Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ)
For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ) currently seeks submissions that encompass the latest research in film and media studies. Submission categories include feature articles (6,000-7,000 words); mise-en-scène featurettes (1,000-1,500 words); reviews of films, DVDs, Blu-rays or conferences (1,500-2,500 words); M.A. or Ph.D. abstracts (250-300 words); interviews (4,000-5,000 words); undergraduate scholarship (2,000-2,500 words) or video essays (8-10 minute range). All submissions must include a selection of supporting images from the film(s) under analysis and be formatted according to MLA guidelines, 8th edition. Topic areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Cinematic aestheticism
- Film spectatorship
- Frame narratology
- Auteur theory
- Mise-en-scène across the disciplines
- Pedagogical approaches to film and media studies
- Film/video as a branch of digital humanities research
- Adaptation studies
- Genre studies
- Transmedia
- Fandom studies
- Seriality
- Documentary studies