Film International

Film International is a quarterly academic journal (with a companion site, FilmInt,^[1] containing exclusive content) covering film studies. Established in 1973 (in Swedish),^[2] Film International became an English-language journal in 2003. It is published by Intellect Ltd.^[3] and presents critical, historical, and theoretical essays on film, television, and moving image studies,^[4] including book reviews, interviews, and coverage of film festivals around the world. It regularly features film reviews, interviews with directors, actors, and cinematographers, as well as covering national cinemas on a country-by-country basis. The content ranges throughout topics of the moving image, from art cinema, foreign films, genre works. and music videos, like Beyonce's Lemonade.^[5]

Film International

Discipline	Film studies
Language	English
Edited by	Daniel Lindvall, Matthew Sorrento
Publication details
History	1973-present
Publisher	Intellect Ltd.
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Film Int.
Indexing CODEN · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	1651-6826 (print) 2040-3801 (web)
OCLC no.	803316091
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

The editor-in-chief is Daniel Lindvall and the co-editor is Matthew Sorrento.^[6] The image editor is Travis R. Merchant-Knudsen. The contributing editors are Jessica Baxter, Jacob Mertens, Liza Palmer, Yun-hua Chen, Christopher Sharrett,^[7] Jeremy Carr, Robert K. Lightning, George Toles, Tony Williams,^[8][9] and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.^[10]

Andre Gregory has described the journal as "of enormous interest to anyone who is passionate about film," while Robert Pulcini has commented that FilmInt offers "a level of writing about film that is unfortunately all too rare these days."^[11] Works from the journal have been adapted in longer studies by top scholars and authors, including Toles,^[12] Carl Freedman,^[13] Carol Vernallis,^[14] and Murray Pomerance.^[15][16][17] David Hudson of The Criterion Collection regards the journal as a standout in book reviewing.^[18] Groundbreaking critic Robin Wood was a longtime contributor.^[19][20][21]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• MLA International Bibliography
• Current Abstracts
• FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives)
• Art & Architecture Complete
• Art Index
• Art Full Text
• British Humanities Index
• Scopus

References

1. "FilmInt.nu - Thinking Film Since 1973". FilmInt.nu. from the original on 2022-08-03. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
2. "Resources". Cineaste Magazine. from the original on 2021-10-08. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
3. "Film International - Journal of World Cinema". Intellect Books. from the original on 2022-05-13. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
4. University of California Irvine Libraries (June 1, 2022). "Film and Media Studies". guides.lib.uci.edu/film/journals. from the original on August 3, 2022. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
5. Baade, Christina; McGee, Kristin A. (2021-05-18). Beyoncé in the World: Making Meaning with Queen Bey in Troubled Times. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-7993-5. from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
6. "People – Department of English and Communication". english.camden.rutgers.edu. from the original on 2022-07-15. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
7. University, Seton Hall (2015-09-25). "Profile Christopher Sharrett". Seton Hall University. from the original on 2022-08-05. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
8. "Contact". FilmInt.nu. from the original on 2022-07-10. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
9. "Tony Williams | English | SIU". cola.siu.edu. from the original on 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
10. "Alexandra Heller-Nicholas". www.thebluelenses.com. from the original on 2020-07-28. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
11. "Film International - Journal of World Cinema". Intellect Books. from the original on 2022-05-13. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
12. Toles, George (2021-07-01). Curtains of Light: Theatrical Space in Film. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-8423-5. from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
13. Freedman, Carl Howard (2013). Versions of Hollywood Crime Cinema: Studies in Ford, Wilder, Coppola, Scorsese, and Others. Intellect. ISBN 978-1-84150-724-8. from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
14. Vernallis, Carol. "The Media Swirl: Politics, Audiovisuality, and Aesthetics". from the original on August 8, 2022. Retrieved August 7, 2022.
15. Armstrong, Stephen B. (2013). John Frankenheimer: Interviews, Essays, and Profiles. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-9056-5. from the original on 2022-08-07. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
16. Bradley, Peri (2016-01-26). Food, Media and Contemporary Culture: The Edible Image. Springer. ISBN 978-1-137-46323-4. from the original on 2022-08-07. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
17. Pomerance, Murray (2018-12-27). A Dream of Hitchcock. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-1-4384-7207-2. from the original on 2022-08-08. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
18. Hudson, David. "January Books". The Criterion Collection. from the original on 2022-07-14. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
19. Grant, Catherine (2009-12-19). "Film Studies For Free: Crossing the Wild River: R.I.P. Robin Wood (1931-2009)". Film Studies For Free. from the original on 2022-07-14. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
20. "In Memoriam: Robin Wood". FilmInt.nu. 2011-01-28. from the original on 2022-07-14. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
21. Svadjian, Armen (2011-08-10). ""A Life in Film Criticism: Robin Wood at 75", Your Flesh Magazine, 2006, reprinted in Friends of Robin Wood,10 August 2011". Friends of Robin Wood. from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-07-15.

External links

• Official website
• Companion site (exclusive content)