New Cinemas
Journal of Contemporary Film
ISSN 1474-2756
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New Cinemas
: Journal of Contemporary Film
Volume 6 Number 1 2008
New Cinemas
is a refereed academic journal devoted to the study of con-temporary film around the world. It aims to provide a platform for thestudy of new forms of cinematic practice and a new focus on cinemashitherto neglected in western scholarship. It particularly welcomesscholarship that does not take existing paradigms and theoretical con-ceptualisations as given; rather, it anticipates submissions that arerefreshing in approach and that exhibit a willingness to tackle cinematicpractices that are still in the process of development into something new.
Co-editors for 2007–08
Thea Pitman
University of Leeds
Catherine O’Rawe
University of Bristol
Reviews Editor
Chris Homewood
University of Leeds
Email: c.j.homewood@leeds.ac.uk
All enquiries to:Dr Catherine O’Rawe
Department of ItalianUniversity of Bristol19 Woodland RoadBristol BS8 1TETel: 00 44 (0)117 331 6760Email: c.g.orawe@bristol.ac.uk
New Cinemas
is published three times per year by Intellect, PO Box 862, Bristol, BS99 1DE,UK. The current institutional subscription rate is £210. The personal subscription can begained from Intellect at a rate of £33. Postage is free within the UK, £9 within the EU(outside UK), and £12 for the rest of the world. Enquiries and bookings for advertisingshould be addressed to: Journals Manager, Intellect, PO Box 862, Bristol, BS99 1DE, UK.© 2008 Intellect Ltd. Authorisation to photocopy items for internal or personal use or theinternal or personal use of specific clients is granted by Intellect Ltd for libraries and otherusers registered with the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) in the UK or the CopyrightClearance Center (CCC) Transactional Reporting Service in the USA provided that the basefee is paid directly to the relevant organisation.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by4edge, UKISSN 1474-2756Articles appearing in this journal areabstracted and indexed in theInternational Index to Film Periodicals.
Editorial Advisory Board
Charles AclandRoy ArmesChris BerryAlberto ElenaFidelma FarleyDeniz GöktürkSabry Hafex Jean-Pierre JeancolasMyrto KonstantarakosAlberto Mira
Editorial Board
Paul Cooke
(University of Leeds)
Rajinder Dudrah
(University of Manchester)
Lalitha Gopalan
(Georgetown University, USA)
Danielle Hipkins
(University of Exeter)
Rachael Hutchinson
(Colgate University, USA)
Lina Khatib
(Royal Holloway College)
Yves Laberge
(Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, Canada)
Hyangjin Lee
(University of Sheffield)
Song Hwee Lim
(University of Exeter)
Jacqueline Maingard
(University of Bristol)
Robert J. Miles
(University of Hull)
Catherine O'Rawe
(University of Bristol)
Dorota Ostrowska
(University of Edinburgh)
Thea Pitman
(University of Leeds)
Graham Roberts
(University of Leeds)
Lisa Shaw
(University of Liverpool)
Julian Stringer
(University of Nottingham)
Claire Taylor
(University of Liverpool)
Jan Udris
(University of Middlesex)
Nejat Ulusay
(University of Ankara, Turkey)
Lúcia NagibMark NashGeoffrey Nowell-Smith John OrrAdam RobertsSam RohdiePaul Julian SmithRichard TapperLola Young
All illustrations, photographs, diagrams,maps, etc. should follow the same numericalsequence and be shown as Figure 1, Figure 2,etc. The source must be indicated below.Copyright clearance should be indicated bythe contributor and is always his/herresponsibility. If sources are supplied on aseparate sheet or file, indication must be givenas to where they should be placed in the text.
Captions
All illustrations should be accompanied by acaption, including the Fig. No., and anacknowledgement to the holder of thecopyright. The author has a responsibilityto ensure that the proper permissions areobtained.
Other Styles
Margins should be at least 2.5 cm all roundand pagination should be continuous.Foreign words and phrases inserted in thetext should be italicised.
Author(s) Note
A note on the author is required, whichincludes author’s name, institutionalaffiliation and address.
Abstract
The abstract should not exceed 150 wordsin length and should concentrate on thesignificant findings. Apart from its value forabstracting services, it should also make acase for the article to be read by someonefrom a quite different discipline.
Keywords
Provision of up to six keywords is muchappreciated by indexing and abstractingservices.
Notes
Notes appear at the side of appropriatepages, but the numerical sequence runsthroughout the article. These should be keptto a minimum (not normally more thantwelve), and be identified by a superscriptnumeral. Please avoid the use of automaticfootnote programmes; simply append thefootnotes to the end of the article.
