Wide Screen (journal)
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Wide Screen (Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal of screen studies. It is devoted to bringing forth new perspectives on film and television from the field of academics and journalism. It is recognised and listed by the subscription agency EBSCO.
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[edit] History
Wide Screen started as a blog called Subaltern Cinema which was run by Kishore Budha and run out of University of Leeds, UK. Subaltern Cinema brought together established academics as well as students who needed an avenue to write about cinema in a critical, academically oriented manner. Susan Hayword was quoted in the Introduction to Subaltern Cinema in order to understand why 'Subaltern' was adopted in the name, even though the scope of the collective was not limited to what is traditionally defined as the subaltern, it said, "The first paradox to emerge in relation to Third World cinema is that if we were to take all these cinemas as a whole (as we do with Europe in our definition of it as Second cinema), then it is this cinema that makes up most of cinema (in terms of output and audiences). Yet, this cinema is treated as if it were the subaltern, the shadow cinema of the ‘real’ cinema of North America and Europe. Furthermore, the Western world has a very poor idea of what this Third World Cinema is and seems far from curious to import it and find out. Even the act of talking of this cinema as one entity (a unified whole) is part of the problem." (From, Cinema Studies: Key Concepts, 2000, Routledge) [1]
In 2008, three members of this collective, Kishore Budha, Ravindran Gopalan and Kuhu Tanvir got together to start an online academic journal by the name of Wide Screen. Subaltern Cinema (the blog) was converted to Edit Room which became a collective blog for the editors of the journal.
[edit] About Wide Screen
Apart from the three editors, Wide Screen has a number of people from the world of cinema associated with it, in the capacity of Advisory Board or Editorial Board members.
Members of the Advisory Board are: Christine Gledhill who teaches at the University of Sunderland, Latika Padgaonkar who was the Executive Editor of Cinemaya, Independent filmmaker Anand Patwardhan, Laura Mulvey from the University of London, and documentary filmmakers Rakesh Sharma from India and Ralf Christensen from Denmark.[2]
Members of the Editorial Board include filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, Gerry Coulter who is the Editor of International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Diane Myers, Mahyuddin Ahmad, Rebecca Romanow, Fredrick Noronha, among others.[3]
The first issue of Wide Screen was published in April 2009, while the second issue was published in June 2010.
[edit] Peer review
Wide Screen follows a very strict policy of blind peer-review, which means that papers that are submitted to the journal are then forwarded to a panel of experts in the area who take a decision regarding whether the paper should be accepted for publication.
According to David Shatz, who had written about this process, "To say of a published article or a book that it was peer reviewed is to say that it is perceived by experts as a contribution to human knowledge."[4]
[edit] Open Access policy
Like many journals available on the Internet, Wide Screen is an open-access journal, which means that it adheres to the policy of making academic work freely available to anyone, instead of asking for a registration fees or an accession fees. "This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge." [5] As a result, the journal is recognised and listed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).[6]
[edit] Special Issues
Apart from the general issues, Wide Screen also has two special issues scheduled for release in 2010, these include a special issue on European Producers and Production which is being edited by Graham Roberts and Dorota Ostrowska, and one on Cinemas of the Arab World which is being edited by Latika Padgaonkar.
