ABOUT

Framework offers radical approaches to the complexities of today’s film and media,with special interests in Politics, Prejudice & Feminism.

Framework has no single ideology but rather seeks to publish work from original thinkers in the forefront of new cultural and political perspectives, and follows all aspects of film and media, in any genre or type.

Framework aims to interface academic focus with the current cultural and political world.

Framework welcomes contributions from writers, scholars, critics, and practitioners from around the world, and invites the submission of articles, interviews, reviews, dossiers, art projects and think pieces.

Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media is a peer-reviewed, international journal published bi-annually by Wayne State University Press.

Framework, launched in England in 1974, trail-blazed in its coverage of films from China, Vietnam, Britain, India, Latin America and Australia as well as those from American independents. Television was also a focus. Film directors Jean-Luc Godard, Coco Fusco, Yousseff Chahine and Pier Paolo Pasolini, among others, contributed to the journal.  Framework also republished 1920s cinema theorists such as Dorothy Richardson and Ricciotto Canudo and published work by, among others, Sunila Abeysekera, Rustom Bharucha, Umberto Eco, Meaghan Morris, Michelle Wallace, and Peter Wollen. 

Framework's publication lapsed in 1992 and was re-launched in 1998. Part of Framework's purpose, since that relaunch, has been to actively engage in public conversations. We have a current focus on American prisons, in "Prison USA," prejudice in "Prejudice Now," both started in 2016, and a new platform for avant-garde film. Since 1998, Framework has published diverse work and art by many contributors including Weihong Bao, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Nicole Brenez, Terence Davies, Elena Gorfinkel, Michelle Handelman, Brian R. Jacobson, Jonathan Kahana, M. Lamar, Steve McQueen, Neepa Majumdar, Juhani Pallasmaa, Walid Ra'ad, Rob Roth, Susan Slyomovics, Noa Steimatsky, and Lebbeus Woods, as well as out of print, unpublished, untranslated or not previously collected writing by, among others, Thomas Elsaesser, Fernando Solanas, Warren Sonbert, and Peter Whitehead.   

WEBSITE INCLUDES

INTERVIEWS

REVIEWS of festivals, films, and more

ESSAYS by scholars and artists, exclusive to the site

GUEST COLUMNS on special topics such as prejudice

FOCUS on prison in USA

PLATFORM for avant-garde film

JOURNAL INCLUDES

ESSAYS

DOSSIERS

INTERVIEWS

IMAGE ESSAYS