological, industrial and representational aspects; audiovisual heritage; reception and consumption; the links between different forms of audiovisual narrative, art and communication.

Published twice a year (in Spring and Fall), the journal is structured in four different sections:

– Thematic issue: usually the largest section, devoted to a specific topic. This section only accepts submissions in response to specific calls for essays that are advertised via the journal website;
– Beyond Cinema: a section focused on innovative perspectives on the transformations in the field of film studies. Submissions are accepted only in response to the permanent call for essays advertised on the website;
– Projects & Abstracts: the section details international research and noteworthy Ph.D. thesis projects or abstracts, recommended by supervisors;
– Reviews: the section consists of significant essays, festivals, exhibitions, conferences and related content.

Current Issue

Vol. 24 No. 42 (2024): Guerrilla Images: Aesthetics and Politics of Moving Images in Contemporary Uprisings
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Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Giuseppe Previtali and Giacomo Tagliani

Cinema and video have always played a fundamental role in the unfolding of collective uprisings: while films have often dramatised the development of various forms of rioting (as in the quintessential Battleship Potëmkin), images have played a variety of roles in more recent forms of revolt. Taking into account a variety of different case studies, this thematic issue aims to outline some lines of research for the study of contemporary uprisings and the role of moving images in this context. Looking at different geographical contexts (from Italy to Cameroon) and considering heterogeneous media devices and languages (from film to amateur digital video), this issue analyses and questions the many ways in which digital images can acquire a political role in the context of a re-appropriation of political space and agency that takes place performatively in the realm of the visual. It considers both a possible archaeology of insurgency and a phenomenology of the visual act performed by insurgents.

Published: 2024-08-02

Full Issue

Introduction

Thematic issue / Section thématique

Beyond Cinema

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Projects & Abstracts

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