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
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
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....
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.
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
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.
Share your experiences of teaching silent cinema and your ideas for how it could be taught in the future.
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
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...
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
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...
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
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 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
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
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...
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
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...
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...
And from our 2023 special issue on The Silent Film Era and Marginalised Spectatorships, Agata Frymus investigates Black moviegoing in the United States during the silent era.
‘White screens, Black fandom: silent film and African American spectatorship in Harlem’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
‘White screens, Black fandom: silent film and African American spectatorship in Harlem’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
February 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
And from our 2023 special issue on The Silent Film Era and Marginalised Spectatorships, Agata Frymus investigates Black moviegoing in the United States during the silent era.
‘White screens, Black fandom: silent film and African American spectatorship in Harlem’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
‘White screens, Black fandom: silent film and African American spectatorship in Harlem’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
From 2017, Sakina M. Hughes explores how African American and Native American performers navigated the world of the travelling circus in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
‘Walking the tightrope between racial stereotypes and respectability’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of NYPL
‘Walking the tightrope between racial stereotypes and respectability’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of NYPL
February 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
From 2017, Sakina M. Hughes explores how African American and Native American performers navigated the world of the travelling circus in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
‘Walking the tightrope between racial stereotypes and respectability’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of NYPL
‘Walking the tightrope between racial stereotypes and respectability’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of NYPL
From 2016, Matthew A. Feltman reviews Allyson Nadia Field’s book Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity (2015): doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of Duke University Press
Image courtesy of Duke University Press
February 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
From 2016, Matthew A. Feltman reviews Allyson Nadia Field’s book Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film and the Possibility of Black Modernity (2015): doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of Duke University Press
Image courtesy of Duke University Press
From 2007, Mandy Reid explores the competing uses of photography by 19th-century 'race science' and the abolitionist and activist Sojourner Truth
‘Selling Shadows and Substance: Photographing Race in the United States, 1850–1870s’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
‘Selling Shadows and Substance: Photographing Race in the United States, 1850–1870s’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
February 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
From 2007, Mandy Reid explores the competing uses of photography by 19th-century 'race science' and the abolitionist and activist Sojourner Truth
‘Selling Shadows and Substance: Photographing Race in the United States, 1850–1870s’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
‘Selling Shadows and Substance: Photographing Race in the United States, 1850–1870s’: doi.org/10.1080/1746...
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress
Book Reviews Editor for post-1900 material:
Dr Aurore Spiers, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University, USA.
Research Topics: Feminist film historiography, silent cinema, French and US women filmmakers
Dr Aurore Spiers, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University, USA.
Research Topics: Feminist film historiography, silent cinema, French and US women filmmakers
February 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Book Reviews Editor for post-1900 material:
Dr Aurore Spiers, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University, USA.
Research Topics: Feminist film historiography, silent cinema, French and US women filmmakers
Dr Aurore Spiers, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies in the College of Performance, Visualization & Fine Arts at Texas A&M University, USA.
Research Topics: Feminist film historiography, silent cinema, French and US women filmmakers
Book Reviews Editor for pre-1900 material:
Dr Francesca Arnavas, Research Fellow and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Tartu, Estonia
Research Topics: Cognitive narratology, Lewis Carroll, Victorian literature, fairy tales
Dr Francesca Arnavas, Research Fellow and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Tartu, Estonia
Research Topics: Cognitive narratology, Lewis Carroll, Victorian literature, fairy tales
February 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Book Reviews Editor for pre-1900 material:
Dr Francesca Arnavas, Research Fellow and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Tartu, Estonia
Research Topics: Cognitive narratology, Lewis Carroll, Victorian literature, fairy tales
Dr Francesca Arnavas, Research Fellow and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Tartu, Estonia
Research Topics: Cognitive narratology, Lewis Carroll, Victorian literature, fairy tales
Dr Nadi Tofighian, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the Department of Film and Literature, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Research Topics: Colonial history, early cinema, film distribution, documentary and ethnographic film, postcolonial theory, Southeast Asia
Research Topics: Colonial history, early cinema, film distribution, documentary and ethnographic film, postcolonial theory, Southeast Asia
February 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Dr Nadi Tofighian, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the Department of Film and Literature, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Research Topics: Colonial history, early cinema, film distribution, documentary and ethnographic film, postcolonial theory, Southeast Asia
Research Topics: Colonial history, early cinema, film distribution, documentary and ethnographic film, postcolonial theory, Southeast Asia
Dr Mario Slugan, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Research Topics: Early cinema in the colonies, understanding of fiction in early cinema
Research Topics: Early cinema in the colonies, understanding of fiction in early cinema
February 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Dr Mario Slugan, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Research Topics: Early cinema in the colonies, understanding of fiction in early cinema
Research Topics: Early cinema in the colonies, understanding of fiction in early cinema
Dr Chris O'Rourke, Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick, UK
Research Topics: Film history, silent cinema, queer and trans studies, British cinema
Research Topics: Film history, silent cinema, queer and trans studies, British cinema
February 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Dr Chris O'Rourke, Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick, UK
Research Topics: Film history, silent cinema, queer and trans studies, British cinema
Research Topics: Film history, silent cinema, queer and trans studies, British cinema
Submissions Editor:
Dr Agata Frymus, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University Malaysia
Research Topics: Film history, star studies, race and ethnicity, audiences
Dr Agata Frymus, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University Malaysia
Research Topics: Film history, star studies, race and ethnicity, audiences
February 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Submissions Editor:
Dr Agata Frymus, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University Malaysia
Research Topics: Film history, star studies, race and ethnicity, audiences
Dr Agata Frymus, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Monash University Malaysia
Research Topics: Film history, star studies, race and ethnicity, audiences