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Submissions
Alphaville accepts articles for consideration through a system of call for papers for themed issues. Calls are advertised on this website and via subject lists. Currently, Alphaville does not accept unsolicited article manuscripts. Check this site for updates on open calls.
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Issues and Dossier Proposals
Alphaville publishes guest-edited themed issues comprising min. 5 – max. 10 full-length, peer-reviewed, original articles (5,500–7,000 words) and/or video essays. It also occasionally publishes dossiers, i.e., focused collections of shorter papers, interviews, reports, or case studies dedicated to a specific topic.
If you wish to develop an issue or dossier proposal, please contact the Editor-in-Chief / Editorial Board at: alphavillejournal@gmail.com
Before doing so, please consult our guidelines and past issues of Alphaville to familiarise yourself with our publication practices and with the format and range of our themed issues and dossiers.
While we collaborate with guest editors to plan publication timelines, the journal follows a rolling production schedule, with issues typically scheduled one or more years in advance. As a result, completed issues/dossiers may not be published immediately, and publication dates are subject to change due to production constraints, delays, or other unforeseen factors.
Calls for Papers
Ethics and Spectatorship in Film and Screen Media – International Conference to take place on 29–30 November 2025 at University College Cork. CFP deadline: 31 July 2025. To submit, follow the instructions in the Call for Papers. Selected papers from the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of Alphaville.
Flying Through the Capitalocene: Hollywood, Aviation and Climate Breakdown – special issue of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media. Guest editor: Dr Aidan Power (Exeter) CFP deadline: 24 September 2025. To submit an abstract, follow the instructions in the Call for Papers.
Books for Review
Publishers and authors may contact us at reviews.alphaville@gmail.com and send us books for review at the following address:
Alphaville Reviews Editor
Department of Film and Screen Media
O’Rahilly Building 1.83
University College Cork
College Road
Cork, T12 YN60
IrelandIf you are interested in reviewing one of the titles below contact us at: reviews.alphaville@gmail.com
Please note that only high-quality reviews that scrupulously observe Alphaville Guidelines and House Style, and display rigorous scholarly engagement with the title being reviewed, will be considered for publication. Please consult the journal Guidelines and House Style for further guidance.
Andrews, Hannah. TV and Caricature, Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Azcona, María del Mar, Julia Echeverría, and Pablo Gómez-Muñoz, Cosmopolitan Aspirations in Contemporary Cinema, Routledge, 2025.
Bao, Hongwei and Daniel H. Mutibwa, eds., Entanglements and Ambivalences: Africa and China Encounters in Media and Culture, Routledge, 2025.
Banks, Miranda and Kate Fortmueller, Boom to Bust: How Streaming Broke Hollywood Workers. University of California Press, April 2026.
Beckstead, Lori and Dario Linares, Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2025.
Bloom, Peter and Dominique Jullien, Screens and Illusionism: Alternative Teleologies of Mediation. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Bobaš, Krešimir, The Political Thriller in Contemporary American Cinema. Hollywood, D.C., Routledge, 2025.
Boyd, David John, Refocus The Films of Ernest Lubitsch. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Brassington, Thomas, Debra Ferreday, and Dany Girard, New Queer Television: From Marginalization to Mainstreamification. Intellect, 2025.
Brown, Noel, ed. Radical Children’s Film and Television, Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Brown, William and David H. Fleming, eds., Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream: Posthumanism and Racial Capital in Contemporary Streaming Media. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Brummitt, Cassie, From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World: The Transfiguration of a Franchise. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Caillard, Duncan, Apichatpong Weerasethaku: Contemplation and Resistance. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Carpentier, Nico and Jeffrey Wimmer, Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach. Taylor Francis, 2025.
Cerecina, Ivan, Assembly Lines: Montage in Postwar French Film. University of Minnesota Press, 2026.
Coleman, Emily, The People We Watch: Documentary Contributors and What Their Experiences Tell Us About the Cultural Industries. Routledge, 2025.
Dufournaud, Daniel, ed., ReFocus: The Films of John Singleton. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Duncan, Pansy, The Natural History of Film Form. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Farred, Grant, The Prettiest Woman: Nostalgia for Late Industrial Capitalism. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Field, Alysson Nadia, Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History. University of California Press, 2026.
