''Film International'' is a quarterly

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(with a companion site, FilmInt, containing exclusive content) covering

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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

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s, interviews, and coverage of

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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

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. The

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is Daniel Lindvall and the

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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,

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Carol Vernallis
and Murray Pomerance. David Hudson of

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regards the journal as a standout in book reviewing. Groundbreaking critic Robin Wood was a longtime contributor.

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