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Aims and Scope
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media is an open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to exploring aspects of film and screen media history, theory and criticism. We welcome research grounded in diverse methodologies and perspectives, and we encourage work that examines the intersections between cinema and emerging media forms. Through the publication of research articles, video essays, podcasts and book reviews, Alphaville seeks to contribute substantively to international discourse in film and screen studies and cognate fields.
The journal’s distinctive format centres on the publication of thematic issues. Each issue is conceived as a coherent, monographic collection of original research that constitutes a specialised intervention in its area of inquiry. We collaborate with guest editors who aim to shape the discipline by advancing the scholarly literature, opening new avenues of debate and re-evaluating established paradigms. We invite contributions that demonstrate methodological rigour and sustained engagement with current theoretical and critical developments.
Alphaville only accepts submissions in response to specific calls for papers that are advertised via the journal website and subject lists. It also accepts guest-edited issue and dossier proposals from potential guest editors. All open calls are available from the journal’s submissions page.
Alphaville is published twice a year in the Department of Film and Screen Media, University College Cork, Ireland. It is a diamond open-access journal and it charges no fees to either authors or readers.
In 2024, Alphaville was awarded Best Peer Reviewed Open Access Journal in the Irish Open Access Publishers (IOAP)’s Inaugural Diamond Open Access Publishing Awards.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions for non-commercial use. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s).We ask that in any re-publication Alphaville Journal must be acknowledged with citation as the first site of publication and must be accompanied by a link to the Alphaville journal version with the article DOI.
Authors who publish on this journal maintain the copyrights. There are no charges for authors to publish articles in this journal.Please note, the journal previously released its articles (Issue 1-21) under the terms of CC BY-NC-ND, which in addition to the current license requires that any modifications made to these articles are not distributed.
Archiving Policy
This journal is archived in CORA, the Cork Open Research Archive, UCC Library, University College Cork.
To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal also utilises CLOCKSS and Internet Archive archiving systems to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media is indexed by the following services: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), CrossRef, International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), MLA International Bibliography, ERIH PLUS, SHERPA RoMEO and Google Scholar.
When archiving publications Alphaville must be acknowledged with citation as the first site of publication and must be accompanied by a link to the Alphaville journal version with the article DOI.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief: Laura Rascaroli (University College Cork)
Web and Open-Access Editor: Barry Reilly (University College Cork)
Book Reviews Editor: Jill Murphy (University College Cork)
Podcast Editor: Michael Holly (Queen’s University Belfast)
Digital Communications Officer: Gwenda Young (University College Cork)
Consultative Board:
Stefano Baschiera (Queen’s University Belfast)
Ciara Chambers (UCC)
Yuanyuan Chen (Ulster University)
Loretta Goff (UCC)
Abigail Keating (UCC)
James Mulvey (UCC)
Dan O’Connell (UCC)
Stefano Odorico (Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland)
Nicholas O’Riordan (UCC)
Aidan Power (University of Exeter)
Humberto Saldanha (Queen’s University Belfast)
Founding Members:
Marian Hurley, Abigail Keating, Deborah Mellamphy, Jill Moriarty, Jill Murphy, Stefano Odorico, Aidan Power, Laura Rascaroli, Gwenda Young
International Advisory Board
Dudley Andrew (Yale University)
Stella Bruzzi (University College London)
Francesco Casetti (Yale University)
Maeve Connolly (Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology)
Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent)
Angela Dalle Vacche (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Derek Duncan (University of St Andrews)
Catherine Fowler (University of Otago)
Mattias Frey (City, University of London)
Kathrina Glitre (University of the West of England, Bristol)
Catherine Grant ((University of Reading)
Liz Greene (Northumbria University)
Mette Hjort (University of Lincoln)
Conn Holohan (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex)
Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire)
Laura McMahon (University of Cambridge)
Toby Miller (University of California Riverside)
Barry Monahan (University College Cork)
Douglas Morrey (University of Warwick)
Diane Negra (University College Dublin)
Dana Polan (Tisch School of the Arts, New York University)
Phil Powrie (University of Surrey)
Maria Pramaggiore (Maynooth University)
Stephanie Rains (Maynooth University)
John David Rhodes (University of Cambridge)
Saige Walton (University of South Australia)
Michael Witt (Roehampton University)
