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Comparative Cinema Biannual journal that approaches cinema through a comparative methodology. Published by Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/index [ENG] Comparative Cinema ISSN 2604-9821 (formerly Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema, ISSN 2014-8933) is a biannual publication. Published by the Center for Aesthetic Research on Audiovisual Media (CINEMA) of Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), the journal specializes in the study of comparative cinema and the ways in which cinema is received and interpreted i

n different social and political contexts. The publication aims to cover an original area of research, developing and establishing a series of methodologies for comparative studies in film. To that end, it also explores the relation between film and the traditions of comparative literature, and with other contemporary arts such as painting, photography, music, dance and audio-visual media. Comparative Cinema is published in English (including original versions of the texts in multiple languages), with issues that come out twice per year.

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[CAST] Comparative Cinema ISSN 2604-9821 (antes Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema, ISSN 2014-8933) es una publicación semestral. Editada por el Colectivo de Investigación Estética de los Medios Audiovisuales (CINEMA) de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF), la revista está especializada en el estudio del cinema comparado y la recepción y la interpretación cinematográfica en los diferentes contextos sociales y políticos. La publicación se propone cubrir un área original de investigación, desarrollando y estableciendo una serie de metodologías de estudio comparativo del cine. Con este fin, también se explora la relación entre el cine y las tradiciones de la literatura comparada, o con otros artes contemporáneos como la pintura, la fotografía, la música y la danza, y los medios de comunicación audiovisual. Comparative Cinema se edita inglés (incluyendo versiones originales de los textos en otras lenguas) y sus números se publican de forma bianual.

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[CAT] Comparative Cinema ISSN 2604-9821 (abans Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema, ISSN 2014-8933) és una publicació semestral. Editada pel Col·lectiu d’Investigació Estètica dels Mitjans Audiovisuals (CINEMA) de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), la revista està especialitzada en l’estudi del cinema comparat i la recepció i la interpretació cinematogràfica en els diferents contextos socials i polítics. La publicació es proposa cobrir una àrea original de recerca, desenvolupant i establint una sèrie de metodologies d’estudi comparatiu del cinema. Amb aquest fi, també s’explora la relació entre el cinema i les tradicions de la literatura comparada, o amb altres arts contemporanis com la pintura, la fotografia, la música i la dansa i els mitjans de comunicació audiovisual. Comparative Cinema s'edita en anglès (incloent versions originals dels textos en altres llengües) i els seus números es publiquen de forma bianual.

NEW CALL FOR PAPERS"Echoes and Reverberations: Reflections on Film Trilogies"Comparative Cinema invites contributors to ...
04/11/2024

NEW CALL FOR PAPERS
"Echoes and Reverberations: Reflections on Film Trilogies"

Comparative Cinema invites contributors to explore the multifaceted nature of trilogies, whether by reflecting on the link between trilogy and authorship, by examining the interpretations that emerge from the specific study cases and how they are linked to an authorial figure, or by considering the implications of the trilogical structure itself, whether from a “commercial” or “authorial” perspective.

We accept submissions in English, Catalan and Spanish. The articles, which should be comparative in methodology, may include, but are not limited to:

- Explorations of trilogies as an industrial, textual, and critical concept
- Encounters and disagreements between the “commercial” and the “authorial” trilogy
- Narrative structures and/or thematic, tonal, and visual reverberations in specific case studies
- The structuring of an entire authorial work under the concept of a trilogy
- The trilogy as a rereading of an authorial style (“critical” trilogy)
- The trilogical organization as an autobiographical, autofictional or character-building tool
- The trilogy as world-building

More information here:
https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/209

"In the specific field of documentary filmmaking and the essay film, it is crucial to promote discussions around orality...
17/10/2024

"In the specific field of documentary filmmaking and the essay film, it is crucial to promote discussions around orality and its relationship both with reality and with the image [...]. Non-fiction cinema provides a suitable framework to integrate these configurations of form and sense and to explore their potential—whether communicative, enunciative, informative, emotional, aesthetic, experimental, poetic, political or identity-based—through different approaches [...]. It is mandatory to subvert the traditional subordination of sound to image and move towards these oral and vocal dimensions of film.", states our guest editor Paola Lagos Labbé in the latest issue of Comparative Cinema.

"The Body of the Voice: Orality as Sound and Performative Expression in Non-Fiction Film" is out now, with articles by Laura Rascaroli, Mathias Lavin, Ariadna Moreno, Guillermo G. Peydró, Catalina Donoso, Javier Osorio, Juan Antonio Cerezuela and Adrián Sánchez, as well as texts by Érik Bullot and Marta Andreu, and reviews by Claire Demoulin and Arnau Horta.

More here:
https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/issue/view/32424

➡️ CURRENT ISSUE ⬅️ "Cinematic Pathologies: Representations and Depictions of the Diseased Body", guest edited by Alan S...
25/07/2024

➡️ CURRENT ISSUE ⬅️
"Cinematic Pathologies: Representations and Depictions of the Diseased Body", guest edited by Alan Salvadó-Romero, Angel Quintana and Daniel Pérez-Pamies.

