[Reader-list] WideScreen - open access film journal

[Kuhu Tanvir]

*WideScreen***

peer reviewed, open access film journal

ISSN 1757-3920
http://www.widescreenjournal.org


*About*

*WideScreen* is a peer-reviewed, open access journal. It is devoted to the
critical study of cinema from historical, theoretical, political, and
aesthetic perspectives. The journal is a continuation of sorts of
subalterncinema.com  and it aims to combine the best of academic and
journalistic critique of cinema and to look at the various critical vantage
points from which to understand cinema in this dynamic environment.



*Call for Papers*

The most encouraging development in film in the recent past has been a
change in the attitude towards what is commonly called alternative cinema.
Representation of the minority —of race, ethnicity, sex, sexuality etc—is
said to be adopting the 'new cultural politics of difference.'  Broadly,
there are two impulses: one, a celebration of the differences, where new
identities are formed and there is a sense of pride in them. Two, a desire
to assimilate the alternative into a master narrative. More importantly,
there are sides to be taken, by the filmmakers, by the audience, by
everyone. Is there really a new culture, is it beneficial, if yes, how, what
is the nature of the hybrid that is often a result of these new impulses etc
are all questions we are still thinking about and to which there are a wide
variety of answers. But the debate is on and with every passing moment we
are faced with new possibilities and new perspectives.

New media and developments within film have facilitated easy means of
presenting points of view: film festivals, multiplexes, YouTube etc have
enormous food for thought and immense possibilities. Yet, the basic
distinction between mainstream and the alternative is visible in the use of
these very words. A change is upon us, but much is to be achieved before it
is felt by one and all.

Thus, the inaugural issue of *WideScreen* aims to critically re-examine
cinema against the backdrop of existing hegemonies and re-conceptualise the
cinema located in the gaps of the popular. We invite critical papers on
"subaltern cinema" and the "subaltern" in cinema.



*Editors*

**Kishore Budha, Gopalan Ravindran, Kuhu Tanvir

*Advisory Board*

   - Anand Patwardhan
   - Christine Gledhill
   - Latika Padgaonkar
   - Laura Mulvey
   - Rakesh Sharma
   - Ralf Christensen

*Editorial Board*

·      Anurag Kashyap

·      Diane Myers

·      Frederick Noronha

·      Graham Roberts

·      Kartik Nair

·      Kuba Mikurda

·      Rebecca Romanow

·      Rituparno Ghosh

·      Sean M Tierney

·      Tilman Baumgarten

·      Todd McGowan

·      Norman Yusoff

·      Mahyuddin Ahmad





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