Freibert, Farrah, Nothing Censored, Nothing Gained: Obscenity Law and Histories of Queer Distribution and Exhibition. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn and Frank Thompson, The First Movie Studio in Texas: Gaston Méliès's Star Film Ranch. University of Texas Press, 2026.
Fusco, Katherine, Hollywood’s Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System. University of Columbia Press, 2025.
Gallagher, Mark, Cosmosexuals: Screen Acting, Stardom, and Male Sex Appeal. University of Texas Press, 2025.
Gaudin, Antoine, and David Roche, eds., Sound and Space in Film: Craft, Aesthetics, Theory. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Gorfinkel, Elena and John David Rhodes, The Prop. Fordham Press, 2025.
Hawley, Steve, Men, War and Film: The Calling Blighty Films of World War II. Intellect, 2025.
Horak, Laura, Trans Cinema: Making Communities, Identities, and Worlds. University of Texas Press, 2026.
Irwin, Mary, Love Wars: Television Romantic Comedy. Bloomsbury, 2025.
Jafri, Beenash, Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Jenner, Mareike, Action TV Reboots and Visibility Politics: Recycling Middlebrow Culture. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Jones, Steve, The Postmodern Slasher Film. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Karaminas, Vicki, and Judith Beyer, eds., Lesbian Styles in Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Kitchen, Will. ed., ReFocus: The Films of Lindsay Anderson. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Kotsko, Adam., Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Lameris, Bregt, Feeling Colour: Chromatic Embodiment in Film Culture, 1950s–1960s. Open Book Publishing, 2025.
Liberman Cuenca, Esther, M. Christina Bruno and Anthony Perron, eds., Law, Justice, and Society in the Medieval World: An Introduction through Film. Fordham University Press, 2025.
Macintosh, Paige, Debating Authenticity: Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
McBride, Joseph, George Cukor’s People: Acting for a Master Director. Columbia University Press, 2025.
Miller, James, The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar: A Self-Portrait in Seven Films. Columbia University Press, 2025.
Moore, Michelle E., and Brian Brems, eds., ReFocus: The Films of John Waters. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Nadel, Alan, Mission Unaccomplished: American War Films in the Twenty-First Century. University of Texas Press, 2025.
O’Dwyer, Jules, Hotels. Fordham University Press, 2025.
O’Dwyer, Jules. The Seduction of Space: Cruising French Cinema, University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Pearlman, Karen, Shirley Clarke: Thinking through Movement. Edinburgh University, 2025.
Pheasant-Kelly, and Christa Van Raalte, eds., Action Heroines in the 21st Century: Sisters in Arms. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Piotrowska, Agnieszka, The Ethics of Documentary Film. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Roger, Johnny, The Housing Film. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Rubenstein, Michael, Pipeline Noir: Seeing Oil through Chinatown. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Selimović, Inela, The Cinema of Paula Markovitch: Contested Marginality. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Seros, Alexandra, Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair, University of Texas Press, 2025.
Shail, Robert, and Sheldon Hall, eds., Film Critics and British Film Culture: New Shots in the Dark. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Sperb, Jason, The Stranger from Omaha: Travel Narratives in the Cinema of Alexander Payne. University of Texas Press, 2025.
Tan, Katrina Ross A., Regional Cinema in the Philippines: The Archipelagic Imagination. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Thompson, Matthew, I., On Life Support: Eco-Dystopian Cinema in the Long 1970s. University of Minnesota Press, 2026.
Tocco, Fabricio, Precarious Secrets. A History of the Latin American Political Thriller. University of Texas Press, 2025.
Ulfsdotter, Boel, Nahid Persson Sarvestani: Towards A Liquid Authorship. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Vaughan, Adam, Doing Documentary, Becoming Subjects: Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Nonfiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Wai Sim Lau, Dorothy, East Asian Auteurism, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era: Film Authorship Rethought. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Wynne-Walsh, Rebecca, New Basque Gothic, Trauma, Screen Media and Transnationalism. Manchester University Press, 2025.
Xu, Jian, Glen Donnar, and Divya Garg, Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age. Hong Kong University Press, 2025.
Zappe, Florian, ed., Refocus: The Films of Abel Ferrara. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Zucconi, Francesco, Border Mediascapes: Cinematic Itineraries at the Edge of Europe. University of Minnesota Press, 2026.
