Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration

Print editions of Issue 10.1 have arrived at the MSJ office!

Just published: MSJ, Issue 10.1.

With the release of its Summer 2025 edition, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration celebrates its 10th anniversary of scholarly publication.

A decade of Mise-en-scène has seen it evolve from a grassroots, in-house journal to an internationally recognized forum for film and television studies. Across its eighteen issues, MSJ has become a transnational community of film studies academics, film students, independent scholars, filmmakers, and cinéastes. Our 122 contributing authors alone represent film studies research in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, India, Japan, Ghana, and Brazil. They are at the heart of this retrospective edition celebrating MSJ’s history – and its future. To revisit Mise-en-scène’s development over a decade, Issue 10.1 is a compilation of articles, featurettes, interviews, visual essays, and undergraduate scholarship making their return appearances.

Issue 10.1 marks another passage: It is the last with Greg Chan as Mise-en-scène’s Editor-in-Chief. Ten years of the journal coincides with his retirement from KPU after 30 years. While he will stay on as the Founding Editor and an advisory board member, two incredibly talented members of the MSJ editorial team are stepping forward as the new editors: Kelly Doyle (KPU) and Michael Howarth (MSSU). Kelly and Michael have been with the journal since its inception, serving in multiple roles as advisory board members, reviewers, copyeditors, guest editors, and contributing authors. Congratulations to Kelly and Michael, whose tenure as Mise-en-scène’s editors begins with Issue 10.2 (Winter 2025).