''Film International'' is a quarterly
academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and ...
(with a companion site, FilmInt, containing exclusive content) covering
film studies
Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various theoretical, historical, and critical approaches to cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media studies and is often compared to television studies.
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. Established in 1973 (in Swedish), ''Film International'' became an English-language journal in 2003. It is published by Intellect Ltd. and presents critical, historical, and theoretical essays on film, television, and moving image studies, including
book review
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A book review is a form of literary criticism in which a book is merely described (summary review) or analyzed based on content, style, and merit.
A book review may be a primary source, opinion piece, summary review or scholarly revie ...
s, interviews, and coverage of
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upo ...
s 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
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There are varieties of lemonade found throughout the world. In North America and South Asia, cloudy still lemonade is the most common variety. There it is traditionally a homemade drink using ...
.
The
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
is Daniel Lindvall and the
co-editor
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is Matthew Sorrento. The image editor is Travis R. Merchant-Knudsen. The contributing editors are Jessica Baxter, Jacob Mertens, Liza Palmer, Yun-hua Chen, Christopher Sharrett, Jeremy Carr, Robert K. Lightning
George Toles Tony Williams, and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas.
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." Works from the journal have been adapted in longer studies by top scholars and authors, including Toles,
Carl Freedman
Carl Freedman (born 1965) is the founder of Carl Freedman Gallery (formerly Counter Gallery). He previously worked as a writer and a curator.
Life and career
The 1990s and the Young British Artists
Saatchi arrived at ''Gambler'' in a green Be ...
Carol Vernallis and
Murray Pomerance. David Hudson of
The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video, home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films." Criterion serves film and media scho ...
regards the journal as a standout in book reviewing. Groundbreaking critic
Robin Wood was a longtime contributor.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
References
External links
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Companion site(exclusive content)
Film studies journals
Television studies journals
Bimonthly journals
Publications established in 2003
English-language journals
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