"The overview offered in this monographic issue reactivates the contagious relationship that has always existed between cinema and illness, reinforcing the idea that the presentation of the frailty of the human body can teach the spectator to adopt a respectful and humane view of the Other."

With articles on works by Barbara Hammer, Lois Weber, Jacques Nolot & more.

More here: https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/issue/view/32388

📢 NEW CFP 📢(Open for contributions in English, Catalan and Spanish)Guest Editors: Catarina Laranjeiro and Inês Sapeta Di...
03/04/2024

📢 NEW CFP 📢
(Open for contributions in English, Catalan and Spanish)

Guest Editors: Catarina Laranjeiro and Inês Sapeta Dias
(Institute for Contemporary History, NOVA/FCSH)

Aware that home movies are a vast and unstable category in the history and theory of cinema, this call aims to receive contributions to the integration of home movies into the film studies field and discourse. While often studied from the standpoint of memory, in this issue of Comparative Cinema we encourage contributions on home movies’ representational traits and the relations that sustain what is filmed and how it is hierarchized, acknowledging private moving images as a privileged and valuable resource to research on how the domestic (usually invisible to the public eye) is represented.

More info: https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/201

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📢 NUEVO CFP 📢
(Abierto a contribuciones en español, catalán e inglés)

Editoras invitadas: Catarina Laranjeiro e Inês Sapeta Dias
(Instituto de História Contemporânea, NOVA/FCSH)

Conscientes de que las películas domésticas son una categoría vasta e inestable en la historia y la teoría del cine, esta llamada busca textos que contribuyan a la integración de las películas domésticas en el campo y el discurso de los estudios fílmicos. Aunque con frecuencia las películas domésticas se estudian desde el punto de vista de la memoria, en este número de Comparative Cinema buscamos reflexiones sobre sus formas de representación y sobre las relaciones que determinan qué se filma y cómo se jerarquiza, considerando al cine privado como una fuente privilegiada y valiosa para la investigación sobre cómo se representa lo doméstico, generalmente invisible al ojo público.

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📢 NOU CFP 📢
(Obert a contribucions en català, castellà i anglès)

Editores convidades: Catarina Laranjeiro i Inês Sapeta Dias
(Instituto de História Contemporânea, NOVA/FCSH)

Conscients que les pel·lícules domèstiques són una categoria vasta i inestable en la història i la teoria del cinema, busquem textos que contribueixin a la integració de les pel·lícules domèstiques dins del camp i el discurs dels estudis fílmics. Tot i que amb freqüència les pel·lícules domèstiques s'estudien des del punt de vista de la memòria, en aquest número de Comparative Cinema busquem reflexions sobre les seves formes de representació i sobre les relacions que determinen què es filma i com es jerarquitza, considerant al cinema privat com una font privilegiada i valuosa per a la recerca sobre com es representa el domèstic, generalment invisible a l'ull públic.

📢 CFP Open! 📢Our   for the issue "The body of the voice. Orality as sound and performative expression in non-fiction fil...
27/12/2023

📢 CFP Open! 📢

Our for the issue "The body of the voice. Orality as sound and performative expression in non-fiction film" is open for submissions! Texts can be published in either English, Spanish, or Catalan.

More info: https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/193

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📢 ¡CFP Abierto! 📢

¡Nuestro Call For Papers para el número "El cuerpo de la voz. Oralidad como sonido y expresión performática en el cine de no ficción" está abierto para recibir envíos! Los textos pueden ser publicados en inglés, castellano o catalán, indistintamente.

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📢 CFP Obert! 📢

El nostre Call For Papers per al número "El cos de la veu. Oralitat com a so i expressió performàtica al cinema de no ficció" està obert per a rebre enviaments! Els textos poden ser publicats en anglès, castellà o català, indistintament.

📢  NEW ISSUE 📢"Cinema's Natures: Comparative Approaches to Ecocinema" is out now! Its six essays offer different views o...
04/12/2023

📢 NEW ISSUE 📢
"Cinema's Natures: Comparative Approaches to Ecocinema" is out now! Its six essays offer different views on and how comparative perspectives can broaden our understanding of the term

https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/issue/view/31835

"Approached from various comparative perspectives, here ecocinema situates film genres and styles side-by-side, and positions film itself in relation to science, to resource extraction, and to what we call the natural world", editor Stefan Solomon writes in his editorial

📢 NEW CALL FOR PAPERS 📢 Our latest   invites contributors interested in the role of voice and sound in non-fiction films...
25/10/2023

📢 NEW CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

Our latest invites contributors interested in the role of voice and sound in non-fiction films, either regarding it as a self-reflective voice-over or through the very materiality or physicality of the oral—a way to sonically inscribe the speaker’s body into the image—.

