Peripheries of cinema – cinema on the peripheries

The editorial team of Studia Filmoznawcze [Film Studies] has the pleasure of inviting you to contribute to the new issue of our periodical, which will be devoted to broadly defined categories of periphery and peripherality. In this volume we would like to bring together articles that respond to the call, which has been recuring in the historical film discourse for several decades, to go beyond the central, the canonical and the mainstream. Thus we are interested in niche cinema, cinema that has been forgotten, unappreciated, unwatched, cinema made on the peripheries and semi-peripheries. Since studies on peripherality do not have to be limited solely to textual analyses of films, we are looking forward to receiving contributions also from researchers studying broadly defined film culture: the questions of production and distribution as well as reception.

The category of peripherality seems useful insofar as it can be understood with regard to various aspects: geographical, social, economic, institutional, aesthetic or cultural. Thus it makes it possible to explore a variety of issues and problems – we therefore invite scholars who research the following topics to contribute to the volume:

• cinematography and semi-peripheral countries – history and the present;
• colonial and neo-colonial film practices;
• cinematographic attempts to escape peripherality;
• people’s history of cinema;
• cinema vis-à-vis the problems of exclusion, discrimination and poverty;
• poetics and styles alternative to mainstream cinema;
• local mutations of global trends, movements and genres;
• films from outside the canon and alternative histories of cinema;
• minorities and cinema – creation and reception practices;
• amateur and semi-amateur film initiatives;
• research into the reception of films on the peripheries;
• film culture in the provinces – travelling cinemas, rural and small-town cinemas, film clubs and other cinematographic institutions;
• the problem of co-production and global film market.

The above list contains, obviously, only suggestions, which can be an inspiration and starting point for specific analyses.

We are waiting for your submissions – in Polish or English – until 31 July 2023.

You are also welcome to send in your contributions to the Varia section, which will feature articles not relating to the main theme of the issue, as well as reviews and analyses of the latest publications.

Please send your articles to the following e-mail addresses of the issue editors:

Dr Robert Dudziński (robert.dudzinski2@uwr.edu.pl)

Dr Dawid Głownia (dawid.glownia@uwr.edu.pl).

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