Focus and Scope
Film-Philosophy is an international, fully open access and peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the engagement between film studies and philosophy.
All articles in Film-Philosophy are double-blind peer-reviewed.
Founded in November 1996, Film-Philosophy is an international academic journal dedicated to philosophically reviewing film studies, philosophical aesthetics and world cinema. With over 1200 members worldwide, the email list is a useful resource for information on publications and conference in the field. Our Facebook group has over 7000 members.We host an annual conference related to the work of the journal.
Since 2016, Film-Philosophy is published by Edinburgh University Press and remains fully Open Access, with no charge to authors or readers:
Section Policies
Articles
We invited articles on any aspect of the intersection of film studies and philosophy.
Articles must not exceed 8000 words including the bibliography.
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Responses
This section contains responses to previous articles published in Film-Philosophy
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Book Reviews
Editors- William Brown
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Peer Review Process
We operate a system of double-blind peer review.
Book reviews, festival reports and interviews are not peer-reviewed.
We ask our peer reviewers to respond critically but constructively to submissions. These are the questions that reviewers consider when evaluating submissions:
- Does the submission make an original contribution to the field, or does it cover well known material?
- Is the submission up to date, relevant and contextualised? Does it take into account recent, relevant research?
- Does the submission have a clear focus and structure?
- Is there a clear argument written in a clear style? Does the author resort to jargon or confusing language?
Publication Frequency
Film-Philosophy is published three times per year.