References and Bibliography
Films should be given their full originallanguage title. The first mention of a film inthe article (except if it appears in the title)must have the English translation if it isavailable, the director’s name (not Christianname), and the year of release, thus:Tesis/Thesis (Amenábar 1995); O cantor e abailarina/The Singer and the Dancer(Miranda 1959).We use the Harvard system for bibliographi-cal references. This means that all quotationsmust be followed by the name of the author,the date of publication, and the pagination,
Contributions
Opinion
The views expressed in
New Cinemas
arethose of the authors and do not necessarilycoincide with those of the Editorial orAdvisory Boards.
Referees
New Cinemas
is a refereed journal. Strictanonymity is accorded both to authors andreferees. The latter are chosen for theirexpertise within the subject area. They areasked to comment on comprehensibility,originality and scholarly worth of the articlesubmitted.
Length
Articles should not normally exceed 6000words in length.
Submitting
Articles should be original and not be underconsideration by any other publication andbe written in a clear and concise style. Inthe first instance, contributions can besubmitted to us by email as an attachment,preferably in WORD.
Language
The Journal uses standard British English.The Editors reserve the right to alter usageto this end. Because of the interdisciplinarynature of readership, jargon is to be avoided.Simple sentence structures are of greatbenefit to readers for whom English is asecond language.
Presentation
Your title should be in bold at the beginningof the file,
without
inverted commas. Below,add your name (but not title or affiliation)and your abstract, in italics. The text,including notes, should be in Times NewRoman 12 point and be double-spaced. Thetext should have ample margins forannotation by the editorial team. You maysend the text justified or unjustified. Youmay use subtitles, if you wish, in lower caseand in bold.
Quotations
Within paragraphs, these should be usedsparingly, identified by single quotationmarks. Paragraph quotations must beindented with an additional one-line spaceabove and below and without quotationmarks. Omitted material should be signalledthus: (…). Note there are no spaces betweenthe suspension points. Try to avoid breakingup quotations with an insertion, forexample: ‘The sex comedy’, says Dyer, ‘playson ambivalences’ (Dyer, 1993, 109).
Illustrations
Illustrations are welcome. In particular,discussions of particular buildings, sites orlandscapes would be assisted by includingillustrations, enabling readers to see them.thus: (Santos 1995:254). PLEASE DO NOTuse ‘(ibid.)’. Note that the punctuationshould always follow the reference withinbrackets, whether a quotation is within thetext or an indented quotation.Your references refer the reader to abibliography at the end of the article. Theheading should be ‘Works cited’. List theitems alphabetically. Here are examples of the most likely cases:Bordwell, D. and Thompson, K. (2001), 6
th
edition,
Film Art
, New York: McGraw Hill.Evans, P.W. (2000), ‘Cheaper by the dozen:La gran familia, Francoism and Spanishfamily comedy’,
100 Years of EuropeanCinema. Entertainment or Ideology?
(eds D.Holmes and A. Smith), Manchester:Manchester University Press, pp.77–88.Anon. ‘Vanilla Sky’,
The Observer
, 27 January 2002, p.15.Labanyi, J. (1997) ‘Race, gender anddisavowal in Spanish cinema of the earlyFranco period: the missionary film and thefolkloric musical’,
Screen
, 38:3, pp.215–31.Villeneuve, J. (1977),
A aventura do cinema português
(trans. A. Saramago) Lisboa:Editorial Vega.Smith, P.J. (2003), ‘Only connect’,
Sight and Sound
, 12:7, 24–27.
Please note:
No author Christian name.‘Anon.’ for items which have no author.Year date of item in brackets.Commas, not full stops, between parts of areference.Absence of ‘in’ for a chapter within a book.Name of editor of edited book withinbrackets, after book title and preceded by ed.or eds (latter without full stop).Name of translator of a book withinbrackets after title and preceded by trans.Absence of ‘no.’ for journal number.Colon between journal volume and number.‘p.’ or ‘pp.’ before page extents.
Web References
These are no different from otherreferences; they must have an author, andthe author must be referenced Harvard-style within the text. Unlike paperreferences, however, web pages can change,so we need a date of access as well as thefull web reference. In the list of references atthe end of your article, the item should readsomething like this:Corliss, R. (1999), ‘Almodóvar’, TimeMagazine onlinehttp://www.time.com/time/magazine/intl/article/0917.html. Accessed 14 December2000.
Any matters concerning the format and presentation of articles not covered by the above notes should be addressed to the Editor.The guidance on this page is by no means comprehensive: it must be read in conjunction with Intellect Notes for Contributors.These notes can be referred to by contributors to any of Intellect’s journals, and so are, in turn, not sufficient; contributors will alsoneed to refer to the guidance such as this given for each specific journal. Intellect Notes for Contributors is obtainable fromwww.intellectbooks.com/journals, or on request from the Editor of this journal.
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