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Comparative Cinema
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We are an academic journal that approaches film from a comparative perspective. Edited by Pompeu Fabra University. https://raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/index
📢 NEW CFP 📢

The next issue of Comparative Cinema invites contributors to reflect on hapticity (or "haptic visuality") in film and television from different perspectives (the affective turn, cinematography, queer studies, and more).

Deadline: January 30, 2026

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September 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
➡️ FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE ⬅️

"The Wanderlust of Wim Wenders: The Tracking Shot in the Road Trilogy", by Emre Caglayan, explores how the trilogy "visually articulates the experiential act of wandering by specifically focusing on the aesthetics of camera placement and movement"

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September 3, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, Eli Lotar, Mark Lewis y más son analizadxs en una selección de textos de Christa Blümlinger, ahora traducidos al castellano.

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August 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
‼️ NEW ISSUE ‼️

"Echoes and Reverberations: Reflections on Film Trilogies", w/articles on: Ermanno Olmi, Wim Wenders, the Fear Street Trilogy, Eric Pauwels, Terence Davies & Lucrecia Martel. The issue includes a dossier w/Spanish translations of texts by Christa Blümlinger

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August 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
➡️ DE NUESTRO NÚMERO MÁS RECIENTE ⬅️

"Imágenes que migran. El modo doméstico como dispositivo fronterizo en las familias transnacionales y sus migraciones y mutaciones en la contemporaneidad", de Pau Tronch i Valls.

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June 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE

"Women and Super-8 Cameras: Public and Private Dimensions in Norma Bengell’s Footage", by Thais Blank and Patricia Machado.

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June 2, 2025 at 12:02 PM
‼️ #CALLFORPAPERS ‼️
El Nº 25 de Comparative Cinema invita a abordar el concepto del "monstruoso-femenino" de #BarbaraCreed desde el cine español. La fecha límite de envío es el 30 de mayo. Contáctanos con tu propuesta comparativecinema@upf.edu

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May 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"Home, Fragmented: Proposing a Speculative, Affective Inhabiting of the Home Movie Through a Video Essay Practice", by Ines Pedrosa e Melo

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April 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Los fondos de películas familiares en Filmoteca Española", una entrevista de Álex Mendíbil con Marta Martínez Barrera y José Manuel Martín del Centro de Conservación y Restauración (CCR) de @filmotecaes.bsky.social

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(Imagen cortesía de Filmoteca Española)
March 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
ℹ️ Have you read our latest issue yet? ℹ️ "How to Inhabit a Ruined Map? Critical Methodologies to Approach Image Production in the Domestic Realm" explores home movies, their archives and their potentiality to offer unconventional gazes.

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March 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
‼️ NUEVO #CALLFORPAPERS ‼️
El Nº 25 de Comparative Cinema invita a abordar el concepto del "monstruoso-femenino" de #BarbaraCreed al devenir histórico del cine español.

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February 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
El nostre #CFP "Ecos i reverberacions: reflexions sobre trilogies fílmiques" encara està obert per enviaments! Acceptem textos en català, castellà i anglès!

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#estudisfilmics #openaccess
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
¡Nuestro #CFP "Ecos y reverberaciones: reflexiones sobre trilogías fílmicas" sigue abierto a envíos! Aceptamos textos en castellano, inglés y catalán

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#estudiosfilmicos #openaccess
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Our #CFP "Echoes and reverberations: reflections on film trilogies" is still open for submissions! We accept texts in English, Spanish and Catalan!

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#filmstudies #openaccess
January 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
"Variations in Minor Mode: The Question of Accent in Chantal Akerman’s Cinema", by Mathias Lavin: "identifying and questioning the expression of a particular accent is a reminder of the extent to which it testifies to an irreducible bodily presence in the voice".

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January 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
➡️ FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE ⬅️

"Can different modes of existence for a film be distinguished? Can a conversation produce a film?", asks Érik Bullot, as he studies "the performative forms of cinema through the format of conference and conversation"

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December 17, 2024 at 6:15 PM
📣 FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE 📣
With "Voicing the Border: On Some Spectral Essay Films",
@larascaroli.bsky.social proposes "an acoustemology of spectral border essay films"

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November 21, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Our #CFP "Echoes and reverberations: reflections on film trilogies" is open! We invite contributors to explore the multifaceted nature of trilogies: trilogies & authorship, specific study cases & the implications of the trilogical structure itself

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#FilmStudies #OpenAccess
November 15, 2024 at 10:14 AM