Learn more here:
https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/193

Remember our miscellaneous "Rear Window" section is always open for contributions! The articles don't need to have a the...
23/10/2023

Remember our miscellaneous "Rear Window" section is always open for contributions! The articles don't need to have a thematic connection to our monographic , and you can submit all year round

More info here:
https://buff.ly/3tw2VIe

📢 FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE 📢 In his article "Actual Time: Duration, Creation and Disfiguration", Victor Santos López propos...
16/10/2023

📢 FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE 📢
In his article "Actual Time: Duration, Creation and Disfiguration", Victor Santos López proposes definitions of sense time and actual time as dimensions that affect our perception of the filmic image.

Read more here:
https://buff.ly/3RVEZrZ

UPDATE ‼️ We have extended our deadline until September 1st!Follow along for more info on our   "Cinematographic Patholo...
17/07/2023

UPDATE ‼️ We have extended our deadline until September 1st!

Follow along for more info on our "Cinematographic Pathologies": https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/181

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

Don't forget to send us your contribution to the special issue "Cinematographic Pathologies: Representations and Figurations of the Sick Body". Deadline September 1st!

Lines of research may include (though are not limited to) the following: the iconography of the sick body in cinema, the historiography of the sick body in cinema, the portrayal of the pandemic in cinema, the performativity of the sick body, the biopolitical figurations of the sick body, and the invisibilities of the sick female body.

More information here:
https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/181

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢Don't forget to send us your contribution to the special issue "Cinematographic Pathologies: Represen...
15/06/2023

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS 📢

Don't forget to send us your contribution to the special issue "Cinematographic Pathologies: Representations and Figurations of the Sick Body". Deadline September 1st!

Lines of research may include (though are not limited to) the following: the iconography of the sick body in cinema, the historiography of the sick body in cinema, the portrayal of the pandemic in cinema, the performativity of the sick body, the biopolitical figurations of the sick body, and the invisibilities of the sick female body.

More information here:
https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/181

"What interests me the most is the life of images. This means thinking that images have a metabolism which we might cons...
05/06/2023

"What interests me the most is the life of images. This means thinking that images have a metabolism which we might consider almost biological—with its own vital evolution. Images are born, they change, they grow up... but at the end they wither and die. I aim to highlight those cycles so we can understand the ways in which photography is part of a system of biological existence" - Joan Fontcuberta

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE: https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/412086/507748

➡️ NEW ISSUE ⬅️Our latest issue is out now! "Share Screen: Multiple Projection, Double Exposure and Superimposition", wi...
12/04/2023

➡️ NEW ISSUE ⬅️
Our latest issue is out now! "Share Screen: Multiple Projection, Double Exposure and Superimposition", with articles by Álex Mendíbil, Stefan Solomon and Víctor Santos López, as well as an interview with by Albert Elduque.

More here: https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/issue/view/31433

➡️ NEW CALL FOR PAPERS ⬅️For Issue 21, 'Cinematographic Pathologies: Representations and Figurations of the Sick Body,' ...
27/03/2023

➡️ NEW CALL FOR PAPERS ⬅️

For Issue 21, 'Cinematographic Pathologies: Representations and Figurations of the Sick Body,' we invite contributors to delve into the iconographies of the sick body, the portrayal of the pandemic in film, the biopolitical figurations of the sick body, the invisibilities of the sick female body and many other topics.

More information here: https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement/view/181

➡️ FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE ⬅️By comparing three case studies—Armin Linke’s Alpi (2011), Philip Scheffner’s Havarie (2016),...
21/10/2022

➡️ FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE ⬅️

By comparing three case studies—Armin Linke’s Alpi (2011), Philip Scheffner’s Havarie (2016), and Tadhg O’Sullivan’s The Great Wall (2015)—Laura Rascaroli interrogates the strategies that essay films employ to operationalize borders. The article is a first attempt at a semiotic classification of film-essayistic border images, and a contribution to the understanding of essay film as limitrophic audiovisual thinking.

More here: https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/394436

➡️ NEW CALL FOR PAPERS ⬅️For Issue 20, 'Cinema's Natures,' we invite contributors to consider the vast possibilities of ...
04/08/2022

➡️ NEW CALL FOR PAPERS ⬅️

For Issue 20, 'Cinema's Natures,' we invite contributors to consider the vast possibilities of ecocinema: cinema's depiction of the elements, its use of natural resources, its more-than-human perspectives.

Full call here: https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/announcement

→ NEW ISSUE ← You can now read "The Audiovisual Thinking Process in Contemporary Essay Films", guest edited by Lourdes M...
25/07/2022

→ NEW ISSUE ←
You can now read "The Audiovisual Thinking Process in Contemporary Essay Films", guest edited by Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez, as part of the EDEF project. Articles by Josep Maria Català Domènech, Laura Rascaroli, George Kouvaros, Lourdes Monterrubio Ibáñez, and an interview with Bertrand Bacqué.

See the issue here: https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/issue/view/30599

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