[Reader-list] Call for Papers: Deep Focus Film Quarterly

[Bangalore Film Society ,]

*Call for Papers*
Deep Focus Film Quarterly welcomes articles, reviews and interviews with
film directors. The write-ups can be of any hue, of any persuasion, as long
as they are serious reflections on cinema. Manuscripts must be neatly typed
in double line spacing. It is very important to include film stills to
illustrate your article. Deep Focus hopes to engage in a continuing debate
on various aspects of cinema through these write-ups.

Please send in your entries/queries to deepfocusfq at gmail.com


*About Deep Focus*

*Deep Focus Film Quarterly* is every cinema connoisseur's delight- a film
journal born out of a collective effort by a group of the most eminent
filmmakers, film academicians and cineastes from India and abroad. The only
cinema journal of its kind in India, Deep Focus, since its inception has
been internationally acclaimed and noted for publishing some of the most
in-depth and definitive articles, interviews and critiques on cinema, both
Indian and international. Through essays on cinema it has constantly
explored the aesthetics and cultural politics and its impact on contemporary
cultural practices, politics and social behavior. Even as it offered,
through the years, a platform for fresh, incisive and even radical criticism
and debate on cinema and its evolving forms and breakthrough movements, Deep
Focus has reflected and located emerging trends in society. By keeping its
roots in the present and its eye on the horizon, Deep Focus has always
strived and managed to stay ahead of the times and is one of those rare
phenomenons in the magazine world, where the older issues acquire substance
and vintage with the passing time and are prized and acknowledged as
'collector's items'.

Deep Focus Film Quarterly is for people and institutions who partake in its
worldview of cinema as the most potent medium of expression in our times,
who believe in the power of cinema- as an instrument of change and
revolution, as a mirror of our society and times and as a entity of
mystique. Deep Focus has a wide-reaching international subscription base
with film schools, media, art, culture and research institutions, libraries
and embassies as also among film directors, cinematographers, technicians,
academicians, scholars, journalists, artists, persons actively involved in
creative fields like theatre and advertising and most importantly, the
lovers of film.

These are strange times for cinema and meanings and even, vocabularies are
in flux. Even as millions of images are produced and stored every second,
the language of cinema is increasingly generic. Information is continuous
but all sense and reflection is suspended. In these manic times for the
cineaste, Deep Focus endeavors to  provide a panoramic view of cinema from
across the world- the real and the digital, and cut through  the excess, the
unnecessary, the superficial, the jargon and provide its readers with a
glimpse of the light at the core of so much chaos and a portrait of the
world through the flicker of the magic lantern.