Synoptique has just released their latest issue “Locating the Intimate within the Global: Xavier Dolan, Queer Nations and Québec Cinema” (4.2), another solid publication featuring Concordia Graduate and Doctoral students amongst a host of other scholars! Kudos to the entire Synoptique team and everyone involved in this issue! Visit the Synoptique website and download the full issue _________________________________________________ Table of Contents Introduction Kester Dyer, A

– words by Jordan Adler Near the end of the two-day Humorous Disruptions colloquium, held at Concordia University Oct. 16 and 17, one of the presenters asked if trying to analyze what makes something funny is a fool’s errand. The previous evening, after four succinct, if serious opening presentations finished, a voice from the crowd – that turned out to be Dr. Ara Osterweil, one of the speakers in the next day’s roundtable – asked why the talks had to be so humourless. There

Guest edited by Papagena Robbins, Rachel Webb Jekanowski, and Sophie Cook, check out the latest edition of Synoptique! “Out of the Dark Stacks and into the Light: Re-Viewing the Moving Image Archive for the 21st Century” (Vol. 4, issue 1) “This issue boasts five peer review articles exploring different sites and networks of moving image archives today, as well as a number of book reviews, two exhibition reports, and an extensive interview with archivist/activist//filmmaker Ri

Submission Deadline: February 1st, 2016 Details Below: __________________________________________ Download the CFP in PDF Download the CFP in a Word Document #disruptions #feministmediatheory #humorous #Synoptique

Submission Deadline: EXTENDED to April 29th, 2015 Details Below: ______________________________________________________________ Download the PDF “Xavier Dolan, Queer Nations, and World Cinema: Locating the Intimate within the Global” “With the Jury Prize acceptance speech given at Cannes 2014 and the major buzz generated by his latest feature Mommy, 25-year-old Québécois director Xavier Dolan brought his cinema to the attention of audiences and critics from all around the w

Submission deadline is November 1st. Synoptique Call for Papers: “Out of the Dark Stacks and Into the Light: Re-Viewing the Moving Image Archive for the 21st Century” Synoptique is now accepting papers for a special issue on the moving image archive investigating the sites and displays of archival preservation, alongside the circulatory and creative networks in which they operate. The goal of this issue is to “bring questions of circulation and exhibition into dialogue with t

Don’t forget that the submission deadline for the next issue of Synoptique was extended to April 10. If you have written something on film festivals at large this is your chance to have it published in a peer reviewed journal. Submission are welcomed in either French or English and should be formatted according to MLA guidelines. Check our the call for paper here: _____________________________________________ Call For Papers OTHER NETWORKS : EXPANDING FILM FESTIVAL PERSPECTI

Synoptique – An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies Call for Abstracts: “Beyond Indian Cinema’s Centenary” (French follows) In the spring of 1913, Dadasaheb Phalke’s Raja Harishchandra, the first Indian feature-length film was screened. Celebrations commemorating the 100th year of Indian cinema’s success and rich history have emerged in 2013; thus illustrating its far-reaching impact and staying power (film festivals, special productions, interviews, special editi