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Early Popular Visual Culture
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Early Popular Visual Culture (EPVC) is a peer-reviewed, academic journal dedicated to stimulating research and interdisciplinary studies in relation to all forms of popular visual culture before 1930.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/repv20
New issue alert: our special double issue on Early Cinema in the British Colonies is out today, guest edited by Mario Slugan and James Burns. You can read the editors' introduction for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
We're excited to share a call for contributions to an upcoming special issue of EPVC on "Teaching Silent Cinema Today", guest edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and @aurspiers.bsky.social.

Share your experiences of teaching silent cinema and your ideas for how it could be taught in the future.
May 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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New CFP!! Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture @epvcjournal.bsky.social about TEACHING SILENT CINEMA TODAY guest-edited by Carolyn Condon Jacobs and myself!! Please share!!
May 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New (Open Access) article alert: Stephen Putnam Hughes explores what we can learn about early cinema in colonial Bombay, beginning with a single archival photograph doi.org/10.1080/1746...
May 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The latest issue of EPVC is online, featuring new research into Victorian 3-D portraits, stereoscopy and perception, and tiger photography in colonial India www.tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/2...
March 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! ☘️

Photo of a woman selling drinks to tourists, Gap of Dunloe, Killarney, c. 1890-1914

From Gail Bayliss, ‘Exchanging looks: Gap girls and colleens in early Irish tourist photography’, volume 10, issue 4: doi.org/10.1080/1746...

Image: National Library of Ireland
March 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Happy International Women’s Day! #IWD2025

Image of LE BATEAU DE LÉONTINE (1911, Eye Filmmuseum) from Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak & Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi’s article ‘Gender and the Nasty Women of History’ (2022), part of our special double issue on The Gender of Early Cinema: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
March 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
As this year’s Black History Month in the USA & Canada comes to a close, we wanted to highlight some of the research into Black visual culture, race and representation published in EPVC... 🧵
February 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The second part of our special issue on the British Silent Film Festival & Symposium is now online, including open access articles on William Friese-Greene, silent film music and Maurice Elvey www.tandfonline.com/toc/repv20/2...
Early Popular Visual Culture
The British Silent Film Festival and symposium: Part Two. Guest Editor: Chris O’Rourke. Volume 22, Issue 3 of Early Popular Visual Culture
www.tandfonline.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Meet the Editorial Team
February 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM