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09/04/2026

issue 31 of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media on “Pandemic Documentary”.

Edited by Oliver Brett and Rhiannon Harries, the issue explores pandemic documentaries through the idea of “cramped space” (Deleuze and Guattari), asking what forms documentary might take when movement is restricted and resources are limited, including reduced access to subjects. Through a range of articles, reflections, and video essays, the issue engages with the question how documentary can at once preserve lived experience, mobilise political response, and reconfigure its own conception and production under crisis conditions.

Alphaville is a diamond open-access journal and charges no fees to its authors or readers.

Issue 31 – https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31

Editorial

Pandemic Documentary: Negotiating “Cramped Space”
by Oliver Brett and Rhiannon Harries, Issue Editors
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.00

Pandemic Documentary and the Aesthetics of Crisis

Case Study

Seeing the Opioid Epidemic through COVID-19: Ambivalent Aesthetics in
The Family Statement (2023)
by Rhiannon Harries
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.01

Articles

Pandemic Documentary and Graphic Narrative: Race, Disability, and the Chromatic Language of In/Vulnerable: Inequity in the Time of Pandemic
by Ruth Maxey
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.02

Allegories of Pandemic Governance: Comedy, Cramped Space, and National Imaginaries in European Cinema
by Oliver Brett
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.03

Frames of Isolation: Recording Memory and Loss in Mati Diop’s In My Room
by Brittany Bernard
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.04

The Harold Scott Story: Remembering and Documenting an Activist, Educator, Thirty-five-year HIV/AIDS Survivor (Video Essay)
by Amy Bertram
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.05

Memories of COVID-19 by Thai Film Crews: Encountering and Navigating Film Sets (Not) as Cramped Spaces (Video Essay)
by Wikanda Promkhuntong and Natthanun Tiammek
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.06

Critical Practice: Cramped Methods

“Mandatory Training”, Online Teaching, and Dialectical Space
by Patrick Tarrant
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.07

Making Dreams of Safety—A Series of Online Videos
by Richard Whitby
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.08

Dream Workers: A Filmmaking Journey During the Pandemic (Video Essay)
by Pinar Fontini
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.09

Book Reviews
Edited by Jill Murphy

Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach, by Nico Carpentier and Jeffrey Wimmer
Reviewed by Martin Bubanović
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.10

Filmmaking in Academia: Practice Research for Filmmakers, by Agata Lulkowska Reviewed by Hande Çayir
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.11

Strangelove Country: Science Fiction, Filmosophy and the Kubrickian Consciousness, by D. Harlan Wilson
Reviewed by Jarvis Curry
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.12

Towards a Film Theory From Below: Archival Film and the Aesthetics of the Crack-up, by Jiří Anger
Reviewed by Chiara Grizzaffi
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.13

Beyond the Movie Theater: Sites, Sponsors, Uses, by Gregory A. Waller
Reviewed by Simon Hewitt
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.14

The Intellect Handbook of Documentary, edited by Kate Nash and Deane Williams Reviewed by Dina Iordanova
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.15

The Postmodern Slasher Film, by Steve Jones
Reviewed by Shahbaz Khayambashi
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.16

Cinemal: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film, by Tessa Laird
Reviewed by Botagoz Koilybayeva
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.17

Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries, by John Thornton Caldwell
Reviewed by Jessie Krahn
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.18

The Biggest Thing in Show Business: Living It Up with Martin & Lewis, by Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon
Reviewed by Ciara Moloney
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.19

UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity, edited by Mary Irwin and Jill Marshall
Reviewed by Diana Ortega Martín
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.20

Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur: From Film Noir to the Director’s Chair, by Alexandra Seros
Reviewed by Gabrielle Stecher Woodward
https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.31.21

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09/04/2026

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09/03/2026

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09/01/2026

Colleagues, contributions are invited on art and design studio critique, material experimentation, revision and research through making. The virtual conference is hosted in association with Glasgow School of Art the in-person event is organised by Oxford Brookes University. Part of the Focus on Pedagogy Series, 2026-27.

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CALL: CRITICAL PRACTICE IN ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION

Glasgow School of Art (November 2026) & Oxford Brookes University (July 2027). Part of the Focus on Pedagogy Conference and Publication Series, 2026-27

Glasgow School of Art - VIRTUAL

Conference: 18-20 Nov, 2026
Place: Virtual
Abstracts: 10 October, 2026
https://amps-research.com/glasgow-school-of-art/

Oxford Brookes University - IN-PERSON

Conference: 14-16 July, 2027
Place: Oxford Brookes University
Abstracts: 15 Dec, 2026
https://amps-research.com/conference/teaching-research-oxford/

STRAND CALL:

Art and design education depends on the ability to question, interpret, test, and revise. These practices are central to studio teaching, creative experimentation, visual literacy, and the development of independent judgement. At a time shaped by artificial intelligence, misinformation, changing technologies, and contested cultural narratives, how can art and design education strengthen critical thought?

This call welcomes contributions on critique, reflective practice, visual and media literacy, research through making, ethical uses of technology, interdisciplinary learning, and the role of studios, workshops, exhibitions, and digital spaces in shaping critical judgement.

Open to educators, students, researchers, and practitioners to examine how criticality is developed through creative practice—and how art and design can help us question the systems, images, and ideas that structure contemporary life.

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SUBMIT to VIRTUAL Conference | Glasgow School of Art
Nov 2026
https://amps-research.com/glasgow-school-of-art/

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SUBMIT to OXFORD Conference (Hybrid) | Oxford Brookes University
July 2027
https://amps-research.com/conference/teaching-research-oxford/

An interdisciplinary education conference. In-person and virtual. June 2026. Oxford Brookes University, UK, Routledge and AMPS.

09/01/2026

JOURNAL OF EMBODIED RESEARCH is very pleased to announce issue 9.1 (2026), our largest issue yet, with six peer-reviewed video articles and two curated video essays.

The contributions to JER 9.1 come from Germany, Chile, France, Sweden, Italy, Hong Kong, Canada, and Spain. Their methodologies range from collaborative ethnography to performance art and their videographic approaches from desktop documentary to illuminated video. Each offers an original approach to the articulation of embodied knowledge and research through carefully designed combinations of text, sound, and image.

https://jer.openlibhums.org/

JOURNAL OF EMBODIED RESEARCH 9.1 (2026)

- Video Articles -

Lili Sueper (2026), “Preservation of a Muse”, Journal of Embodied Research 9(1): 1. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.26058

Andrea Chamorro-Pérez and Natalia Picaroni-Sobrado (2026), “Land, Women and Memory: Speaking Nearby and Making with Women in the Andes”, Journal of Embodied Research 9(1): 2. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.23113

Anne Dubos and Emma Woffenden (2026), “Gestures of Making”, Journal of Embodied Research 9(1): 3. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.27636

Charlotte Østergaard (2026), “Material-discursive listening – to listen with textiles”, Journal of Embodied Research 9(1): 4. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.26292

Antonella Cuppari, Gaia Bonanomi, Silvia Luraschi, and Rosita Mariani (2026), “Letters to Gravity: Words that rise from the flesh, fall back into meaning”, Journal of Embodied Research 9(1): 5. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.27797

Jiaqi Li (2026), “Surface, skin, and glitch: An embodied navigation of civic trompe l’oeil”, Journal of Embodied Research 9(1): 6. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.27844

- Video Essays -

Meghan Moe Beitiks (2026), “Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Public/Science)”, Journal of Embodied Research 9(1): 7. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.30481

Andres, Roccatagliata, Berta Canals, and Salvador Simó (2026), “The Iron Rose”, Journal of Embodied Research 9(1): 8. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.30301

https://jer.openlibhums.org/

JOURNAL OF EMBODIED RESEARCH is a diamond open-access journal published by Open Library of Humanities. It is the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal to focus on the sharing and exchange of embodied knowledge and research through video.

JER advances the peer-reviewed video article as an experimental form supporting diverse embodied research projects. Articles are published on a rolling basis and offer the cutting edge of videographic scholarship, innovating relationships between textuality, audiovisuality, and embodiment.

JER welcomes general submissions of video articles for peer review at any time, as well as proposals for guest edited special issues. Before submitting to JER, please carefully review our Style Guide and previously published content.

Our current special issue CFP is for “Racing After Technology: Asian American Digital Choreographies and Embodied Research in an Anti-Black World,” edited by Al Evangelista at Oberlin College & Conservatory, with abstracts due November 15th.

Journal of Embodied Research is a diamond open-access journal published by Open Library of Humanities. It is the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal to focus on the sharing and exchange of embodied knowledge and research through video.

08/29/2026

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08/28/2026

Call for Papers: Nontheatrical Student Essay Award 2027
Deadline: 15 February 2027
Link to PDF: https://sl1nk.com/bjoanxf

Your work in The Moving Image (U. of Minnesota Press)!

In collaboration with AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) and its journal, The Moving Image, the SCMS Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG is delighted to announce its fifth annual Nontheatrical Student Essay Award.

Designed to recognize outstanding graduate student scholarship founded upon archival nontheatrical research, this award underscores both organizations’ commitment to mentorship and professional development, connecting award-recipients with mentors to guide them through the process of crafting journal-ready manuscripts. The award-winning essay will also be published (subject to revisions) in The Moving Image.

Our fourth award went to John Adrianfer Atienza (University of the Philippines Diliman), for his paper ‘Filipino Balik-titig and the American Liberator Narrative in United News Newsreels.’ Keep your eyes peeled for its publication in The Moving Image!In 2025, we also introduced an Honorable Mention. This time it was received by Will Hair (University of Chicago) for his paper ‘Local Haunts: Uncovering Blackness in the H. Lee Waters Film Collection.’

Eligibility: Applicants must be enrolled in a recognized graduate program at the time of entry.

Submission criteria:

Audience: essays should be broadly relevant to both media archivists and media scholars.
The winning scholarly essay will demonstrate original and critical analysis, clarity of argument and exposition, and engagement with varied source materials related to the study of nontheatrical media (e.g. science film, educational film, home movies, government films, etc.)
Students may submit their own paper, or they may be nominated by an advisor or professor with the author’s consent. In either case, the submitter should provide a short author’s CV.
Papers shall be submitted in English and may not have been published in part or in whole by the time of submission. The manuscript should be 4000-6000 words in length (double spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt, with 1-inch margins, using the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition), including footnotes/endnotes but excluding bibliography.
Before the first-place essay is published in The Moving Image, its author will work with a faculty mentor and The Moving Image editors to revise the essay for publication, in keeping with the developmental editing procedures of the journal.
Submissions will be evaluated by the governing body of the Nontheatrical Film and Media SIG and editors from The Moving Image.

Submissions will be due 15 February 2027 and can be sent to [email protected]. The award winner will be contacted in March 2027, and announced at the 2027 SCMS Annual Conference.

The Moving Image is the journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). It explores topics relevant to both the media archivist and the media scholar. The Moving Image deals with crucial issues surrounding the preservation, archiving, and restoration of film, video, and digital moving images. It features detailed profiles of moving image collections; interpretive and historical essays about archival materials; articles on archival description, appraisal, and access; behind-the-scenes looks at the techniques used to preserve, restore, and digitize moving images; and theoretical articles on the future of the field.

The Nontheatrical Film & Media scholarly interest group of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) provides a setting for scholars working in this area to collaborate, share research tips, and debate methodological issues. Moreover, this SIG acts as another connection between the academic and archival worlds, and between other SIGs and committees within SCMS, such as the Media Archives Committee. The mission of the Nontheatrical Film & Media Scholarly Interest Group is to facilitate discussion, consolidation, outreach, and inclusion.

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